ORSOLYA
Orsolya
Gál (b. Cluj, Romania) completed her education at the faculty of architecture,
followed by a masters in fine arts in Cluj Napoca, Romania.
The experience she gained in scenography in Italy, inspired her interest in puppetry. Looking for an alternative education in this field, in 2015 she became the student of the puppeteer Stathis Markopoulos in Athens. Her collaboration with the Greek puppeteer and the architect Tiberiu Bucsa, led to the project called Selfie Automaton, a mechanical installation composed of 33 wooden puppets, which represented Romania in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016.
In 2017 she produced her first show Pulcinella's Insomnia in Naples, which has traveled from Romania, to Hungary, Greece, Italy and Nairobi, Kenya.
A workshop in 2018 on the theme of traditional shadow puppetry in India, Karnataka, gave birth to her next show for adults Short Essay on Uncertainty, which received a special prize at the Festival Incanti in Torino for image and sound design.
This same experience connected her research in shadow theater with her experimental work started in 2014, on plants in motion, a project which includes the observation and documentation of plants in movement, with the desire of creating a multidisciplinary work, involving fine arts and narrative in movement. The project materialized in the short film Etudes from an inner garden during the “Collider” residency at Contemporary Calgary.
In the summer of 2021 she continued her work with shadows and built the mechanical automaton Real shadows - composed of a wire puppet, shadow projection and a mechanical system that puts the puppet in motion - for the exhibition “Work Upside Down - The future of work”, curated by the Cluj Cultural Center
Her last two works turned her focus on a more general problem: our relation with the natural and material environment.
Contact: galorsolya@ymail.com
Address: Tipografiei 18, Ap.2, Cluj Napoca 400101, Romania
Tel: +40728876354
The experience she gained in scenography in Italy, inspired her interest in puppetry. Looking for an alternative education in this field, in 2015 she became the student of the puppeteer Stathis Markopoulos in Athens. Her collaboration with the Greek puppeteer and the architect Tiberiu Bucsa, led to the project called Selfie Automaton, a mechanical installation composed of 33 wooden puppets, which represented Romania in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016.
In 2017 she produced her first show Pulcinella's Insomnia in Naples, which has traveled from Romania, to Hungary, Greece, Italy and Nairobi, Kenya.
A workshop in 2018 on the theme of traditional shadow puppetry in India, Karnataka, gave birth to her next show for adults Short Essay on Uncertainty, which received a special prize at the Festival Incanti in Torino for image and sound design.
This same experience connected her research in shadow theater with her experimental work started in 2014, on plants in motion, a project which includes the observation and documentation of plants in movement, with the desire of creating a multidisciplinary work, involving fine arts and narrative in movement. The project materialized in the short film Etudes from an inner garden during the “Collider” residency at Contemporary Calgary.
In the summer of 2021 she continued her work with shadows and built the mechanical automaton Real shadows - composed of a wire puppet, shadow projection and a mechanical system that puts the puppet in motion - for the exhibition “Work Upside Down - The future of work”, curated by the Cluj Cultural Center
Her last two works turned her focus on a more general problem: our relation with the natural and material environment.
Contact: galorsolya@ymail.com
Address: Tipografiei 18, Ap.2, Cluj Napoca 400101, Romania
Tel: +40728876354