Eszter Koncz is an interdisciplinary artist from Hungary observing, mapping, and making objects with a strong visual focus. Currently a nomad, travelling across Europe with a backpack, measuring miles and time in yarn. Next to compound artistic research projects - often focusing on local flora, fauna & folklore - she does graphic design and makes clothes from upcycled materials.
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Knitwear
Knitting while walking, while talking, while reading, while daydreaming, while watching a movie, while watching the landscape pass by in the train’s window. I've been knitting since I was a child: I learned from my mother, who learned from her mother, and so on. I live far from home now, still, my hands continue the well-known choreography: click, clack, click ~ knitting becomes a way to measure time, turn it into shapes. I try to encapsulate these stories into the objects I make: when you purchase an item, you'll receive a little booklet containing the journey from this object from the yarn to your hands.
knitwear
Collecting, Devising, Making
Coming from a devised theatre background, I work within a certain methodology that might be summed up in the motto, ‘thinking through making’. Making as sympoiesis ( Haraway) “a becoming-with”, “a making together”. I understand my work as an ongoing engagement with the surroundings: always a collaboration, a dialogue between the human and nonhuman habitats of the landscape.
Clothes etc.
My mother, my grandmother, my
great-grandmother, my uncle’s mother, my aunt. I find myself in possession of lots of bags of leftover fabrics, a
strange fortune, so close to my skin. My mom taught me to sew and knit, and the others provided me with the
materials. I’ve been making clothes for myself since I was about 15 years old.
Komarice Collection
Brackish Times
Brackish Times, The Daily Sea Monster Report of San Giovanni Li Cuti, is a site-specific daily newspaper: mapping the local physical and cultural landscape through the topic of sea monsters. In collaboration wit Kirstine Hupfeldt Nielsen.
Brackish Times
Shop, Shipping, Commissions
While I am in the process of properly figuring out the practical & personal implications of running a shop/ personal brand, you can already place orders via dm-s. I am also very happy to take commissions for knitting/graphic design, etc., projects!
knitwear publications/graphic design
Tornado Watch
Artistic research together with Katharina Joy Book on the topic of weather: local, future, and fictional weather.
Tornado Watch
Komarice Bestiary
site-specific installation for SKLIZEN Festival 2025, repopulating the landscape with extinct animals, sewn from unused fabrics collected in the village.
Komarice Bestiary Komarice Collection