Bálint Szombathy
BALINT SZOMBATHY
1950, Pacir, Serbia
Lives and works in Budapest.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 City Signs, Pécsi Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2016 We Were Heroes, acb Gallery, Budapest
2014 RUBBERSTAMPS, acb Attachment, Budapest
2013 Contemporary Art Exhibition Space Magma, Saint George, Romania
Photo Gallery Lang, Samobor, Zagreb
P72 Gallery, Ljubljana
2012 Art Mill, Szentendre, Hungary
Vintage Gallery, Budapest
2011 House of Hungarian Photographer, Budapest
Rovinj, Municipal Museum, Rovin, Croatia
2008 Ghetto Gallery, Split, Croatia
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art of Voyvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2000 MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest
1994 Bercsényi Gallery, Budapest
1993 Le Lieu, Québec City, Canada
1992 Vasarely Museum, Budapest
1980 Véhicule Art Centre, Montreal, Canada
1979 Club of Young Artists, Budapest
1978 Handpresse, Würzburg, Germany
1976 Galeria Pryzmat, Kraków, Poland
Galeria sztuki MDK Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
1975 University Theatre, Budapest
1973 French Window, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Bosch+Bosch Group and the Vojvodina Neo-avant-garde Movement, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2018 Bookmarks - Revisiting Hungarian Art of the 1960s and 1970s, The Vinyl Factory Soho, London
2017 Two-way movement Focus: Hungary, viennacontemporary, Bécs
2017 With the Eyes of Others, Elisabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2015 Photosuprematists, Nhizny Novgorod, Russia
Photosuprematists, Photon Gallery, Vienna, Austria
We Were Heroes, KC Belgrad, Galllery Podroom, Belgrad, Serbia
Art Has No Alternative (An Archive of Artists in Action), tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
Bosch+Bosch Group: Conceptual Practices from the Former Yugoslavia, acb NA Gallery, Budapest
2014 Premonition / Blood / Hope. Kunst aus Serbien und der Vojvodina von 1914 bis 2014 Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Photosuprematists, Robert Capa Contemporary Center for Photography, Budapest
2013 Utopien vermeiden – Werkleitz Jubiläums Festival, Technikhalle, Halle, Germany
2012 Galicia, mon amour. Folly, Fantasy and Phantasm, Galeria Sztuki Sokól, Nowy Sacz, Poland
What is Hungarian?, Kunsthalle, Budapest
The Present and the Presence – Repetition 1, A Selection of Works from the Arteast 2000 +
Collection and the National Collection of Moderna galerija, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
Artist on Vacation. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2011 At A Standstill. The Marinko Sudac Collection, Ship Galeb, Rijeka, Croatia
2010 art always has its consequences, New Media Center_Kuda.org, Novi Sad, Serbia,
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland; Tranzit.hu, Budapest; What, How & For Whom/WHW, Zagreb
Promises of the Past. A Discontinuous History of Art in Former Eastern Europe, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
2009 reallifepresence, Serbische Gegenwartkunst, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2008 Experiment in the Art of Yugoslavia in the 60s and 70s, Museum of Modern Art, Warszaw
2005 East Art Museum. An Exhibition of East Art Map – A (Re)construction of the History of Contemporary Art (1945–1985)
In Eastern Europe, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Avant-garde Art in the Region, 1915–1989, Gallery Center, Varaždin, Croatia
2004 Hungarian Contemporary Art, Gallery Saoh&Tomos, Tokyo
Hungarian Digital Print, Millenáris Park, Budapest
European Performance Art Festival, Cultural Centre, Lublin, Poland
Der Lange Atem – Meister der internationalen Performance-Szene.Europäische Performance Institut NRW, Essen, Germany
Wired Banks – oevers in verbinding, Las Palmas, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2003 Art-action: Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Immanence, Paris
2002 Fix02 – 5th Belfast Biennial of Performance Art, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, United Kingdom
Central-european aspects of the avant garde in Voyvodina, Museum of Modern Art, Novi Sad Belgrade, Serbia
Vetrina Internazionale del Centro Nazionale di Drammaturgia 2002: Arte in transito, Rialto Sant’ Ambrogio, Roma
Balkan Art – 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Centar za vizuelnu kulturu Zlatno oko, Novi Sad, Serbia
NIPAF 02 – The 9th Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo-Aichi-Kyoto- Nagano, Japan
2001 Body and the East - From the 1960s to the Present, Exit Art, New York, United States
Polysonneries - 2nd International Live Art Festival, Les Subsistances, Lyon, France
2000 International Short Film Festival (with performance), Oberhausen, Germany
1999 After the Wall – Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe, Moderna Museet, Stockholm;
Museum of Contempory Art–Ludwig Budapest; Nationalgalerie – Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
1998 Body and the East – From the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
1996 Mail Art – Osteuropa in Internationalen Netzwerk, Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, Germany;
Museum für Post und Kommunikation,Berlin; Kunsthalle, Budapest; Haus Dacheröden, Erfurt, Germany
1995 Poesia visiva e dintorni (L’ultima avanguardia), Ex Convento di San Domenico – Musei di Spoleto, Spoleto, Italy
1993 Exposition d’Oeuvres de Sources Éléctroniques, L’Institut Hongrois de Paris, Paris
OSTranenie – Internationales Videofestival, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
1989 International Invitational Artistamp Exhibition, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, United States
1986 Vetrina – Produzioni culturali giovanili dell’area Mediterranea, Piscina delle Pavoniere, Florence, Italy
1981 Yugoslav Drawing: Current Trends, University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, N.Y., United States
1979 Tendenze dell’arte Jugoslava d’oggi, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
1978 Tendenzen in den Jugoslawischen Kunst von Heute, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg, Germany
1977 Die Kunst der Avantgarde in Osteuropa Heute, Saal Hermann-Schafft-Haus, Kassel, Germany
Oosteuropese conceptuele fotografie, Technische Hogeschool, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1975 Visual Poetry International, Gallery ‘de Doelen’, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ‘t Hoogt Centrum, Utrecht, The Netherlands;
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Aspekte – Gegenwärtige Kunst aus Jugoslawien, Akademie der Bildenden Künste,Vienna
AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2008 Munkácsy Mihály Award, Budapest
2007 Sava Šumanović Prize, Novi Sad, Serbia
1997 ArtsLink of New York (CEC International Partners, New York)– for collaborative projects with Csaba Polony, Oakland, California.
1995 Middle European Post Card Prize,Kaposvár, Hungary
1993 Forum Art Prize,Novi Sad, Serbia
1989 Ludwig Kassák Prize, Paris
Beke, László: One more Poetry no more. Híd no. 1, Novi Sad, 1983
Denegri, Ješa: Balint Szombathy. In: Fragmenti: šezdesete–sedamdesete. Umetnici iz Vojvodine. Prometej, Novi Sad, 1994
Gržinić, Marina: Encountering the Balkan. The Radicalization of Positioning. In: Art in Europe 1990–2000, Gianfranco Maraniello ed., Skira Editore, Milano, 2002,116–117.
Jergović, Piše Miljenko: IZLOŽBA MSU-a U SRBIJI Iz Beograda se jasnije vidjelo tko je velik u Zagrebu, Jutarnji.hr, l.d: 2014. 11. 26.
Šuvaković, Miško: Art as a Political Machine: Fragments on the Late Socialist and Postsocialist Art of Mitteleuropa and the Balkans. In: Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition – Politicized Art Under Late Socialism. University of California Press, Berkeley–Los Angeles–London, 2003
Milenković, Nebojša: An Aesthetics of Freedom or Politics of Freedom (A Guide Through the Art of Bálint Szombathy 1969–2005). In: szombathy art. Monograph. Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, 2005
Šuvaković, Miško: Performing of Politics of Art – Transitional Fluxes of Conflict (Tactics of Political de-centering of Bálint Szombathy). Ibid.