Katalin Erdődi
29.10. — 07.11.2023
→ Timișoara, Bucharest
Katalin Erdődi is a curator, dramaturg and writer based in Vienna and Budapest, who works across disciplines in the fields of visual arts and performance, with a focus on socially engaged art, experimental performative practices, and artistic interventions in rural and urban public spheres. Currently, she is co-curator of the 2024 edition of the Biennale Matter of Art (Prague) with Aleksei Borisionok.
As a curator, Erdődi has worked for art institutions and festivals, such as steirischer herbst (Graz), brut (Vienna), GfZK (Leipzig) and Trafó (Budapest), and has co-founded PLACCC Festival (Budapest), an international festival for site-specific performance and art in public space with Fanni Nánay. Since 2017 her curatorial research focuses on critical rural art practices and investigates social change in rural contexts through collaborative artistic and curatorial approaches, with a particular interest in the post-socialist transformations of Central and Eastern Europe that she strives to address with decolonizing, feminist methodologies. In 2020 Erdődi received the Igor Zabel Award Grant for her locally embedded and inclusive curatorial practice.
Recent curatorial collaborations include: We Anarchists Do Not Fret Over Moral Maggots with artist-filmmaker duo Igor and Ivan Buharov (Kassák Museum Budapest, 2023), Together The Parts, an artistic-performative gathering co-curated with choreographer Philipp Gehmacher (Tanzquartier Vienna, 2022), Collaborative Village Play, co-conceived with artist Antje Schiffers/Myvillages and co-created with rural communities (Germany/Hungary/Spain, ongoing since 2021), News Medley with artist Alicja Rogalska, the Women’s Choir of Kartal and folk singer Réka Annus (OFF-Biennale Budapest, 2020-2021).
Beyond the art field, Erdődi is part of activist-led initiatives focusing on migration politics and labor struggles, such as Precarity Office Vienna and the Sezonieri Campaign for the Rights of Agricultural Workers in Austria.