{"id":36,"date":"2025-08-04T13:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/szaszlilla.hu\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:13:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/szaszlilla.hu\/hu\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lilla Sz\u00e1sz is a visual artist and researcher based between Budapest, Lisbon, and Vienna. Her delicate photo series investigate themes of intimacy, collective memory, and the politics of visibility, with a particular focus on feminist and post-socialist histories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of Sz\u00e1sz\u2019s projects take months, sometimes even years, to complete, allowing her to form deep connections with the people she photographs. Her collaborative and research-driven practice often involves oral history, archival engagement, and participatory strategies. Whether working with young women in Hungary, post-Soviet youth in Russia, or contemporary lives in Cuba, she approaches her subjects by building relationships rooted in co-presence and trust.<\/span><\/p>\n

With poetic imagery, she captures subtle details that reveal the complexities of human relationships. Her images tenderly portray vulnerability and offer an intimate look into the lives of marginalized groups, including sex workers, young offenders living in institutions, and others carrying various social stigmas.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, focusing on transgenerational memory and the ethics of representation. Sz\u00e1sz\u2019s projects have examined themes such as state violence, displacement, and women\u2019s resistance across different regimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Institute of Contemporary Art Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros (Hungary), Fotohof (Salzburg), Arles Photo Festival (France), Manifesta Biennial (Kosovo), Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art (Germany), <\/span>Fotogaleriet Oslo (Norway), <\/span>the National Museum in Warsaw (Poland), OFF-Biennale Budapest (Hungary), and Photo Espa\u00f1a (Spain). Her pieces are also held in collections such as the Ludwig Museum \u2013 Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest and the ICP Library in New York. She has participated in international residencies in Lisbon, Havana, Salzburg, and New York, and was shortlisted for the Rosti P\u00e1l Prize for best photobook (<\/span>Greetings From My New Home<\/span><\/i>, 2022) by the Hungarian National Museum. In 2026 she received the Fulbright Schuman Fellowship to the Columbia University, Department of Oral Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact:<\/strong> szasz.lilla@gmail.com<\/p>\n

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CV<\/h2>\n

education<\/b><\/p>\n

Since 2024: PhD in Artistic Research, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
\n<\/span>1995-2000: MA in Art history, Russian language and literature; E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Budapest\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

teaching experience<\/b><\/p>\n

2024: Workshop at Porto Summer School on Arts&Cinema
\n<\/span>2018 – 2026: Budapest Metropolitan University, guest lecturer
\n<\/span>2015-2017: International Business School, Budapest, guest lecturer
\n<\/span>2015: F\u00fcggetlen K\u00e9pz\u0151m\u0171v\u00e9szeti Tansz\u00e9k, Flying Art\u00a0Courses \u2013 guest lecturer (Part of OFF-Biennale Program)
\n<\/span>2011: ICP, New York, Saul Robbins\u2019 workshop <\/span>Regarding Intimacy<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 (guest lecturer)
\n<\/span>2010: Kontakt Courses in Art Photography in cooperation with Mosoly Foundation: photography workshop in Berlin
\n<\/span>2010: Kontakt Courses in Art Photography in cooperation with Mosoly Foundation (guest teacher)
\n<\/span>2009: Kontakt Courses in Art Photography (guest teacher)<\/span><\/p>\n

jurying at art contests<\/b><\/p>\n

2013 – 2022: Member of the Jury at Fed\u00e9l N\u00e9lk\u00fcl (The Shelter Foundation \u201cWithout a Roof\u201d), The Artwork of the Year tender<\/span><\/p>\n

curatorial experience<\/b><\/p>\n

2011: Margins<\/em>, Poznan Photo Biennale, within the collective BRUN<\/span><\/p>\n

solo exhibitions (selected)<\/b><\/p>\n

2026: Because The Sun May Rise Tomorrow, Gallery Inda, Budapest
\n2024: <\/span>No Bread For Us<\/span><\/i>, (with Rita GT) Gallery Liget, Budapest
\n<\/span>2024: <\/span>#Good morning bro<\/span><\/i>, Gallery Inda, Budapest
\n<\/span>2023: <\/span>Three Acts<\/span><\/i>, ArtistaXArtista artist residency, Havana, Cuba
\n<\/span>2022: <\/span>The New 20s: Challenges, Uncertainties and Resistances<\/span><\/i>, University of Evora, Portugal
\n<\/span>2022<\/span>: <\/span>Captured Liberties \u2013 Stories from the Salazar Dictatorship<\/span><\/i>, ICA-D, Hungary
\n<\/span>2021: <\/span>About Love<\/span><\/i> (with Maria do Mar Rego), Imago Gallery, Lisbon,<\/span> Portugal
\n<\/span>2020: <\/span>Histories of love<\/span><\/i> (with Maria do Mar Rego), Gallery 2B, Budapest
\n<\/span>2020: <\/span>Greetings from my new home<\/span><\/i>, Budapest Gallery
\n<\/span>2017: <\/span>Stranger in the Middle of Nowhere<\/span><\/i> (with Judit Hidas), OFF-Biennale Budapest
\n<\/span>2017: <\/span>Our\u00a0House<\/span><\/i>, Gallery 2B, Budapest
\n<\/span>2016: <\/span>Positive<\/span><\/i>, B\u00e1nkit\u00f3 Festival, B\u00e1nk
\n<\/span>2016: <\/span>Dazzle<\/span><\/i>, Gallery Inda, Budapest<\/span>
\n<\/span>2015: <\/span>Positive<\/span><\/i>, G\u00f3lya Community House, OFF-Biennale Budapest <\/span>
\n<\/span>2015: <\/span>Positive<\/span><\/i>, Gallery Liget, Budapest<\/span>
\n<\/span>2014: <\/span>Feminine Laundry<\/span><\/i>, Gallery 2B, Budapest, Hungary<\/span>
\n<\/span>2013: <\/span>Foreign Field<\/span><\/i>, Gallery 2B, Budapest<\/span>
\n<\/span>2013: <\/span>Mother Michael Goes to Heaven<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Gallery Liget, Budapest
\n<\/span>2011: <\/span>Life is beautiful<\/span><\/i>, Balint Jewish Community Center, Budapest
\n<\/span>2008: <\/span>Fragments of desire<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0 Gallery Liget, Budapest
\n<\/span>2005: <\/span>Golden Age<\/span><\/i>, Gallery Liget, Budapest
\n<\/span>2003: <\/span>Portraits at a fair<\/span><\/i>, Goethe Institute, Budapest<\/span><\/p>\n

group exhibitions (selected)<\/b><\/p>\n

2026: MODEM 20, Group exhibtion, MODEM, Debrecen
\n2025: <\/span>Women Quota 02<\/span><\/i>, Selection from the collection of Ludwig Museum, Budapest
\n<\/span>2024: <\/span>Our Parallel Universes<\/span><\/i>, WINTER GROUP EXHIBITION AT INDA GALLERY, Budapest
\n<\/span>2024: <\/span>Lisbon Photobook Exhibition and Fair<\/span><\/i>, Arquivo Municipal de Fotografia, Lisbon
\n<\/span>2023: <\/span>HANDLE WITH CARE<\/span><\/i>. Ludwig Museum, Budapest
\n<\/span>2023:<\/span> FIRST HALF \u201823<\/span><\/i>, INDA GALLERY, Budapest
\n<\/span>2023: <\/span>UNVEILING<\/span><\/i>, Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
\n<\/span>2023: <\/span>Let\u2019s Pet<\/span><\/i>, Robert Capa Centre of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
\n<\/span>2022: <\/span>I hold the table with my hands instead of the broken legs<\/span><\/i>, Traf\u00f3 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
\n<\/span>2022: <\/span>14. Manifesta Biennial<\/span><\/i>, with Easttopics, Prishtina, Kosovo
\n<\/span>2021: <\/span>One Artist One Minute<\/span><\/i>, Fotohof, Salzburg
\n<\/span>2021: <\/span>Waiting room<\/span><\/i>, SOM, Semmelweis Medical History Museum, Budapest
\n<\/span>2021: <\/span>Cure<\/span><\/i>, Robert Capa Centre of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
\n<\/span>2019: <\/span>No Place Like Home<\/span><\/i>, La Junqueira Artist Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
\n<\/span>2019: <\/span>For Family Reasons<\/span><\/i>, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
\n<\/span>2019: <\/span>Red Umbrella Struggles<\/span><\/i>, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
\n<\/span>2019:\u00a0<\/span>Women in\u00a03 Acts<\/span><\/i>, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
\n<\/span>2019: <\/span>We will not change\u00a0our show<\/span><\/i>, D\u016fm um\u011bn\u00ed m\u011bsta Brna, Brno, Czech Republic
\n<\/span>2018: <\/span>Vanishing Points 3.0<\/span><\/i>, Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest
\n<\/span>2018: <\/span>Women in\u00a03 Acts<\/span><\/i>, Gallery INDA, Budapest
\n<\/span>2018: <\/span>The Family of No Man<\/span><\/i>, Arles Photo Festival, Cosmos Arles Books
\n<\/span>2018: <\/span>Women in\u00a03 Acts<\/span><\/i>, Galerie\u00a0Fotohof, Salzburg
\n<\/span>2018: <\/span>Kib\u00e9k\u00fcl\u00e9s<\/span><\/i>, Pannonhalma F\u0151monostor
\n<\/span>2017: <\/span>The Way We See. An Overview of Hungarian Photography<\/span><\/i>, National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
\n<\/span>2016:\u00a0<\/span>Our heart is a foreign country<\/span><\/i>, tranzit.hu and Studio Gallery, Budapest
\n<\/span>2013: <\/span>Still<\/span><\/i>, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary<\/span>
\n<\/span>2012: <\/span>Photo Espana \u2013 From Here<\/span><\/i>, Museo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain<\/span><\/p>\n

grants, awards & residencies<\/b><\/p>\n

2026: Fulbright Schuman Fellowship to the Columbia University, Department of Oral Studies
\n<\/span>2025: Riad Al Massarah Marrakech artist Residency
\n<\/span>2025: Shortlisted for the RU-ACAX New York residency
\n<\/span>2024: Artist and Researcher in Residence Guiniguada
\n<\/span>2024: Shortlisted for Kass\u00e1k Contemporary Art Prize
\n<\/span>2024: Shortlisted for Contested Desires Arts&Heritage program
\n<\/span>2023: Shortlisted for the RU-ACAX New York residency
\n<\/span>2023: Selected for Magnum Workshop in Hungary, Veszpr\u00e9m, with Thomas Dworzak and Jonas Bendiksen
\n<\/span>2023: Artist Residency of Camara Municipal de Lisboa (with the support of Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant)
\n<\/span>2023: Selected for Photo-Match Portfolio review, Lodz Photo Festival, Poland
\n<\/span>2023: Artista X Artista & Tranzit Artist Residency, Havana, Cuba (2023 January-February)
\n<\/span>2022: Rosti P\u00e1l Award for the Best Photo Book of the Year (with Greetings From My New Home), Hungarian National Museum
\n2021: Art Defies Violence, 16 days against violence, Salzburg, First Prize
\n<\/span>2020: Fotohof Calling Award, Fotohof, Salzburg
\n<\/span>2019: Asylum Arts, Research Grant, Lisbon (2020 March \u2013 September)
\n<\/span>2019: La Junquiera Artist Residency, Lisbon
\n<\/span>2019: Hangar Artist Residency, Lisbon
\n<\/span>2018: Budapest Gallery Artist Exchange Fellowship, Lisbon (2018 June-July)
\n<\/span>2010-2011: Hungarian E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Fellowship, New York, ICP
\n<\/span>2008: Descubrimientos PHE08, Madrid
\n<\/span>2005: ECB Photography award \u2013 Hungary today (third price)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

collections<\/b><\/p>\n

2023: Ludwig Museum \u2013 Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapst: <\/span>May You Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread<\/span><\/i> (2023)
\n<\/span>2020: Hungarian National Museum, Budapest: <\/span>Greetings from My New Home<\/span><\/i> book
\n<\/span>2012: ICP Library, New York: <\/span>Comrades<\/span><\/i> book
\n<\/span>Noorderlicht: Pandora\u2019s Box<\/span><\/p>\n

films<\/b><\/p>\n

2019: <\/span>Sunday afternoon<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>14:19<\/span>)
\n<\/span>2018: <\/span>Blue Center <\/span><\/i>(8:02)
\n<\/span>2015: <\/span>Positive<\/span><\/i> (11:27)
\n<\/span>2014: <\/span>Uniform<\/span><\/i> (1:46)
\n<\/span>2013: <\/span>Pea Podding<\/span><\/i> (29:34)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

books<\/b><\/p>\n

2024: <\/span>Seven Hundred Meters<\/span><\/i>, published by INDA Gallery (designed by R\u00e9ka Neszm\u00e9lyi)
\n<\/span>2022: <\/span>Waiting room<\/span><\/i>, published as part of <\/span>Waiting Room<\/span><\/i> exhibition (SOM, Budapest <\/span>[2021]<\/span>)
\n<\/span>2020: <\/span>Greetings from my new home<\/span><\/i> (together with Elsa Peralta), self-published book
\n<\/span>2020: <\/span>Histories of Love<\/span><\/i>, self-published book (designed by Zolt\u00e1n Szmolka)
\n<\/span>2012: <\/span>Daughters<\/span><\/i>, published by FOTOHOF Salzburg
\n<\/span>2011: <\/span>Mother Michael Goes to Heaven<\/span><\/i>, self-published book<\/span><\/p>\n

academic publications<\/b><\/p>\n

Elsa Peralta and Lilla Sz\u00e1sz. 2021. <\/span>TRACES.<\/span><\/i> A visual essay with photography by Lilla <\/span>Sz\u00e1sz and words by Elsa Peralta. Mobile Culture Studies 7 (Materialities): 97\u2013106.<\/span><\/p>\n

conferences<\/b><\/p>\n

2015: <\/span>Left-wing feminism<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Central European University, Budapest
\n<\/span>2022: <\/span>The New 20s: Challenges, Uncertainties, and Resistances<\/span><\/i>, University of Evora, Portugal
\n<\/span>2021: <\/span>Art Defies Violence<\/span><\/i>, Salzburg and Gendup, Center for Gender Studies and Women’s Funding, in cooperation with Fotohof Salzburg<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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