Szilvia Bolla
August - September 2025
Szilvia Bolla (b. Budapest, Hungary) lives and works between Budapest, Hungary and The Hague, The Netherlands. She explores the personal, social, and cultural dimensions of depression, transgenerational trauma and memory through sculpture and photography, evoking bodies shaped by biopolitics. After graduating from the Fine Art Photography course at Camberwell College of Arts in London, she completed the MA Photography course at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. She is currently part of the MFA program at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
In recent years, her work has been presented at Gossamer Fog, London; Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław; Trafó Gallery, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest and Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has been an artist in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York City; Brno House of Arts, Brno; and the recipient of the Eastern European Network Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. She’s part of the artist duo Alagya with Áron Lődi. They construct new possible forms of literacy to decode planetary life in the capitalocene through writing, storytelling, and installation.