Little Warsaw
András Gálik (b. 1970 in Budapest), Bálint Havas (b. 1971 in Budapest), both live and work in Budapest. Working as a duo since 1999, Little Warsaw addresses historical memory and confronts personal encounters with social experience through films, installations, and a wide variety of media. In recent years, Little Warsaw has undertaken a manifold investigation of the art object as a complex system of codes, conventions and signifiers used as a form of dialogue between the artist and the public. Taking inspiration from similar experiments by the Bauhaus, and reanalysing structuralist theories, they deconstruct the artwork into its most fundamental components: form, colour and material.
One of their best known works is the project The Body of Nerfertiti, presented at the Venice Biennial in 2003, in which they made a bronze body to complete the famous limestone bust of Nefertiti. The act opened up an extremely rich field of associations, including the question concerning the use of the centuries-old iconic art object in contemporary art and the possibilities it offers for intercultural communication, while at the same teasing out the property relations of the artistic heritage of the past.
It is also the artistic heritage of post-war Hungary that they investigate in many of their projects. They elevate public monuments from their environment that have been condemned to amnesia, and use archival footage to place them in a new narrative.
Little Warsaw's work has been widely exhibited internationally since 2003. They had solo exhibitions e.g. Innen Space, Zurich (2020); Secession, Vienna (2014); Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2012); Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2011); AKZM Ausstellungshalle für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster (2010); and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2009).
Their projects have been included in numerous group exhibitions throughout the world, e.g. Museum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław, (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2017); K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015); the travelling exhibition Tee with Nefertiti in 2012-13 at Mathaf Doha, Qatar; Modern Art Institute Valencia, and Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; S.M.A.K., Gent (2011); Singapore History Museum (2006), Apexart New York (2006); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2004). They took part in the 1st and 2nd OFF-Biennále - Budapest (2015, 2017), 12th Bienal de Cuenca (2014), Manifesta 7 in Roverto (2008), the 1st and 3rd Prague Biennial (2003, 2007), and the 2nd Berlin Biennial (2001).
Their works are held in several prestigious international public and private collections, such as Pompidou - Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris; MUDAM - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest; Kontakt - The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group and ERSTE Foundation, Vienna; Muzeum Współczesne, Wrocław; Art Collection Telekom, Frankfurt; EVN Art Collection, Maria Enzersdorf, Austria; Małopolską Fundację Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej, Cracow; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.
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Sadness, 2017
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Emotional Sequence, 2017
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Tidal Wave, 2017
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Ways of Telling, 2017
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Model of the Ambivalent Quarter, 2020
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Tuileries Garden, 2016
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Sliding Quater, 2015
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Double Locus, 2015
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Template, 2015
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Fighter, 2014
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Relief, 2014
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Vortex, 2013
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Mapping Component, 2017
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Bulletproof Vest, 2014
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Helmet, 2012
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Broken Nefertiti, 2003
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Little Warsaw & innen Library at Erna Hecey
9 Oct - 19 Dec 2020In strict compliance with the latest sanitary measures in Luxembourg, visits can be made by appointment only, without exceeding a maximum of four persons at a time. Please contact...Read more -
Group Exhibition
Thinking Ahead 24 Oct 2018 - 31 Jan 2019Erna Hecey is delighted to invite you to the inauguration of her new space in Luxembourg, with the group exhibition Thinking Ahead. 'Thinking means venturing beyond,' German philosopher Ernst Bloch...Read more
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Seems
Little Warsaw Little Warsaw, 2020 Black & White Photocopy, 64 pages
Publisher: innen
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Rebels
Little Warsaw Little Warsaw (András Gálik, Bálint Havas), Katalin Székely, 2017 Read more -
Naming You
Little Warsaw Little Warsaw, 2014 230 x 310 mm, 112 pages
Publisher: Secession
ISBN: 987-3-95763-012-4 Read more
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Little Warsaw | Seems publication launch
9 - 10 October 2020 | Erna Hecey Gallery September 17, 2020INNEN LIBRARY AT ERNA HECEY 9 - 31 October 2020 By appointment only: office@ernahecey.com To celebrate Little Warsaw's latest publication Seems (innen: 2020, Zurich),...Read more -
Little Warsaw | seems exhibition
11 September - 20 November 2020 | innen space, Zurich September 9, 2020Little Warsaw is exhibiting at innen space, Zurich. The seems exhibition was launched during Zurich Art Weekend, on Friday 11 September 2020, and accompanied by...Read more