Csenge Vass is a third-year DLA student and assistant lecturer at the MOME Design Institute. She completed her BA and MA studies on MOME’s textile design programme. She currently teaches textile and costume design on the masters’ programme and occasionally lectures at the Institute for Theoretical Studies.
Biography
She got a master’s from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2017. She also did her BA in the textile department, specialising in printmaking and fashion design. During her BA studies, she spent half a year at the ESDi - Escuela Superior de Diseño art school in Barcelona on an Erasmus scholarship. After obtaining her master’s degree, she spent three months in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, on an Erasmus+ scholarship, where she interned at the studio of internationally renowned conceptual designer Bart Hess. There, among other things, she worked on a conceptual textile for the fashion brand Chanel, helped realise a performance installation during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, created a costume for a dance performance in Amsterdam, and spent a month researching materials for a contemporary dance project in the US.
She has worked as a costume designer in several contemporary dance productions in Hungary and abroad. She was part of choreographer Adrienn Hód's plays Sunday and Mirage, Patrik Kelemen's PLATEAU, and Csaba Molnár and Emese Cuhorka’s Rudolf Lábán Award-winning performance, Masterwork. In 2020, she had the opportunity to work as a costume designer for choreographer Helge Letonja at the contemporary dance theatre of Bremen for his production Momentum Zero, organised by his company, Of Curious Nature. This year, she created the costumes and props for Tünet Ensemble's new piece AFTERPARTY, a performance directed by Réka Szabó. She also worked as a set and costume designer and art director for Patrik Kelemen’s experimental piece CRYPTIC BODIES.
Her masters’ piece Morphogenesis was presented in several places. It was exhibited at the Artus Studio during Budapest Design Week, and she was invited to the Trafó House of Contemporary Art as part of smART XTRA! Her work also appeared at the Pécs Gallery, at the Hybrid exhibition and was exhibited at MANK Gallery’s ArtScience exhibition. Since then, she has helped create an experimental, multi-media performance installation called URFORM, which is a collaboration with two other artists, contemporary dancer Nóra Barna and experimental composer Rozi Mákó. She designed the concept, the installation, the visual design and the costumes. The project was organised by smART XTRA! and made its debut at Trafó. Since then it has been invited to D17 gallery’s REFLEX exhibition. During the latter, the artists produced a conceptual dance video entitled URFORM II.