‘Tessela’ – difraction version (hommage á Vasarely: Vega series, p5js version of the interactivity)
‘tessela’ – searchlight version
f|x|r 3D-Gallery-view
Just a quick minisite release for the upcoming (Liquid-horizons) exhibition at f|x|r gallery:
(3d teaser)
and a new article at kultura.hu
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
support:
Reviernacht – Leaving Love Behind
Kristóf Szabó / F.A.C.E. Ensemble: Reviernacht – Aus der Liebe gehen (Reviernacht – Leaving Love Behind)
About migration and memory – mixed media theater | Premiere Fri, Nov. 14, 2025
Text, direction: Kristóf Szabó
Performance: Natalia Voskoboynikova (singer, voice-art, physical theatre), Ivan Zilli (actor)
Narration: Marcus Mies, Julia Karl
Video art: Ivó Kovács
Stage design objects: Boshi Nawa
Sound: New Music, various artists
“What is home? A memory? An ideal? A longing for—what? Have our longings, but also those of our parents and grandparents, shaped us? In surreal images, the mixed-media production Reviernacht combines spoken theater, new music, and visual arts into an artistic experience for all the senses.
The evening invites the audience to take a look at themselves and see what has shaped them: their personal past, their decisions in the present, and their ability to cross boundaries.”
Supported by: Cultural Office of the City of Cologne
Alte Feuerwache – Melchiorstraße 3. 50670 Köln
Source: https://altefeuerwachekoeln.de/events/kristof-szabo-f-a-c-e-ensemble-reviernacht/
SEARCHLIGHT – upcoming exhibition
upcoming (covid-safe) SEARCHLIGHT exhibition/ projection@Lighthouse Gallery, Market street 67. Debrecen, Hungary, 2021.03.05-28.
