Category: contemporary art

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2026 – Die Pest in London

A Plague in London (Die Pest in London)

Interdisciplinary Mixed-Media Performance | Orangerie Theater Cologne (2026)

Project Description: “A Plague in London” is a mixed-media production situated at the intersection of performative arts and digital scenography. Based on Daniel Defoe’s 1722 archival-style account, the work explores the structural and psychological dynamics of systemic crisis and social isolation. Directed by Kristóf Szabó, the production utilizes Defoe’s text as a conceptual framework to analyze the sociopolitical mechanisms of a pandemic—ranging from institutional denial and the enforcement of urban confinement to the eventual erosion of communal structures.

Visual and Medial Strategy: The production is characterized by a multi-layered visual dramaturgy, where Ivó Kovács’s video art functions as a spatial and temporal mediator. Rather than serving as a purely illustrative background, the digital layer operates as a generative environment that reflects the interiority of the protagonists and the oppressive atmospheric silence of a city under lockdown. The visual components analyze the tension between the historical archival source and contemporary digital aesthetics, translating the 17th-century experience of quarantine into a modern medial discourse. Kovács’s work focuses on the abstraction of architectural boundaries and the visualization of the “Planet of Viruses” concept, examining the human condition through a lens of digital depth and spatial deconstruction.

Credits:

  • Artistic Direction, Set Design & Sound Dramaturgy: Kristóf Szabó
  • Video Art: Ivó Kovács
  • Performance: Maximilian von Mühlen, Boshi Nawa, Lili Oksanen
  • Source Material: Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
  • Venue: Orangerie Theater, Cologne, Germany
  • Production Year: 2026

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luminbird @imapp 2024

Jury Award at iMapp Bucharest – Winners League 2024 – Legacy’

‘Luminbird’

3D/ video: Ivó Kovács
Music: József Iszlai

Original ‘Big-wing’ motion courtesy of Derengo Animation, special thanks to La Luz.

Organizers:

Municipality of Bucharest, through CREART – Centre for Creation, Art, and Tradition of Bucharest

iMapp Bucharest – Winners League partner:

Parliament of Romania – Chamber of Deputies

iMapp Bucharest – Winners League International partners:

Chongqing Light Festival – CHINA,
Video Mapping Festival Lille – FRANCE,
Genius Loci Weimar Festival – GERMANY,
1minute Projection Mapping Competition – JAPAN,
Zsolnay Light Festival – HUNGARY,
ILO – International Light Festivals Organization

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article-hypeandhyper

‘Stepping out of the traditional framework of exhibitions—Interview with curator Viola Lukács’ – Another article about ‘Klara and the Sun’ exhibition @Pegazus, Hungary.

https://hypeandhyper.com/en/stepping-beyond-the-traditional-framework-of-exhibitions-interview-with-curator-viola-lukacs/
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hommage á Malevich’s Black Square

hommage á Malevich’s Black Square – ‘Black Cube’ by ivo3d.com
(001 iteration, another play with NotchVFX)

‘Black Cube’
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Venice Venice

Free video streaming of the full lenght (75 min.) dance performance. >> VENEDIG VENEDIG (Venice Venice) is a cooperation of K. Szabó F.A.C.E. Visual Performing Arts and Orangerie Theater, Cologne.

Venice Venice – a contemporary dance piece –

additional CAMERA Mike Kleinen
onsite AUDIO Peter Behle
CUT Balázs Lajti (afilm_(dot)_hu)
POST-PRODUCTION Ivó Kovács
>> PERFORMERS:
Joy Kammin, Waithera Schreyeck, Sara Escribano Maenza, Lenah Flaig, Boshi Nawa
STAGE-SET Boshi Nawa
LIGHT Jan Wiesbrock
VIDEO- & PROJECTION-ART Ivó Kovács
CHOREOGRAPHY Kristóf Szabó & material by the dancers
DIRECTED by Kristóf Szabó
CONTACT Julia Karl Management
>> face-performingarts_(at)_hotmail_(dot)_com

More info about the piece and F.A.C.E. Visual Performing Arts company:
https://faceensemble.wordpress.com/

Support:
Mike Kleinen Steinmetz
Stagemoments Foto und Film

Main Supports:  

Stadt Köln Kulturamt

RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur