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Dénes Farkas (1974) was born in Budapest, lives and works in Tallinn. He graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2003 and received the Annual Prize of The Cultural Endowment of Estonia in 2010 and in 2014, and was nominated to the Köler Prize in 2011. Dénes Farkas is a founding member of the Union of Photographic Artists of Estonia, which was established in 2009. His works have been exhibited at prestigious art events and museums such as the 55th Venice Biennale curated by Adam Budak, KUMU or Tartu Art Museum, Tallinn or the Ludwig Museum, Budapest. The artist has participated in major international art fairs such as the ARCOmadrid, with a solo show in The Armory Show, Art Brussels, Viennafair and Artissima. Dénes Farkas is most recognizable for his minimalist, yet sensitive and poetic works, mostly questioning geometry, function and dysfunction, doubt and melancholy. He usually creates installations in which he combines text and photography with a strong philosophical background. His installations revolve around the fugitive nature of reality and the relativity of truth. By deconstructing texts Farkas invites the viewer to analyze them and find a deeper meaning. Providing the opportunity to the viewer to fill in the plot, where interpretation becomes an intimate practice.
1974, Budapest
Lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia
Studies
2003
Estonian Academy of Arts, Master of Arts (media arts – photography)
2001
Estonian Academy of Arts, Bachelor of Arts (printmaking)
Awards
2018
The Annual Prize of the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Foundation for Fine and Applied Arts
2014
‘Credo’ has been selected the most beautiful books of the year in Estonia
The Annual Prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2012
Guido Carbone Prize
2010
The Annual Prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Memberships
2006-
The Estonian Artists’ Association
2009-
Uninon of Photography Artists, Estonia (founding member)
2007-2009
Member of the Council, Estonian Academy of Arts
Selected solo shows
2019
About Dreams That Awaken You, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2018
When I Close My Eyes, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
Darkness Visible, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017
“How-to-calm-yourself-after-seeing-a-dead-body Techniques”, Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
“La noche vuelve a ser noche”, Alarco Criado Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2015
‘of places no longer beng separated’, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
A Very Small Apotheosis, Alarcon Criado Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2014
Evident in Advance, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2014
CREDO, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Evident in Advance 55th Venice Art Biennale (la Biennale di Venezia), Estonian Pavilion, Venice, Italy, curator: Adam Budak
2012
In Immobility, Fuga, Budapest, Hungary
A Day That Does Not Exist, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
Kuvista Sanoin – Images to Words, Napa Gallery, Rovaniemi, Finland, curator: Johannes Saar
2011
Footnotes 2 – (with Taavi Talve) Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Joonealused – (with Taavi Talve) Tartu Kunstimaja Monumentaalgalerii, Tartu, Estonia
3 Seas – (with Neeme Külm) Labor, Budapest, Hungary
2010
Lets play, the game is over – Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2009
Light Retrospective – Bank of Estoina, Tallinn, Estonia
How the fuck are you tonight, ehk kuidas sul siis täna läinud on? – City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2007
ideal.total – (with Neeme Külm) City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2006
Green Diagonal – Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Green Diagonal – Fletch-Bizzel Theater, Dortmund, Germany
Shortcut – Endla Theater Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
2005
Self-portrait – Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
14 Portraits – Jazz Café, Pärnu, Estonia
2004
15 Portraits – Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Trans-air – (with Eemil Karila) Viinistu Art Museum Gallery, Viinistu, Estonia
2003
Ritual – (with Eveli Varik) Center of Culture, Valga, Estonia
2002
Jesus and Angel – (with Eemil Karila) Jazz Café, Pärnu, Estonia
Transformers – (with Eemil Karila) Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
2001
Loneliness. Cleanness. Love – (with Eveli Varik and Riina Uisk) The Castle of Kuressaare, Kuressaare, Estonia
Loneliness. Cleanness. Love – (with Eveli Varik and Riina Uisk) Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
1998
Graphics -13,75 – (with Jukka Pylväs and Juha Ahola) Pallasz Páholy, Budapest, Hungary
Group Exhibitions
2022
What will be ours, group exhibition, Kubik Coworking, Budapest, Hungary
“Art in the Comfort Zone? The 2000s in Estonian Art”, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2021
“Returns”, Exhibition Halls Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020
“Returns”, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
2019
XENOS, group exhibition, EKKM (Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn Art Hall Spring Exhibition, Tallinn, Estonia
2018
Border Poetics. Estonian Art 1918-2018, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Related by Sister Languages, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Constructed Archives, Balassi Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
You’ve eaten Roses, now you’ll drink the Moon!, Forum Arte Braga, Braga, Portugalia
2017
Issues of Uncertainty, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Centralna, Środkowo-Wschodnia / Central by East Central – Arsenał Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
The adventure of discovery – Highlights from a Hungarian private collection, Balassi Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016
#Bartók, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Kumu Hits. Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2015
Proyecto para un texto/ Project for a Text, Pepe Espaliú Art Centre, Cordoba, Spain
From Explosion to Expanse. Estonian
Contemporary Art Photography 1991-2015, curator: Annelli Porri, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
The Unexpected Guest, 7. Turku Biennial, Turku, Finland
Meel. Vahtra. Farkas_idealist function, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Estonia
2014
Contemporaries: Collectors and Artists – Hungarian and International Art from Private Collections in Hungary, 2010–2014, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
A Hundred Years of Art Education in Tallinn, KUMU, Estonian Art Museum, curator: Mart Kalm
Hungarian Month of Photography, Fuga, Budapest, Hungary
Feeling Queezy?!, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, Estonia
Literacy/Illiteracy 16. Tallinn Graphics Triennal, Estonia
Arheological Festival – A 2nd hand history and probable obsessions, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
The 16th Tallinn Print Triennial, entitled “Literacy/Illiteracy”, Estonia
2013
Art from Estonia – Dénes Farkas, Soho Fond, Neeme Külm, Jüri Ojaver, Tõnis Saadoja, Jaan Toomik, Artists Union of Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
2012
Intimate Immensity, Musterzimmer, Berlin, Germany, curator: Jon Irigoyen
The Exotic, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia curator: Kirke Kangro
Aesthetics vs Information Vol. 2, Klaipeda, Lithuania, curator: Ignas Kazakevicius
2011
BEYOND, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, curator: Adam Budak
Aesthetics vs Information Vol. 2, Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, Moscow, Russia, curator: Ignas Kazakevicius
Mutantmateeria, (with Neeme Külm) Raja str gallery, Tallinn, curator: Kirke Kangro
neverneverland, Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz, Ausztria, curator: Beate Rathmayr
Silent wishes, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland
Köler Prize 2011 – Exhibition of Nominees, Contemporary Art Museum, Estonia, Tallinn
If it’s part broke, half fix it, (Neeme Külmmel) Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, curator: Margit Säde
2010
Next to nothing, Contemporary Art Museum, Estonia, Tallinn, curator: Anders Härm
2009
Blue-Collar Blues, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia curator: Anders Härm
TDK (with Eemil Karila) – Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
2008
Plaisirs de l’imagination, Castle of Tours, France, curator: Eha Komissarov
I see you looking at me, Eevald Okas Museum, Haapsalu, Estonia, curator: Marge Monko
2007
New Wave”, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia curators: Anders Härm and Hanno Soans
2006
Permission to grow up (with Eemil Karila, Kristi Paap, Kaire Rannik, Ketli Tiitsar, Maria Valdma) – Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2005
Permission to grow up (with Eemil Karila, Kristi Paap, Kaire Rannik, Ketli Tiitsar, Maria Valdma) – Artists House, Szombathely, Hungary
2004
Home, Sweet Home, Rottermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia, curator: Eha Komissarov
Kaunas Photo Days – International Photo Festival” – Kaunas, Lithuania, curator: Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
Intiimsed vaated – Narva Museum, Narva, Estonia, curator: Anneli Porri
Similar Spaces – The Palace of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, curator: Liina Siib
2003
MA – MA, MA – MA – M.A. exhibition – Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
[Living]room – 008 Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2002
VABA VOLI / FREEPLAY – Hansapank Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia curator: Liina Siib
bjectum – Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Autoportree – Endla Theater Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia, curator: Margaret Tali
Drawing 2002 – (with Eemil Karila) Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia,
curator: Loit Jõekalda, Jüri Hain, Tea Tammelaan
2001
Photo show – (with the artists group “NAGI”), Finnish Institute, Tallinn, Estonia
Altar – Museum of Energetics, Tallinn, Estonia, curator: Marko Mäetamm
Mäetamm old rag – Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
B.A. exhibition – Rottermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia
Art Fair participations
2021
Art Market Budapest, Booth of Ani Molnár Gallery
2019
ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain
2018
Art Market Budapest, Booth of Ani Molnár Gallery
2017
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Artissima, Turin, Italy
2016
Artissima, Turin, Italy
2015
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Artissima, Turin, Italy
Viennafair, Vienna, Austria
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain
The Armory Show, New York, NY
2013
Art Market Budapest, Booth of Ani Molnár Gallery
Artissima, Turin, Italy
Curatorial projects
2010
Hungarian Utopia – (with Anders Härm) Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2008
Insanity – Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Works in collections
Art Museum of Estonia, Estonia
Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA
Hungarian National Gallery, Hungary
Leal Rios Foundation, Portugal
Private collections in Europe, Asia, USA, South-America
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