2013: Three by Three, MER, paper kunsthalle,
text by the artist.
Spomenik (monument) were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito from the late 1950s, till the 80s to commemorate sites where WWII battles...
Das Fenster focuses on the view onto the world from Hitler’s house, the Berghof, situated in Obersalzberg. The house had that famous four-by-eight-meter large...
In the initial scene of the film, the images that are projected on three walls of a room issue from three digital projectors, rather than one...
The project “Ontology” is based on an empty film-loop, which is supported by spools to roll around a certain trajectory. The empty film passing...
I filmed and photographed a location that might suggest the original park scene of Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie, Blow-Up. In a night scene...
The opening shot shows the segmented structure of a radiator from close up; then, through the continuing, slow movement of the zoom, the picture...
The basic idea for this project came from my earlier work based on the principle of camera obscura. Similarly to transparency the ciba-chrome...
Curious experience is to observe when a flat is being vacated and put up for sale. The physical perception of empty space also offers a...
The principal stages of the latest casting technique of the reinforced concrete are as follows: two large temporary walls are constructed of wood...
When I first spotted the blindingly light greenhouses, sprawling to the size of an agricultural estate against a background like a landscape...
The first train that left the station brought the static perception of images alive. The train’s window was the first adventure of the moving image...
Prora is a geographical location on the isle of Rügen, at the northernmost point of Germany. The building built here was officially named...
The Atlantic Wall combines components of various kinds and functions, my attention was caught by the observation, control and command posts....
The confrontation of dimensions offers a number of possibilities; by selecting the dimensional boundary between the plane (2D) and the space (3D) for...
I took a picture of a light bulb. This picture was projected in life size on a backlit film and installed in a gallery. The projection was made possible...
Selected solo exhibitions
2018
Spomen, Vintage Gallery, Budapest and Spomen, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2015
What do pictures want? Galerie Loevenbruck. Paris
2014
Das Fenster, Van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne
2013
Three by Three, Netwerk, Aalst and Three by Three, Ludwig-Contemporary Museum, Budapest
2013
Gallery Loevenbruck - Paris Photo, Los Angeles
2012
Das Fenster, Vintage Gallery, Budapest - Ontology at Loop, Barcelona - New works at Van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne
2010
From Pigment to Light/Blow-up, Vintage Gallery, Budapest - Blow-up, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris - Solo Presentation, Paris Photo, Paris - New Works, Galerie Willem van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam
2009
Colors of black & white, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2008
Echoes – with Yann Gross, Gallery WE Contenporary, London - Works, Museum Kranenburg
2007
Solo presentation Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam - Space Monochrome, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2006
Space Monochrome, Galerie Van der Grinten, Cologne - Camera Architectura, Gallery Quai 1. Images’06/ Vevey
2005
Constructed View (with Attila Csörgö), Galerie Willem van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam
2004
Permanent Daylight, Galerie Willem van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam - Liquid Horizon, Büro für Fotos, Cologne - Camera Architectura, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2003
The Prora Project, Büro für Fotos, Cologne - The Prora Project, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris - Liquid Horizon, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
2002
Liquid Horizon, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague - Liquid Horizon with sculptures of Asger Jorn, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris - Liquid Horizon 2, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Nijmegen - The Prora Project, Galerie Willem van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam
2001
Liquid Horizon, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (cat.) - Liquid Horizon, CCC, Tours, Tours (cat.) - Liquid Horizon, Museum Schloß Moyland, Cleve (cat.)
2000
Landscapes of the Atlantic Wall, Vishal, Haarlem - Landscapes of the Atlantic Wall, Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne (cat.)
1998
Wall Monochrome, Szt. István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár (cat.) - Tautologies, (Projections) Sala Do Resco, Lisbon (cat.)
1997
The Picture of Light, Liget Gallery, Budapest
1996
Wall Monochrome, Zichy Gallery, Leiden
1995
Reconstruction, Eveart Gallery, Budapest
1994
Pictures on the wall, Újlak Gallery, Budapest - Pictures on the wall, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
1991
Pictures on the wall, Szt. István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár (cat.)
1990
Pictures on the wall, Studio Gallery, Budapest
1989
MM Gallery, Utrecht - Paper works, FMK Gallery, Budapest (cat.)
1988
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (cat.)
Selection of group shows
2018
Expérience photographique, Topographie de l’art, Paris
2016
Pencil of Culture, 10 years of acquisitions from the Centre Pompidou at Paris Photo, curated by Clément Chéroux and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
2016
Memory Lab: The Sentimental Turn. Photography Challenges History, MUSA, Vienna
2015
Memory Lab: The Sentimental Turn. Photography Challenges History, MUDAM, Luxembourg
2014
The Prehistory of the Image, Artefact festival, STUK, Leuven - On the move, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - Memory Lab: The Sentimental Turn. Photography Challenges History“, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
2013
Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium, National Gallery, Budapest Still, MODEM, Modern Museum Debrecen
2012
Habita(n)t, Rabo Art Zone, Rabobank Collection, Utrecht Cinematic, Voorkamer, Lier
2011
Radical Autonomy 2’ curator: Arno van Roosmalen, Netwerk, Aalst - Photo 3.0’. Eindhoven - Van Spaarnwoude naar Dreef’, Provinciehuis, Haarlem
2010
diep, festival de cote d’albatre- les impressionnistes, Diep - Panorama Kijkduin, Stroom, Den Haag - Focus Lódz Biennale 2010
2009
Amsterdam, Groupshow at Ron Mandos Galerie, Amsterdam - Raum sichten – Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
2008-09
Nature as Artifice. New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art; Kröller-Möller Museum, Otterlo; - Pinakothek der Moderne, München; Aperture Gallery, NY; George Eastman House, NY
2008
Bouw in Beeld (Building in Image) Travelling award show: The Hague, Municipal Center; Amsterdam, - Music Gebouw; Eindhoven, Municipal Center
2007
Mosaïque Programme Awards, Luxembourg
2006
Tiefebene Hochkant, Aktuelle Kunst aus Ungarn, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2005-06
Dutch Photography, Seoul
2005
Munch Revisited, Ausstellungshalle Dortmund
2005
Constructed Moment, K4, Den Bosch
2005
Confrontation, FOAM, Amsterdam
2004
Confrontation, Le mois de la photo á Paris - Institut Néerlandais, Paris
2003
Entracte, Büro für Fotos, Cologne
2002-03
Link, a proposal for Municipal Acquisitions; Photography, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2003
Art from a Natural Source, Kaap Helder
2003
Biennale Le mois de la Photo á Montréale
2001
‘naturea’, Ruhrlandmuseum Essen/ Kunsthaus Essen
1996
Vide-Cultura, Haarlem
1996
Jenseits von Kunst, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1992
Kunst und Zeit – Ungarn, München/ Bonn
1988
Young Artist Festival, Moscow
1985
Drei Generationen in der ungarischen Kunst, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Works in public collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris – Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC) – Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris – Frances Fondation – FOAM-Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam – Musée de la Roche sur Yon – Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam – AkzoNobel Art Foundation – Frac Franche-Conté – Gemeentemuseum The Hague – Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest – Modern Múzeum, Pécs – Museum Schloss Moyland – Achmea Kunstcollectie - Rabo Bank Collection
2013: Three by Three, MER, paper kunsthalle,
text by the artist.
2006: Camera Architectura, Monografik Éditions, Blou,
text by the artist. The book is two parts: work and manual.
2001: The Liquid Horizon, Büro für Fotos, Cologne and Ludwig Múzeum Budapest,
text by Maria Tappeiner, Gábor Ösz
2000: Die Meereslandschaften des Atlantikwalls, Fuhrwerkswaage-Kunstraum, Cologne,
text by Sigrid Schneider
1998: Tautologies (Projections), Sala Do Risco, Lissabon,
text by Gábor Ösz
1998: Wall Monochrome, István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár,
text by Attila Csörgö, Willem Elias, Gábor Ösz.
1995: Associations, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam,
text by Anna Best, Walter van der Cruijsen, Jozef van der Heijden, Gábor Ösz, Herman Pitz, Georgina Starr, Stefan Zeyen.
1991: Pictures on the Wall, István Király Múzeum,
text by Gábor Ösz.
2014: Das Fenster,
multi-layered installation with looped color single channel HD projection & analogue16mm film loops
2012: Tautology,
looped color single channel HD projection 1080 x 1980, sound, 6’52”
2011: Ontology,
looped color single channel HD projection 1080 x 1980, sound, 6’56”
2010: Blow-Up,
Blow-Up, color and b&w single channel HD projection 1080 x 1980, sound, 8’02”
2009: From Pigment to Light,
color and b&w single channel HD projection 1080x1980, sound, 5’23”
2005: Traveling Landscapes,
looped color single channel projection 576 x 720 PAL progressive video, sound, 31’
2003: Liquid Horizon,
documentary dvd, color, 22’, Gábor Ösz
2003: The Prora Project,
documentary dvd, color, 22’30”, by Maria Tappeiner, Gábor Ösz.