Mónika Bálint (born in 1977) dealt with art in the public sphere during her studies (cultural history, sociology and media). Within the group HINTS, which she founded together with other fine artists, she co-developed methods to approach social questions and topics of everyday life. In their art projects HINTS offer a chance to minorities to raise their voice. Questions that are meaningful for everyday life are always in the centre of their projects’ attention, such as those asked in the work series ‘effects of manual labour for the society’. In it the research methods of sociology and social anthropology were used, among others interviews and group discussions. It was the aim of the project to find signs of identification with the own occupation within a group of patchwork makers.

For the WINTER ACADEMY 2 Mónika Bálint curated four Hungarian artists in the framework of „Bipolar deutsch-ungarische Kulturprojekte” (bipolar- German/Hungarian cultural projects) and generated an evaluation of WINTER ACADEMY 2.