Artists

Sugár János

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János Sugár (b. 1958) studied in the Department of Sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. During his studies, between 1980 and 1986 he was actively involved in the exhibitions and performances of Indigo, an interdisciplinary art group led by Miklós Erdély. Sugár has participated in national and international exhibitions since the mid 1980-ies, in 1992 he exhibited at the documenta IX, Kassel, in 1996 Manifesta I, Rotterdam. He completed an Artslink residency at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994, and in 1997/98 a four-month, and in 1999 a three-month fellowship at Experimental Intermedia in New York. His films were screened in 1998 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York.

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SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2007    “Kairos vs Expeditus”, Ladaproject, Berlin
    “mute”, Videospace, Budapest
2006    “OE”Studio Gallery, Budapest
2005    "Typewriter of the Illiterate" Annely Juda Fine Arts, London
2004     “Convergent Series” RAM Gallery, Rotterdam
“Retrospective” Vendemiaire, Budapest
2003    “Check Your Six” Knoll Gallery, Budapest
“Budapest Religious Graffities” Liget Gallery, Budapest
2002    “Convergent Series” Café Europe, Centro di Arte Contemporanea, Rome
“Attention recycling” Galerija Balen, Slavonskij Brod, Croatia
2000    “General Reminder” Art Media Center, TV Gallery, Moscow, with Yuri Leiderman
1999    “Calligraphy Powerplant” Galleria Spicchi dell`Est, Rome
    “Context Trap” Artpool, Budapest
1998    “Do You Know My Method?” QQ Galeria, Cracow, Poland
1997    Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1996     Studio Gallery, Budapest
1993    Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2008     “All that Cinema”, Selection from the video collection of the Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2007    “Projections”, Kunsthalle, Budapest
    “Lazyness” Kunstverein, Wlofsburg
2006    “Contemporary surrealists” Museum Of Modern And Contemporary Art, Rijeka
    “Lost and Found” Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
2005    “The Essence of Life - The Essence of Art”, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
“The Essence of Life - The Essence of Art”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
    “Traffic” Exit Biennial II., Exit Art, New York
2004    “Troubled Times”, Arte Contemporanea, Trieste
2003     “Gravitation”, International Public Art Exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2002    "Without emergency exit" Centro Multimedia  of Mexico DF,
    “Vision”, Kunsthalle Budapest
2001      “Out of Time”, Kunsthalle, Budapest
    “Werk 01” Bildhauersymposion, Heidenheim, Germany
2000     “Cooperativ”, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany
 “L'Autre Moitié de l'Europe”, Jeu de Paume, Paris
1999    “Aspects/Positions” 50 Years Art From Middle Europe, 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
“Perspective” International Media Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle Budapest
1997    "Weight-less", Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1996    Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    "The Butterfly Effect", International Media Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest,
1995     "Ostranenie" Dessau, Germany
1992    Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
1991    Trigon, "8x2 aus 7", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2007      “The Erased Goran Djordjevic Drawing, 1985” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2002      “One Way Design” Transart Communication, Nové Zámky, Slovak Rep.
2000    "Big Yes - Big No", Art Media Center, TV Gallery, Moscow
1998    "Big Yes - Big No", Stephen Gang Gallery, New York
1996      "Ariadne Unemployed", Gallery KK im Fisch, Braunschweig, Germany
1995    "The Shortest Labyrinth", Perforium, Intl. Perf. Art Meeting, Budapest
1992    "Strecke durch Zeit", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

FILMS AND VIDEOS

2007    “Holy Shit” digital video, 19 min.
2005    “Mute” digital video, 19 min.
2003    “Check Your Six” digital video, 16 min.
2001    "Typewriter of the Illiterate",  digitalvideo, 8 min.
1998    "Do You Know My Method?", BW, 35mm, 10 min, BBS production
1996    "Ariadne Unemployed",  video, 13 min.
1993    "Ambigous Window" BW + colour 16 mm, 17 min, (final print: 1996), BBS production
1992    "Camera in Trouble" color, 16 mm, 70 min, BBS production
1987    "Tweedle" (with L. Révész) BW, 16 mm, 5 min. BBS production       
1985    "Persian Walk", color, 16 mm, 50 min.(final print: 1989), BBS production
1983    "This Type of Intention is on the Border of Credibility",16 mm, 7min.  final print: 1989 BBS