ARTIST PROFILE

Gábor Kristóf

  • Slovakia (b. 1988 in Kosice)
  • Currently in Budapest, Hungary.

REPRESENTATION

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • 2019 Dust on a shelf, Galerie Kabinet T, Zlín, CZ , Galerie Kabinet T, Zlín, Czech Republic.

2017

  • Occam's City (with Máté Dobokay), Labor BP, Budapest, Hungary.

2016

  • Melting Point, Horizont Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

2015

  • Offsetting, Horizont Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Figyelem (el)terelési kísérletek (with Emese Fodor), Labor BP, Budapest, Hungary.

2012

  • Autoimmun (with Tamás Juhász), Ferencvárosi Helytörténeti gyűjtemény, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Multifilter (with Bence Pálinkás), Löffler Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia.

2011

  • Temporarily Inside, Chelsea Project Room, London, United Kingdom.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • Bauhaus 100, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary.

2018

  • Optimistic exhibition, Barcsay terem - MKE, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Distracting modernity, Šopa Gallery, Košice, Slovakia.
  • Time of our lives?, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary.
  • Where do we go from here?, Galerie Miroslav Kubík, Litomyšl, Czech Republic.
  • Future to be erased completely, Barcsay terem - MKE, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Meanwhile in Painting, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

2017

  • DAAVS - Arts of Audiovision, DIG Gallery, Košice, Slovakia.
  • Parallel Vienna, Schnirchgasse 9A, Wien, Austria.
  • Save the last one for me, Art in General, Brooklyn, United States.
  • Amygdala, Herman Ottó Múzeum – Miskolci Galéria, Miskolc, Hungary.
  • Derkó 2017, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary.

2016

  • Interference, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Discomfort on a tolerable degree, Povvera, Berlin, Germany.
  • Seed Capital, m21 Gallery, Pécs, Hungary.
  • Limbo Fever, Horizont Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • DERKÓ 2016, Műcsarnok | Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Accumulator, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • What Kind of Creature is an Artist? – The SYAA’s Traditional Annual Exhibition, , Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

2015

  • Bibliography (Gallery by Night), Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Creation-works, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Timebase, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

2014

  • Revolution without Movement, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • The Most – The SYAA’s Traditional Annual Exhibition (comitedereservation.tumblr.com), VIII. district, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Private Nationalism, m21 Gallery, Pécs, Hungary.
  • Best of Diploma, MKE (Hungarian University of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary.
  • Private Nationalism, Kunsthalle, Košice, Slovakia.

2013

  • ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2013, Nominees’ Exhibition, Mai Manó House, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Liget 30, Olof Palme House, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Empire P, ICA-D (Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaújváros), Dunaújváros, Hungary.
  • X-Ray Texture Pack, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky - Showroom for Young Art, Vienna, Austria.
  • ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2013, Transcending Cultures, ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria.
  • Ex Co, Labor BP, Budapest, Hungary.

2012

  • MalomKörzés, ArtMill, Szentendre, Hungary.

2011

  • Sanjeev’s TV Shop, S&S Electronics, Camberwell, London, GB, S&S Electronics, Camberwell, London, United Kingdom.
  • Budapest Flow, Virág Judit Contemporary Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Rock–Paper–Scissors, N&n Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

2010

  • Elements Cuisine, 4D Gallery, Galanta, Slovakia.

LOCATION

  • Born 1988 in Kosice, Slovakia.
  • Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.

EDUCATION

  • 2011 - 2011
    Chelsea College of Arts - UAL, London, United Kingdom
    short term studies in Fine Arts (Lucy Gunning)
  • 2008 - 2014
    Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), Budapest, Hungary
    Master of Fine Arts in Painting (Attila Kovács, András Halász)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2017
    Derkovits Prize
    ., Hungary
  • 2016
    Derkovits Prize
    ., Hungary
  • 2015
    General special prize awarded by the Joint Committees, painting section
    National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference, Hungary
  • 2015
    Derkovits Prize
    ., Hungary
  • 2013
    ESSL ART AWARD CEE Nominee
    ESSL Museum, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria
  • 2012
    Amadeus small grant
    Amadeus Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2009
    Golden Diploma
    Portrait Biennale, Hatvan, Hungary

RESIDENCIES

  • 2017
    Visegrad Artistic Residency in New York, Art in General, Brooklyn, NY, United States
  • 2016
    Cité Internationale des Arts, PARIS Cedex 04, France

MEMBERSHIPS

  • 2013 - Present
    FKSE / Studio of Young Artists’ Association (SYAA), Budapest, Hungary