LŐRINC BORSOS
BIO
Lőrinc Borsos (2008-) is the inbetween personality of Lilla Lőrinc (1980-, Mór) and János Borsos (1979-, Székesfehérvár). They work and live in Budapest, Hungary.
Education
2016- DLA / Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (Borsos)
2011- DLA / Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (Lőrinc)
2006 MA Degree: Painting Faculty / Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (Lőrinc)
2004 MA Degree: Graphic Designer Faculty / Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (Borsos)
Scholarships, Awards
2015-2017 Derkovits Scholarship (Lőrinc)
2012-2015 Derkovits Scholarship (Borsos)
2012 Smohay Award
2011 Kornél Lánczos-Gyula Szekfű Scholarship
2009 Esterházy Painting Prize
2008 Strabag Painting Prize / First Prize (Lőrinc)
Artist In Residency Programs
2018 ACAX - Leopld Bloom Award, New York / 3 months (USA)
2018 The Brno Artists in Residence, The House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno / 1 month (CZ)
2016 Visegrád Fund, Banska Stiavnica / 3 months (SK)
2016 MQ Air, Vienna / 1 month (A)
2012 Budapest Gallery Creative Sponsorship to Lisbon / 1 month (P)
Workshop / Lecture / Artist Talk
2018 Talk with Dr. Kata Krasznahorkai, Kunstverein Kunsthaus, Potsdam (D)
2018 RU Talk: Remijon Pronja & Lőrinc Borsos with Shimrit Lee, Residency Unlimited, New York
2018 Together Forever, Trafo, Budapest
2016 Genius Loci / F.A.K.K. (2k16.5) / István Széchenyi University, Győr
exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2022
FEAR NOT THE HEAT AHEAD, IT’S THE FIRE THAT FOLLOWS, Eigen+Art Plus, Berlin
2020
Divide et impera (curated by Péter Bencze), VUNU Gallery, Kosice (SK)
2019
Kill Your Idols, Glassyard Gallery Budapest
The 3rd Half, Galerie TIC, Brno (CZ)
2018
And after the fire a gentle whisper came: SHOW ME YOUR FETISH! (Another Name), Another Gallery, New York (USA)
2016
Botanics and Politics (with Kitti Gosztola), Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
Nonentity, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros (HU)
Paradise Lost, Aranybulla Library, Székesfehérvár
Watch Paint Dry, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (D)
Cute Little Aquarelles, Deák Képtár, Székesfehérvár (HU)
Primavera, Ena Viewing Space, Budapest
Self-Critical Portrait, Latarka Gallery, Karton Gallery, 115-106 Gallery, Budapest
2014
Language of Flowers, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm (D)
2013
Send off, Viltin Gallery, Budapest
Babel, India Art Fair, New Delhi (IN)
2012
Exhibition for our Parents, Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár (HU)
2011
The way of our money, Szabadművelödés Háza, Székesfehérvár
2010
Switch, Hungarian Institute, Tallinn (EST)
Immovable Land, Viltin Gallery, Budapest
Let There Be a World Famous Hungarian Contemporary Artist!, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros (HU)
2009
Conspiracy - Midnight Transfer, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros (HU)
My Student Loan Debt in Hungarian Forints, Octogonart Gallery, Budapest
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Youhu, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest
What it is, Yet a Dream-map, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana (SI)
EREKLYE, HAYDNKOPF, Tihanyi apátság/Tihany abbey, Tihany (HU)
Megújulás, Pannonhalmi Főapátság/Pannonhalma Archabbey, Pannonhalma (HU)
Irányjelek – új lehetőség a műtárgy-szerzeményezésben, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
OUR HERITAGE - Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest
2021
Global crises, local relationships, Easttopics, Budapest
Images from the Realm of Uncertain Identities, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest
TECHNO WORLDS, AQB Project Space, Budapest
DOOM, Horizont Gallery, Budapest
2020
Antroporary (curated by Michal Stolárik), Ján Koniarek Gallery (SK)
The Effects Of Crossings & Self-Aggrandization In The Human Kingdom (curated by Scrum; Séamus Kealy & Tilo Schulz), MAM Vienna, (A)
Dafke Fortissimo with TH Anatol, Mate Janky, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss, Solo Show [online]
’MMM’, AQB underground tunnel system, Budapest
2019
The Great Globe, AQB Project Space, Budapest
NOTEVERYTHING, 26th International Festival of Contemporary Art 4+4 DAYS, Desfours Palace, Prague (CZ)
2018
Tricolor, MARe – The Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (RO)
Not Dark Yet , Kunsthaus Murzzuschlag, Graz (A)
If you are manipulated, manipulate back!, Kunstverein Kunsthaus, Potsdam (D)
Galeria Electro Putere, Bucharest (RO)
Excavating Darkness, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
Alternative Facts, Calwer Passage, Stuttgart (D)
Jörmungandr Hybraxxx, Wonder/Liebert, Paris (FR)
Dome, Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Berlin (D)
The Rest / In Peace, 115-106 Gallery, Budapest
Angry Planet 2. Operation Continues, The House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno, (CZ)
2017
Found Geometry, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
Economize! On the Relationship of Art and Economy, Ludwing Museum, Budapest
Leopold Bloom Award, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
In Situ, Art Encounters Biennal, Timisuara, (RO)
Autism as Metaphor, ICA-D, Dunaújváros (HU) / Új Magyar Képtár, Székesfehérvár (HU)
Real Hungary, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna (A)
’Karcolat’, Liget Gallery, Budapest
Universal Hospitality 2, Futura, Prague (CZ)
2016
Borders of Gesture, HGB Galerie, Leipzig (D)
On the Edge, Tabačka Gallery, Košice (SK)
Europhonia, Public intervention, London (GB)
Dark Chapters, < rotor > - Association for Contemporary Art, Graz (A)
Universal Hospitality, Alte Post, Vienna, (A)
Enjoy Your Struggles, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Malerei im Freien Raum, Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt (A)
Lost Visions, Apartment Project, Berlin (D)
Fake is the New Real, ENA - Fake Museum, Budapest
Vanishing Points, enyeszpontok.tumblr.com
2015
Private Nationalism , Kiscelli Museum, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Mindsets, Studio Gallery, Budapest
+45+55+95, Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest
Post Contemporary, Chimera project, Budapest
Handle with Care, Ostrale'15, Dresden (D)
Insecurity State, Larm Techno Club / Off Biennale Budapest (The Corporation)
Red Tail, Blue Pencil, OFF-Biennále Budapest
Blind Spots, Supermarket Gallery / Off Biennale Budapest
Accumulation of Matter, Lehrter Siebzehn, Berlin (D)
2014
Tightrope Walk, Chimera Project, Budapest
Protekt, FKSE - Studio Gallery, Budapest
Why don't you go play with your brother?, Trafo Galerie, Prague (CZ)
Our Holocaust, FKSE - Studio Gallery, Budapest
Private Nationalism, Kunsthalle, Kosice (SL) / Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, Pécs (HU) / Ostrale, Dresden (DE)
The Emperor's New Apparel, Karlin Studios, Prague (CZ)
2013
Dammbruch, Ve.Sch, Vienna (A)
Out of the Museum and into the Streets, Pavelhaus, Laafeld (A)
The Emperor's New Apparel, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
Amrita Sher-Gil Memorial Exhibition , Villa Vaszary, Balatonfüred (HU)
Conceptualism Today, Gallery of Paks, Paks (HU)
2012
The Event / The 29th Biennal of Graphic Arts, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana (SLO) (Borsos)
What is Hungarian?, Kunsthalle, Budapest
ISOLAT!ON, Meetropa, Senatsreservenspeicher, Berlin (D)
Hungarica, Knoll Galerie, Wienna (A)
State of Affairs, ATM Project, Bratislava (SK)
2011
Speaks for Itself, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
JCE - International Art Biennal, Mountrouge (FR)
My God / Modem, Debrecen (HU)
2010
Donumenta, "Leerer Beutel" Gallery, Regensburg (D)
Canvases, Viltin Gallery, Budapest
Central Europe Revisited III., Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt (A)
Exhibition of the Esterházy Prize Winner Artists, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna (A)
2008
Premio Profilo d'Arte travelling exhibition, Milan, Brescia, Ferrara, Rome, (I)
Mechanics of the Canvas, Ernst Museum, Budapest
publications
Interview with Lőrinc Borsos artist duo. EASTTOPICS. 2021. 01. 28.
Lőrinc Borsos at VUNU Gallery. Art Viewer. 2021. február 11.
Nagy Gergely: “Nem tartottuk vissza magunkat a változástól”. – Borsos Lőrinc. artportal. 2019. 07. 30.
Michalina Sablik: 10 Artists from Hungary to follow. Contemporary Lynx. 2021. 01. 21.
Petró Zsuzska: Fear not the Head ahead, it’s the fire that follows — A Borsos Lőrinc művészpáros kiállítása Berlinben. Artportal. 2022. 07. 13.
Tóth Ádám: Ki kell erőszakolnunk, hogy sikítson az a műanyag. PRAE.HU. 2021. 11. 15.
Video
Borsos Lőrinc - Leopold Bloom Art Award 2017. YouTube. 2017. szeptember 5.
Nyitott Műterem #12 - Borsos Lőrinc. Trafó. 2021. február 25.