Balázs Csizik earned his Master’s degree in Visual Communication at the University of Technology and Economics (BME-GTK), where he currently teaches Visual Communication and Communication Technology as a member of the departmental academic committee. He is also a lecturer at Milton Friedman University, teaching courses in Identity, Image, and Design Studies. He is a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographic Artists, the Studio of Young Photographers, and the Society of Artists of Székesfehérvár.
In 2026, he received the Gyula Derkovits fellowship, under which he is conducting research on transgenerational identity and spaces of memory as part of his current research topic. The series is rooted in two defining points of departure: the folk woodcarving heritage left behind by his grandfather and the dual industrial and historical character of Székesfehérvár. The project aims to create a mediatized mapping of inherited cultural material: what remains of a craft or tradition once its creator disappears, and how the next generation may continue it through a different visual language. Beyond this, he is concerned with the transformation of social and built environment and their systems of relations, the culture of post-socialist transition, and the broader social dimensions of transgenerational questions.
He is a founding member of the “top_OS csop_Ort” urban research art collective, whose aim is the complex, large-scale, and long-term investigation of the concept of place and space (topos in Greek) through various forms of manifestation. In this context, the collective also interprets itself as a social and community-forming space — a virtual and occasionally physical meeting point, as well as an ongoing discourse surrounding the theoretical and artistic-practical questions connected to its themes.
Together with neuroscientist Dániel Barabási, he has researched and presented the concept Biophilia in Budapest, Boston, New York, Brussels, Stuttgart, and London. The project explored parallels between biological and urban growth.
