Flóra Gadó & Judit Szalipszki

#3 min Fotograf Zone

22. 9. 2025

Portraits Judit Szalipszki and Flóra Gadó.
Portraits Judit Szalipszki and Flóra Gadó.
#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Curating

ABOUT THE CURATORS

Flóra Gadó 

is a curator, researcher and art critic based in Budapest.
She has been curator at the municipal contemporary art center Budapest Gallery between 2018-2025 and was in charge of multiple exhibitions, public programs as well as organizing the 1st Public Art Biennial, Sidewalk in Budapest (2023). She holds a PhD in Film, Media & Cultural Studies from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2021), and graduated in Spring 2023 from the MA Curatorial Practice Program, University of Bergen, Norway. She has curated various group and solo exhibitions for example at MeetFactory (Prague), Július Koller Society and tranzit.sk (Bratislava), TIC Gallery (Brno), SOPA (Kosice), Trafó Gallery / Trafó House of Contemporary Art, OFF-Biennale Budapest (Budapest) and Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna). Her curatorial residencies include Generator (Rennes), MeetFactory (Prague), Brno House of Arts (Brno), KAI (Tallinn), Mondriaan Fonds (Amsterdam) and Frame Finland (Helsinki). She has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Art & Design at Budapest Metropolitan University since 2019 and was an advisor for the Curatorial Faculty of the University of Fine Art, Budapest. Between 2015-2020 she was the board member and later the vice-president of the artist-run space Studio of Young Artist’ Association. Her writing has appeared internationally in magazines such as Magazyn RTV, Flash Art – Czech and Slovak Edition, Kajet Journal, Kontur Magazine as well as arportal.hu, Műértő and Artmagazin in Hungary. In 2019 she was awarded with the prestigious Ernő Kállay Award for art historians and both in 2023 and 2024 her projects were nominated for the AICA Hungary Prize in best solo and group exhibition category.

Judit Szalipszki

is a curator and cultural worker currently based in Budapest. Following her bachelor’s studies in Liberal Arts at Eötvös Loránd University and in Contemporary Art Theory at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, she began working for contemporary art galleries as well as organizing art projects as a freelance curator. After attending the Arts and Society master’s program at Utrecht University, she obtained a master’s degree in Art Sense(s) Lab, a program focusing on the senses of taste, touch and smell at PXL University in Hasselt, Belgium. Her field of interest is centered around the politics and poetics of care, health, illness and repair and their interrelations with ecological concerns as well as the practice of artists who regard food as a medium and focus on the political, social, cultural and ecological entanglements of what and how we eat. She is a member of the curatorial collective BÜRO imaginaire since 2012. Currently, she is working as a curator at Trafó Gallery in Budapest.

They are jointly curating the exhibition FEVER STATE, featuring artists: Szilvia Bolla, Leah Clements, Viola Fátyol, Barbara Hammer, Rowena Harris, Phelim Hoey, Magdaléna Kašparová, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss, Jo Spence, and Amos Peled.

 

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Curating

#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.

False Friends

#4 min Fotograf Zone

False Friends

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv

Language shapes our world, influences our thoughts, and reflects our societies. In the context of the Balkans, specifically the former Yugoslavia, a region marked by shared histories and divergent narratives, language can both include and exclude. Through the concept of “false friends”, words that appear similar but differ in meaning, this exhibition explores how identity, politics, and cultural memory echo in the language we use, and vice versa. Simply put, we often speak of what we believe are the same notions, not realising we understand them differently. These deceptively familiar terms thus become symbols of regional complexities, miscommunication, and broader cultural and historical tensions.

Fever State

#4 min Fotograf Zone

Fever State

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Holešovická Tržnice, Hall 13

Illness and vulnerable states of being unsettle the way we know and speak about the body. These conditions—whether chronic or transitory—fracture language, bend perception, time, and resist being neatly contained in existing forms of representation. Fever State emerges from this friction: the struggle to articulate experiences of vulnerability, crisis, and repair when established vocabularies fail. Where we, as diverse, mixed-abled bodyminds with different capacities, cannot align with or adhere to normative concepts of time, space and productivity. Therefore, in the context of the exhibition, images become more than documents; they operate as gestures of resistance, intimate testimonies, and tools for reclaiming agency.