About
Eszter Nemethi (b.1987, Budapest) is a theatre maker and researcher based in Brussels. She is interested in the space between people, contexts and ideas and creating structures (practical, dramaturgical and spatial) that can be activated and inhabited by others. Her work often combines play, pedagogy and reading as methodologies. She explores the relation of public spaces and border zones in the way in which they are sites of the emergence of narratives of communities regarding themselves.
She holds an MA in Social Practice and the Creative Environment (LSAD) and she is a graduate of the a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) post-master research programme in Brussels. From ’15-’19 she was the curator of Quarter Block Party’s public art strand in Cork, Ireland and she is the co-curator of MOTA nomadic conversations in Brussels. In recent years her performance work was presented at Batard (BE), Carlow Arts Festival (IRL), Kilkenny Arts Festival (IRL), Kanal-Centre Pompidou (BE), Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Spare Room, Dublin Fringe Festival, Galway Arts Centre, Pallas Project/Studios, North Main Street, different Irish Pediatric wards and strange fields in Brussels. In July 2024 presented Cycles a large-scale participatory performance developed in collaboration with Michelle Browne and inhabitants of five local villages in Co.Carlow commissioned as part of ART:23 - Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries.
She is currently working on a publication together with Dr.Sophie Hope on documenting the methodology of the‘To Be What We Are’ project and she is continuing the ongoing development of the School of Magical Politics - an artistic-pedagogical research framework.
She is member of the Peer Panel of the Arts Council of Ireland, Visual Artists Ireland, Create, YouYou Group and the Artist Commons Collective and the Core Group of Brussels Artist Run Network in Brussels.
In the 2023-24 season her work is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Green Corridor, BePart European Network, Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow County Council Arts Office, ART:23, Cork Film Festival, N22 and KWP