BIO

Fanni Kopácsi is a contemporary artist born in 1991 in Budapest, Hungary. Awarded the First Prize Award in the Versiona Thyssen competition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain in 2022, she was also selected for the XV Symposium of Contemporary Art Scampia in Naples, Italy in 2023. She studied fine arts at the Secondary School of Visual Arts in Budapest, Hungary, where she graduated in bookbinding. After that, she carried out years of experimental work, which allowed her to develop her practice. Her work has been exhibited internationally in public institutions, such as the Palau Martorell in Barcelona, Spain, the New Art Exchange Art Center, Nottingham, UK, and in private galleries such as Galería Arteria and Galería Uxval Gochez.

STATEMENT

Kopácsi works at the intersection of textile sculpture, painting, and installation, creating from recovered fabrics, garments, and domestic materials. Through processes of accumulation, draping, and hand-sewing, she transforms discarded textiles into fragmented, body-like forms that suggest presence while remaining deliberately absent.

She treats fabric as skin, veil, and archive—absorbing touch, memory, and time, while pointing toward a dimension that exceeds their purely material existence. Reworked and reassembled, they become contemporary relics: fragments of an emotional and cultural archaeology of the present. By elevating humble and overlooked materials, her work restores dignity to what has been cast aside, revealing an inherent depth within the most fragile and discarded forms.

Her works operate on a psychological level too. The fragmented forms can be understood as embodiments of what is repressed, hidden, or marginalized—the shadow aspects of both individual and collective experience. By gathering, stitching, and reassembling broken elements, her practice proposes a process of integration in which vulnerability, fragmentation and complexity are not erased, but acknowledged and held. The act of repair becomes a symbolic gesture of healing and a reflection on the human condition through the material remnants of everyday life.

She often draws on collective religious and mythological symbolism rooted in Western visual culture, invoking archetypal associations of ritual, community, birth, and mourning.

 EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025 Unfold, Group exhibition, Uxval Gochez Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2025 A che punto siamo Alice? Group exhibition, Foro G Gallery, Messina, Italy
  • 2024 Premio Agbar, International Award, Group exhibition, Palau Martorell, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2024 The Garden of Descansos, Pop-up Solo Exhibition, Utópia, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2024 Artelfest, Group Exhibition, Arteria Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2023 New Now, Group exhibition, Arteria Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2022 Inner Nature, Group Exhibition, Uxval Gochez Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2021 Drap-Art’21 International Festival of Sustainable Art of Catalonia, Barcelona
  • 2021 Erotika, Group Exhibition, Tessedik Samuel Museum, Szarvas, Hungary
  • 2021 Wings of Waste, Solo exhibition, L’art i Cafe Gallery, Sitges, Spain
  • 2019 NAE Open, Group exhibition, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK 
  • 2019 Repülés, Group exhibition, Tessedik Samuel Museum, Szarvas, Hungary

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