Éva MAYER

(1983, Pozsony / Bratislava, SK) painter

She graduated with a degree in graphic art and visual education in 2008 from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where her masters were Alajos Eszik and Tibor Somorjai-Kiss. She completed her DLA at the same institution in 2018. She works as a cultural manager and curator. She has been the main organiser of her own brainchild, the DUNARTCOM International Art Colony in Somorja, since 2011. She has taught at various universities since 2014 and is currently associate professor at the Media Design Faculty of Budapest Metropolitan University. For years, she has focussed on the issues of hope, acceptance, letting go and providence as well as various aspects of the desire to care: she addresses the issues of motherhood, waiting for a child and the lack thereof as well as traumatised situations experienced on a collective experiential level. She has participated in over two hundred Hungarian and international group exhibitions. She received the Munkácsy Award in 2013. She lives and works in Somorja and Budapest.