In my installations, I mainly focus on the effects of culture on human perception. I search for interfaces of individual and collective experience.

"Constellation, not sequencing, carries the truth," says Olga Tokarczuk in her novel Flights. The Nobel laureate's stories visualise the state of never arriving, of the unattainability of the ultimate goal; they question the necessity of belonging to a place in order to develop an identity, which is a timely question for participation in the global culture of the present. In my own work, I explore the experience of globality and the particularities of attachment to places that parallel and connect with it. Along the intersections of nostalgia and utopia, of descendants and ancestors, of childhood and adulthood, of memory and fiction, I search for the constellations of human perception. Among the stations of existence, the period of childhood plays an important role in my work. In most of my works, I interpret childhood itself in a concrete and figurative sense as a multi-layered metaphor.

Katalin Kortmann-Járay is a visual artist born in Budapest, Hungary. Between 2006 and 2012 she attended the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (HUFA) and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. She participated in group exhibitions, biennials, triennials and award ceremonies in several European countries. The main theme of her work is the influence of culture on human perception. She has recently become a doctoral student at HUFA.

www.katalinkortmannjaray.com

2024
Den Rahmen sprengen / Breaking the frame
The winners of the Esterhazy Award 2023
April - December 2024
Schloss Esterhazy Eisenstadt >>>

Karina Mendreczky & Katalin Kortmann-Járay, whose installation "People look like flowers at last" we showed at Parallel Vienna 2022, were awarded the Esterhazy Art Award 2023 in Budapest in January 2024. >>>

Portfolio 2024: Katalin Kortmann-Járay >>>

Portfolio 2024: Karina Mendreczky & Katalin Kortmann-Járay >>>

2023
Oasis
Karina Mendreczky and Katalin Kortmann-Járay
23.02. - 07.05.2023
MQ Salon
Museumsquartier Wien

2022
Buzz, Studio Gallery/SYAA, Budapest, HU

Oasis - People Look Like Flowers At Last
Parallel Vienna 2022, Vienna, AT - together with Katalin Kortmann-Járay

2021

A Whale of a Bad Time
together with Karina Mendreczky(Artist collective)

https://www.ofluxo.net

https://kubaparis.com/a-whale-of-a-bad-time/