Strategic Stillness exhibition of Hungarian artists Tamás Ábel and Judit Kis, curated by Veronika Molnár reimagine the recently renovated American Hungarian Library in New York as an inclusive space for rest, reading, and contemplation in 2022. The two artists fill the empty building with sculptural works, site-specific installations, and assemblages of books while actively playing with and occasionally defying its architectural structure. Their tongue-in-cheek references to brick walls and glass ceilings aim to question the existing heteropatriarchal systems of knowledge, power, and representation that dominate the cultural institutions of their motherland.

Judit Kis uses the term “intermedia” over “multimedia” to describe her artistic practice, borrowing it from the Fluxus movement to refer to the spirit of interdisciplinarity and genre-bending as her core values. Indeed, for the past ten years, Kis has maintained an effortless fluidity between her artworks and projects. She is most recognized for her brick objects that can act as sculptures, installation elements, performance props, or even building blocks for participatory engagements, depending on how the artist situates them.