ARTIST PROFILE

István Felsmann

  • Hungary (b. 1984 in Budapest)
  • Currently in Budapest, Hungary.

REPRESENTATION

CONTACT & LINKS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • ICA-D Collection, LLPlatform Project Space, Budapest, Hungary.
  • FKSE+ ABSTRACTIONS OF NEW ABSTRACTS, Art + Text, Budapest, Hungary.

2018

  • Gallery by Night / Extend the Future as Much as Possible , Studio of Young Artists / FKSE , Budapest, Hungary.
  • TION DAKTYLIOTHEKA, Gallery Pince, Budapest, Hungary.

2016

  • Set Courses, acb attachment, Budapest, Hungary.

2015

  • Toi-toi projektraum / die Brücke Zwei, OFF-Biennale, Budapest, Hungary.

2014

  • István Felsmann , acb attachment, Budapest, Hungary.

2012

  • "131 000 db" Portfolio Points, L'Office, Budapest, Hungary.

2011

  • Checkpoint Charlie, Nedű Cafe, Budapest, Hungary.
  • City Piknik "from 5 to 120", L'Office, Budapest, Hungary.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • Essterhazy Art Award, Ludwig museum, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Focus on Hungary, The Viewer at Fresh Fair , Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  • Bátor Tábor Art Auction, Museum Kiscelli , Budapest, Hungary.
  • DERKÓ 2019, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Derkó '19 Pécs , m21 Gallery, Pécs, Hungary.

2018

  • "Legyen Világosság!", AQB , Budapest, Hungary.
  • A jövőt végképp eltörölni, FKSE, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Kívül-Szonda a jövőbe- Úrkorszak a jövőbe, Szombathelyi képtár, Szombathely, Hungary.
  • Luciano Benetton Collektion, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy.
  • Bátor Tábor Aukció 2018, Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary.

2017

  • Bátor Tábor 2017, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
  • MEDIUM CONJURORS, MAMÜ Society, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Summer Show, acb Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Economize! - On the relationship of Art and Economy, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Engraving - Contemporary Reflections for Questions of Public Life, Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

2016

  • Bátor Tábor 2016, Kiscelli Museum , Budapest, Hungary.
  • Accumulator, Budapest Gallery , Budapest, Hungary.
  • DERKÓ 2016, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Tárgyak Előtt Állni , Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 10th birthday of Transparency International Hungary, A-38 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Kapufa - futball a kortárs Magyar képzőművészetben, ICA-D, Dunaújváros, Hungary.
  • Rock/Space/Time, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.

2015

  • Patron, FKSE, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Art Market, Millenáris park, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Definitions in canon, Omnivore Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Gallery by Night, FKSE, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Gyula Derkovits Fine Art Award, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Bátor Tábor 2015, Kiscelli Museum , Budapest, Hungary.
  • Vakáció - Szimulátor, ICA-D, Dunaújváros, Hungary.

2014

  • Gyártósoron pop up exhibition by Flash Art, PP Center, Budapest, Hungary.
  • ASAN Exhibition, Godot Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Art Market , acb Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Project Placc (Maneki Neko Band), Art Placc, Tihany, Hungary.
  • Gyula Derkovits Fine Art Award, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.

2013

  • Best of Diploma 2013, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Art Placc, Gaudens Pedit Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Urbánus Folkr , Balassi Institution, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Kuss Records, Gallery Jurányi, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Focus Ungarn 1998-2013, Gallery Gaudens Pedit, Linz, Austria.
  • Salon in Progress, MÜSZI, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Sommerfrische, Gallery Gaudens Pedit, Linz, Austria.

2012

  • Bring the Art Home, Loffice, Wien, Austria.
  • Art Market, Gallery Gaudens Pedit, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Art Placc, Gallery Gaudens Pedit, Tihany, Hungary.
  • Hungarian University of Fine Arts, V. grade exhibition, Vidovszky Béla Városi Képtár, , Gyomaendrőd, Hungary.
  • It's spring. Let's fresh up your artistic wardrobe, Loffice, Budapest, Hungary.

2011

  • Guidelines about prostitution, Guidelines about prostitution, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Dimensions, Sokszem Art Platform, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Ungarica Creativa, -, Roma, Italy.

PROGRAMS

2019

  • Leopold Bloom 2019, Project, Budapest- Brussels, Hungary.
    Work Schedule My 2019 work schedule is related to the theme of my last two exhibitions entitled ’TION Daktylotheka (Pince Gallery) and ’Extend the Future as Much as Possible’ (Young Artists’ Studio), which were realised in 2018. Here I referred to other artists’ works and tried to position them by executing smaller modifications. I took silicon prints of other artists’ paintings and so the realised monochrome abstractions merged with the original works of art. On the other hand, I made installations for which I used other artists’ statues, so other artists became my means of expression for me, the creator. Identifying with the Ianus-face of the curator and artist, I am forming the collection of Daktylotheka, in which process the borderlines between the roles of artist, curator and collector have blurred. In 2019 I would like to abstract the artworks of New Abstract artists. I am paying close attention to the movement of the Hungarian New Abstarcts in the artistic scene. How they are trying to adapt their art to changing trends and to step forward in their artistic career built up by hard work. The fast change of trends makes harder the finalisation of an artistic line. The conception is partly of personal motivation as I also wish to create harmonic and beautiful but the creation of the disharmonic and ugly seems to be a harder task. For me the hypothesis is that the ugly, the unattractive is of a higher rank than the beautiful and attractive. The question is whether beauty can be approached through the ugly. The material formed a system from chaos in some way, symmetry appeared in nature, then in art and technology as well. It frequently happens that symmetry creates similar elements, which makes the building of structures possible but this presumes a kind of restriction in understanding since the human brain opts for symmetric thinking. It connects the three main endeavours of the human, how he tries to understand the world, harmony and beauty. Despite the above mentioned ideas, in 2018 I began to deal with abstraction again and against my inner protest, I could not stand the desire to create beauty and symmetry. The artworks are not the consequences of a theme or conception but are based on the obligation must of creating aesthetic harmony.

LOCATION

  • Born 1984 in Budapest, Hungary.
  • Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.

EDUCATION

  • 2016 - 2013
    Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
    Master in Painting, Graphic Design Faculty

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2019
    Gyula Derkovits Art Prize
    MANK, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2015
    Gyula Derkovits Art Prize
    MANK, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2013
    Best of Diploma
    Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2013
    Bring the Art Home
    BAH, Budapest, Hungary

RESIDENCIES

  • 2017
    Budapest Gallery Scholarship, Gallery Budapest, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2011
    Erasmus Scholarship, UPV, Valencia, Spain

COLLECTIONS

  • IROKÉZ COLLECTION, Budapest-Szobathely, Hungary
  • Luciano Benetton Collection, Rome, Italy