Andrea Éva Győri Estate
Andrea Éva Győri (1985 - 2022) was born in Budapest, Hungary, and worked in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Győri implemented her unique, very personal, very intimate kind of storytelling in a wide range of works, such as performances, videos, installations, sculptural works and drawings. Her body of work raises questions about family and femininity, the self-image and self-assessment in a way that reveals the viewer's position towards themselves. Proximity to her protagonists was of major importance to her. A skilled observer of human relations, she took up the role of observer, participant and examined person at the same time. This allowed her to join the collaborating participants in a mutual exploration of subjects of general concern, such as physical and psychological needs, fantasies, sexuality, phobia, fun, pain, cultural norms, and their overcoming.
Andrea Éva Győri graduated in Fine Arts at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, in the class of Christian Jankowski, Mike Bouchet and Felix Ensslin. She studied (East Asian) Oriental Painting at Hongik University in Seoul (KR) and followed a guest course in Human Anatomy and Autopsy at the Medical University of Budapest (HU). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA (Prague, CZ), IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art (Eupen, BE), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, NL), Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art (Middelburg, NL), Grimmuseum (Berlin, DE), and Seoul Art Space - Seogyo (Seoul, KR), to name a few.
Győri’s work has featured in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Dordrechts Museum (Dordrecht, NL), argos centre for audiovisual arts (Brussels, BE), Pori Art Museum (Pori, FI), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, AT), Ludwig Múzeum (Budapest, HU), Haus der Kunst (Munich, DE), Manifesta 11 (Zürich, CH and Amsterdam, NL), Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht, NL), Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (Ludwigshafen, DE), Victoria Art Center, (Bucharest, RO), SeMA NANJI Exhibition Hall by Seoul Museum of Art (KR), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, TW), س /si:n/ Festival of Video Art and Performance (Ramallah, PS), and many others.
In 2018, she published Vibration Highway with Edition Taube, an artist book which marks the culmination of a project she started during Manifesta 11. In 2022, ARGOS centre for audiovisuals arts in Brussels dedicated the exhibition "When the angels from above" to Győri’s memory.
