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.

Participation

Forecasting a Broken Past, with Can Altay, Andy Holden, Nicoline van Harskamp, Gergely László, Tamás Kaszás, Katarina Šević, 27 September until 28 October 2017, this exhibition was part of the OFF-Biennale Budapest, hosted by aqb Project Space, Budapest, Hungary

The multiple voices within the exhibition reflect on stories about communities that are formed through shared attitudes and aspirations. Sharing these accounts of various modernist utopian, avant-garde, Marxist, anarchist, or even naive teenage strategies provides an opportunity to transfer their energies into contemporary structures of thought.

Reading Room, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Hold Your Ground, Borbala Soos

Adelita Husni-Bey, Agency, 2012, Borbala Soos

Collaboration Beyond Consensus – Rehearsing Collectivity, Priscila Fernandes, Adelita Husni-Bey, Krétakör, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Rehana Zaman, May 2015, OFF-Biennale, Budapest, hosted by tranzit.hu, Budapest, Hungary

In his book, ‘The Nightmare of Participation’, first published in 2010, Markus Miessen describes participation, collaboration and collectivity as only pseudo-democratic terms. The words participation and consensus have become increasingly overused, and their uncritical, naive or even romantic applications are frightening. Miessen enters the discussion as an architect, but also advocates for vigorous cross-disciplinary intrusions...