Márk Fridvalszki (1981, Budapest, lives and works in Berlin)

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2011 and was a postgraduate Meisterschüler student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig (2014–2017). Since 2014 Fridvalszki is the co-initiator and graphic editor of the publishing project and cross-disciplinary collective Technologie und das Unheimliche or T+U.

Archeo-futurology, the excavation and elaboration of visual, sonic and textual remains of utopian cultural periods and lost future-visions in a post-futuristic, atemporal age, has become the prime method in the art of Márk Fridvalszki since 2018.The collage-compositions have been primarily built from the (counter)cultural fragments of two eras around the years of 1968 and 1989, marking the starting and endpoint of an epoch that British cultural theorist Mark Fisher called Popular Modernism. Critical nostalgia, which fuels the works of Fridvalszki, is not towards the past but the future: it summons the exorcised ghosts of this cultural and political paradigm in order to burst out from our claustrophobic Present with the wide horizons of Popular Modernism.