Luca Adamik is the Winner of Deák Erika Scholarship This Year
Luca Adamik, Design Theory MA student is the Winner of Deák Erika Scholarship This Year, with the unanimous consent of the jury. In the framework of the cooperation between the Erika Deák Gallery and MOME, the Gallery will provide a one-year scholarship to a MOME student graduating in the same academic year with an MA degree in Design Theory or Design and Art Management Department. The aim of the grant of HUF 500,000 is to support one student each year from MOME Theoretical Institute MA department, who will carry out exhaustive research in the field of contemporary art in the year of graduation. This way, it helps to develop and strengthen the students’ professional attitude and the development of their theses.
The winner of this year’s competition Luca Adamik, Design Theory MA student, who submitted her research plan titled Nők ellenhatalmi harca (Women’s Struggle for Counter Power). In her research, she examines the work of women artists in the Central European region who, in their active artistic practice in the seventies and eighties, used force and aggression as a defence mechanism against pain and the experience of being exposed as women and attempt to override the unequal and subordinate female experience in a highly masculine medium. Her aim is to examine the work of Hungarian neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde women artists in the context of international life-works using a similar artistic language.
The jury – Gábor Ébli, Kinga Germán, Anikó Illés and András Zwickl – expressed in their reasoning that they unanimously support the competition. ‘Luca Adamik outlines a research programme whose individual elements, such as performance, body use and women’s art, have been an important part of international and Hungarian research for a long time, but there are few examples for a combined, synergetic application of these elements and for the examination of the specificities of Central and Eastern Europe and specifically for that of Hungary within it. Another important aspect is that she chooses artists working in different countries as the target of her research, whose juxtaposition and comparative analysis can enrich the interpretation and evaluation of Hungarian artists with new aspects.’
The Erika Deák Support was launched in the academic year 2020/2021, the cooperation between the university and the gallery was concluded for 5 years, i.e. a total of 5 students will benefit from it.
