zsuzsa benke


Visual portfolio
Founding Director of HOXTON 253 art project space established in 2018.

HOXTON 253’s aim is to act as a cultural bridge in the heart of Hoxton, through nurturing creative talents and building a community of artists and local residents with the objective to provoke critical dialogue within contemporary culture and society. We bring together local, national and international creatives, to participate in our diverse ongoing program, including exhibitions, experimental, educational and wellbeing projects, residencies, workshops, events and screenings.

www.hoxton253.com


2021

ART & ECOLOGY An international sustainability focused curatorial and fundraiser project concieved during the pandemic at HOXTON 253 art project space. Featuring works by Alice Bucknell, Alexandra Lerman, Liana Nigri, Alan McFetridge, Prof. John Sabraw, Maurice Mbikayi

www.hoxton253.com/art-and-ecology


2020

Art as a Mediation of Personal Agendas, Contemporary art practice workshop held in collaboration with Josephine Amalie Von Bülow for BA students at UAL Chelsea, London


2019

Bread and Grapes, performative dinner installation in collaboration with Josephine Amalie Von Bülow and special guests: Andrew Hart & Janek Nixon, Teresa Paiva, Serena Huang, Magda Kreps, Giulia Shah & Alexandra Bell, Carmen Vinuela & Luisa Gonzalez, HOXTON 253 art project space, London

www.hoxton253.com/bread-and-grapes.html
 

And then I Heard Your Voice in the Garden, live experimental sound and visual performance in collaboration with Kamil Braszka, Alex P Bickel and Friederich Andreoni, HOXTON 253 art project space, London



Practice Here and Now Contemporary art practice workshop held in collaboration with Kamil Braszka sound engineer for BA students at UAL Chelsea, London


2018

Jam on Toast, instrumental audio reactive light performance, UAL Chelsea, London



Rarely Parasitic, performative installation with multi-channel sound and image, UAL Chelsea, London


2017

2017-18 Clyde&Co Blank Canvas Prize Winner
Not just what you say, but the way you look at me, Site specific installation, Digital print on biodegradable advertisement banner, 15 x 2.4 meters, Clyde&Co, The St Botolph Building, London



Which Way Now? Archival digital print, 1100 x 1650 mm, part of Orbital 2017-18 Display, LEWIS Foundation, Millbank Tower, London



In God We Trust (detail), 5 x 2 meters site specific charcoal mural, UAL Chelsea, London



Politics of the Manifesting Mind, Set & Setting for a Utopian Dream, booklet



Let’s Make the World Great Again, poster, dimensions variable, used after Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017 



In The Woods
, site specific i nstallation and durational performance, tree branches from London borough of Westminster, archive military footage script, acrylics, dimensions variable, UAL Chelsea, London



2016

Grasses – The Magazine Sessions 2016: Anthea Hamilton, group performance directed by Anthea Hamilton, The Magazine at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/magazine-sessions-2016-anthea-hamilton-grasses





Global Insight, multimedia installation, t rash, metal Earth globe, sound, projection mapped film installation, dimensions variable, in collaboration with Josephine Amalie Von Bülow at Translations group exhibition, UAL Chelsea, London



LEFT HIGH AND DRY, Nomadic Community Garden, London

Collectivity and political art, group seminar held for BA students at UAL Chelsea, London

ACTS RE-ACTS 3, THE ISADORABLE group performance directed by Rosemary Cronin, WCA Performance Lab, London


Frutti di Mare (series), digital archival prints mounted on board, at eARTH, group show, UAL LCC, London



2015

Donuts, group research residency led by Anthea Hamilton, fig-2, 44/50, ICA, London

https://fig2.co.uk/fig2/#week44



Primavera group performance directed by Anthea Hamilton at the House, Oslo, Norway

http://www.antheahamilton.house/primavera_index.html



BordersBorderlessCollective

BordersBorderless Collective emerged from a common political interest among five Fine Art students at Chelsea UAL in 2015. 
The group found the on-going global crisis alarming and felt compelled to take action. Through a collective practice we created a series of exhibtions over the course of 3 years, with the aim to generate critical discussions on borders, warfare, and displacement between artists and refugees as well as civil and governmental organisations. 

The exhibition “A Global War but not A Global Citizen? – Case study of the Syrian refugee crisis” bombarded the viewer with information questioning the overwhelming media coverage of the crisis. Through several meetings we discovered an interest in not only working with borders as a physical matter but also as a mental state and how the two may be undeniably connected.

The Southbank Refugee Week exhibition shifted its focus towards the individual, aiming to give voice to more personal stories and perspectives.

Taking advantage of our diverse and multinational backgrounds, our aim is to engage with different International communities. Simultaneously approaching sensitive topics through research, collaboration and knowledge of cause while promoting political and social changes.
Our concept can be grasped throughout the whole creation process, from the start of the installation of the work until the development of conversations with the audience.

Members:

Josephine Amalie von Bülow
Zsuzsa Benke
Marta Capa Silva
Alison Darby
Janos Vasco Sandor

https://bordersborderlessinfo.wordpress.com



2017

Why do artists collaborate? Graduate Diploma KEY practices-ideas-debates-moments-words event, panel discussion, UAL Chelsea, London


2016

Paper Planes at Self-Organize group show, Crown House Creative, London



Tangled, UAL Chelsea, London



Wall, SANfest, Monasterio Monsalud, Córlcoles, Madrid, Spain





Growing collection of messages as part of Wall, Tangled, and Paper Planes 


Refugee Week multimedia installation in collaboration with CounterPoint Arts at the Meltdown Festival, Southbank Centre, London




Workshop held at AFRIL (Action for Refugees in Lewisham), London



Collectivity and political art seminar held at UAL Chelsea, London


2015
A Global War but not A Global Citizen? UAL Chelsea, London



    
BordersBorderlessCollective Awards

The Kupambana Foundation Award
Art in Process Residency awarded by SANfest


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