Judit Kele, film director

She was born in 1944. A Hungarian artist, set and costume designer, film director. She moved to Paris in 1981 where she currently lives and works. Before her moving she worked at the Textile Workshop in Velem, Hungary, where she started to focus on the relationship of body and textile. From 1981 she has been exhibiting in museums until 1985 when she bid farewell to fine art at the last Paris Biennial. Since then she has been working with the medium of film. In her works she often includes her own body and merges the elements of music, fine art, film and performance. Her films won international film festival awards. Her artworks were exhibited at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, the HMKV in Dortmund, the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (ngbk) and at the Pallazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.