ÁRON KÚTVÖLGYI-SZABÓ

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Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó’s practice can be considered as a continuous long term-project started around 2012, constantly shifting its form and focus. But basically, his interest is revolving around two main topics: the notion of knowledge and the relationship between imagery and spatiality. In his conceptual framework, these are deeply intertwined and can be grasped through a sort of critical perspectivism, which is partly a spatial sensitivity and awareness, and partly a critical approach towards the defective and arbitrary nature of image-based sources. During the years he examined these from several points of view both in theory and practice. Currently, this inquiry culminates in his doctoral research on the phenomena of post-truth, alternative facts, and conspiracy theories.

BIO

Born in 1985, Budapest.
Lives and works in Budapest.

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Education

2018 –  DLA (Doctor of Liberal Arts) Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doctoral School
2008 – 2013 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture (MFA) University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, Hungary
2007 Sculpture, Fine art, Engelsholm Højskole, Denmark 
2004 – 2008 Art history, Philosophy, PPKE, Faculty of Humanities, Hungary


Residencies

2021 Artist-in-Residence program at Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Vienna, AT [upcoming]

2018 Artist-in-Residence program at The Brno House of Arts, CZ

2017 Artist-in-Residence program at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, D

2016 Artist-in-Residence program at PROGR, Bern, CH (by residency.ch)

2015 Artist-in-Residence program at Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, D
(by Budapest Gallery)

Awards

 2021 Klára Herczeg Prize (with György Jovánovics)
Esterházy Art Award Short List

 2019 Nomination for Esterházy Art Award
  Nomination for Leopold Bloom Art Award

 2018 Visegrad Research Scholarship at the Open Society Archives

2017 Nomination for Esterházy Art Award
  Derkovits Gyula Scholarship

2016 Derkovits Gyula Scholarship

2015 Derkovits Gyula Scholarship

2013 6th National Student Conference of Art: 1st prize and special award (in sculpture)

2012 Fundamenta - Amadeus art scholarship: 1st prize (in sculpture)

2011 Grant of the Hungarian Republic

2007 Cirius scholarship (DK)

exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2021
Klára Herczeg Prize (with György Jovánovics), Labor Gallery, Budapest

2020
Deep Down in the Rabbit Hole, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest

2019
Flatiness (with Ines Karčáková), PINCE, Budapest

2018
The other side of the fourth wall, Gallery Panel, Prague, CZ
Patterns of Counterknowledge, G99 Gallery, Brno, CZ
[B/R]elief, Parthenon Frieze Hall, Budapest

2017
Gettier's cave, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest
Clustering Illusions, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, D
Distortions, Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest

2016
Ignorances, Labor Gallery, Budapest
In Between Grids, Plusmínusnula Gallery, Žilina, SK


Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
Youhu, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest
OUR HERITAGE — Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest
OSAS exhibition: delineo ergo cogito, Vasarely Museum, Budapest

2021
Esterházy Art Award Short List 2021, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
#ifeelseen, MODEM, Debrecen, HU
OSTRALE Biennale O21 ’Breathurn’, 13. International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Dresden, D
Private and Public Spaces: A Photo-based Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, FUGA (Budapest Center of Architecture), Budapest

2020
Wittgenstein, aqb Project Space, Budapest

2019
Seasonal Effect, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest
Esterházy Art Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Leopold Bloom Art Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
The Allegory of the Cave, Société, Budapest
Anatomy of Photography, Rómer Flóris Museum, Győr, HU

2018
Optimistic Exhibition, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
Distracting Modernity, Šopa Gallery, Košice, SK
Time of our lives?, MODEM, Debrecen, HU
Studio '18 – Salon, Barcsay Hall, Budapest
Wave, net, sand, acb Gallery, Budapest
Found exhibition, Artpool P60, Budapest
Book-object, ISBN books+gallery, Budapest

2017
Esterházy Art Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Deep End, m21 Gallery, Pécs, HU
Viennacontemporary, Chimera-Project Gallery booth, Wien, A
Irreconcilables, Budapest Project Gallery / Weekend House, GWB, Budapest
Pseudo display, Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest
Inner Garden, Dorottya udvar, Budapest
Autism as metaphor, Institute of Contemporary Art in Dunaújváros (ICA-D), HU 
Unseen, Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest
Derkó 2017, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Sculptors 56 no 2, 2B Gallery, Budapest

2016
Interference, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Initial capital, m21 Gallery, Pécs, HU
On the edge, Tabačka Gallery, Košice, SK
What Kind of Creature is an Artist?, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Ongoing h/Histories, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Derkó 2016, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Standing in front of objects, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest
Living tissue over metal endoskeleton, Dover Club, Budapest

2015
Radical Memories, Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest
Mindsets, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Art Market Budapest, Chimera-Project Gallery booth, Budapest
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Chimera-Project Gallery booth, Berlin, D 
Light Year 5: Chimera Presents…, Manhattan Bridge, New York, US
ARTplacc, Chimera-Project Gallery booth, Galleryplacc, Tihany, HU
Recollection, OFF-Biennále Budapest, private apartment, Budapest
Bibliography, Gallery by Night, Studio Gallery, Budapest

2014
The Most – The FKSE's Traditional Annual Exhibition, Prezi office, Budapest
Free Fall, Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest
The Future is Today!, Institute of Contemporary Art in Dunaújváros (ICA-D), HU 
Enter/ing – New members exhibition of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Studio Gallery, Budapest

2013
ARTplacc, Galleryplacc, Tihany, HU
5,17 rooms – Diploma exhibition, Pécs Gallery, m21 exhibition hall, HU
Towards anywhere – The Class of Péter Lengyel, Pécs Gallery, Széchenyi square, HU
6th National Student Conference of Art, Synagogue Gallery, Eger, HU

2012
Selection of the Sculptural Collection, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, House of Art and Literature, Pécs, HU
Fundamenta – Amadeus Art Scholarship, Nádor Gallery, Pécs, HU
Before Graduation – Selection of the Sculpture department, House of Art and Literature, Pécs, HU
Initial steps – Selection of the Sculpture department's studies, House of Art and Literature, Pécs, HU

publications

Mihály Demeczky