BIO
Virág Szálas-Motesiczky (HU, b. 1990; former Czechoslovakia) is an artist-researcher and educator working across material culture, political memory, and situated learning. Her practice examines how objects and inherited gestures organise authority and agency, particularly where collective critical imaginaries emerge and are amplified. Through artistic research and pedagogical experimentation, she develops situated formats in which learning is a relational process of becoming that centres practices of world-making and unlearning rather than transmission or mastery and is practised via strategies of thinking-by-doing within art education.
Her approach foregrounds post-socialist material residues, transgenerational customs, and ecological literacy, operating through individual studio praxis and collective group dynamics to examine how agency is redistributed and to inquire into pedagogy as a critical technology rather than a traditional framework, across times and spaces.
Szálas-Motesiczky studied at Design Academy Eindhoven and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She co-founded Other Modes, a speculative studio dedicated to artistic research and collaboration in a converted Protestant church in the Netherlands. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Education in Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) and is participating in converting an abandoned building into a site for critical reading groups and gardening.