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EDITORIAL
Mária Chilf Photo: Ante Basiæ
Mária Chilf was born in Turgu Mures, Romania, in 1966 and lives in Budapest. She studied at the Hungarian Academy of Arts in Budapest and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. She has been the recipient of grants awarded by the Ludwig Foundation Budapest, the DAAD in Berlin, the Karl Hofer Society in Berlin, the Hungarian Academy in Rome and the Eötvös Foundation in Amsterdam. Her watercolours and installations have been shown in more than 50 exhibitions in Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Stuttgart, New York, Lisbon, Prague, Trieste, Maribor and Paris, and her work can be seen in the collections of the Kunstmuseum in Bonn and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, among others.
In 2003 the Central German Waste Treatment and Disposal Plant (MDSE) hosted an exhibition of her paintings entitled 'Belastete (W)orte, belastete Landschaften' ('Loaded words, troubled spaces') in the Metalllabor Bitterfeld as part of a project involving the writers Tzveta Sofronieva and Lars Gustafsson. Some of the paintings from the exhibition can be seen in this issue of Transcript. In 2005 Mária Chilf was awarded the Munkacsy Prize. Her most recent work was featured in the exhibition 'lost and found modem' at the Modem és Kortárs Müvészeti Központ in Budapest.
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