Last Exhibition
Self Healing Process
3.4. - 22.5.2025 Bildraum 07 - Vienna / Austria
© Eva Kelety
HR Inc. (2025) - 53 x 73 cm
Digitalisation has exponentially intensified the demands placed on individuals in both private and professional contexts. Within a meritocratic system, success is quickly relativised and remains only temporary, creating constant pressure for innovation to keep pace with rising expectations. As a result, physical and mental self-optimisation increasingly appear to be unavoidable strategies for coping with these challenges.
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Florian Appelt does not hesitate to criticise technology and growth. The show raises questions about the scope of human design in a world in which machines are beginning to imitate human behaviour and people are using machines in the most private, intimate ways. Friedrich Nietzsche already branded technological progress as an evolutionary dead end: ‘Today, hubris is our entire position in relation to nature, our control of nature with the help of machines’
X Y Z. (2025) - 32 x 42 cm
© Eva Kelety
Past Exhibitions
Black Hole Sun (2024) - 150 x 200 cm
Silicon is an element essential for bone formation in the human body and thus for physical growth and development. In industry, by contrast, this dazzling semi-metal serves as a key material for the production of semiconductors and microchips. In this dual role, silicon can be understood as a fundamental interface that underpins and enables the ongoing development and interconnection of humans and machines.
Material Traces - KS Room (2024)
Kawaii (2024) - 150 x 200 cm
Organic indentations intersect with smooth, screen-like surfaces, which appear void yet emerge from intuitive working processes. The resulting objects can be read as digital fragments—physical manifestations seemingly translated from virtual space into the material world. The interface between humans and machines is articulated both through the corporeality of the recesses and, at times, through everyday objects. These intersections generate narrative threads whose universes remain deliberately ambiguous, inviting multiple interpretations. Yet it is evident that the works’ reception within the surreal spaces they create is crucial: only through immersive engagement can they function as temporal testimonies, capturing the protagonists’ transition into a new, technologized world.
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Rounds / Local Service Berlin (Solo - 2023)
Round 4 (2023) - 40 x 50 cm
Round 5 (2023) - 40 x 50 cm
Materiality plays a central role in my works. I carry out every single step of the production process myself, from shaping the XPS bodies using a hot wire to welding the steel frames. The smooth surfaces require high-precision handling of epoxy resin, which is usually enriched with pigments. The steel frames are characterised by different features that allow individual series of works to be identified at first glance.
In the course of developing this series of works, both the demands on the material and on my own craftsmanship have grown continuously. I am now at a stage where most of my visions correspond to my implementation possibilities. This results in a continuous stream of new series of works that combine different techniques and creative approaches.
Synchron Schwimmen (2023) - 50 x 70 cm
Ghost in the Machine - Gallery Berg (2023)
There is a fine line between desire and despair when approaching the discourse of consumer society in the 21st century. The Silicon series picks up on the complex web of aesthetics and context in relation to the market created for it. This manifests itself, among other things, in the ambivalent production method, which, although precise in its craftsmanship, at the same time appears untouched and therefore embodies common industrial production mechanisms. The series of works is deliberately constructed in an idiosyncratically inconsistent manner in order to constantly reposition itself and thereby blur traces of former classifications. However, it is superficially socialised, so that the audience is drawn to the work almost by primal instinct. This results in a tension between recurring elements that evoke trust and at the same time harbour supposedly unspoken consequences. The dilemma creates wondrous portals that allow the viewer to enter poetic zones of strangeness.
Lemon [#d9c022] (2023) - 50 x 70 cm