GABRIELLA UHL
Director - Curator
Gabriella Uhl PhD, is an art historian, critic, curator and a lecturer; she lives and works between Budapest, Hungary and Barcelona, Spain.
Gabriella Uhl is currently is an associate professor in the art history department at Károli Gáspár University of Reformed Church in Hungary. Formerly she lectured at Budapest Metropolitan University and MATE (Kaposvár University, Hungary) on art history, theory, curatorial studies and cultural management; she regularly takes part at conferences and research labs, has been a recipient of several research grants. Gabriella Uhl regularly contributes to various art catalogues and other publications. Gabriella Uhl is also active as a curator, in 2013 was appointed as a curator for the National Pavilion of Hungary at the 55th Venice Biennale with the project "Fired But Unexploded."
Since 2012 she is a member of the curatorial board of the European Month of Photography (EMOP) curating photo exhibitions in MUDAM (Luxemburg), Gropius Bau (Berlin, Germany, House of Photography (Paris, France). Gabriella Uhl became the chief curator of the Biennial festival of Photography Budapest Photomonth in 2012; it was then followed by Photomonth 2014, 2016 and 2018 which she successfuly delivered.
Amongst numerous exhibitions and projects Gabriella Uhl curated: The Oeuvre / A look BackFoward, Zoltán Érmezei at Ludwig Museum, (Budapest, 2016); Annual Estonian Cultural Week in Hungary (Budapest, 2015-2016), Kunst macht frei, Contemporary Estonian Art at Janus Pannonius Museum (Pécs, 2010); Does the soul go away? at Vasarely Múzeum (Pécs, 2008), Measure Five World-famous Hungarian Photographers (Brassai, Robert Capa, Andre Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, Martin Munkácsy) at Ernst Museum, (Budapest, 2006); Common place, Minorities and cultural identity in the Carpatian Basin at Ernst Múzeum, (Budapest, 2006). As a curator of the Romart Foundation (supporting roma artists) Uhl organized exhibitions of Roma artists which toured around several venues.