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Péter Somody (1963) was born in Veszprém, lives and works in Pécs. He was a student at Faculty of Visual Arts at Janus Pannonius University in Pécs, where he also received a teacher’s degree in 1988. He graduated in Fine Art at the University of Pécs, his masters were Ilona Keserü and Gyula Konkoly. He received his PhD in 2002 at the same institute. Many of his works were presented at solo and group exhibitions, both locally and internationallly. He won 3rd prize of national painting competition of Strabag in 2000 and was also awarded with the Munkácsy Award in 2015.
Péter Somody belongs to those artists who aspire to express complex aesthetic contents with few means. In his works he does not aspire to attain an individual message with few but precisely selected colours and various base surfaces, but to create, to unveil or to bring to life any hidden substances from the fundamentals of the materials of canvas, wood and plastic.
1963, Veszprém, Lives and works in Pécs, Hungary
Studies
2014
University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca/Kolozsvár RO, Erasmus Teacher mobility
2010
Professor at PTE Faculty at Arts
2002-
DLA at the University of Pécs
Scholarship at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
1997-1998
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Master: Jügen Reipka
1996-
Professor at PTE Faculty of Arts,Department of Fine Art
Member of Studio of Young Artists’ Association (SYAA) and National Association of Hungarian Artists
1995-1998
DLA studies at the University of Pécs. Master: Ilona Keserü
1991-1995
Fine Art MA, University of Pécs, Faculty of Arts, Master: Gyula Konkoly
1988-1991
Art teacher at Albert Vetési Secondary School, Veszprém, Hungary
1984-1988
Arts Teacher MA, Janus Pannonius University
Grants and Awards
2016
National Cultural Fund of Hungary – Artist Fund
2015
Munkácsy Prize (Hungarian State Scholarship for the Arts)
2013
Veszprém Spring Exhibition Award of Excellence
2009
DAAD Scholarship/ Berlin (D)
2008
National Cultural Fund of Hungary – Artist Fund
2004
TEMPUS scholarship/ Karlsruhe (D)
2003
Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship
2000
3 rd prize of national painting competition announced by Strabag
1997
Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship
1995-98
Scholarship of PTE Faculty of Arts DLA program
1992
City prize of Veszprém
1989
City prize of Balatonalmádi at Veszprém Spring Exhibition
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Body of the Image, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest (together with András Ernszt)
Efölött, azalatt, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
Szem szerint, Art Gallery Paks, Paks, Hungary
2017
Double Focus, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016
‘Tesa and I’ Nick Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2015
Hotel National Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
2013
Contemporary Hungarian Gallery, Dunaszerdahely, Slovakia
‘Get in Touch’, Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2011
‘Door to the River’ Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010
‘3D’ (with Attila Radosza and Imre Tolnay) Győr City Museum, Hungary
2009
Our Distances’ Viziváros Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2008
‘Personal Visage’, Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007
MONO Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Csikász Gallery, Veszprém, Hungary
2005
Hattyúház Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2003
Galerie Voigt, Nürnberg, Germany
2002
Fészek Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2001
Kisgaléria, Pécs, Hungary
2000
Perge Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
1999
Csikász Gallery, Veszprém, Hungary
Viziváros Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (with Birgit Helwich)
1997
Galerie Ipomal, Kerkrade, Netherlands
1996
EUROCENTRES, Köln, Germany
1995
University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary (with András Hajdú)
1994
Kisgaléria, Pécs, Hungary
Galerie Leinemann, Göttingen, Germany
1990
Radnóti Gymnasium, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
1989
Vetési Gymnasium, Veszprém, Hungary
Bilingual Gymnasium, Balatonalmádi, Hungary
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
FUKUI Yusuke: Monochrome field with color dots, Paks Gallery, Paks
2020
Kunst am Strom, Museum Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Artonomy – 2nd National Salon of Fine Arts, Kunsthalle Budapest
2019
Bauhaus 100, Programme For The Now, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2018
Jelenkor 60, Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Magam szemével, Exhibition of Balázs Sluka’s Collection, Nick Art Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Age, Nádor Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Dinamikus törekvések – Exhibition of art professors from PTE Art Faculty, Bánffy Palace, Cluj Napoca (RO)
2017
Exhibition of PTE MK Doctoral School, B32 Gallery, Budapest
Színerő VIII.: Konstrukció – Szín – Dinamizmus, m21 Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Exhibition of art professors from PTE Art Faculty, Galerija Kazamat, Osijek (HR)
Exhibition of art professors from PTE Art Faculty, Palazzo Falconieri, Roma (I)
VIKAT2017, invited artist of the experimental artist colony, Art Gallery Paks, Paks, Hungary
2016
V8 Plattform, Karlsruhe, Germany
‘Aufeinanderschauend’, Galerie UKI, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
‘Thninking Spaces’, RAM Colosseum, Budapest, Hungary
‘Crack on the Shield’, with H46,3 Art collective, installation and happening, FUGA, Budapest, Hungary
‘Genius Loci’, Selection of Balázs Szluka’s collection, Nádor Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
‘Art and Med’, Galerija Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia
2014
‘Paralells and Meeting Points’, In honour of Ilona Keserű, Szombathelyi Képtár, Hungary
‘Double Game’ Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
VIKAT artcamp, Museum of Paks, Paks, Hungary
Hungarian Painting Day, Budapest Gallery/Bálna
Pecuski Presjek, (exhibition of five artists of Pécs), Hungarian Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
PBMT exhibition, Nick Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2013
Art IX-XI Gallery, 8 artists from Pécs
Galerie Hagen V8, Hagen, Germany
‘Studio’, m21 Gallery, Pécs. Hungary
2012
Exhibition of the Professors of University of Pécs, Eszék/Osijek, Croatia
Meeting Point 3, Arad Biennale, Arad, Romania
Meeting Point 3, Group exhibition of the Arad Biennale, Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2010
Tor Gallery, Dortmund, Germany (with Géza Sallai)
ART FANATICS contemporary private collections, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Farbmalerei I./ Ruhrvidék–Pécs–Budapest, Verein für aktuelle Kunst,
Oberhausen, Germany
Meetingpoints, Arad, Romania
Farbmalerei II./Ruhrvidék–Pécs–Budapest, Hattyúház Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
‘Double Portrait’, Pécs Kisgaléria, Pécs, Hungary
Die Kraft der Diversität – Künstlerische Positionen aus Pécs, Collegium
Hungaricum, Galerie UngArt, Vienna, Austria
Hungarian Ispita House, Győr, Hungary
Hungarian Painting Day, Artmill, Szentendre, Hungary
‘Organic Abstract’, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
‘New York -Rio -Tokyo’, Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
‘8 out of 8’, Neon Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2009
‘Vitamin-cocktail’, Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Symbols and Forms from Pécs, Berlaymount Building, Brussels, Belgium
‘Abstract Erotics’, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
‘Peers Shooting Club’, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
‘Colour-power’, Zsolnay Factory, Pécs, Hungary
2008
Lalit Kala Akademi Masters and young talents from Hungary, Gallery Sumukha / New Delhi, Banghalore, India
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra Jubileum exhibition, Virág Judit
Contemporary Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Exhibition of the artist of Pécs-Baranya, Maribor, Slovenia
‘Colour-power II.’, Zsolnay Factory, Pécs, Hungary
‘Peers Shooting Club’, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Exhibition od Ilona Keserű’s DLA students, Ungarisches Kulturinstitut, Stuttgart, Germany
2007
‘Vivid Colour’, Vasarrely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Spring Exhibition, Veszprém, Hungary
Galerie ABTart, Stuttgart, Germany
‘Colour-power I., Zsolnay Factory, Pécs, Hungary
2006
AL Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Kulturhaupstadt Presentation, Zolleverein, Essen, Germany
Retrospective exhibition of the Hungarian Strabag Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2005
‘Choreography’, Vadnai Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Exhibition of the Masterschool of Pécs, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary Paksi Képtár, Paks, Hungary
2004
Exhibition of the artist of Pécs-Baranya, Arad, Romania
Spring Exhibition, Veszprém, Hungary
Visual Arts Camp, Paksi Képtár, Paks, Hungary
2003
V8 exhibition, City Museum, Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania
‘Sothern Wind on the Adria’, Galerija Krstevana, Sibenik, Croatia
Contemporary Art Institute, Dunaújváros, Hungary
‘For Ilona’, Art-éria Gallery, Szentendre, Hungary
Exhibition of the artist of Pécs-Baranya, Zikkurat, National Theater, Budapest, Hungary
‘Young painters close to Ilona keserű between 1983-2003’, Pécsi Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2002
Pannon exhibtion, Vasary Museum, Kaposvár, Hungary
Spring Exhibition, Veszprém, Hungary
Közelítés Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Domagk Ateliers, München, Germany
‘The individual life of colour’, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary XXI. International Graphics Biennale, Miskolc, Hungary
2001
Pécsi Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Orbus Pictus, Veszprém, Hungary
Apollo Program, Pécs, Hungary
Domagk Ateliers, München, Germany
Hommage a György Kurtág, Balatonföldvár, Hungary
Mutual Past – Mutual Future, Theology Museum, Passau, Germany
2000
Exhibition of the winners of the Strabag Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Spring Exhibition, Veszprém, Hungary
Tonnerre de Brest, Saint-Etienne, France
Time-bridge 2000, ArtMill, Szentendre, Hungary
Goße Münchener Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
1999
‘Irregular Rememberance’, Szombathelyi Képtár, Hungary
Junge Kunst 1999, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Exhibition of the Masterschool of Pécs, Palme-house, Budapest, Hungary
1998
Große Münchener Kunstausstellung, Santiago de Compostella / Akademie der
Bildenden Künste München, München, Germany
Spring Exhibition, Veszprém, Hungary
Southern Wind Contemporary Artist Forum, Nick Garden, Pécs, Hungary
1997
Oil/Canvas, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
‘In Other Material’, Tölgyfa gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Merics Collection, St. Stephen Royal Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
1996
ART EXPO, Budapest
Tavaszi Tárlat, Veszprém
Fiatal Művészek Stúdiója kiállítása, Duna Galéria, Budapest
“Ezredvég” kiállítás, Pécsi Galéria, Pécs
Leopold Blum párnája, Szombathelyi Képtár
Városi Képtár, Sepsiszentgyörgy
K, mint Chimera, Szombathelyi Képtár
1995
Pécsi Gallery, Curator: György Várkonyi, Pécs, Hungary
Pantheon Theater, Bonn, Germany
1994
Haus Ungarn, Berlin
1993
Balaton Exhibtion, Balatonalmádi, Hungary
Spring Exhibition, Veszprém, Hungary
1992
Biennale of Young Artists, Rijeka, Croatia
1989
Spring Exhibition, Veszprém, Hungary
1988
‘Degree Show’, Tölgyfa Gallery, Hungary
1986
Student Exhibition with Tamás Enyingi and Béle Szájler, Congress Center, Budapest, Hungary
Art Fairs
2018
Artissima, Turin, Italy
2017
Art Market Budapest
Viennacontemporary, Vienna, Austria
Works in Collections
Modern Hungarian Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Strabag Collection, Budapest, Hungary
László Vass Collection, Veszprém, Hungary
Dezső Lackó Museum’s Collection, Hungary
Szombathelyi Gallery, Hungary
Paksi Képtár, Hungary
PTE Department of Art and Design, Masterschool’s Collection
K&H Bank Art Collection
Uniqa Insturance Art Collection
Győr City Museum’s Collection
Molnár Ani Galéria
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