Kata GEIBL

GEIBL Kata_18_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Race Horse_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80×100 cm

There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Race Horse, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

About the artist

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.

STUDIES
2021 –
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) – PhD, HU

2019 – 2021
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) – MA, Photography and Society, NL

2015 – 2018
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) – BA, Photography, HU

2017 – 2018
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture – MA, Photography, FI

2008 – 2012
Eötvös Loránd University – BA, Film History and Film Theory Major, HU


SCHOLARSHIPS

2022 / FOAM Talent
2022 / CNA - The Notion of Humanist Photography Residency
2022 / Images Gibellina Residency
2021 / Dior Photography Award
2021 / Silver Eye Fellowship, Honorable Mention
2020 / Leica Oskar Barnack Award Nominee
2020 / Encontros da Imagem Discovery Award Finalist
2020 / Futures Photography Platform, Nomination Hyeres Festival
2020 / Palm*Photo Prize Shortlist
2020 / 35th Hyéres Festival Photography Finalist
2020 / Fotofestiwal Lodz Grand Prix Finalist
2019 / PHmuseum Vogue Italia Prize
2019 / Palm* Photo Prize Shortlist
2019 / Futures Photography Platform, Nomination Capa Center
2019 / József Pécsi Photography Scholarship
2018 / Winner of Paris Photo Carte Blanche Student Award
2018 / Finalist at Breda Photo Talent Program
2018 / Association of Hungarian Photographers Scholarship
2017 / Campus Mundi Scholarship
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 / There is Nothing New Under the Sun / 111 Gallery, HU
2019 / Sisyphus / H2 Gallery, UMPRUM, CZ
2018 / Sisyphus / Supermarket Gallery, HU

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024/ RADAR Festival / Trani, IT
2024 / ETC Exhibition, Industra / Brno, PL
2024 / I’m Afraid I Can Do That, Torula / Győr, HU
2024/ ETC Exhibition/ Ljubjana, SL
2024 / Contemporary Photobooks Exhibition, Capa Center / Budapest, HU
2024 / METU / Budapest, HU
2024 / Art Encounters Biennale / Timisoara, SL
2024 / Art in Book form / Budapest, HU
2023 / Images Gibellina / Gibellina, IT
2023 / Like You and Me, Young Hungarian Photopraphy / Budapest, HU
2023 / Art Encounters Biennale / Timisoara, SL
2022 / Heart and Cherry / Budapest, HU
2022 / Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation / Frankfurt, DE
2022 / 212 Photography Istanbul / Istanbul, TK
2022 / Foam Talent Exhibition / Amsterdam, NL
2021 / Work in Context / Budapest, HU
2021 / Palm Photo Prize / London, UK
2021 / The Rencontres d’Arles / Arles, FR
2020 / Athens Photo Festival / Athens, GR
2020 / Fotofestival Lenzburg / Lenzburg, SW
2020 / Encontros Da Imagem / Braga, PO
2020 / Fotofestiwal Łódź / Lodz Art Center, Łódź Voivodeship, PL
2020 / 35th Hyéres Festival / Villa Noailles, FR
2020 / Illusionary Observations / Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, DE
2020 / Pécsi József Grant / Robert Capa Center, HU
2020 / UNSEEN Amsterdam / Westergasfabriek, NL
2019 / The Freezing Moment / Societe, HU
2019 / Picture this! / Budapest Gallery, HU
2019 / Baushaus Contemporary / Accademia d'Ungheria, IT
2019 / UNSEEN Amsterdam / Westergasfabriek, NL
2019 / PALM Photo Prize / ThePrintSpace, UK
2019 / Bauhaus Contemporary / MÜPA, HU
2019 / Women's Studies / KAS Gallery, HU
2018 / Entrée / Mikve, HU
2018 / Art Market Budapest / Millenaris, HU
2018 / UNSEEN Amsterdam / Westergasfabriek, NL
2018 / MOME Photography Diploma Exhibition / HybridArt Space, HU
2018 / 7 VIRTUE / Supermarket Gallery, HU
2018 / FKSE New Members 2. / FKSE, HU
2017 / Art Market Budapest, Studio of Young Photographers / Millenáris, HU
2016 / MAMAVORE Photobook and Zine exhibition / OMNIVORE Gallery, HU
2015 / To Be Continued / MÜSZI, HU

Artworks

GEIBL Kata_20_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Golden Ladder_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80×100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Golden Ladder, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_18_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Race Horse_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80×100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Race Horse, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_24_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Gletschers of Dachstein_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80×100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Gletschers of Dachstein, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_26_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Discoss Thrower_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80×100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Discoss Thrower, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_16_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Shot Put Before the Throw_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80×100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Shot Put Before the Throw, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_52_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Rock_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80x100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Rock, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_72_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Man_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80x100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Man, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_70_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Sculpture_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80x100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Sculpture, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_34_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Lion_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80×100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Lion, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_30_There is Nothing New Under the Sun_The Beehive_2022_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_80×100 cm

  There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The Beehive, 2022

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 100×80 cm

GEIBL Kata_14_Sisyphus_Untitled #20_2018_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_50×40 cm.jpg

  Sisyphus
Untitled #20, 2018

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 50×40 cm

GEIBL Kata_11_Sisyphus_Untitled #17_2018_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_50×40 cm

  Sisyphus
Untitled #17, 2018

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 50×40 cm

GEIBL Kata_4_Sisyphus_Untitled #7_2018_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_70×56 cm

  Sisyphus
Untitled #7, 2018

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 70×56 cm

GEIBL Kata_15_Sisyphus_Untitled #23_2018_archív pigment nyomat, barit papír_50×40 cm

  Sisyphus
Untitled #23, 2018

archive pigment print, baryt paper, 50×40 cm