Devening Projects + Editions

(born 1961) Dagmar Varady  belongs to the generation of artists working intensely on the borderline between art and science. This is represented by projects such as Sieben Synthetische Steine (Forschungsstätte für Frühromantik, Oberwiederstedt, 1999-03), Der Hai und das Mädchen (Fraunhoferinstitut WM, 2007-09), Wolkensimulator (LACIS, 2006), or Golden Faces (2005-08). “Questions that make artistic ways of perception or expression gain importance for scientific disciplines and vice versa, that allow minimizing existing differences or boundaries by common decisions and renegotiating values – such questions are fascinating to the imagination also from an artistic perspective.” (DV) The application of different media like hand drawing, photo and video, digital animation, and tapestry, is confronted by room related installations that correspond precisely with the respective contexts. The current drawings spotlight the relationship between body and image.

Dagmar Varady lives and works in Halle – Leipzig; Design studied at Burg Giebichenstein Academy of Arts and Design Halle; 2001-03 studies in Media art with specialisation Intermedia at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. 1993/94 Grant, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; 2000-01 Worklodge, Brooklyn/Williamsburg N.Y.C., USA; Residence at  Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, USA; 2002 HAP-Grieshaber-Award of VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; 2007 Artist in Residence, Krems/Austria; Work Grant, Art Foundation of Saxony. Lectureships at HKD Halle, Bauhaus Dessau, Universities of Dortmund and Cologne, and at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.