CSABA NEMES
1966 born in Kisvárda, Hungary Lives and works in Budapest Institution leader of the Faculty of Visual Art in the University of Pécs, Hungary
Studies 2010 DLA Studies, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doctoral School, Budapest 1990 Postgradual Studies, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Mural Faculty 1985-89 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Painting Faculty, Budapest
Prizes, Residencies 2016 Futura residency program, Prague 2014 Residency Unlimited, New York 2013 Leopold Bloom Art Award 2010 Gasworks residency program, London 2003 Residence KulturKontakt Wien, Austria 2002 Residence Arc en Ciel, Liévin, France 2001 Eötvös Scholarship, residence Glassbox, Paris 1998 In and Out of Touch, London 1997 EMARE Program Werkleitz Geseltschaft, Tornitz, Germany 1996 Hungarian Academy Rome, Italy 1994 Residence of Salzburg County 1991 26. Internationale Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Graz, Austria
Works in public collections - Selection Albertina, Vienna (AT) Pompidou Centre, Paris (FR) Mocak, Krakow (PL) Neue Galerie, Graz (AT) Michael Ringier, Switzerland MAC Sallaumines, France István Király Múzeum Székesfehérvár, Hungary ICA-Dunaújváros, Hungary Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2023 Inside / Outside, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen (DE) 2022 Self-Portrait - Between the Clock and the Bed, Knoll Gallery Budapest 2021 Metamorphosis, M21 Gallery, Pécs (HU) 2020 Redirect - The Whole Shape of the Argumentation, Knoll Galerie Wien (AT) 2019 Local Value, ICA Dunaújváros (HU) 2018 Continuous Past, Knoll Gallery Budapest 2017 Historical Choreographies, Knoll Gallery Budapest Side-Sectional View, Knoll Galerie Wien (AT) Fall in...., House of Arts, Ústi nad Labem (CZ) 2016 Stolen Facades, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (AT) 2015 Stolen Facades, Knoll Gallery Budapest When Politics Enters Daily Life, Mocak, Krakow (PL) Not an Art Scene, Knoll Gallery Budapest 2014 Don't Try to Make it Logical!, MMSU, Rijeka (HR) Experiment for Catching up, Knoll Galerie Wien (AT) 2013 This is Not a War, Knoll Gallery Budapest (HU) Migration, Remise/Galerie allerArt, Bludenz (AT) 2012 Father’s Name: Csaba Nemes, Knoll Galerie Wien (AT) Filmretrospective, Paksi Képtár, Paks (HU) Father’s Name: Csaba Nemes, Knoll Gallery Budapest (HU) 2010 Stand here!, Museum Kiscelli, Budapest 2009 The Last House, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Litvania Everyday56, Knoll Gallery Vienna (AT) Softies, Everyday56, Knoll Gallery Budapest (HU) 2007 Remake, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest Remake, Pavillon, Wels, (AT) Remake, Knoll Gallery Budapest 2006 Knoll Galerie, Vienna (AT) Sun in Africa, Menü Pont Gallery, Kunsthalle, Budapest 2005 Picture-Blog, Knoll Gallery, Budapest (with Zsolt Keserue) 2004 His Environment, Knoll Galerie, Vienna (AT) 2002 Between Me and Myself, Knoll Gallery, Budapest 1998 Common Cover, Raum Für Kunst (Public Appearances, Steierischer Herbst), Graz (AT) Breach of Contract, Liget Gallery, Budapest 1997 Continuous past, ICA Dunaújváros, (HU) 1994 Milieu et L’EGO, Institut Français, Budapest (with Balázs Beöthy, Roland Pereszlényi) 1993 The Discreet Charm of Money/The Money is a Discreet Road, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest (with Zsolt Veress) 1992 Movie-titles, Poster-Project, approx. 25 giant posters in Budapest 1990 Part, Institut Français, Budapest (with Zsolt Veress)
Selected Group Exhibitions 2023 Illusions / LOKART, m21 Gallery, Pécs (HU)
2022 Protest! gestalten: Von Otl Aicher bis heute, Museum Ulm (DE) 30+, MODEM, Debrecen (HU) Stories We Live With, Selection from the Somlói-Spengler Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE? Selection of the Ostrale Biennale “Breathturn”, Art Quarter Budapest
2021 MINE- YOURS- OURS / Urban life, Miskolci Gallery, Miskolc (HU) World Beautiful Connections, Létra Klub, Budapest “Breathturn”, Ostrale Biennale, Dresden (DE)
2020 Contemporary Collection, Pompidou Centre, Paris (FR) It Began Secretly, window shop exhibition in the downtown of Budapest, Kálvin squere and along Ráday utca (HU) Nicht-Museum Zeitgemässer Kunst (NMZKD), DEI FUNK WuK, Dresden (DE)
2019 The Ends of Freedom, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Halle 14, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (DE) Due to Family Reasons, Modem, Debrecen (HU) Der Zeit Ihre Kunst, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (DE) Utopien, Motorenhalle, Dresden (DE) For Anyone but not for Everyone, Demokratie verhandeln, Kunstpavillon der Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck (AT)
2018 Guerilla of Enlightenment, THEY SHOULDN´T BE ABLE TO PRETEND THEY DIDN´T KNOW ANYTHING, Rotor, Graz (AT) HateFree?, Labor, Budapest Motherland, Mocak, Krakkow (PL) Reconciliation, Main Abbey, Pannonhalma (HU) Forsaken Utopias, Knoll Galerie Wien and Galerie Gans, Vienna (AT)
2017 LOOK! New Acquisitions, Albertina, Vienna (AT) Vanishing Points 2.0, Off Biennale 2, Budapest Forsaken Utopias, Budapest Gallery, Budapest Forsaken Utopias, Umelia Galerie, Bratislava (SL) HateFree?, Muzeum Romské Kultury, Brno (CZE) Sketch, Liget Gallery, Budapest Transcending the Past, Shaping the Future, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin (DE) Universal Hospitality 2, Futura, Praga (CZE) Cinemaport, Teleport Gallery, Trafó, Budapest
2016 The Space Between Us, pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow (RU) (Un)geduldiges Papier, Motorenhalle, Dresden (DE) Curated by: Edit Sasvári: Homage - Ideal or Pattern?, Knoll Gallery Wien (AT) Universal Hospitality - Into the City, Alte Post, Vienna (AT) Bank of No, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus (CYP)
2015 Suppressed History and Contaminated Places, rotor, Graz (AT) Imagined Communities, Personal Imaginations - Private Nacionalism Project - Kiscelli Museum/Budapest Gallery, Budapest +45+55+95, Österreichisches Kultur Forum, Budapest 58. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar und Animationsfilm, Leipzig (DE) Hotel Metropole, Der Erinnerung eine Zukunft geben, City Centrale different venues, Vienna (AT)
2014 This can‘t Possiby Be True, Emil Filla Gallery-Armaturka, Usti nad Labem (CZ) Unicorn is More Than Nation - The Age of Nation, Knoll Gallery Budapest Unicorn is More Than Nation - The Age of Nation, Knoll Gallery Wien (AT) Private Nationalism Project, m21 galéria, Pécs (HU) Not too Distant Present, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2013 Leopold Bloom Art Award Exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest Border-Transgression in the Museum, Backstage Gallery, Akvárium Klub, Budapest Imaginäres Recht, Studio Gallery, Budapest ###HG60 - aesthetic disobedience ###, Müszi, Budapest Überholte Geschichte, Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest Conceptualism Today - Conceptual Art in Hungary from the Beginning of the 90’s, Paksi Képtár, Paks (HU)
2011 Mimetical Structures, Miskolci Gallery, Miskolc History in Art, MOCAK, Krakkow (PL) Loophole to Happiness, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Praga (CZ) Stücke des Widerstands, Piéces de résistance, Motorenhalle, Dresden (DE) Emotional Space, Knoll Gallery Budapest Loophole to Happines, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (PL)
2010 Loophole to Happiness, Trafó Gallery, Budapest Panorama, Knoll Gallery Budapest Donumenta, Regensburg (DE) Joy and Diasaster, Notes on the Economy , Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT) Over the Counter - The Phenomena of the Post-socialist Economy in the Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle, Budapest Unmistakable Sentences - The Collection Revisited, Ludwig Museum, Budapest Ich kenne drei Farben auf Erden, NKV, Wiesbaden (DE) Let's Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, (EE)
2009 1989 - Jahre des Wunder - Österreich und die Ende des Kalt Krieg, Österreichische Kultural Forum, New York Interval: the Gallery, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest Ausgewählt 10 Jahre, Rotor, Graz (AT) Kleine Ungarische Pornograpie, Modem, Debrecen (HU)
2007 Revolution, I Love You - 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy, International Project Space, Birmingham (ENG) Revolution, I Love You - 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy, Trafó, Budapest Revolution, I Love You - 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy, CACT-Contemporanea (CH)
Selected Bibliography GUERILLA OF ENLIGHTHMENT / GUERILLA DER AUFKLÄRUNG, Herausgegeb.: Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Wien, 2020
Erzsébet Pilinger: The Privat Collection as a Possible Place of Historical Experience as a Multificated Form of Communication, in: Memory and Longing - Contemporary Hungarian and Romanian Art from Gábor Hunya's Collection, ed.: Gábor Hunya - Krisztina Hunya, ISBN books+gallery, Budapest, 2019, p. 39-60.
Susanne Altmann: Linien untreu - Gespenst mit Adler, in: Art - Das Kunstmagazin, September 2018, S.42-43.
Maja & Reuben Fowkes: Csaba Nemes: On Frozen Assets and Friendship, in: Csaba Nemes: When Politics Enters Daily Life, exh. cat., MOCAK, Krakow, 2015-2016
Agnieszka Sachar: The roma in the Art of Csaba Nemes, in: Csaba Nemes: When Politics Enters Daily Life, exh. cat., MOCAK, Krakow, 2015-2016
William Corwin: Around Town, Frieze 171. - 2015. May
Anna Miller: Csaba Nemes, Gdy polityka wchodzi w codzienność, in: Magazyn SZUM, 2016, 12.
Csaba Nemes interviewed by Tamara Moyzes, Artyčok.TV
Linnea West: Studio Visit with Csaba Nemes
Edit Sasvári: Outspoken and Vital - The most recent works of Csaba Nemes, in: Állj ide!-Stand here!, exh. cat., Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest, p. 11-18.
Emese Kürti: The Last House,in: Állj ide!-Stand here!, exh. cat. Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest, p. 27-34.
Katja Melzer: Jeder Tag eine Revolution (Every Day is a Revolution)
Csizmadia Alexa: Leo Fitzmauri - Nemes Csaba, Szellemkép 2009/1, 2-4.o.
Maja and Reuben Fowkes: Reviews - Softies, Time Out - Budapest, April 2009, p.68.
Maja and Reuben Fowkes: In the studio: Csaba Nemes, Time Out Budapest, March 2009, p.67.
Matt Price: Revolution I Love You, Art Monthly 2.09/323, p. 27-28.
Kevin Shopland: Remaking history, Budapest Sun, 24.10.2007
Balázs Beothy: In the end, I decided on animation“ - Interview with Csaba Nemes, 22. March 2007.
Ines Gebetsroither: “Patterns of memory” EIKON 2004/46
Augustín Pérez Rubio: Cruising Danubio, Catalogue, 2004
Maja and Reuben Fowkes: Unframed landscapes, Catalogue, 2004
Anders Kreuger: "6th Istanbul Biennial", Artelier, 1999
János Szoboszlai: Die zweite Öffentlichkeit - Kunst in Ungarn im 20. Jahrhundert, 1999
Susan Snodgrass: “Csaba Nemes”, Istanbul Biennal Catalogue, 1999
Beatrix Ruf, ”Agnes Szepfalvi und Zsolt Veress”, ART AT RINGIER 1995/1998 Catalogue
Susan Snodgrass: “Report from Budapest /In a Free State”, Art in America, 1998/10
János Szoboszlai: Continues Past, ICA-D Catalogue, 1997
Tibor Várnagy: ”Punkt, Loch, Platz, Raum” Chimera Catalogue 1997
Suzanne Mészöly: “Zsolt Veress”, 23. Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo Catalogue, 1996
András Zwickl: ”Okkupation des Sehens - Csaba Nemes und der öffentliche Raum” Neue Bildende Kunst 1995/6
László Beke: ”Kunst, Europa”, Kunstverein Bremen, Catalogue, 1991 |