Open Studio w/ Júlia Csapó

We invite you to the first KAIR event of 2026, during which our resident artist, Hungarian artist Júlia Csapó, will open the doors of her studio to the public.

During her three-month residency, Julia Csapó focused on the question of what it means to be human and on the relationships between the human and the non-human world. The paintings and drawings created during this period explore multiple perspectives on these themes through simple situations, such as touching water or entering a cave.

Rather than depicting isolated moments, the works interweave bodily sensations, personal memories, and cultural references. Images from diverse sources overlap, and different viewpoints are placed in dialogue, blurring the boundaries between the known and the unknown, the subjective and the scientific, the spiritual and the real. Meaning emerges not only within individual images but also in the spaces between them and through the viewer’s encounter with the works.

In these works, the human figure is not positioned above or outside the world but is understood as an integral part of its environment, continuously shaped by non-human forces. The depicted environments—surfaces of water, subterranean spaces, and indeterminate landscapes—disrupt habitual modes of human perception and orientation. Within these spaces, the body is conceived as a sensitive, connective membrane, often represented from within or through the experience of bodily sensation.

The artist’s practice reflects on different forms of knowledge and experience, suggesting that understanding the world does not stem from a single, all-encompassing truth, but from the interplay of bodily experience, mental associations, and learned metaphors.

JÚLIA CSAPÓ (HU) in her artistic practice explores the intricate and layered relationship between the human and the non-human world, focusing on the body as the primary site of experience and perception. She primarily works with painting, a medium that allows her to move between abstraction, figuration, and fiction, while bringing together a wide range of visual references.

The residency program is supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council. The Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of this project. The project was also supported by the City of Košice and the Košice Self-Governing Region.