Profile
Bálint Rádóczy (b. 1977, Budapest) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, independent visual researcher, and mental health practitioner working in Pécs, Hungary. He holds an MFA from the Zurich University of the Arts (2014) and degrees in humanities, liberal arts, and media studies from Hungarian universities.
His early artistic education began at the age of ten at the Martyn Ferenc Free School of Arts. Since 2014, he has been a creative director and a member of the curatorial board of the Cinema Apollo Foundation in Pécs, where he works at the intersection of contemporary art, film culture, and socially engaged practice.
Since 2025, he has been a collaborator at the Bástya Terápiás Műhely, where his artistic research intersects directly with therapeutic, relational, and community-based contexts. His professional background spans visual art, curatorial work, writing, and therapeutic contexts, allowing his artistic research to move fluidly between aesthetic inquiry and lived human experience.
Statement
My artistic practice is rooted in epistemological inquiry: questioning how knowledge is produced, framed, limited, and legitimized. I am interested in the tension between knowing and understanding—between contextual, goal-oriented systems of knowledge and the human longing for forms of insight that are not bound to utility, ideology, or authority.
I approach knowledge as a situated construct: always observing from a position, always shaped by intention. Rather than seeking certainty, my work explores oscillation—between skepticism and belief, irony and sincerity, analysis and vulnerability. In this sense, my practice resonates with a metamodern sensibility: holding contradictions without resolving them, allowing meaning to remain dynamic and unfinished.
A recurring concern in my work is the ethical and social function of art. I see art not as an elite language of exclusion, but as a potential public service—capable of supporting reflection, orientation, and emotional literacy in everyday life. I am interested in how complex, layered ideas can be articulated with clarity and accessibility, without being simplified or diluted. If art is to matter, it must be able to meet people where they are.
Formally, I work across media and disciplines, guided by the demands of the given question rather than loyalty to a specific material or genre. My projects often unfold as open-ended processes, inviting interpretation, participation, or transformation. I regularly combine installation, photography, text, performative actions, and long-term research-based practices. Openness, permeability, and temporality are recurring formal principles.
Sincerity and immediacy are central to my approach. I aim for a language that is direct, emotionally present, and free of ornamental distance. Rather than presenting closed statements, my work proposes spaces of encounter—where thinking, sensing, and ethical attention can momentarily realign.