Keller, Diána
Born in Budapest in 1983
Diána Keller completed the animation course of Novus Art School, then she graduated from the intermedia program of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In 2009 she won the main prize of the Essl Award, and thus, she got into the circulation of European contemporary art as a career-starter, and her works were exhibited in two significant foreign collections. On one hand, her works continue the kinetic experimental art that is regarded as tradition through Moholy-Nagy. On the other hand, her tight, uncut video films fit into the latest contemporary tendencies. In her newest works she plays with the painting traditions of flower-pieces and translate the theme into motion picture, indicating several questions on the conventions of depiction.
“My purpose is to research and understand the tension arising from the contrast of movement and immobility. A rigid, closed world isolated from reality is expressed either in a photograph or an installation. Constructed spaces, compositions lacking colours and examining artificial light characterize my photo sequences. In my analytic animations of maquette worlds I make an attempt to track the motion combination exceeding natural change of place.” (Diána Keller)
 Cabbages, 2010 |  Cabbages, 2010 |  Cabbages, 2010 |
 Still life with fruits, 2008 |  Still life with fruits, 2008 |  Still life with fruits, 2008 |
 Time Flowers, 2010 |  Time Flowers, 2010 |
Biography
| 2009 | Essl-award, 1st prize Chelsea College of Art and Design, London |
| 2008 | Ludwig competition Erasmus scholarship Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic |
| 2004-2009 | Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Intermedia major, Budapest |
| 2003-2005 | Novus Art School, Animation major, Budapest |
| 2001-2003 | Decorator School, Graphics major, Budapest |
| 1997-2000 | Lónyai Street Reformed Secondary School, Budapest |
Single exhibitions
| 2010 | Versus (with Kim Corbisier), Inda Gallery, Budapest |
Group exhibitions
| 2010 | Best Before End, Inda Gallery, Budapest |
| 2009 | Best of Diploma, MKE, Budapest Galeria Centralis, Essl–Award CEE 2009, Budapest Utolsó Csepp Film Festival VI, Odeon-Lloyd cinema, Budapest International Biennial of Young Visual Artists, Art Expo, ArtMill, Szentendre |
| 2008 | Unatkozom, Studio Gallery, Budapest Performance Festival, ArtMill, Szentendre Piknik Festival, Esztergom Lassú Puccs , MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest Fillér, MissionArt Gallery, Miskolc |
| 2007 | Szabadságra mentem, Almássy Square Leisure Centre, Budapest Ji king exhibition, MKE Aula, Budapest Szabadságra mentem 2, P-art cinema, Szentendre Illem helyzetek, TŰZ TATE, Budapest Perifériára szorult művészek, MAMÜ, Budapest Performance Festival, ArtMill, Szentendre Szegénység napja, West Balkán, Budapest |
| 2006 | Performance Festival, ArtMill, Szentendre It's a wonderful life, FKSE, Tűzraktár, Budapest |
| 2005 | Performance Festival, ArtMill, Szentendre Rajzkönyvek az intermédián, Budapest A remete többes száma by Gábor Gyukics, Mucius Gallery, Budapest |