MARIA SZAKATS
Born in 1984 in Romania
Lives and works in Paris
SOLO SHOWS
2025 - Upcoming, Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles
2024 - Romance Apocalypse, Brooke Beninghton, London
2023 - Mon Seul Désir, GALERIE CHLOE SALGADO, Paris
2023 - Artist Statement, Parallel Vienna, Austria
2023 - Animal Spirit Animal, Vitrine de la Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2022 - Day's Eye, curated by Christine Scheucher, Galerie Plain. Art, Vienna, Austria
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2025 - Textiles fictions, École européenne supérieure d'art de Bretagne, Quimper, France
2025 - Touch Nature, Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria
2024 - Clouds Clocks, curated by Anastasia Polishkina & Kirill Mikhailin, Paris
2024 - Sleepwalking Trajectories, Berlinskej Model, Berlin
2024 - Touch Nature, Forum Culturel Autrichien, Paris
2024 - Le Soleil des Morts, Atelier 11, Cité Falguière, Paris
2024 - Au-dessus des capitales, Salzamt, Vienna, Austria
2024 - A Tale of Small Moments, curated by Anaïs Castro, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, Québec
2024 - July Fourth, curated by Abbey Muza & Maria Szakats, GALERIE CHLOE SALGADO, Paris
2024 - Fritto Misto Vol. 2, IRL Gallery, New York City, USA
2024 - Ambiguous Beauty, KO-OP, Sofia, Bulgaria
2024 - More Than Now, Moosey, London
2024 - A Mirror To Vanity, Brooke Beninghton, London
2023 - Passive potential, duo show with Abbey Muza, Tusk, Chicago, USA
2023 - Nature always wins, Sommer.Frische.Kunst, Bad Gastien, Austria
2022 - Tied, curated by Gabriela Anco, Rinomina, Paris
2022 - L'Aube, duo show with Cecile Bicler, curated by Gabriela Anco, Galerie Mansart, Paris
WORKSHOPS & TEACHING
Since 2022 - Professorship Textile & Material Design, École Nationals Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
2023 - Workshop Art Textile, Musée Picasso, Paris
2022 - Workshop Design Textile, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris
RESIDENCIES
2023 - TUSK, Chicago, USA
2023 - Sommer.Frische.Kunst, Bad Gastien, Austria
2022 - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2006 - 2021 - Knitwear design both in house & freelance (JOSEPH, LACOSTE, SONIA RYKIEL, COOL TM, ST JOHN)
EDUCATION
2021 - MFA, Textile and material design, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris
2006 - BA, Knitwear design, Modeschule der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria