Preparing in 2025 solo exhibition

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Katalin LADIK​​

For Ladik, born in Novi Sad, Serbia, in 1942, is a poet (1). However, she finds paper—poetry’s traditional medium—too static, and replaces it with her (often naked) body: sensual, individual, and political. Her controversial poetic performances were accompanied by graphic scores—collages arranged in evocative images that she then interpreted in situ. Her vocal compositions were constructed around the material quality of sound. Stripping language of meaning, the artist broke it down to phonemes to expose the primeval, instinctive, and mechanical aspects of language. 

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Katalin Ladik, Hairself, performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 1982

photo: Milomir Bošković.

Courtesy of the artist and acb Gallery, Budapest.