The Hungarian artist Beáta Veszely investigates the experience of the impossible, experience that can only be approached through extreme physical and spiritual endurance at the limits of the possible. The artist practices horse archery, through which she connects a sense of deep spirituality, closeness to animals in the natural landscape, and the old knowledge of the nomads of the Eurasian Steppes.

At the exhibition in Galerija Balen, Beáta Veszely will premier her latest film On the Way to Heaven and show a series of drawings in which the figure of the horse archer appears on newspaper cuttings, fashion magazines and art journals. Her horse archers emerge from the layers of forgotten knowledge, pointing their arrows towards the superficiality and consumerist attitude of contemporary lifestyles.

Beáta Veszely (born 1970, Budapest) studied at the Hungarian Academy of Art, completed post-graduate studies at Goldsmiths College in London, and is the director of the TIPP collaborative research programme between the two institutions. She has exhibited in the Műcsarnok in Budapest , the ICA in London , IFA Gallery in Berlin , Secession in Vienna , and elsewhere. She will be the Hungarian representative in the exhibition series New Arrivals at Modern Ar t Oxford in 2007. On the Way to Heaven at Galerija Balen is her first show in Croatia.

The exhibition is curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.