Boglárka Éva Zellei
1993, Budapest
Boglárka Éva Zellei is a Budapest-based photographer and visual artist. Her works explore the current presence of spirituality and religion in a culture where religion has often become a misunderstood and overused concept. She aims to uncover the deeper desires of individuals or communities, discovering multiple exciting points of connection within contemporary culture.
Zellei’s works – including her photographs, actions, and installations – have followed the process of meaning-making and self-placement from the very beginning. Many of her photographs are taken during performative acts, capturing the artist in meditative, reflective, and self-reflective situations related to the aforementioned questions of self-definition. In her artistic practice, performance and image-making provide an opportunity for reinterpretation: through these acts, outdated traditions are reinterpreted and given new meanings. For her, the creative process has also become a source of spiritual development and an important space for dialogue.
She began her university studies at Kaposvár University, continued at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, and later obtained her master’s degree at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2017. Her works have been exhibited internationally in Budapest, Berlin, London, Vienna, and Rome. In 2018 and 2024, she received the Pécsi József Photographic Art Scholarship, and from 2020 to 2023, she was awarded the MMA Creative Scholarship. In 2024, she was selected as a participant in the FUTURES Photography Platform as a nominee from the Robert Capa Center. She is a member of the Young Photographers’ Studio and the Young Artists’ Studio Association. She has been collaborating with INDA Gallery since 2023, participating in group exhibitions and art fairs. Her solo exhibition titled Inheritance Test was presented at the gallery in the autumn of 2023. Her works are also part of the Pannonhalma Archabbey and the Eredet collections.
