Dominika Drótos

Education

Exchanges And Short Courses

Exhibitions

Socially Engaged Art Projects

2023, Orczy Neighborhood Project, team member
Initiated by Dorottya Poór, Csilla Hajdu, and the Kazán Community Center, and sponsored by the Bertha Foundation, a team of 9 art and/or social-work professionals made the Orczy Neighborhood Project happen. This neighborhood project uses creative tools to build community, fight gentrification, and research the local history of a stigmatized area in Budapest, Hungary.

2023, True Landscape Project | Social Painting, project coordinator
Initiated by the independent art department collective as part of the program for European Cultural Capital, Veszprém, 2023. Emma Teleki and I were invited to design and undertake a 7-week-long participatory painting workshop in a small rural town in Veszprém county, Hungary.

2022, Un’Compulsory Reading
Knowledge exchange project at József Attila residential district in Budapest, HU. Initiated by the independent art department collective and sponsored by Public Art Ferencváros open call, a two-week-long open school of general and extraordinary knowledge came together and was taught by residents of the residential district, facilitated by the network of artists working within the collective.

Work Experience

2024-2025, Communication Manager
Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK)
Budapest Architecture Film Festival
With the professional team of architects and urbanists, I took part in organizing the 17th Budapest Architecture Film Festival and was assigned duties related to the communication and PR of the Festival. I gained knowledge in curating a coherent program for the festival while using effective communication and PR strategies to promote it to both the professional and general public.

2024, Project Assistant (Internship)
INSTITUTO
Instituto organizes the Arquitecturas Film Festival yearly with their international team in Porto. I worked with the team to help organize, prepare, and execute the festival, as well as played a role in Instituto’s daily operations, organizing their exhibition space, filling out templates for their social media, and advertising their programs on different media platforms.

2023-2024, Gallery Assistant (Internship)
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I worked closely with the gallery manager and assisted with day-to-day tasks around the gallery. I helped with the installation and de-installation of exhibitions, organizing dates for artists and upcoming exhibitions, updating their website and social media pages, creating portfolios from the artists’ works for buyers, and documenting for their archive.

2021, Curator Assistant
NEWS MEDLEY
Project by Alicja Rogalska with Katalin Erdodi, Réka Annus, and the Women’s Choir of Kartal
During three occasions when the project NEWS MEDLEY was presented in Budapest, including OFF BIENNALE BUDAPEST, PLACC FESZTIVAL, and the BUDAPEST AUTUMN FESTIVAL, I assisted the project’s curator, Katalin Erdodi. I helped with scheduling, recruiting and communicating with volunteers, preparing the venues, and ensuring the smooth flow of events.

2021, Gallery Assistant (Internship)
ANI MOLNÁR GALÉRIA
I worked with the gallery’s database, organized oeuvres, helped with exhibition setups, packing, and storing artworks properly, and ran day-to-day errands for the gallery.

2019, Art Market Budapest (Volunteer)
I helped with preparation for the market, ensuring the smooth flow of events during the market, and the deinstallation of artworks and equipment after the market.

Awards

Residencies

Publications

Public Speeches