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Artists
Audette Hyder (SY)
Audette Hyder is a Syrian Visual Artist and currently a DLA Student at the Doctoral School of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. She completed her bachelor degree (2015) and Master Degree (2020) in Painting at The Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University.
Hyder's research and artistic practice focus on liberation and experimentation in art, and center upon liberating the inner self and depicting the feeling through mixed media artworks and installations, her previous researches focused on Tackling the Impact of the Futurist ideas within theories and practice concerned with all artistic fields within the context of modernism to post-modernism.
Cecilia Banderia (BRA)
Cecília Bandeira is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker who is currently working on her dissertation at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts' DLA. Cecilia graduated in 2016 with a Master's degree in Documentary Filmmaking - Doc Nomads, a joint Master's degree offered by three European universities: Universidade Lusófona (Portugal), LUCA – School of Arts (Belgium), and Budapest Film Academy (Hungary), in which she was a scholarship student.
Cecília began making documentaries in order to exist in and through other realities, to discover herself in worlds other than her own. Currently, she is working on a research project on autoethnographic cinema, and the challenge is to otherize herself, dissecting her own truths, fears, and perspectives.
Enkhtaivan Ochirbat (MGL)
He is a Mongolian contemporary artist, painter and researcher. He has taught at Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture as a lecturer. He has taken part in international projects, Biennales, and fairs, and he was a successful participant in the 57th Venice Biennale's Karma video projection of the Mongolian pavilion /Tngre of heaven/. His works are held in the collections of the Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Mongolian modern art galleries, Singapore Fine Art Museum, Germany, and the United States. He creates abstract paintings, installations, sculptures, video arts, performances, and calligraphies using a variety of techniques and genres. He creates works connected to Buddhist philosophy and science, karma, enlightenment, hell and paradise, their context and related codes. A interdisciplinary union of philosophy, the subconscious mind, the alien realm, and nothingness is also discussed. His working method is based on Mongolian folk proverbs, folklore, and ancient shamanic phrases to create eclectic experiments on the link between nature and modern society, philosophy, and science.
Erekle Chinchilakashvili (GE)
Through his art-making, the young Georgian artist attempts to research the human condition's constant flux, fragility, and transformation. Chinchilakashvili is active in different fields of media, such as painting,
installation, and video. To name a few, his areas of interest concern the notion of memory, emotional and psychological cultural heritage, and anthropology. Like an archaeologist, the artist digs for sources deep into his consciousness to revive images and memories that are faded and "out of context" to create new constellations here and now.
Hanan Saif (SY)
Hanan is an artist at the fourth year at the Doctoral School. She completed her master's degree at the University of Pécs / Ceramic design. She is a painter, ceramist, installation artist, filmmaking artist, and art educator. Her work is about depicting the trace we found in our souls.
Khan Nuruzzaman (BD)
Nuruzzaman Khan, a Bangladeshi documentary filmmaker, finished his Masters from Docnomads and is doing his Doctoral research on different forms of migration, such as moving from one place to another, one dream to another, one time to another, one person to another, or one thought to another. Currently, He is working on his final project about Migration and one of the projects is about ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanamar government and flew to Bangladesh as Migrant.
Atsushi Kuwayama (JP)
Atsushi Kuwayama is a Japanese amateur artist-researcher. He graduated from Kyushu University with a Bachelor of Arts Sciences in Anthropology and DocNomads with a Master of Arts in Documentary Filmmaking. His films focused on the materiality of encounters, the tragicomedy of misunderstandings and frictions, have screened and won awards at international film festivals such as Pia Film Festival (JP), Visions du Réel (CH), HotDocs (CA), True/False (US), DocLisboa (PT), Doc Aviv (IL), DocuDays (UA), FICCI (UA), and FICCI (UA) (CO). Aside from films, he has worked on community art initiatives in Japan, the United States, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, and Belgium. He is a member of Cinecaravan, an international traveling cinema project dedicated to the cultivation of curiosity and tolerance on the basis of peripherality through organizing film screenings and filmmaking workshops in collaboration with small local communities based on the concept of peripherality.
Manuel F. Contreras (CO)
Manuel F Contreras is a Colombian documentary filmmaker. He has worked both independently and for TV networks. His first feature length documentary film Las Últimas Vacaciones (Boys of Buenaventura) received several recognitions including Best Colombian Film at the Cali Int. Film Festival. He holds a PhD in Arts from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and a Masters Degree from DocNomads. Manuel works as head of programming of the Budapest International Documentary Film Festival BIDF, as the main programmer of the Déli-Doku Contemporary Latin American Documentary Film Festival of Budapest, as lecturer for Docnomads at the University of Theater and Film Arts of Hungary and at Metropolitan University in Budapest.
Özgür Ilter (TR)
Özgür Ilter, a visual designer and artist-researcher, explores the intricate bond between people and their surroundings, inspired by her own standing in a foreign country. Her diverse works span photography, illustration, and mixed-media, exhibited in Budapest, Istanbul, Berlin, Barcelona, and London. Notable projects include From Obscurity to Particularity, a book centred on the railway station Keleti Pályaudvar, and Re:place, a comprehensive project examining the domestic spaces of non-locals.
Mansour Forouzesh (IR)
Mansour Forouzesh is an Iranian filmmaker and photographer. He has produced and directed narrative short films, short documentaries, and feature documentaries, as well as ads & commercial video since 2005. Mansour's movies have participated in over 50 film festivals worldwide, including the Fajr International Film Festival and the Cork International Film Festival. He has also participated as a jury member in several film festivals, awarding official prizes.
As an independent photographer, he is fascinated by photographing the relationship between man and its environment, leading viewers to find meaning in his photographs. His project, [In]visible Meaning Photography, explores the metaphorical meaning in different photography genres and has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Iran and Hungary. This personal artistic project is also his doctoral thesis at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
Pallavi Majumder (IN)
Pallavi Majumder is a painter and installation artist from Kolkata, India. She finished her doctoral studies in 2022 and moved back to India. At presend she is an assistant professor at Chandigarh University. Pallavi’s works have been selected and awarded in various National and International exhibitions and workshops in India, China, Japan, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, London, and Hungary. She has also been invited to present her papers and works at the International Symposium “Sharing Borders” in London by the Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL in February 2019, and at the “Responsibility of Freedom” conference in memory of Prof. Bodóczky István at MOME, Budapest in October 2021.
Her research deals with the Absurd in Art where she mainly focuses on the “unexplained” states that we often experience yet fail to express. Her works aim to provide a “container” for the objectification of the unexplainable emotions or incomprehensible situations that float but are also deeply rooted, that share the borders of the known and unknown, the relatable and unrelatable, the recognized and unrecognized, the visible and invisible, and most importantly – the meaningful and the meaningless.
Tarek Arabi (SY)
Tarek is a Syrian artist his work focus on possibilities to see everything from another perspective, he doesn’t believe in an infinitive truth or an absolute fact.
Tra Nguyen (VN)
Tra Nguyen is a Vietnamese artist who specializes in Media Art and Design. She is currently a doctorate researcher at Budapest's Hungarian University of Fine Arts' Doctoral School. Her work has been presented at the Bucharest Biennale, Archives Bordeaux Metropole (France), Chiang Mai Art Center (Thailand), Women's Museum (Vietnam), Vietnamese National Exhibition of Applied Arts, and other exhibitions and festivals in Asia and Europe. By observing the transformation of various emerging phenomena in the everyday life, her research – serving as a background for her artistic practice – explores the new structures in society, culture and art. She is currently working on an artistic research project about cyberspace, surveillance capitalism, cyber colonialism, and creativity in the age of AI and automation. Her work takes the form of design, film, interactive media, installation, and other forms of expression.
Vitor Silva (BR)
Vitor Silva is a designer from Brazil who lives and works in Budapest. He is currently a doctoral student at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where he studies experimental approaches and processes in graphic design production, with a particular focus on non-digital typographic creation, in the context of the digital age and the attention economy.
Having worked as graphic designer and art director for over 10 years, his current pursuits are a natural progression from his practice at the Savannah College of Art and Design. After engaging in a series of experiments with words and their forms, his current art practice is rooted in a deep interest in experimenting with unconventional methods of creation – as a critique towards contemporary design production and consumption which are increasingly confined within digital spaces.
Volkan Mengi (TR)
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Graphic Design: Visual Communications at University for the Creative Arts. He joined various classical guitar societies in England during this period and achieved success in classical guitar contests, received awards. He earned his master's degree from London Metropolitan University, Digital Film and Animation MA course. He completed a 1-year guitar making course at London Met, Sir John Cass School of Art, Media & Design, by making the vihuela instrument. Later, in Spain and Poland, he held animation workshops. His doctoral education on video games, which started in 2017 at Hungarian University of Fine Arts with Hungarian state scholarship, is still ongoing. Except for the universities where he studied, he worked as a lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University in 2019-2020. He participated in exhibitions in Austria, Czech Republic, England, Germany and Hungary. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of 2D/3D animation, video games and data visualization.
Zahra Fuladvand (IR)
Zahra Fuladvand is an Iranian performative art creator. She established her own theatre group in Tehran and worked on environmental performances. She finished her doctoral studies in 2022 and she is living in Budapest. Since 2017 she's started to experience the unconventional environment in Budapest in her artistic creations. She's performed at the Budapest M3 Metro Line, in the street of her building, and created a video in a hospital room when the pandemic's started, and also made a video performance shot in an abandoned space of an old factory, Artus studio, as parts of this journey to explore the relationship between audience in non-theatrical environments with performance. Besides her artistic practice, she is researching and studying the found environment and pre-existing natural spaces for performative arts. Her recent publication titled Transformation of the Found Environment in Persian Passion Theatre has been published in Dramatic Architectures Theatre and Performing Arts in motion, 2021, CEAA.