Tamás Komoróczky
TAMÁS KOMORÓCZKY
Born in 1963, Békéscsaba, Hungary. Lives and works in Budapest.
www.komoroczky.com
STUDIES
1991 Video Department, Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1990-1992 Postgraduate studies at the Mural Department, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1986-1990 Degree in Painting, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
SCHOLARSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES
2007 Artist in Residence at the European Center for Contemporary Art Actions, Strasbourg
2005 Scholarship of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1998-2000 Projects in C3 (Center for Culture and Communication), Budapest
1998 Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome
Assistant of Professor of Painting Department at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
Artist in Residence at the Gasworks Gallery, London
1997 Co-founder of the U.F.F. Gallery
1995-1998 Derkovits scholarship
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 The style is the pillar itself, Epreskert, Budapest
Revealing Intuition - Immanence Catches Transcendence and Thereby Determines Himself, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest
2017 au soi-meme / to the self, Private studio, Budapest
au cours de / during, LLPlatform, Budapest
Megjelenés / Appearance, acb Galéria, Budapest
elé / pre, Everybody Needs Art, Bemutatótér, Budapest
2016 Logos, Tekhnos, Textos, Videos, Audios, Lajos, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2015 The Blood is Red / The Patterns of Blood, Neon Gallery, Budapest
2014 Milksoup as a Forced Existentialist Methaphor, Higgs Field Gallery, Budapest
Vectors - Inscription on a future ancient skull, Miskolc Gallery Municipal Museum
2013 Occasion, Pécs Gallery M21, Pécs
2012 Everything Eats, Everything is Eaten, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Ghost Trap, Neon Gallery, Budapest
2011 Escape Attempt, Kiscelli Múzeum - Fövárosi Képtár / Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest
Flying Carpet, Videospace Gallery, Budapest
2010 Anticipated Notions of Purpose, Vajda Lajos Studio, Szentendre
Constellation of Bones, Galeria Neon, Budapest
A Poem About Nothing, Liget Gallery, Budapest
2009 Delusion with Chord Suite, Pixel Gallery, Millenáris, Budapest
2008 The Phantom of the Museum, Vasarely Museum, Pécs
“Schkitz#2”, Irokéz Gallery, Szombathely
2007 Recorded, Lada Gallery, Berlin
Hunting Trip, Impex Gallery, Budapest
2005 Dr.Sample & Mr.Shooter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2004 God speed, acb Gallery, Budapest
2003 Turboreflex - Supercut, acb Gallery, Budapest
2002 Oscillatory, Compensation, Dream, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo
Supervision I, Gallery Display, Praha
Then Nothing Else but the Buzzing of the Bees, RAM Gallery, Rotterdam
Things fall out now this way, now that, BBS, Budapest
Supervision II, Galleria U, Helsinki
2001 Social Intercourse, 49.Biennale di Venezia, Hungarian Pavilion
2000 The Carnival..., City Gallery, Szombathely
PSVMK Gallery, Győr
1999 6 pictures/ordo/c3/999, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
1998 Monument, Knoll Gallery, Budapest
1997 Gallery by Night (with Lang /Bauman) Studio Gallery, Budapest
1996 Alibi Fashion, Studio Gallery, Budapest
1995 The House of Alibi, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
1994 Logo, Mű-Terem Gallery, Budapest
1993 Skicc, Tűzoltó 72. Gallery, Budapest
1991 6 Channels, Tűzoltó 72. Gallery, Budapest
1990 Young Artists’ Club, Budapest
Újlak Cinema, Budapest
1989 Resistance I., Bercsényi College, Budapest
1987 Young Artists’ Club, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Stirrings still, aqb Project Space, Budapest
2017 Abracadabra, PAF OLOMOUC 2017, Olomouc
Summer Show, acb Gallery, Budapest
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Indoor Garden, Dorottya Court, Budapest
Opus Aquanett, Wissenschaftshafen, Magdeburg
The Way They See: An Overview of Hungarian Photography, National Museum, Warsaw
Video: than and now, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Sf. Gheorghe
Save as… What Remains of New Media Art?, Ludwig Múzeum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Patron Contemporary Christmas Art Fair, FKSE, Fiatal Képzőművészek Stúdiója Egyesület, Budapest
2016 LIGHT YEAR 10: “Crosstalk Presents”
Video Art Projections on the Manhattan Bridge, New York
Patron Contemporary Art Fair, FKSE, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2015 Patron Contemporary Christmas Art Fair, FKSE, Fiatal Képzőművészek Stúdiója Egyesület, Studio Gallery, Budapest
TIMEBASE, Time-Based Media in Contemporary Art, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Fény(ny)elvek, Kepes Institute, Eger
OFF-Biennale Budapest, Budapest
More Light! Lights Environments, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Technologie und das Unheimliche "Enigma", FKSE 2, Budapest
T+U X Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2014 Contemporaries: Collectors and Artists - 2010–2014, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
The Thunder Lizard Was Never Extinet, Zönotéka, Berlin
LUDWIG 25. The contemporary collection, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Kritik und Krise #3:Ornament der Brüderlichkeit, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin
Anarchia, utopia, revolution, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Crosstalk 7 video art festival, Budapest
Installations in the Municipal Gallery 1992-2014, Museum Kiscell, Budapest
Digital transilvania, Targu Mures
PANDAMONIUM PREVIEW / INTERPIXEL, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
4th.Oodaaq festival (Crosstalk section), Rennes
Pensive Pictures, Goodbye!, Higgs Field Contemporary Art Space, Budapest
Analogue, acb Galéria, Budapest
Patron Contemporary Christmas Art Fair, FKSE, Fiatal Képzőművészek Stúdiója Egyesület, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2013 Budapest Immersion ¨C 2013, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
VI. Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest
Under Reconstruction | Újlak 1989-1995, Flórián Műhely, Budapest
My Little Cloud, Dovin Gallery, Budapest
Malevich Looks Back, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest
Aquamediale, Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald, Lübben
2012 The Hero, the Heroine and the Author, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
HangON, Kepes Institute, Eger
HangON, Jósa András Museum, Nyíregyháza
The Hungarian Magic Cube - Video Art Exhibition of Hungarian artists, Gallery 5 Kalisher,
Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 HangON, Miskolc Gallery Municipal Museum, Miskolc
Hybridity in Carpathian basin, Irokéz Collection, MODEM, Debrecen
IV. Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest
Loose slogans, Liszt Ferenc square, Budapest
2010 FIAC, (Videospace Budapest Gallery), Paris
Expectations, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin
Martians, Videospace Gallery, Budapest
Conditions. Who? Whom? With what?, City Gallery, Székesfehérvár
Crosstalk III., International Video Art Festival, Merlin Theater, Budapest
Action!, Infernoesque, Berlin
Procession III./ Animation, Videospace Gallery, Budapest
2009 Videospritz, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste
Remix I., International Contemporary Art Center, Dunaújváros
Crosstalk II, International Video Art Festival, Budapest
'another time, another place'- contemporary hungarian video artists, Washington DC
Free Will, Irokéz Collection 1988-2008, City Gallery, Szombathely
Screening Room: Contemporary Hungarian Video Artists, Janos Gat Gallery, New York
2008 The latest rebuttal time, Irokéz Collection 1988-2008, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Art Forum Berlin (Lada Project), Berlin
Animals, Pöge-Haus, Leipzig
Ego on the wall, Miskolc Gallery Municipal Museum, Miskolc
Herbs 2008 (Kunst am Hamburger Bahnhof), Infernoesque, Berlin
Cityscape-Landscape, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin
Crosstalk, Video Art Festival, Gödör park, Budapest
Procession I., Videospace Gallery, Budapest
All that Cinema, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
"Guess who is coming...", R.A.M. Gallery, Rotterdam
TIME PRINT 08, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Brussel
2007 CPH video cabin, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin
Prewiew (Lada Project), Berlin
Imaginary Paradise, Impex Gallery, Budapest
Foto Rio, Photobienial, Rio de Janeiro
Futurama, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin
2006 Generally Believed, Mongolischen Botschaft in Berlin, Berlin
HOME FOR LOST IDEAS, General Public, Berlin
Gutleut 15, Frankfurt am Main
Collection, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
2005 MEMO, acb Gallery, Budapest
Shopped to Death, Art Forum Berlin / Tuteurhouses, Berlin
Focus Istanbul, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Europa Fries, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Loud and Clear Too, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Museum Ludwig, Köln,
Loud and Clear Too, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen University Art College
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
"Synchronized Coincidence...", Galerie Bergstüb'l, Berlin
Technische Fachhochschule Wildan, Berlin
'1st Art Fair Wien (acb Gallery), Wien
Hungarian Digital Graphic, Millenáris, Budapest
Museum Night, R.A.M. Gallery, Rotterdam
Collection exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Antique Interior / Plug Contemporary Art Fair (acb Gallery), Budapest
2004 Around Us, R.A.M. Gallery, Rotterdam
Supra - Individual, Schloss Goldegg
Soapoper, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
Art Fair Köln (acb Gallery), Köln
2003 AURA, Millenáris, Budapest
Naughty, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
Without Cinema, The House of the Lords, Brno
Cream 2003, MEO Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest
Opening exhibition, acb Gallery, Budapest
Art Fair 2003, Rotterdam
1.Muestra del Internacionale Video, El Salvador, San Salvador
Videovine -Muskatli Vinehouse, Budapest
2002 BUDAPEST BOX, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Woof Woof, Visual Arts in Temple Bar, DubliN
Art Forum Berlin (Trafó Gallery), Berlin
2001 Irokéz collection 2001, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest
Garden, City Gallery, Szombathely
Compatibility, Zoo Gallery, Nantes
Histoires Hongroises, Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole,Villeneuved'Ascqe
Cream, MEO Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest
Hungarian Digital Art / C3, ICA New Media Centre, London
Junction, Budapest-Metro
Digitalized Bodies, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Woof Woof, Austrian Cultural Institute (ACI), London
2000 Art Narrative - Contemporary Hungarian Photography, Knoll Gallery, Budapest / Wien
Crosstalk, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
Up to You!, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Media Model, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
T-dugó, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
10 Young Hungarians, König Albrecht House, Leipzig
1999 Internet Galaxy, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
Galerie 5020, Salzburg
Remix, City Gallery, Pécs
A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ustí nad Labem
The Dream Factory’s Running Smoothly, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
Irregular memory, City Gallery, Szombathely
Young and Serious, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Alibi Fashion, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
It’s jazzy, Palait Jalta, Frankfurt am Main
1998 Inter/Media/Art, Ernst Museum, Budapest / Palazzo della Regione, Triest
Bloomsday, City Gallery, Szombathely
Area, Accademia d'Ungheria, Roma
Try again later, Gaswork Gallery, London
Site Transitoire, Italian Institute of Budapest, Budapest
1997 Gallery by Night, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Trafik, City Gallery, Szombathely; Morawska Gallery Brno; Landesgalerie Eisenstadt
Sic!, Kiscelli Múzeum - Fövárosi Képtár / Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest
Derkovits - scholarship exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Hidden, Ernst Museum, Budapest
The Roundabout, shed im eisenwerk, Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld
Ruhm und Ehre, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz
Pleasure of Art , Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
De Valigia, Nyugati Railwaystation, Budapest
1996 The Least, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Derkovits - scholarship exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Beyond Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Sent I Mental Blue, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1995 Balsam, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Aritmia 3, Uitz Hall, Dunaújváros
Újlak S port, Liget Gallery, Budapest
Beyond Belief, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chichago; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Studio'95, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
1994 Újlak Group, Palme Hall, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
More then Ten, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
80 'years Art, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1993 2. Hungarian Contemporary Epigon Exhibition, KX Kampnagel, Hamburg
Soundinstallations / Újlak Group, Goethe Institute, Budapest
Fremd und Vertraut / Újlak Group, Kulturfabrik Salzmann, Kassel
Little Things, Fészek Galéria, Budapest; Randolf Street Gallery, Chicago; Art in General, New York;
Delta Axis Center, Memphis; City Gallery, Guadalajara
Fluxconcert, Russian cultural center, Budapest
1992 Spectrum, Tűzoltó 72 Gallery, Budapest
Midsummer's Eve, Polish Embassy, Praha
The Foreigner is Beauty, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Újlak Group, Uitz Hall, Dunaújváros
Újlak Group performance, Culture House, Dunaújváros
Újlak Group, Tűzoltó 72 Gallery, Budapest
Újlak Group music performance, Hangár, Budapest
Medien Biennale, Museum der Bildende Kunste, Leipzig
1991 Sub Voce – Contemporary Hungarian Video Installation, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest
Oscillation 1-2, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest; 6. Bastion, Komarno
Újlak Group opening exhibition, Tűzoltó 72 Gallery, Budapest
1990 Studio '90, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Újlak Group performance and show-window exhibition, Életünk Gallery, Szombathely
Inspiration - Sommer Atalier, Messegelande, Hannover
Ressource Kunst, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
Újlak Group collective, Újlak Cinema, Budapest
1989 Performance I-II, Hungária Bathhouse, Budapest
ART FAIRS
2010 FIAC (Videospace Gallery), Paris
2008 Art Forum Berlin (Lada Project), Berlin
2007 Prewiew (Lada Project), Berlin
2005 Antique Interior / Plug Contemporary Art Fair (acb Gallery), Budapest
Wienna Art Fair (acb Gallery), Wien
2004 Kunst Köln (acb Gallery), Köln
Antique Interior (acb Gallery), Budapest
2003 MEO Art Fair (acb Gallery), Budapest
Art Fair 2003 (RAM Gallery), Rotterdam
2002 Art Forum Berlin (Trafó Gallery), Berlin
Art Fair, (RAM Gallery), Amsterdam
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
City Art Gallery of Szombathely, Szombathely
City Art Gallery of Paks, Paks
Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
Contemporary Museum, Pécs
Miskolc Gallery Municipal Museum, Miskolc
WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Irokéz collection
Spengler-Somlai collection
Horváth Béla collection
AVIVA collection
MEO Contemporary Art Collection
Kincses Károly collection
Offenbacher Ferenc collection
WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE
2013 Mosaic mural of M4 metro Szent Gellért station, Budapest
2009 Facade (glass mural for Szent István University, Gödöllő)
2008 Spears (glass mural for Szent István University, Gödöllő)
2006 Energy fluctuations (glass mural for Szent István University, Gödöllő)
2004 Wallpaper for the Ludwig Museum's cafeteria
SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
Komoróczky Tamás: Flying Carpet + Escape Attempt + Anticipated Target Concepts, catalogue, 2011
Komoróczky Tamás: Works & Days, (2004-2008), catalogue, 2008
Focus Istanbul, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, 2005
Histories Hongroises, Musée d'art moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve D' Ascq, 2001
urbane Realitaten: Social Intercourse, 49.Biennale di Venezia, Hungarian Pavilion, catalogue, 2001
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Várkonyi György: Fekete tűz, Műértő, 2013 May
Hornyik Sándor: A tudás archeológiája a proszektúrán - Komoróczky Tamás Minden eszik, minden megétetik című kiállítása, Balkon, 2012 Feb
Várkonyi György: A múzeum fantomja, Mozgó Világ, 2008 Dec
Ivacs Ágnes: Miféle mánia? Komoróczky Tamás: Sanyi,(Loop, acb galéria ¨C február), Balkon, 2004 March - April
St. Auby Tamás: Komoróczky Tamás a sötétség és a fény között az intermediális menhelyen, Balkon 1994 July - August