ARRIVALS: SLOVAKIA

In her first UK exhibition, artist Ilona Németh will transform the lower gallery space at Modern Art Oxford with her mysterious mud-brick installation, The Wall. Visitors will walk through the partially enclosed structure, which has been constructed on site with 450 mudbricks. First exhibited in 1995 in a disused synagogue, the bricks were made with local mud and straw following a process used by the rural Romany population in Slovakia. For the Oxford exhibition, the bricks are being hand-made in the Chilterns.

Ilona Németh is the seventh artist to feature in ARRIVALS>NEW ART FROM THE EU, a series of exhibitions over two years at Modern Art Oxford and Turner Contemporary, Margate introducing the work of artists from the expanded European Union. For more information visit www.modernartoxford.org.uk

The corresponding project is a collaboration between Turner Contemporary and Billboart Gallery Europe presenting Lucia Nimcova’s project with the Nayland Area Action Group and new work by Lucia Tkacova and Anetta Mona Chisa. The exhibition comprises nine works that will appear on three billboards in Margate’s Nayland area between 25 September and 26 December 2006.

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ARRIVALS SLOVAKIA
Ilona Nemeth