Flóra Gadó Gadó

She has has been working as a curator at the municipal contemporary art center Budapest Gallery since 2018. She holds a PhD in Film, Media and Cultural Studies from Eötvös Loránd University (2021) and graduated in Spring 2023 from the MA Curatorial Practice Program at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. She has curated several exhibitions both in Hungary and the neighboring countries, including MeetFactory (Prague), Julius Koller Society and tranzit.sk (Bratislava), Trafó Gallery (Budapest) and within the framework of OFF-Biennale Budapest. In the past years she has taken part in several curatorial residency programs, including MeetFactory in Prague, Brno House of Arts, KAI Tallinn and the East Art Mags program for art critics in Romania and Poland. She has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design at Budapest Metropolitan University since 2019 and has regularly contributed to various art education contexts such as the Curatorial Studies program at the University of Fine Arts (Budapest) and AFAD (Bratislava). Her writing has appeared in magazines such as artportal.hu, Műértő, Flash Art (Czech and Slovak Edition), and Kajet Journal. Her field of interest is currently centered around the politics and poetics of care, where she examines artistic practices which reflect on how our image of care, including care for ourselves, for others and for our environment, has changed in recent decades. She investigates liminal states both related to mental and physical health and looks into ways how various communities can help each other in challenging times. Her current research explores both past and contemporary rituals around grief and death.