Borbála Soós

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Borbála Soós (1984, Budapest) is a London-based curator and an active advocate, participant and organiser of artistic and ecological research. Borbála’s practice responds to, disrupts and enriches environmental thinking and related social, political and decolonial urgencies. She is currently Curator at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London and co-curator of the upcoming OFF-Biennale Budapest (2025). She was Artist Caretaker at Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2022-23) and Director/Curator at Tenderpixel, London (2012-2019). She curated projects in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Bratislava; tranzit, Bratislava; FUTURA, Prague; Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest; Rupert, Vilnius; ICA, London; Camden Arts Centre, London; Wysing Arts Centre, UK; CCA Derry-Londonderry... She has been visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, Kingston University and Edinburgh College of Art, among others.

Commons

BALATORIUM, Disturbed Waters, 20 October 2023 – 28 January 2024, Dubniczay Palace, House of Arts Veszprém, Hungary

Ana Brotas X Balázs Budai & Balázs Virág X Collectif Trouble (Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux & Garance Maurer & Mathilde Dewavrin) X Calla Bettina Ernst X Kitti Gosztola & Bence György Pálinkás X Fuzzy Earth (Tekla Gedeon & Sebastian Gschanes) X Gideon Horváth X Hajnal Gyeviki X Harun Morrison X Marie Ouazzani & Nicolas Carrier X Rita Süveges X szabadonbalaton (Diána Berecz & Dániel Bozzai & Éva Bubla & Bence Fülöp & András Zlinszky and collaborators Gergely Ofner X GUBAHAMORI X Mária Schuller & Borbála Vértesi X Anna Tüdős X Anna Varga) X The New Liquidity (Selma Boskailo & Anders Ehlin) X Áron Tóth-Heyn X Ádám Ulbert X Anna Zilahi

This exhibition aimed to present a series of projects around the culture and ecology of Lake Balaton and the Balaton Uplands region in Hungary, more specifically, the research and conversations developed as part of the BALATORIUM project, in collaboration with PAD Foundation, local and international artists, university students of MOME, and in scientists and researchers working in the region, including the Tihany-based Balaton Limnological Research Institute, the Department of Limnology at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, and the a Balaton-felvidéki National Park. The project was commissioned by Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture.

Spatial Practices and the Urban Commons, reading room.

Spatial Practices and the Urban Commons, with Can Altay, Thomas Dobson, Fernando García-Dory, Sabel Gavaldon, Adelita Husni-Bey, Matthew Fuller, Platon Issaias, Tim Ivison, Just Space, Adam Kaasa, Josie McVitty, Godofredo Pereira, Emily Rosamond, Louise Shelley, Squash, Tijana Stevanović, Ben Vickers, Joanna Warsza, 9 April until 4 June 2016, Tenderpixel, London, UK

The event series took shape in variety of formats, including talks, discussions, seminars, workshops, tours and publication launches. The gallery also hosted an exhibition, including a research library and a debate space on the ground floor, and a screening downstairs. Can Altay's ongoing journal, 'Ahali, Setting a Setting' unfolded into an installation, including new contributions. Adelita Husi-Bey's video ‘Ard’ (Land), 2014 presented a specific case study of ‘Cairo 2050’, a government-backed and privately funded metropolitan development plan of epic proportions, which threatens the livelihood of many settlements...