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1958, born in Budapest
lives and works in Budapest
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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. He has been teaching in the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts since 1990. He resides in Budapest.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
Story from the Year Zero_Print Works. 1986–90, aqb Project Space, Budapest
2018
One must think about the fire, Kisterem, Budapest
2017
œuvre, tranzit.hu, Budapest
2014
(monuments), Kisterem, Budapest
2013
Holy Shit, Müszi, Budapest
2012
Fire in the Museum, Museum Kiscell, Budapest
2011
The Situation, Videospace, Budapest
2009
Power Is Invisible Until You Provoke It, B5, Targu Mures, Romania
Fortinbras in Year Zero, Vintage Gallery, Budapest
2007
Kairos vs Expeditus, Ladaproject, Berlin
mute, Videospace, Budapest
2006
OE, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2005
Typewriter of the Illiterate, Annely Juda Fine Arts, London
2003
Check Your Six, Knoll 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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Sketch, Kisterem, Budapest
2020
Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), Budapest
2019
The Dead Web, Ludwig Múzeum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Listing VIII., Kisterem
The Influencing Machine, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest
Drinkers of Quintessences, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Iparterv 50+, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2018
Drinkers of Quintessences, Darling Foundry, Montreal
2017
“SaveAs…”–WhatWillRemainofNewMediaArt?,LudwigMuseum– Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2016
Accumulator, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2015
Art Has No Alternative, tranzit.sk, Bratislava
Identity and The Self, RAMfoundation, Rotterdam
Siliconevalse: Hungarian Reality, The Brno House of Arts, Brno
2014
Turning Points, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
LUDWIG 25. The contemporary collection, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum, New York
Gramatik of Fear, Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art
2013
2nd Edition of the Biennial Project D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic, Croatia
2012
Video Vortex, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2011
The Lucifer Effect, DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
2010
Re-Designing the East, WKV Stuttgart, Germany
2009
3rd Quadrilateral Biennial, Museum Of Modern And Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2008
All that Cinema, Selection from the video collection of the Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2007
Projections, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2006
Lost and Found, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
2005
The Essence of Life – The Essence of Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Traffic Exit Biennial II., Exit Art, New York
2003
Gravitation, International Public Art Exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2002
Without Emergency Exit, Centro Multimedia of Mexico DF
2001
Werk 01, Bildhauersymposion, Heidenheim, Germany
2000
L’Autre Moitié de l’Europe, Jeu de Paume, Paris
1999
Aspects/Positions, 50 Years Art From Middle Europe, 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
1996
Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Butterfly Effect, International Media Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest
1995
Ostranenie, Dessau, Germany
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
1991
21. International Biennale, São Paolo
Trigon, 8×2 aus 7, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Films and videos
2010
Subversive Designers, video, 2 min.
2009
The Situation, video, 2 min.
2007
Holy Shit, video, 2 min.
2005
Mute, ongoing project, eight video loops, various length
Homesick, video, 2:20 min.
2003
Check Your Six, video, 16 min.
2001
Typewriter of the Illiterate, video, 8 min.
1998
Do You Know My Method?, BW, 35mm film transferred to video, 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
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