Biography | More Works
1976, born in Dunaújváros
lives and works near Budapest
Education
2010-2013
DLA training, Doctoral School, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1997-2003
Intermedia department, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
Residencies and Prizes
2015
Esterhazy Art Prize
2010-11, 2014-
Lecturer at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
2014
Visegrad Grant (AIR) at Galerie Školská 28, Prague
2011
AIR-Petőmihályfa by Krinzinger Projekte, Petőmihályfa
2010
air at AIR Laboratory, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Smohay Grant, Hungary
2009
air at Futura, Prague
2008
air at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
air at Projecto 270 (eco-farm),Costa de Caparica, Portugal
2006
Tranzit residency at Museumsquartier 21, Vienna
2005-07
Derkovits Gyula fellowship
2004
air program of the Svenska Konstskolan, Nykarleby, Finland
2003
award of Studio of Young Artists Association
Garba workshop Montescaglioso, Italy
2001
Ludwig fellowship (at the Academy of Fine Arts Budapest)
Permanent Collaborations
2002– Ex-artists’ Collective with Anikó Loránt
2003– Randomroutines group with Krisztián Kristóf aka Randomroutine
2006– Plágium2000 collective with Viktor Kotun, Dóra Kangiszer and others
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
Transparent Montage, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest
2018
Sci Fi Agit Prop, De Appel, Amsterdam – Netwerk, Aalst
2017
Escapist Stories, Kisterem, Budapest
Lost Wisdom, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania
Joy of Surviving, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
2016
Exercises in Autonomy, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodz, Łodz
Kisterem (as Randomroutines), Budapest
2014
Ersatz Utopia, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Reperti antropologici del costruttivismo, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania
On the popular use of visual aids (an anthropological fantasy), Kisterem, Budapest
“The trench is not in fact as deep as the engineer calculated”, Kassák Museum, Budapest
Self-antropology, Paksi Képtár, Paks
2013
Relics Of The Pan-Periphery – sci-fi anthropology, Platán Gallery, Budapest
Here Comes The Folk Science (as Ex-artists’ collective), Studió Gallery, Budapest
2012
Cargo Collapsism, Cyprian Majernik Gallery, Bratislava
2011
Megashelter, Kisterem, Budapest
2010
Ordash (with the Randomroutines collective), FKSE Gallery, Budapest
2009
How to resist and object to conditions of the present? Open Space, Vienna
2007
Erősebb-e a vízesés nélküli..(solo show with Anikó Loránt) Liget Gallery, Budapest
They who know the truth don’t advertise it, Museum Volkwang in the RWE tower, Essen
2005
Shelter of Hope (solo show with Loránt Anikó), Liget Gallery, Budapest
2004
“Selected Adventures of” (as Randomroutines) Ellen de Bruijne Projects / Dolores, Amsterdam
Rather go to the Future (with Anikó Loránt), Pelikán Gallery, Székesfehérvár
2003
“Do it well!” – Children Squat Modell (with Anikó Loránt), Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Notes for Tomorrow,Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford; Contemporary Calgary, Calgary; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; Pera Museum, Istanbul
Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
ACLIM! Agency for Climate Imaginary, OFF Biennale, Budapest
Sketch, Kisterem, Budapest
2020
Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday, Ludwig Museum Koblenz
Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), Budapest
2019
Szene Ungarn, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
Otthon jó, ICA-D, Dunaújváros
Other echoes inhabit the garden, Kisterem
Listing VIII., Kisterem
Pangea United, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
Bauhaus100. Programme for the now – Contemporary Viewpoints, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Iparterv 50+, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2018
1971 – Parallel Nonsynchronism, Kiscell Museum, Budapest
The Most Beautiful Catastrophe, CCA Kronika, Bytom
How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Every Practice Brings a Territory Into Existence, Template #6, 6 Dimitrie Cantemir Boulevard, Bucharest
The Mindful Intervention, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen
Contemporary Chaos, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen
Ciao 2, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania
Contemporary Chaos, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen
2017
Alloy, Contemporary Art Institute, Dunaújváros
For beyond that horizon lies another horizon (as Ex-asrtists’ collective), Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg/p>
Stopover – Ways of Temporary Exchange (as Ex-asrtists’ collective), Frei–raum Q21, Vienna
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz
Flow/The Return of the Catfish, Księgarnia, Krakow
2016
Raumwunder, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
Newrope (as Ex-artists’ collective), Ksiegarnia/Wystawa, Krakow
Common Harvest. work in progress, Tranzitdisplay, Prag
Hommage – Ideal or Pattern, Knoll Gallery, Vienna
Távolság – vidék a városok között, Osztrák Kulturális Fórum, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2015
Siliconvalse – The Hungarian Reality, House of Arts, Brno
Creativity Exercises – Spaces of Emancipatory Pedagogies, Tranzit.hu, Budapest
Playground, Macar Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul
The Pure Tongue (as Ex-artists’ collective), Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
Off-Biennále Budapest
Bookmarks, Art Cologne
(im)possible! – Artists as Architects, Marta Herford museum, Herford
2014
Constructions, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin
Ciao!, Galleria collicaligreggi, Catania
The Conquest of the Impossible, 6th IEEB, Bucharest
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Interpixel, CHB, Berlin
The need for Practice, tranzit.sk, Bratislava
Kunst, die in den Straßen und an den Körpern wuchert, Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag
[silence] A Holocaust Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2013
Conceptualism today, Paksi Képtár, Paks
ArtsProstor Zlín (as Randomroutines), Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlin
Impossibility vs. Self-Censorship, Matedero, Madrid
LISTING II, Kisterem, Budapest
Risk Factor (as Ex-artists’ collective), Modem, Debrecen
Utopien Femreiden, Werkleitz Festival, Halle
Like a bird (as Ex-artists’ collective), Trafó, Budapest
Itt jön a néptudomány, Studió Gallery, Budapest
Dla was / For you, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
2012
WHO TOLD YOU SO?!(as Ex-artists’ collective), Onomatopee, Eindhoven
Untimely Stories (as Ex-artists’ collective), Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
Dla was / For you, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
2011
Joy and Disaster, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
Untitled (as Ex-artists’ collective), 12th Istanbul Biennial
Joy and Disaster, SMAK, Gent
No one belongs here more than you, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2010
Joy and Disaster, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Over the Counter, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Fort Ruigenhoek, KAAP, Utrecht
Unmistakable sentences, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
The Science of Imagination, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2009
Aviva Prize, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Residence09, Futura, Prague
2008
Revolution I Love You, International Project Space, Birmingham
Revolution I Love You, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
What’s Up? Kunsthalle, Budapest
Revolution I Love You, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Stalking Utopia, ICA, Dunaújváros
2007
Plusz; Kapitalistische Freundschaft, Delta35 + Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
The Projection Project: Budapest episode (as June 21 Collective), Kunsthalle, Budapest
1/4 Hungarian – Remix of the Czechpoint exhibition, ICA, Dunaújváros
2006
Rular Vernicular – public art in ‘country side’ context, County Claire, Ireland
The Sweetest Dream – Unity and Dissonance in Europe, SPACE, London
Tiefebene hochkant (as The Randomroutines group), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
On Difference #2 (with Viktor Kotun), Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
2005
Private matter?(as The Randomroutines group) Kunsthalle, Budapest
Second Present (with antifa-youth), Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Dorota and the Randomroutines, Taidehalli, Vaasa, Finland
2004
Traveling without moving, W139, Amsterdam
2003
DEMO, Contemporary Art Institute, Dunaújváros
Works in Public Collections
Tate Modern, London (GB)
Museum Ritter – Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbuch (DE)
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
MUDAM, Luxembourg
ICA-D, Dunaújváros (HU)
Muzeum Sztuki Łodz (PL)
Articles
‘the trench is not in fact as deep as the engineer calculated’, artmagazin online
Art as a Laboratory: Interview with Tamás Kaszás
Tamás Kaszás’s Art Laboratory:
Anticipating Collapse, Practicing Survival