Gábor Altorjay
GÁBOR ALTORJAY
1946, Budapest
Lives and works in Hamburg
WORK
2000 - reactivates himself as an artist, organises theatrical events in Hamburg, gives lectures at The Hungarian University of Fine Arts and at ELTE Doctoral School
1986 - translates the writings of Béla Hamvas to German, his translations are constantly published on the internet writes a book entitled Actual Legends about the history of Western and Hungarian avantgarde
1980s - makes parabolic avantgarde movies for the German television with the participation of Péter Halász, Tamás Szentjóby, Sheryll Sutton, he shoots his films in Germany, Israel, Hungary and in the USA
1979 - shoots films, screenwriter, director
1973-79 - Frankfurt, founder of an independent news agency
1969-1980 - works at a radio station in Germany, he composes and directs radio dramas
1966 - emigrates to Cologne, he is the assistant of Wolf Vostell
- organiser of the first Hungarian neo-avantgarde happening, he creates a journal of dadaist character, under the name of Laura he publishes several papers in limited edition
1965 - co-founder of Buta Költők Köre
End of the 1960s - member of early avantgarde movements, writes free verses
EDUCATION
1971-73 Theatrology, University of Cologne
1968-71 Sociology, University of Cologne
1965-67 Theological Academy, Budapest
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Körözött művek, Artpool, Budapest
2015 Welt ohne Herz, acb Gallery, Budapest
1998 Hungarian Neo-avantgarde, Kunsthalle, Szombathely
1973 HappeningFlux, Kunsthalle, Cologne
1969 Kombinat 1, Cologne 1966: The lunch, Happening in Memorian Batu, Budapest
1968 Galerie Senatore, Stuttgart
5 Tage Renne, Cologne
Vom Vollege zu Decollage, Kunsthalle, Nürnberg
4th Sunday of the Advent – Erdély’s coal-cellar, Budapest
1966 Az ebéd, Happening in Memoriam Batu, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Bookmarks - Revisiting Hungarian Art of the 1960s and 1970s, The Vinyl Factory Soho, London
2017 The Way They See. An Overview of Hungarian Photography, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
VIDEO: then and now - The C3 video collection, Magma Contemporary Art Space, SF. Gheorghe, Romania
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
1997 Special Award of the Hungarian Film Week
Nemes Z. Márió: Belecsúszni a humuszba [folyóiratcikk] : Az ebéd (in memoriam Batu kán) című happeningről (1966), 2014, Flash Art : a világ vezető művészeti magazinja : a Flash Art nemzetközi lapcsalád magyar kiadása 3. évf. 2014. 2-3. p. 14-17.
Zombori Mónika: Az első könyv az első magyarországi happeningről [folyóiratcikk] / Zombori Mónika
Altorjay Gábor: Az ebéd (in memoriam Batu kán) : az első magyarországi happening = The lunch (in memoriam Batu khan) : the first happening in Hungary. Budapest : Tranzit, 2011. Artmagazin, 10. évf. 2012. 4. (52. szám) p. 66-69.