Éva Bodnár was born in Budapest in 1952, lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Hungarian Academy of Arts from 1973 to 1976 and continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Graduation in 1981 in the master class of Wolfgang Hollegha, whose basic idea – to think before and after painting, but not during – was transferred into Bodnár’s own working method.
She has been teaching drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts since 2002 and supports her students in activating their own drawing and painting machines.
Selected exhibitions: 2020 X, FRAC des Pays de la Loire Carquefou, 2018 Éva Bodnár & Walter Obholzer, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Innsbruck, 2015 aufstehen oder liegen bleiben? (solo), Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Vienna, 2012 fallingwater (solo), Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Innsbruck, 1999 (solo) Ludwig Museum Budapest.
