Transit
Millenium Park
Budapest 28. - 30. Dezember 2001

The Corner in My Mind
Vielen Dank an: Julia Velvet

 
Golden Cage
Centre Culturel Balavoine
Arques, 7. - 21. Dezember

Golden Cage
Vielen Dank an: Céline, Fabienne Brioudes, Alain Bultez

 
Überraschung (Meglepedés)
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Dunaújváros 30. Nov. 2001 - 18. Jan. 2002

Smoking Room
Vielen Dank an: Balázs Beöthy

 
frames'games
Collegium Hungaricum
Berlin 15. November - 15. Dezember 2001
(mit Hajnal Németh und Gyula Várnai)

The Corner in My Mind, Golden Cage, Divers (double)
Vielen Dank an: György Fehéri, Zoltán Ádám, Caspar Stracke, Denis Stuart Rose, Inge Schöbel

 
Compatibility
ZOO Galerie
Nantes 8. - 20. September 2001

Divers (double)
Vielen Dank an: Rudolf Pacsika

 
Service
Műcsarnok
Budapest 6. September - 4. Oktober 2001

The Stage
Vielen Dank an: Judit Angel, Zoltán Czipó

 
Territorios Habitables (Einzelausstellung)
Abisal
Bilbao 24. Juli - 4. August 2001

Bilbao, Golden Cage
Vielen Dank an: Beatrix Silva Uribarri, Jesus Pueyo, Esteban López

 
Elsewhere
Goethe Institute
Budapest 20. März - 7. April 2001
(mit Caspar Stracke und Jörn Zehe)
Press review
Golden Cage
Vielen Dank an: Caspar Stracke, Frank Werner, Dénes Jakóts

 
Bildhauerei in Ungarn (Szobrászaton innen és túl)
Műcsarnok
Budapest 8. Februar - 18. März 2001

Virtuality Machine 1.0
Vielen Dank an: Péter Orosz

 
Kurzgeschichten
Budapest Galerie, Austellungsraum Lajos utca 8. Februar - 18. März
Press review
The Corner in My Mind
Vielen Dank an: József Készman

2002

Anikó Erdősi
Balkon, Budapest, April 2001

Here, Elsewhere

(...) The projected surface is filled with the bigger than lifesize figure of a dancing man (Golden Cage). The dancer is the artist himself, EIKE, who has been living and working in Budapest for ten years. His moving body is permanently touching all sides of the dark frame. The dance is rather slow at the beginning, but the choreography gradually accelerates. The body, depending on its position, stretches vertically or grows wider, sometimes even getting stuck within the frame. Our experience concerning the 3 dimensions of the everyday life does not help, we witness a new dimension, yet unkown to our senses. Is it possible that the virtual space is regulated by different spatial rules? The real spatial presence of the frame is being confronted with the space created only in and by our mind. The importance of the frame is stressed, as the spectacle never exceeds it, and keeps being continuously in touch with it from the inner side. As if the picture did not exist without the frame. Indeed, frames determine the pictures for us, although we rarely notice them, concentrating only on the content. Frame, like a window opening to nature and world, is an ancient topos of art, which has never lost its validity through years of time. Even the new media, television, video and computer have not denied this traditional form. The new, strange dimension, in which EIKE is dancing, opens a window on a yet unknown, maybe only virtually existing world. In a previous work (Dancing Place) EIKE has already dealt with the problem of the frame; in that case the moving frame adapted itself to the position of the dancer. Now the frame is fixed, as if it wanted to regulate the movement of the body, however, the body, pursued by the desire to express itself, looks for alternative spaces. Dance is not only the most natural way of human expression, but the means of experiencing the space at the same time. The wooden frame mounted on the wall is powerless against this unknown dimension, and the artist can continue his released, extatic dance.
Elsewhere, Goethe Institute

László Hemrik
Új Művészet, Budapest, Mai 2001

(Short) story-telling – or: we are outdoors if the weather is great

(...) EIKE shows a really new possibility of story-telling in his short video loop The Corner in My Mind (2000). The visiter stands in the middle of the room, two monitors are placed in two corners of the room. On each the same enterieur is shown, that is taken by a continously revolving camera, played with a small time delay. A man and a woman "intercourse", maintain in relation to each other". Our glance snap from one camera to the other without volition. It seems like the film surrounds us, and this in a very sensible way.
Short Stories, Budapest Gallery