Attila Szûcs
Clean-room

Born in Miskolc in 1967.  Studied at the Fine Art and Applied Art High School between 1980-84 and  at the painting department of the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy between 1985-90. 1990-93 pursued post-graduate studies at the mural department of the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy. 1993-97 taught drawing and painting at the Fine Art and Applied Art High School then between 1997-98 taught painting at the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy.

Individual Shows

1987    Gallery 11, Budapest
1989     Bercsényi Club, Budapest
1990     Újlak Cinema, Budapest
1992     Várfok 14 Studio Gallery, Budapest
1994     Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
             Lágymányosi Community House, Budapest
             Studio Gallery, Budapest
1995     Liget Gallery, Budapest
1996     MÛ-Terem Gallery, Budapest
             Liget Gallery, Budapest
            Spiritus Gallery, Budapest
            Galerie in Margarethenhof, Bonn, Germany (with Éva  Köves) Ágy három neoncsõvel és átfestett ajtóval
1997    Óbuda Társaskör Gallery, Budapest
            Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
            Fészek Gallery, Budapest
            Spiritus Gallery, Budapest
            Contemporary Art Institute, Dunaújváros, Hungary
1998    Illárium Gallery, Budapest
            Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
1999   Coutts Bank, Vienna, Austria
            Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
            Zenit Gallery, Budapest
            Paul Sties Gallery, Kronberg, Germany
            ”And allways just images” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest
2000    New pictures, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest
2001    Greengrocer-Fruits,Fészek Gallery,Budapest
2002    ”Clean-rooms”, Municipal Picture Gallery/ Museum Kiscell, Budapest
            ”Clean-rooms”, Hungarian Embassy, Berlin

Group Shows

1988  ‘Paperworks’, Csepel Paperworks, Budapest
1989  ‘Distance’, Hungarian Fine Arts Academy, Budapest
            25th Internationale Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Neue Galerie am         Ágy lámpasorral
            Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
             Inspiration Sommeratelier: junge Kunst in Europa, Hannover, Germany
             People to People Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
1990     Újlak Group, Újlak Cinema, Budapest
1991     Resource Kunst, Palace of Art, Budapest
             Oscillation I-II, Siesta Basta, Komarno, Slovakia. Palace of Art, Budapest
             Studio 91, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1992     Revisions: Contemporary Hungarian Art, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Museum of
             Contemporary Art Brisbane, Australia
             Exchange Project, Barak, Bern Switzerland.
1993     Vier, Kunstverein, Horn, Austria; Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár
             Zweite Zeitgenössisiche Ungarische Epigonen Ausstellung. KX Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany:
             Liget Gallery, Budapest
            ‘Model II’, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
1994    ‘More than Ten’, Ludwig Museum, Budapest Fehér szoba, 2001
            V=A x W,Csók István Gallery,Székesfehérvár
1995    ‘Arhythm III’, Uitz Room, Dunaújváros, Hungary
1996    ‘The Butterfly Effect’, Palace of Arts, Budapest
            ‘Least’, Ernst Museum, Budapest
            ‘Landscape after Landscape’, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
            ‘Works and Behaviour 1990-96’, Csók István Picture Gallery,Székesfehérvár, Hungary
1997    ‘Constans (the documentation)’, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
            The Hungarian Asphalt Award Winners Show, Ludwig Museum/Contemporary Arts Museum, Budapest
            ‘Oil on canvas’, Palace of Arts, Budapest
1998    ‘Anthology’, Ludwig Museum/Contemporary Arts Museum, Budapest.
            ‘The dawns are quiet’, Contemporary Arts Institute, Dunaújváros, Hungary
            ‘There is a Woman’, Deák Gallery, Budapest
             "Air", Roman Hungarian Academy, Rome, Italy
1999     ‘Farewell to the XX century’, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
             ‘Remix’, Pécsi Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
             ‘Gallery by Night’, Studio Gallery, Budapest
             ‘Young and Serious’ - Recycled image, Ernst Museum, Budapest
             ‘Irregular memory’, Frankfurt, Germany
2000      Junge Kunst Ungarn,Europaische Begegnungen,München, Dresdner Bank
             Conversation,Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest
2001    Mimi doesn t forget,Trafó, House of contemporary art, Budapest
            Touches by Visual Art of Visegrád Four, Vytvarné Centrum Chagall, Ostrava
            Klima,Kunsthalle,Budapest
            Touch, The allegories of painting,Ateliers Pro Arts,Budapest
            Krém, MEO Kortárs Mûvészeti Gyûjtemény, Budapest
            Ungarische Kunst heute, Kulturabteilung Bayer AG, leverkusen
2002    Ungarische Kunst heute, Kulturabteilung Bayer AG, Dormagen

Awards, scholarships

1993-96  Derkovits scholarship
1994   Barcsay Award
1996  Smohay Award
1997   Hungarian Asphalt Ltd Award
1998   Roman Hungarian Academy scholarship
1998   Institute für den Dunauraum und Mitteleuropa, Central European Culture Initiative scholarship
            (The MAK-Schindler Stipend programme in the  Mackey Apartment House, Los Angeles, USA)
 

Works in Public Collections

Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria  Vörös függöny, 2001
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Contemporary Arts Museum/Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Public Foundation for Modern Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Hypo Bank,Budapest
Raiffeisen Bank,Budapest
MEO, Modern Contemporarian Art Collection, Budapest

Literature

S. Mészöly: The Current Hungarian Context (Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide - SCCA, Budapest, 1992)
A. Zwickl: Details from a January 24th Conversation (cat. Vier, Kunstverein, Horn - Szent István Király Museum Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 1993)
J. Szoboszlai: Attila Szûcs (cat Attila Szûcs, 1994)
J. SzoboszlaiJ: Picture show. Attila Szûcs show in the Bartók 32 Gallery, Balkon, 1994/4, p. 25.
J. Szoboszlai: Notes, SCCA Bulletin, Budapest, 1994, p. 132.
S. Mézsöly: More than Ten (Cat, SCCA, Budapest, 1994)
A. Zwickl: Infinitely Speeding, Új Mûvészet (New Art), 1994/11, p 69)
D. Kingsley: Attila Szûcs, Artforum, 1995/p.12
J. Szoboszlai: Attila Szûcs’ latest paintings (Cat. Szent István Király Museum Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 1997)
I. Sinkó: Interior Lights: Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature), 1998 February 20th.
L. Százados: Intentional Mistakes/Flaw dramaturgy, conversation with Attila Szûcs, Balkon, 1998/3. pp10-14
K. Dékei: Untitled. On the paintings of Attila Szûcs, Új Mûvészet (New Art), 1998/6, pp.4-6
I. Sturcz: Postsoc and vanitas, regarding Attila Szûcs’ show, Új Mûvészet (New Art) 1998/6. pp.7-8
S. Snodgrass: Report from Budapest, Art in America 1998/10
K. Hudra: Semblance deceives -true or false-?Catalogue text:Szûcs Attila 1990-1999
Á. Berecz: Contemporary  Hungarian Painters.Shashoua Press,London 2001


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