Om Bori *born in Berlin.
graduated with honors in Fine Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts and in Intermedia Art from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, where she is currently pursuing artistic research.
She is represented by Art of Future, a member of the the Studio of Young Artists’ Association in Budapest and the Saloon Network in Berlin.
Bori´s work combines still and moving images with different narratives genres, from memoir to documentary through to song and tale. It explores the intersection of visual and verbal exposition by means of videos, animations, drawings, objects, rhythms and algorithms. Point of departure are studies of a milieu, place or landscape and the human and nonhuman relations enfolding therein. Conceptually, it directs attention to how structural forces steer individual and collective lives, and how the individual and the collective attempt to resist such structural determination, whether through labour, hope, love, migration or madness.
Recent results are a three-channel video installation exploring the experiences and creative horizons of Hungarian women in 1920s Berlin, connecting their stories across time through a dynamic visual and acoustic narrative( Metamorphoses of an Archive, 2024); a multimedia installation centered on mythical female water figures and environmental critique (Aqueous Creatures, 2024); a sound and PVC-based installation narrating the Havel river’s perspective on ecological repair (Thalassale Regression, 2023); and a multimedia work examining the relationship between female livelihoods and environmental impact through the lens of water sellers in Accra (Pure Water, 2022).
education
2024-
Doctor of Liberal Arts, Doctoral School, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2024
Master of Education, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts /
Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin
2021
Meisterschülerin - Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts
2019
Absolventin - Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts
2014
Diploma - Intermedia Art, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2008
A-levels, Fine Art Secondary School, Budapest
scholarships & awards
2025
Artits grant, Goethe Institute Budapest
2024-28
Fellowship for postgraduate studies, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2024
Artist in residence - Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Stadt Salzburg
2023
PROMOS scholarship, mobility grant by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
2023
Artist in residence, Guthmann Akademie, Kulturamt Spandau
2020
OFFCITY Artist in residence, Pardubice
AIR - Artist in residence Niederösterreich, Krems an der Donau
BARTR Art Residency, Budapest
2014
Best of Diploma, Barcsay-Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts,
Budapest
nominated:
2022
President’s Fine Arts Award, Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts
2021
Karl-Hofer scholarship, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft
2020
Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
shortlisted:
2023
2021
ACAX Leopold Bloom Young Visual Art Award
2019
DECODE Architecture and Art Prize
solo & duo | group | biennales || screenings ||| performances ||||
solo & duo
2024
Sedimented memories, House of Arts and Literature, Pécs (HUN)
Aqueous Creatures, Appendix Art Hub, Künstlerhaus Salzburg (AUT)
Women/Water/Bodies, duo show with Wura-Nathasa Ogunji, Liget Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
2023
3,267 footsteps, Kunstraum Juraplatz, Biel/Bienne (CHE)
2022
women–water-bodies, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (DEU) vimeo.com/interview
pure water, DAS KAPiTAL project space & art association, Berlin (DEU)
2021
tellmetale, MŰTŐ exhibition space, Budapest (HUN) artportal.hu/magazin/az-orulet-es-a-taj-sznobriado-tajekoztatasi-fokozat
bodies of water, University of Ghana, School of Arts (GHA)
2019
upstream danube, Kunstquartier Krems, AIR – artist in residence, Krems an der Donau (AUT)
matrilines, Gallery by Night, The Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HUN) artmagazin.hu/ajanljuk
2018
I won't be this way very long, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest (HUN) artkartell.hu/budapesttol-berolinaig
group
2025
Eismeer zu Nebel verwandelt / Köddé vált jégtenger, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Goethe-Institut Budapest (HUN)
Room to expand, Universität der Künste Berlin, Künsterhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DEU)
be my guest, Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg (AUT)
2024
Metamorphosen eines Archivs, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (DEU)
YOUR WATER OUR WATER, aqb art centre Budapest | DELPHI_space Freiburg | U10 Art Space Belgrade (HUN | DEU | SRB)
stiction, Kunstzentrum E-WERK Luckenwalde (DEU)
Ha mi árnyak, Kaleidoscope House, Esztergom (HUN)
2023
Satelliting Groundfloor, Okay Artspace, Athens (GRC)
Family history eludes appropriation - Om Bori, Olivia Kovács, Christina Werner, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest (HUN)
Unveiling_Lerántjuk a leplet, Liget Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
Queering Democracy - Binálé, Digital Art Biennal, Kristály színtér, Budapest (HUN)
DRAGONER 1.0, Super Contemporary Arts Fest, Dragoner Areal, Berlin (DEU)
videoaktion #4, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (DEU)
Wo gehen wir denn hin?, Gutmann Akademie, Gotisches Haus, Berlin (DEU)
Berlin Art Week: Im Prozess, Gutmann Akademie, Gutshaus Neukladow, Berlin (DEU)
2022
Preis des Präsidenten der UdK Berlin: Nominiertenausstellung, Universität der Künste, Berlin (DEU)
sleeping promises, feldfünf - Projekträume im Metropolenhaus, Berlin (DEU)
KunstKaufen, Charlotte-Salomon-Saal, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Universität der Künste, Berlin (DEU)
Return to the real, Art of Future platform, Metaverse (MVRS)
2021
Om Bori, Veronika Burger, Christina Werner: Autoarchive Reloaded, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (AUT) sn.at/mechanismen-von-erinnerung
nothing ever happened (yet), Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DEU)
Karl-Hofer Stipendien: Nominiertenausstellung, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin (DEU)
Berlin Art Week: Visceral Collectivities, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DEU)
Berlin Gallery Weekend: Parken ist Bewegung, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DEU) tagesspiegel.de/tipps-zum-gallery-weekend
PATRON, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Q Contemporary, Budapest (HUN)
2020
Architecture/moving image, 14 In Out Festival, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (POL)
Budapest Art Week: MMXX // archive // time capsule, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
Hungarian Month of Photography: Experience Exchange, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
Closed door, 1111 Gallery, Budapest (HUN) youtu.be/m2/petofiTV
Abwehrmechanismen, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DEU)
Festival delle Arti Contemporanee, Factory Athena, Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Firenze (ITA)
2019
International Video Art Forum, Society of Culture and Arts in Dammam (SAU)
9th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo (EGY) medinaportal.com/we_eat_it_dead
Exhale - Berlin Art Week decompression, Zönotéka artspace, Berlin (DEU)
Stadtgesichter, nomadicArt, Berlin (DEU)
2018
Unstitched Resources: A dialogue, Studio 106 - Art Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
Stúdió '18 – Szalon / A jövőt végképp eltörölni, Barcsay-Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HUN) artmagazin.hu/ajanljuk
Working title 2, MAGMA Contemporary Art Space, Sfântu Gheorghe (ROU)
Bunt, lebendig und fantastisch ohne happy end!, Kunst- und Kultursalon Bar Babette, Berlin (DEU)
Die Kant. Der bewegliche Imperativ, Uferhallen, Studio 13, Berlin (DEU)
Parallax View, Parallax Forum, Acadamy of Fine Arts Katowice, Katowice (POL)
Systems / Shaking / Sounding, HUMlab- X, Faculty of Arts, Umeå University, Umeå (SWE)
Beyond Words: An international multidisciplinary event, Artspace Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv (ISR)
LOCOMOTION, Audioriver Festival, NoveKino Przedwiośnie, Płock (POL)
distance, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (POL)
Through the landscape, The 6. Dzielnica gallery, Łódź (POL)
Sound Systems, Vox Electronica-Festival, Lviv Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv (UKR)
Areas of the posthuman and ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University Institute of European Culture, Gniezno (POL)
heroes, passing the way, hacking of the system, Zakład Karny w Wołowie, Prison in Wołów (POL)
Scrolling, Le Cube - centre de création numérique, Paris (FRA)
Pokaz i spotkanie, Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu”, Toruń (POL)
2017
17th Media Art Biennale WRO 2017 - DRAFT SYSTEMS, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw (POL) issuu.com/wroartcenter/wro2017_catalogue
Timelapse, Technische Universität, Berlin (DEU) morgenpost.de/In-den-verborgenen-Gaengen
new members exhibition, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Labor Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
f***k_hegyeshalom_dok, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Studio Gallery, Budapest (HUN) issuu.com/balkon-2016-9
Videoproject, Biennial of video art, Galerie 5 de l’université d’Angers, l’artothèque d’Angers et l’association 24+1, Angers & Nantes (FRA)
Speisekino Moabit 2017 #14, nomadicArt, Center for art and urbanistics, Berlin (DEU)
add rnd to chaos, 34th Chaos Communication Congress, Leipziger Exhibition Grounds, Leipzig (DEU)
On parallel universes, artificial feelings and the natural(?) beauty, BSMNT artspace, Leipzig (DEU)
art conditions/work conditions, Center for leisure and creative work, Myslakowice (POL)
2016
Encounter, Deegar Platform, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran (IRN)
Klaustrophilie, Galerie oqbo - Raum für Bild Wort Ton, Berlin (DEU)
2015
ARTE Video Night 7, Maison Européenne de la Photographie/International Contemporary Art Fair, Paris (FRA) youtu.be/artevideo
RANDOM:15, K11 Arts and Cultural Center/ RANDOM Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
Filmideo, 10th Annual Film and Video Screenings, Index Art Center, Newark, New Jersey (USA)
Traverse, International Video Festival, Les Abattoirs – Museum of modern and contemporary art, Toulouse (FRA)
Oodaaq, International Art Festival, Le Café du Cinéma & Ateliers de la ville en bois, Nantes (FRA)
myshow, Gallery Man, Ross & partners, Berlin (DEU)
2014
Best of Diploma, Barcsay-Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HUN)
Change, Labor Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
2013
Risk Factor – Intermedia 2.0, MODEM - Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen (HUN)
Strassz Performance, YESYES!zine release, Warte für Kunst, Kassel (DEU)
Media Analysis VII., Intermedia Department & Labor Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
publication
2021
Om Bori: Maria Josefin Margarete, Forum, Camera Austria International, Graz, 2021_154
https://camera-austria.at/zeitschrift
Om Bori: Mine, eigenart-magazine, Berlin, 2021_6
https://eigenart-magazin.de/mine
Om Bori: Berlin Zoo Station Simulacrum, Visions of the Future, eigenart-magazine, Berlin, 2021_1
https://eigenart-magazin.de/berlin-zoo-station-simulacrum
2018
Om Bori: Hegyeshair, Served sliced - Texts and visual works from Professor Neugebauer´s class, Press of the University of Arts Berlin, 2018
Om Bori: 3267 footsteps, inside express, 2014, Balkon - Contemporary Art Magazine, Budapest, 2018_3
http://balkon.art/home/print/balkon-2018-3/
2016
Hegyeshalo_ f***k summer workshop at the border, a conversation between Om Bori, Katalin Erdődi, Attila Menesi and György Orbán, Balkon - Contemporary Art Magazine, Budapest, 2016_9
https://issuu.com/elnfree/docs/balkon-2016-9
2014
Om Bori: 2103 metres, 3267 footsteps, 22 minutes: rhythm, performance, narration in the urban everyday, Budapest, 2014
https://katalogus.mke.hu:443/hu/record/-/record/bibMKF00152789
lectures / talks
2024
workshop, Wasserwege der Erinnerung, International Day of Rivers, Bärenzwinger Berlin
workshop, Sedimented memories, House of Arts and Literature, Pécs
artist guided tour & workshop, Women/Water/Bodies, Liget gallery, Budapest
2023
Panel discussion, Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen für Frauen in der Kunstwelt heute, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Artist talk, Family history eludes appropriation, Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest
Artist talk, Im Prozess, Gutshaus Neukladow, Berlin
Artist talk, Wo gehen wir denn hin?, Gotisches Haus, Berlin
2022
Symposium, Guthmann Akademie - pleinair, Guthaus Neukladow, Berlin
Artist talk, women-water-bodies, K.I. Büro Kunstvermittlung Berlin e.V., Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin
Artist talk, pure water, DAS KAPiTAL project space & art association, Berlin
2021
Round table & artist guided tour, Autoarchive Reloaded, Künstlerhaus Wien
Lecture, bodies of water, University of Ghana, School of Arts, Accra
2020
Lecture, Architecture/moving image, Centre for Contemprorary Art, Łażnia
press coverage
article: népszava <- mine
interview: pannontv <- mine
interview: künstlerhaussalzburg <- Aqueous Creatures
review: artportal <- Unveiling_Lerántjuk a leplet
article: fotogeschichtenzeitschrift <- Maria Josefin Margarete
article: salzburgernachrichten <- Autoarchive Reloaded
review: artkartell <- I won't be this way very long
interview: raumfuerdrastischemassnahmen <- women–water-bodies
recommendation: artportal <- tellmetale
recommendation: artmagazin <- matrilines
arte videonight: artetv <- 3,267 footsteps
lahmacun radio: lahmacunradio <- upstream danube