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Emese Benczúr (HUN, 1969) graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1996. She was awarded with the Derkovits Scholarship in 2003 and the Munkácsy Prize in 2006, the most significant prize in Hungary for visual artists. She regularly exhibits at solo and group exhibitions, art events in Hungary as well as abroad for example at the BOZAR in Brussels. Her works have been shown at prestigious international events such as the Manifesta, the Venice Biennale or the Liverpool Biennial. Major collections include her works such as MUSAC or the Ludwig Collection. In her works she often uses text, mostly short slogans. The text, the used material and her working method are interrelated, which contributes to the complexity of her works. In 2015, she was invited by the curator for a group exhibition entitled “Siliconvalse – Hungarian Reality”, which provided an overview of Hungarian art in the last 20 years and was held in Brno, Czech Republic. Between 2017 and 2019 she participated in several group exhibitions at Ludwig Museum and MODEM in Debrecen. In 2018 her individual exhibition “Let It Be” opened at MODEM.
1969. Budapest
Studies
2014
DLA, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
1990-1996
Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Awards, grants
2009
AVIVA – Audience Award
2006
Munkácsy Award
2005
Prix Evelyne Encelot
2004
Smohay Award
2003
Derkovits grant
2002
Herceg Klára Award
1999
Artslink/APEX art studio program
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
THE CALL OF DUTY, am projects, Budapest
2022
SHINE, House of Music Hungary, Budapest
Home Sweet Home (with Kiss Tibi), Virág Benedek House, Budapest
2019
LET IT SHINE, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
BRIGHT FUTURE, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
2018
Brighten Up, ENA Viewing Space, Budapest, Hungary
Let It Be, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
flash, Labor Bp Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016
Let It Shine – together with Marge Monko, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
2013
IN ARBEIT, Magazin4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2011
Don’t just look, see, Platán Gallery, Polish Institute, Budapest
2010
Don’t isolate Yourself, Park Gallery, Budapest
2005
Visible-invisible, Csók István Gallery, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
2004
The Golden Mean, Museum het Domein, Sittard, Hollandia
Be +, Galamb Gallery, Budapest
2003
Good-for-Nothing, Knoll Gallery, Budapest
2001
I rest on my laurels, Knoll Gallery, Wien, Austria
Feel the differences, with Sophie Bernhard, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
1999
It’s good, if you don’t see that you are working, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
My works from a new point of view, where everything is…, Bartók ‘32 Gallery, Budapest
1998
We should sometimes think about what we could do, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Should I live to be a hundred– Day by day I think about the future, ICA-D, Dunaújváros, Hungary
Patterns needed for life, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1996
Classification of a month – Similarity is relative, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Group exhibitions
2022
BENCZÚR Emese, Tina GVEROVIć, Radenko MILAK & Roman URANJEK: Either Crossroads, Interrelations, Or Interference, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
Black and Red, Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest
2020
Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
This Is Not Censorship, FERi, Budapest
Üveg-tér-kép, MANK Gallery, Szentendre
2019
Textus Ex Machina, aqb Project Space, Budapest
Alternativy destrukce, Trienále Postor Zlin, Czech Republic
Mania. Quiet Strategies, MODEM, Debrecen
H6T KUNS T, Miskolci Gallery, Miskolc
2018
Everyday Exotic, Société Budapest, Budapest
Common Affairs, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
A sötétség nem tart örökké – Legyen világosság, AQB, Budapest
2017
WESTKUNST – OSTKUNST, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
Összeférhetetlenek, Budapest Projekt Gallery, Budapest
Puritanus – tiszta művészet, Hegyvidék Gallery, Budapest
Luther500, Ladócsy Műterem Gallery, Kartal
tog_ether, Kunstpavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten, München, Germany
PERTU N° 12, Ernest Zmeták Art Gallery, Ékesújvár, Slovakia
Luther 500, Ladocsy Műterem Gallery, Kartal
Belső Kert, Dorottya Udvar, Budapest
Másodlat, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Az autizmus mint metafora, ICA-D, Dunaújváros
A felfedezés kalandja – Válogatás egy magyar magángyűjteményből, Balassi Intézet, Ljubljana, Szlovénia
Text Tour, aqb Project Space, Budapest
2016
Reproduced Paradise, Váncza Villa, Budapest
Maniac, 2B Gallery, Budapest
2015
How To Do Art With Words MUSAC, MUSAC, León, Spain
Rendezetlen nőügyek, ICA-D, Dunaújváros, Hungary
Imago Mundi. Overture Hungary, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio Island, Velence
Ornamens-értelmezések a jelenkori képzőművészetben 1990-2015, curator: Keserü Katalin, Várfok Gallery, Budapest
Siliconvalse, Hungarian Reality, House of the Lords of Kunstát, Brno, Czech Republic
Prayers after Auschwitz, Pécsi Evangélikus Egyházközség kápolnája, Pécs
2014
Contemporay collectors and artists, Új Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Ludwig 25, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Hollow Land – Keep Out!, Kro Art Contemporary, Wien
Urban Perspectives – Dark City, Schafhof – Europaisches Künsterhaus Oberbayern, Freising, Germany
„Hol van a te testvéred?” – Imre Ámos and the 20th century – Warsaw, Jewish Historical Institute
2013
Imre Ámos and the 20th Century, Hungarian Contemporary Gallery, Dunaszerdahely
Imre Ámos and the 20th Century, Fő tér Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Outer space, Budapest
Conceptualism today, Paksi Képtár, Paks
Ámos Imre és a XX. század, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Ámos Imre és a XX. század, Rumbach Sebestyén Synagogue
2012
REAKT, Espaço Público, Fábrica ASA, Guimares, Cultural Capital of Europe 2012,, Portugal
What is Hungarian? Contemporary answers, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Untouchable Matters, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
Our profession is life – Reformation and woman, Lutheran Museum, Budapest
The Benczúr Architect Studio and The Benczúrs, Ecumenical Centre Lágymányos, Budapest
“Et-Lettera”, Déri Museum, Debrecen
Writing Pictures, Drawing Words, Déri Museum, Debrecen
Ámos Imre és a XX. század, Régi Művésztelep Gallery, Szentendre
2011
Joy and disaster, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakkow, Poland
Joy and disaster, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium
The New Arrivals, Centre for Fine Arts, Bozar, Brussel, Belgium
2010
Touched, Liverpooli Biennále / Liverpool Biennial
Biciklus, Csepel Galéria, Budapest
Points of Departure, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Like the threads is balking the button, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Mi vida, Kunsthaller, Budapest
Reflexes of Holocaust, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest
KAAP Biennale, Utrecht, Holland
Eccentric paths II, Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
Intertext, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
Gender Check, MUMOK, Wien, Austria
2008
Kunst im garten, Tulln, Austria
Renaissance of Landscape, Volksbank Gallery, Budapest
2007
Are you experienced?, Fuori Uso, WAX, Budapest Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest
Eccentric paths, Museo Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Flat Land Set on Edge, NBK, Berlin
Prix Évelyne Encelot, Dijon, Hotel Bouchu dit d‘Esterno
7 künstler aus Ungarn, München, Rathausgalerie der Landeshaupstadt München
Generally believed, Berlin, Mongolischen Botschaft in Berlin
Narration, Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár
Are you experienced?, Fuori Uso, Pescara, Italy
2005
Necc (NE(a)T), Kogart, Budapest
Weird Walls, Cultura Nova, Herleen, Holland
Private Matter?, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2004
Soap opera, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Flipside, Artist Space, New York
2003
Spheres of Valency I., City Gallery, Bratislava
Local Calls, Rödasten, Göteborg
Cruising Danubio, Madrid
2002
Material Matters, Norrköppings Konstmuseum, Sweden
Haunted by Detail, De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland
A Mikulás is ember, MEO, Budapest
2001
Garden, Szombathely Picture Gallery, Szombathely
MagyArt, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland
What, how & for whom, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, Austria
Written Pictures, Első Magyar Látványtár, Tapolca-Diszel
Everything can be Different, ICI (Independent Curators International)
Out of Time, Műcsarnok, Budapest
Cream, MEO, Budapest
2000
Moment, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Crosstalk, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Connections I. (with Krisztian Frey), St.art Gallery, Budapest
1999
Remix, Pécsi Galéria, Pécs
Try to see the world through…, La Biennale di Venezia 48., Hungarian Pavilion
Zoersel’99, Zoersel, Belgium
Kunst der 90. Jahre in Ungarn, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Zeit-spiel, IFA-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Aspekte-Positionen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
1998
Sic transit gloria mundi, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
Should I live to be a hundred…,Manifesta 2, Luxembourg
1997
Porno, Liget Gallery, Budapest
La Valigia, Nyugati Railway Station, Budapest
1996
Nachwuchs, Haus Ungarn, Berlin
Femininity-Masculinity, Bartók ‘32 Gallery, Budapest
1995
Goethe Institute, Budapest
1994
French Institute, Budapest
Vajda Lajos Gallery, Szentendre
Works in public collections
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Collection of the Art Gallery of Szombathely
King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehervár, Hungary
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Modern Magyar Képtár, Pécs
ICA-D, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Museum Het Domein Sittard
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
Fairs
2023
Art and Antique
2022
Art Market Budapest
ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain
2021
Art Market Budapest
2018
Art Market Budapest
2017
Art Brussels, Brüsszel, Brussels
2016
viennacontemporary, Vienna
Art Market Budapest
2014
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain
Viennafair, Vienna, Austria
2013
Art Market Budapest
Artissima 20, Torino, Italy
Viennafair, Vienna, Austria
Art13, London, UK
2012
Artissima 19, Torino, Italy
Viennafair, Vienna, Austria
Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2011
Viennafair, Vienna, Austria
Preview Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Art Market Budapest
Molnár Ani Galéria
1088, Budapest
Bródy Sándor u. 36.
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