Dávid Koronczi - Fruits of Yearning
The exhibition by the audiovisual artist and graphic designer Dávid Koronczi is a multimedia work, which in a story of three protagonists – a mother, father and adult son – deals with the theme of fatherhood, our relationship to the land, the loss of roots and their re-establishment. This is set upon a backdrop of internal migration, the gentrification of suburban satellites of the big city and the surrounding agricultural landscape.
Sarajevská 16, Prague
curator: Tomáš Kajánek
Dávid Koronczi (*1990)
Dávid Koronczi gained a Bachelor’s degree at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, and subsequently graduated with a Master’s degree at Ilona Németh’s IN Studio of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. This year he commenced his PhD studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology, under the mentorship of Katarína Hládeková. He was a co-founder of the multi-genre MEDZIHMLA festival in Lučenec, where he contributed to the dramaturgical programme during the years of 2008–2019. In 2017 he co-initiated the founding of the cultural and society monthly Kapitál, where he is currently active as a member of the editorial board and a graphic designer. Since 2020 he has been a member of the organisational team of the Bratislava BAK Summer School. At present he is working as an assistant to Martin Piaček at the vvv (visual, verbal, public) Studio of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where among other engagements he has assisted in teaching a course entitled World In Relation in co-operation with the curator, writer and head of the BAK (Basis voor aktuele kunst in Utrecht) Maria Hlavajová and the researcher Kristína Országhová.
In his authorial work he focuses on intersections of the politics of food and artistic practice. In recent years he has realised a series of multidisciplinary presentations on this theme at group and independent exhibitions in Slovakia and abroad: for example an exhibition at the MEDIUM Gallery in Bratislava (Deeper than Within, curator: Miroslava Urbanová, 2017) and at AM 180 in Prague (Humid Intimacy, curator: Zlatka Borůvková, 2018); he has also provided curatorial support for two issues of the Kapitál monthly (Culture of Food 02/2019 and Soil 09/2021 – in co-operation with Tomáš Uhnák); an exhibition and dramatic composition of the public programme in the East Slovak Gallery in Košice as part of the presentation of the finalists of the Oskár Čepan Award 2019 under the title DP.OCH, A Temporary Platform on Bread; the production and publication of the audio story Chicken’s Leg Bistro as part of the DAAVS festival under the heading of the VUNU podcast in Košice; the creation of the performance format of the VENTRILOQUING poetry festivals during a residence at the Schaubmarov Mlyn art gallery in Pezinok in June 2021 in collaboration with David Přílučík and Rasťo Kraviansky, which he subsequently reprised at the HaDivadlo Performing Arts Theatre in Brno during the House of Culture and Fatigue festival in Brno, and at last year’s KIOSK festival at the New Synagogue in Žilina. Among other venues he has exhibited at the Shedhalle exhibition arena in Switzerland at the Kunstpunkt art gallery in Berlin.
production managers: Anna Davidová, Nela Klajbanová
installation: Max Máslo
graphic design: Nela Klímová
translation: Martin Makara
Credits
- Starring: Peter Oszlík
- Screenplay and direction: Dávid Koronczi
- Assistant director: Lýdia Ondrušová
- Screenplay consultant: Peter Balko
- Production assistant: Jaroslav Baláž
- Camera and editing: Denis Kozerawski
- Sound: Erik Pánči
- Music: Erik Pánči a Jaroslav Baláž
- Voice: Barbora Benková
- Caterer: Viki Jakabová
- Administration: Martina Szabóová
The project was financially supported by the grants of the State Cultural Fund, Ministry of Culture of The Czech Republic and Prague City Hall.