Dora Budor

MY ENERGY COMES FROM FREEDOM

Dora Budor, Medium, 2025
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor, Medium, 2025
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor, Medium, 2025
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor, Medium, 2025
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Henrik Olesen, Le corps sous la peau est une usine surchauffée / The Body Underneath the Skin is an Overheated Factory, 2005
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York and dépendance, Brussels
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Henrik Olesen, Le corps sous la peau est une usine surchauffée / The Body Underneath the Skin is an Overheated Factory, 2005
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York and dépendance, Brussels
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Yvo Cho, Room 304, 2022
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Eleanor Ivory Weber Smoking is good, 2023
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Alma Sarif
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Eleanor Ivory Weber Smoking is good, 2023
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Alma Sarif
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor, Pucks (back-formation), 2026
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor, Medium, 2025
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor, Atomizer: Everything is here., 2026
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Dora Budor
Photo: Oskar Lee Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.
© Dora Budor, Bonner Kunstverein

Ice, Anna Kavan, 1967

I was lost, it was already dusk, I had been driving for hours and was practically out of petrol.    

Dora Budor’s exhibition takes dissociation as its mode of perception, where the loss of ground becomes a cumulative, shape-giving force. At Bonner Kunstverein, Budor negotiates Haus-Rucker-Co’s mid 1980s conversion of a flower market into a contemporary art center as it exists today. Rather than filling its singular hall, she moves through the architecture, drawing form from the psychic energies of social and economic life. Sculpture, video, sound, installation, and the work of other artists strategically engage with and question a supposedly neutral and non-hierarchical exhibition system, and the freedom it seeks to stage.

The exhibition is accompanied by an essay written by Eleanor Ivory Weber and is structured through a prelude of moving image works by Camilla Wills, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Henrik Olesen, and Yvo Cho. Installed in the spaces that precede or surround the exhibition, these works speak on the limits and failures of language, social structures, morals, and value.

Dora Budor: MY ENERGY COMES FROM FREEDOM
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn Germany
Preludes by Camilla Wills, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Henrik Olesen and Yvo Cho
Curated by Viktor Neumann
June 27 – September 6, 2026

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