My artistic approach reflects on the different aspects of the means and methods of cultural transmission, i.e. knowledge production, taking into account their changing modes over historical time and geographical space. I address these socio-political issues through aesthetics and through artworks. Therefore, the crafting of the works, the artistic form, the value of the skill, plays an important role in my work. A large part of my work is exhibited in installation form, as this form allows me to present certain problematics in a more nuanced and indirect way, integrating many different aspects through the juxtaposition of objects. These installations create a context that constitutes a research-based social, cultural, historical, political or economic critique, as I explore their historical context and its perpetuation in depth. In other words, I am not only showing individual moments of the past, but also the complex interrelationships, coexistence and often ambiguous interconnections of knowledge systems and knowledge production. Indirectly, I also draw attention to how the different frames of contexts change perspectives or create constellations that undermine or even reinforce the order of things. Through aesthetics, I seek to understand and critique systems of power, i.e. biopolitics, knowledge production, or the geopolitical foundations of social realities.
EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2005 – 2010
DLA training, Doctoral School, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1998 – 2003
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
2012 –
Artist in residence at AtelierFrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
2010 –
Hungarian Eötvös Scholarship – Germany
2009 – 2012
Derkovits Gyula Scholarship
2009 –
Hungarian Eötvös Scholarship – Germany
2007 –
Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome
2007 –
Essl Award 2007, 1st prize
2003 –
Erasmus Scholarship – Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Regnum et Gloria, Kisterem, Budapest
Suspension of Disbelief – with Krisztián Kristóf and Dominika Trapp, Museum of Ethnoghraphy, Budapest
2022
The Future of the Past is the Present - with Márton Nemes, American Hungarian Library and Historical Society, New York
2020
Disconnected, Kisterem, Budapest
2018
Everything is Ours!, Kassák Museum, Budapest
2017
Dream of a Barn Owl, Kisterem, Budapest
Melancholy of the Deconstructed Meaning, Art Gallery Paks, Paks
2016
Taxography - with Anna Zilahi, Labor, Budapest
2015
Recollection - with Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó and Martin Piacek, OFF Biennále Budapest
2014
The Bauxite Crisis, Kisterem, Budapest
2013
Descriptio, Fuga Galéria, Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest
2012
Never Take a Trip Alone, Moholy-Nagy Studiogallery, CHB, Berlin
2011
Never Take a Trip Alone, NextArt Galéria, Budapest
2009
p, Cultural Institute Of The Republic Of Hungary, Bratislava
H.W.A.Á. – Free your mind, with Heidi Wood, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
2008
decoder, NextArt Galéria, Budapest
2007
Mechanikus Paradicsom [Clockwork Paradise] – with Ádám Szabó, INDA Galéria, Budapest
2005
As If, Menü Pont Galéria, Műcsarnok-Kunsthalle, Budapest
Identify Yourself, Csikász Galéria, Művészetek Háza, Veszprém
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Emplotment, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
The Man Who Stepped into Paint, MKE PROFIL, Budapest
2021
Setting a Modell: Pictorial Constructions of the Human Body, Hungarian Academy of Fine arts - Barcsay hall, Budapest
Invisible Spectra, Pannonhalmi Főapátság, Pannonhalma
Sketch, Kisterem, Budapest
Universum – SEFO 2021 Triennial, Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
2020
Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), Budapest
2019
Esterházy Art Award Hungary 2019, Ludwig Museum – Contemporary Art Museum
Listing VIII., Kisterem
2018
Form Creation Strategies, Labor, Budapest
Zeitgeistlos, Hans Knoll Galerie, Vienna
2017
Westkunst – Ostkunst. A new collection display, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Flying Kayak, OFF-Biennale Budapest
Generosos animos labor nutrit, Omnivore Gallery, Budapest
2016
Przesilenie / Solstice / Napforduló, Panel Contemporary, Budapest
What kind of creature is an artist? – The 2016 Traditional Annual Exhibition of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association (SYAA, Budapest)
PHOTO / MODEL, Images between Art and Nature, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2015
Papier / Paper V – ZEICHNUNG, Clement and Schneider, Bonn
Mindsets, Studio of Young Artists’ Association (SYAA), Budapest
Leopold Bloom Award, Új Budapest Galéria-New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Hungarian and International Art from Private Collections in Hungary, 2010–2014, Új Budapest Galéria-New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2014
THE MOST – The FKSE’s 2014 Traditional Annual Exhibition, Budapest
[silence] – A Holocaust Exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Pensive Pictures, Good bye! Fantasztikus földrajz és képzelt közösségek, Higgs Field, Budapest
Szabadkéz [Free-hand] , MODEM, Modern és Kortárs Művészeti Központ, Debrecen
2013
Shifts. Hungarian Art After 1945. Rearranged permanent exhibition, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Fantastic Stuff, Kisterem, Budapest
Rajz.Ok [Drawing.Ok], Viltin Galéria, Budapest
2012
Artist in Residence-International Künstleraustausch 2012 – Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main, Atelierfrankfurt
Másodfokú Egyenletek [Quadratic Equtions], Kepes Institute, Eger
2011
Profile Budapest, Galerie Schuster, Berlin
Magáért Beszél [Speaks for itself], Magyar Nemzeti Galéria-Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Senior, Studió Galéria, Budapest
2010
Donumenta 2010, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
Anatomy of a Street, London Festival of Architecture, London
2009
Free Artwork, ODY – C2001, Paris
JCE Biennial of Contemporary Art, Montrouge
Pixelek [Pixels], Ernst Múzeum, Budapest
2008
Lenmechanika [Mechanics of the Canvas], Ernst Múzeum, Budapest
Tetszőleges lényeg – A táj 2000 után [Optional essence – Landscape after 2000], Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely
Rundgang der SpinnereiGalerien Leipzig, LADA 2008, Leipzig
Essl Award. Junge Kunst in Mittel- und Südosteuropa, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg
Nem Kötelező [Not compulsory], Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
2007
2007 Essl Award Winners, Essl Museum, Wien/Klosterneuburg
Hírtelen [Newsless], Dorottya Galéria, Budapest
10 Essl Award Nominees, Ludwig Museum-Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest
2006
Vorfahrt- Kunst im Spannungsfeld zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit, Stuttgart
2004
Élő struktúrák [Living Structures], Ateliers Pro Arts/ A.P.A!, Budapest
2003
Grafika – Foto – Grafika [Graphic – Photo – Graphic], Ateliers Pro Arts / A.P.A.!, Budapest
La Grafica Ungherese del ‘900, Finale Ligure
2002
‘Roma – Budapest: due Accademie a confronto’, Galleria Il Quadrato di Omega, Roma
Albert Ádám, Huszár László, Varga Bálint’s exhibition, Művészetek Háza, Szombathely
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ludwig Museum – Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Művészetek Háza – House of Arts, Veszprém
Videos
Publications
SELECTED PRESS
Lépold, Zsanett: Gavrilo Princip álma [Gavrilo Princip’s dream], Artmagazin online
Altmann, Susanne: Lines unfaithful, Art Das Kunstmagazin, 2018/9, pp 38-51
Ádám Albert at Art Gallery Paks – Art Viewer, March 15, 2017
Ádám Albert at Kisterem – Art Viewer, March 31, 2017
„Mikroszinten is ismétli magát a történelem” – Albert Ádám, képzőművész, Artportal, 2018. 06. 06.
Magányos növény az ember, Artportal, 2018. 07. 01.
Albert Ádám: The gardener’s truth, Balkon
Ádám Albert | Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning | Dream of a Barn Owl, Balkon, 2017.04.23.
The Best and Worst of Art in Central Europe in 2018, BLOK Magazine, 9 January 2019