AtelierA is represented by SynergySyncArt Consultancy.
Commissions, curatorial, press and sales enquiries can be addressed to Martin Simon.
Email synergysync1 at gmail.com
Tel +44 (0) 7939 221428
Art exhibitions SynergySyncArt Consultancy has worked on include Opera House Florence, Google New York, The Royal Institution London, European Parliament Brussels, European Commission Brussels, Europe House London, British Parliament London
Art workshops, lecturing, tutoring commissions curated and managed for artist include Wordsworth Museum, Ruskin Museum, UCL Art Museum, Artist-on-board, tutor and lecturer assignments managed on carefully selected Arctic and Northern Voyages
Land art SynergySyncArt managed globally include installations in UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Iceland, France, Galapagos, Peru, North Macedonia
Clients Martin worked for include the Royal College of Music and the Barbican Art Centre, among others.
About Zsuzsanna Ardó
Zsuzsanna Ardó is human by inclination; humorous, curious and creative by nature — and an award-winning visual artist, curator and writer by profession, working from AtelierA on the edge of an Arctic glacier in London. Her work received awards and artist residencies by Arts Council England, High Arctic Expedition, ASL NY, Frankfurter Kunstverein, UNESCO, Skopje City and Museum, and the Aix Festival. She has served as chair and member of international juries, curated international projects for both mainstream and alternative spaces e.g. Antarctica, the Arctic, British and European Parliament, and the European Commission. Jury-selected to represent the UK in UNESCO’s creative residency in 2018, she created work featured in the gallery of UNESCO HQ in Paris in 2019.
As a writer and visual artist she works across disciplines, genres, languages and cultures. Her visual art includes painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, film, and 3D works. Her visual language investigates the crossovers between the figurative and abstract, human and animal, natural and unnatural; it explores the ambivalent edges between observation and imagination, memory and mythology.
Her journey of climate change inspired land art installations took off in the High Arctic in 2014, popping up and engaging locals wherever she goes since then. In England this work continues to take her along vulnerable areas, be it by the Irish, Celtic or the North Sea, the English or the Bristol Channel, a lighthouse embraced by the sea or an Elizabethan Hall on the glaciated Jurassic and Cretaceous land. Well over two hundred million years to look back on, connect with, touch and feel – how many to look ahead? The Glacier Strikes Back, her fine art print based on her land art installations was shortlisted by 7th International Print Biennale at the National Museum in China.
Her work has been published internationally e.g. Philosophy Now, The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, Logos, OUP, Macmillan, and her satirical social anthropology book about her native culture was published in three editions on three continents. Her short film, Allegro Barbaro, a triple-flashback visual poem about art, trauma and memory, was screened at the India International Centre Delhi, Harvard in Boston, and the Institute of Contemporary Art London. She curates international projects on relevant themes e.g. climate change and slavery. Her large-scale solo exhibition about the language of film featured at the HQ of the British Film Academy. She wrote and directed The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger, her play for the Harvard short play festival. She adapted her play as a libretto for opera, which premiered in NYC, and the staged version in Chicago, featuring her art work inspired by the zeitgeist of the opera.
Collaborating on creative projects with scientists and composers act as creative catalyst in her practice. Her poems, set to music by composers, are registered with BMI, and performed internationally. For years she served as a voting member of Writing Chapter of the British Film Academy Awards. She is a member of ICOM.
In 2020 et ardo, et son un ghiaccio, her third exhibition in Florence is launched while working as artist in residence invited by the city’s historic printmaking atelier where Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso experimented with printmaking. A large-scale choral piece, Reflections on Race, her poems set to music, premiers in New York. She has been invited to participate in opera creation residency by the Aix Festival in France.