I am a London based Hungarian multidisciplinary artist exploring nature-culture and species barriers. I am interested in breaking down these barriers, mainly by devising exercises that help me to de-learn and re-learn prescribed ideals of how to relate to the environment and its inhabitants, in order to develop a new non-hierarchical way of being in the world. I investigate modes of moral distinctions that enable us to commit atrocities against the signified other, be it race, gender, or species. I am intrigued by the possibilities of non-lingual communication between different entities; the information exchange via scents, sounds, touch.
Originally a painter, I have worked in a multitude of media throughout the years. Due to a conscious decision to stop making unnecessary objects I moved towards non-material processes such as video, performance and sound. My practice mainly consists of simple exercises of listening and interacting with multispecies collaborators, realized in performance and video form alongside installations.
Curriculum Vitae
Monika Tobel
Born in Hungary, lives and works in London (UK)
Education
2020-ongoing University of East London, Practice based Doctorate in Fine Art
2017-2018 Chelsea College of Art, MA Fine Art
2008-2011 University of Bath, BA Drawing for Fine Art Practice
2007-2008 Swindon College, Access to HE, Art and Design
Group Exhibitions
2022, Mind Yor Head Art Cabaret, Zuzushii Art Laboratory, Hastings
2022, A Woman’s Place is Everywhere, Cello Factory, London
2022, The Bridge, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2021, Notes from the Underground, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2021, Figments, http://www.figments.com
2021, After the Deluge, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2020 PassagiAtina, Harts Lane Gallery, London
2020, Mind Your Head Art Cabaret, Wild to be Born, London
2019, Little Island Festival, Greece
2019, PassagiAtina, Italy
2019, Change: For Better or Worse, For Richer or Poorer, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2019, LEAD, Internation Performance Art Festival, Oxford
2019, Earth Day, Centre 424, Belgrade
2019, The Zone (Twelve Years to Save the World), Asylum Chapel, London
2019, Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad, Q-Park, London
2019, NOHAT Performance Art Festival, Bedford
2018, Doremi, Art Gene, Barrow in Furness
2018, Commune, The Old Bath House, London
2018, Reality Dismorphya, The Crypt Gallery, London
2018, Landscape and Body Performance, Perch, Oxford
2018, Enshrined, The Crypt Gallery, London
2018, Labrynths, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2017, Lost and Found, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2017, PASSport Britannia, Safehouse, London
2017, Mercerism, The Crypt Gallery, London
2017, 51% Remember Her, Barking Memorial Community Church, London
2017, The Tunnel at Waterstones, Waterstones Gallery, London
2017, Postcards to Alaska, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska
2016, Bad Art: Touch Me Baby, Bones and Pearl, London
2016, SKICC, Utos Festival, Velence, Hungary
2016, Hunger, Republic Gallery, London
2016, Exposed, Ben Oakley Gallery, London
2016, Dante's Ashtray, The Pilgrim, Liverpool
2016, Interzone, Geddes Gallery, London
2016, Waste-Land, Asylum Chapel, London
2016, Blind Plural, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2015, BANG!, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2015, SKICC, Klub Dunaujvaros, Hungary
2015, Disruptive, I'klectik Artlab, London
2015, Den-City with London Festival of Architecture, London
2015, Play, London Fields, London
2015, Esoterica, Banham Barrel, Norfolk
2015, The Anti-Gallery Gallery Show, Espacio Gallery, London
2014, CARU, Oxford MOMA, Oxford
2014, I'll Be Back In Five Minutes, Cultivate Vyner Street, London
2014, Alice 3.0, Museum of Oxford, Oxford
2014, Artsdepot Open, London
2014, Unify Creative Haringey, London
2013, Stomping on the Box, 44AD, Bath
2013, Adult Play II, Akila, Bristol
2013, Sound and Vision - Silver Room, Post Modern Gallery, Swindon
2012, Sound and Vision - Corridor, Post Modern Gallery, Swindon
Resedencies
2019 PassagiAtina Residency, Italy
2018, DOREMI Residency, Barrow-in-Furness, UK
2018, Parallax Residency, Poland
2015, SKICC Residency, Hungary
2011-2012, Aftergraduate Residency, Artiste Ltd, Swindon
Publications:
Average Art Magazine, December, 2018
WOTISART? Magazine, March, 2018
Tunnel Zine/ Hunger: Dispatches for the Edge of Anthropocene, 2017
Tunnel Zine/ Understanding is Not a Point of View, 2016
Domestic Cherry 4, Poetry Annual, cover design, 2014
Member of Tunnel Collective since 2016 - www.thetunnel.london
Member of Narrative Movements since 2018 - www.narrativemovements.com