A key point in my work is the socio-cultural aspect. Actively collaborating with people, bringing them together, breaking down barriers and prejudices and giving time. For this, people need to feel and re-experience time, in order to make it tangible again.

Alongside my painting on canvas, I began some years ago to implement public projects in outdoor spaces. For these, I usually select wall surfaces in busy public locations as a base. These are then co-created with thousands of dots painted by many people. The artwork should meet people on their way to work or school, or surprise them on the way to the bus or supermarket. It should pull them out of their daily routine and give them the opportunity to participate in a painting without fear or inhibition. The dots are simple and require no prior knowledge of painting. They are understandable to any age and language and can be made by anyone. By having each person paint dots, equality and togetherness are created. The result is a collective work made of countless hours contributed by hundreds of people. Each dot is an individual trace, but in the end, the picture can no longer be regarded individually. Investing and materializing shared time in order to make a collective trace visible is the goal of this work.

During her residency, Greta Magyar invited visitors to participate in the creation of a collective wall painting. She began by priming the eastern wall of the outdoor area and establishing a foundation of organic shapes and circles in pastel shades of blue, grey, and various tones of brown. Onto this base, she added large circles and cloud-like forms composed of fine dots. These served as starting points for the visitors’ task: using brushes and paint, they were asked to fill the wall with figures and forms made up of dots.

Each day, the work presented itself anew. Dot by dot, participants immersed themselves in the repetitive, rhythmic hand movements whose cumulative results gradually unfolded across the surface. Although the act of dabbing paint appears simple, it is highly time-intensive and thereby enables an expanded perception of time. Through additions and overlapping dots, visitors came into playful contact with one another.

In Progress thus represents an attempt to make a collective, co-creative energy experientially tangible. The work extends beyond the duration of the festival, remaining as a lasting trace of a productive encounter.

text: Zukunftsvisionen

In collaboration with local residents, I designed a large wall surface (in this specific project it was a mounted canvas) that served as a collective artwork. The project employed a simple dot-based structure, facilitating an accessible and straightforward execution. This methodological choice enabled active participation by adults, children, and individuals with disabilities alike, fostering an inclusive creative process.

The extended engagement with the medium prompted both participants and viewers to develop an intensified visual awareness and to reflect on their own perception of time. The work conceptually seeks to embody notions of movement and progress within a two-dimensional pictorial space.