Kata Geibl (1989, Budapest) is a photographer currently living and working in Budapest. Coming from a background in Liberal Arts has informed the way she creates her projects. Drawing concepts from Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Geibl steps in with metaphorical images to fill in the gaps where words fall short.
Geibl’s long-standing interest in photography’s ambiguity — how we are trained to treat photographs as evidence while also approaching them with intense suspicion – is palpable throughout her practice. Harnessing this tension, she presents us with the implications of a very real phenomenon without adhering to straight documentary methods that habitually signal truth. Instead, she mixes genres to produce her visual universe — a commentary on our relationship to photography as much as the implications of capitalism.
Geibl after finishing her Bachelor's degree in Photography from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest), continued her studies at KABK (The Hague) in the Photography and Society Masters Program. She is currently enrolled in the PhD program at MOME where she is also a lecturer. She teaches in the BA program creative photography and in the MA a course about photobook-making.
She exhibited her work internationally, to name a few at the UNSEEN Amsterdam, FOAM Amsterdam, Art Encounters Biennale (Timisoara), Images Gibellina, 212 Photography Istanbul, The Rencontres d’Arles, Athens Photo Festival, and others.
She was part of the FOAM Talent selection in 2022, received the emerging talent Paris Photo Carte Blanche Award and József Pécsi Photography Scholarship, was a Grand Prix Finalist at Fotofestiwal Lodz and a talent for Futures Platform, won the PHmuseum Vogue Italia Prize and was shortlisted for the Palm* Photo Prize.