• Tent_2021
  • My eyelids are thinned by the heat so I can see this haze_2020
  • Ordained Hardware_2020
  • Ancient Astronaut Artefacts_2019
  • Fashion at the End of the World_2018
  • Glue in Reality_2018
  • Glue in Reality-diploma_2017
  • Likeness_2017
  • Chaos soldiers_2017
  • Emulation_2015
  • POWER-video performance_2015
  • POWER-brogues_2014
  • POWER_2014
  • Diane, Lyleen, Kelyn_2013
  • Dead grannies-2013
  • Crown_2013

Ágnes Várnai



Born in August 1990, Dunaújváros, Hungary
Currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria


Education


Magister of Arts
2011-2017 University of Applied Art Vienna
studied under the professorship of Bernhard Willhelm and Hussein Chalayan


Awards and Grants


2020 Wirtschafts Agentur Wien, Creatives for Vienna Award

2018 Designers in Residence Scholarship, Pforzheim, Germany

2017 Angewandte Förderung stipendium

2014 RONDO Vöslauer-Modepreise
2014 Swarovski Award


Memberships


2018 Studio of Young Artists Association

2017 Founding member of The (new) Constellation artist collective

Exhibitions


2020 My eyelids are thinned by the heat so I can see this haze, Műtő, Budapest, Hungary

2020 Belátások, ICA-D, Dunaújváros, Hungary

2020 Another World, Online exhibition

2020 WITTGENSTEIN 2020, aqb-Budapest, Hungary

2019 Church of Ego, U10 Gallery, Belgrad, Serbia

2019 Take Festival, Vienna, Austria

2019 re_publica festival, Berlin, Germany

2019 Praise the Laziness, 12-14 Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2019 werk, FKSE, Budapest, Hungary


2018 Operngasse36, Vienna, Austria

2018 #fuckreality, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria

2018 EXIST:Design Days, Burgasse98, Vienna, Austria

2018 ALL ABOUT PEACE, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018 Glue in Reality, EMMA Kreativzentrum, Pforzheim, Germany

2018 Trendbontás, ICA-D, Dunaújváros, Hungary


2017 CROSS9 ART + TEXT, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Underworld Journey, Take festival, Vienna, Austria
2017 The Essence 17, Alte post, Vienna, Austria


2015 TENDANCES Emerging Female Artists & Performance Art, MO:E, Vienna, Austria


2014 DESIGN ACT, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria
2014 Double-stitching or how a shoe becomes an animal, Vienna Design Week, Kunsthaus Wien, Austria


2013 Dunaújvárosi Szlalom, ICA-D, Dunaújváros, Hungary
2013 77 Magazine exhibition, MO.E Vienna, Austria


Work experience


2016 Design assistant at Hussein Chalayan Studio, London, UK

2013 Production and design assistant at accessori label Eva Blut Vienna, Austria