Attila Szûcs
Clean-roomBorn 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)![]()
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, BerlinGroup Shows
1988 ‘Paperworks’, Csepel Paperworks, Budapest
1989 ‘Distance’, Hungarian Fine Arts Academy, Budapest
25th Internationale Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Neue Galerie am![]()
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![]()
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, DormagenAwards, 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
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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, BudapestLiterature
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