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Artist Bio and Artist Statement - Kristoflab - Kristóf Szabó Artist bio and Artist Statement - KristofLab - Kristóf Szabó Before the change of regime, I was born in 1988 in Győr. Since 2016, I have been consciously using the term KristofLab as a kind of brand referring to interdisciplinarity and my media art activities. I often work in a team or create collaborations with other artists. I experiment with the possibility of crossing boundaries between art genres. I graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts with a degree in graphic arts (2012) and then as a teacher of fine arts (2013). In 2011 I studied with an Erasmus scholarship in Dresden (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden). Between 2019 and 2020, I participated in the Budapest Art Mentor program, which is Hungary's gap-filling training. I am a member of the Ziggurat Project which experiments with various co-art collaborations. Since 2015, I have been working with them regularly, mainly on site-specific performances across V4 countries and Norway. For me, the analytical observation is also an image creating method. My works are based on photographs or videos that function as a certain memory bank. I reconsider, transform, and compress these artifacts into a specific concept that sometimes has a utopian feeling to it. The works interpreted through the observer. The environment represents an aesthetic line in which the different stacking layers change the original meaning of the starting point. Carrier surfaces and materials for digital imperfections, reflections, light, and sound are stacked this way creating works that sometimes go beyond genre boundaries. My work focuses mainly on two major themes: the cornerstone of man’s identity and his living environment. Social sensitivity is a crucial basis for the grouping of questions around these concepts. It covers topics such as alienation, self-image distortion, ecological problems. The visual interactions that appear on the installations, paintings, and projectors are creating a real relationship with the observer and often cause a special space experience. Site-specific works define my artwork, often transforming the exhibition or performance space into a particular world. Date of birth: 05/ 09/1988 Győr (Hungary) Nationality: Hungarian Gallery representation – Godot Labor Contact: Tel: +3620-235-36-43 E-mail: [email protected] Web: https://www.kristoflab.com Web: https://www.works.io/kristof-szabo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KristofLaboratory/ Instagram: //https://www.instagram.com/kristoflab/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/KristofLab/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/KristofLab Studies: 2019- 2020 Budapest Art Mentor Program 2012-2013 Hungarian University of Fine Arts – Master in Visual Education 2011 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (erasmus scholarship) 2007- 2012 Hungarian University of Fine Arts – Specialisation in Graphic Arts 2003-2007 School of Dance and Fine Arts, Győr Memberships: (2015) Ziggurat Project, (2015) MAMŰ, (2013) Hungarian Artist’s Book Association Award – Grants – Residency: 2020 Master of Light - professional jury praise, and the Hungarian Architecture Special Award 2019 V4 program – LAST project Sztuka Nowa – LUB LAB & 18A Gallery, Warsaw (PL) 2019 Residency – Our Home Place KristofLab & Ziggurat Project, a Nástupište 1-12 Topoľčany, (SK) 2019 Residency – Future Repair Machine, Art House of United Cowboys, Eindhoven, (NL) 2018 Residency – Litle magic box of harmony performing - Ziggurat Project, Nástupište 1-12, Topoľčany, (SK) 2018 Residency – Stockmolm, (SWE) and performing with Dokter Sybrig in Weld 2017 NKA scholarship 2017 Ludwig Museum – Creative Europe program CAPP (Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme) | with Ziggurat Project 2017 Erasmus + 7 ROADS 1 PATH - Euroculture En Pays Gentiane 2017 | Ziggurat Project, (F) 2017 Placc and Scenekunst Østfold – PICTURE Budapest – Østfold c. project | Budapest (HU) Moss and Fredrikstad (NO) with Ziggurat Project 2016 IVF – V4 CREATIVE YOUTH | Banska Bystrica, (SK) | with Ziggurat Project 2016 NKA scholarship 2014 Unicredit Young Artist scholarship 2010 Erasmus scholarship, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (GER) 2010 3rd prize in Graphic Arts, Institutional Student Conference 2009 EU Ecological Logo Creation (open call), in the selected 100 artists 2009 For the Talented Youth Foundation prize of Győr 2009 Hungarian Republican Scholarship 2009 Menyhért Tóth scholarship 2008 For the Talented Youth Foundation prize of Győr 2007 For the Talented Youth Foundation prize of Győr 2006 National Rembrandt Competition – special prize 2005 Scholarship of Dániel Kornél / 18th Free School of Fine Arts István Szőnyi 2005 For the Talented Youth Foundation prize of Győr Solo or double exhibitions: 2020 Concrete Questions / Konkrét kérdések (whit Balázs Csizik), Hegyvidék Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2019 Our Home Place – KristofLab & Ziggurat Project – Nástupište 1-12 Gallery, Topoľčany, (SK) 2019 KristofLab & Ziggurat Project: Fusions, SMart project, Trafó, Budapest (HU) 2018 BLOCK, K.A.S Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2018 Budapest Pixel, Magyar Műhely Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2015 The Two Faces of PestBuda (with Bianka Dobó), Szép Műhely, Budapest (HU) 2015 FREEDOM!, Bakelit Multi Art Center, Budapest (HU) 2014 VACUUM (with István Mórocz), Három Hét Galéria, Budapest (HU) 2014 The Birth of Myths, Maros Mozi, Rákos liget (HU) 2014 In a Foreign Land, No Kredit, Budapest (HU) 2012 Origin (with Zsófia Ádám) CD-FŰ Art Center, Budapest (HU) 2011 Abaddon (with Róbert Kemenes and Tünde Horváth), Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU) 2006 Evening, Romer House, Győr (HU) 2005 Exhibition for the International Day of Dance/ Béla Bartók Culture House, Győr (HU) Group exhibitions: 2020 Art Market Budapest – Magyar Műhely Gallery – Budapest (HU) 2020 Godot ART Fair, G.I.C.A, Budapest (HU) 2020 G6 VI. Biennal of Graphic Arts of Transylvania, Sfântu Gheorghe (RO) 2020 Explorer 3.0 – Budapest Art Mentor 2019-2020 – Budpest Projekt Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2020 Kol-Labor, G.I.C.A. GodotLabor, Budapest (HU) 2020 Closed Door, 1111 Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2020 Both Ways, Trieste Contemporanea, Triest (IT) 2020 HOME by LoosenArt - international group exhibition , Millepiani, Rome, (IT) 2020 What About Tomorrow, ART VEINE platform (online exhibition), Rio de Janeiro (BR) 2020 Paraphrase, (Hungarian Artist’s Book Association) Kápolna Gallery, Kecskemét (HU) 2020 Art and Game, MANK, Szentendre, (HU) 2020 New works/new faces, (Hungarian Artist’s Book Association), B32 Gallaery, Budapest (HU) 2020 RANDOM IV. – SZÚRÓPRÓBA, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2020 Ovidius Helyett / Instead of Ovidius, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2019 ARTMESSENGER Art Fair, KUBIK cowerking, Budapest (HU) 2019 RAF Art Fair, A.P.A Galéria, Budapest (HU) 2019 V. Óbuda Fine Art Exhibition – Futura Óbuda, Esernyős Gallery, Budapest 2019 SETUP, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2019 Art Market Budapest, Magyar Műhely Galéria, Budapest (HU) 2019 66. Autumn Fair in Vásárhely, Alföldi Gallery, Hódmezővásárhely (HU) 2019 Godot Young Generation Art Fair, Godot Instutute of Contemporary Art – GICA, Budapest (HU) 2019 ARC poster exhibition, Climatic alert, Budapest (HU) 2019 Vipassana, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2019 Work books , (Hungarian Artist’s Book Association) K.A.S Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2019 shROOMs, Auróra, Budapest (HU) 2019 Panel, MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen (HU) 2019 Resident Art Garten, Nagy Gyula Gallery, Lovas (HU) 2019 TRANS DUNA SALON, Die Labile Botschaft, Vienna, (AT) 2019 Spot, Magyar Műhely Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2019 Glitch4ChaosMagick Exhibition, Babicska, Budapest (HU) 2019 Paradise City - Art Capital, Ámos Imre-Anna Margit Museum, Szentendre (HU) 2019 Wonderlands // smART! XTRA 4.0 X AQB OPEN HOUSE), Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest (HU) 2019 ZiggY Art Fair, Pintér Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2018 ICIA - International Competition for Intermedia Artwork – 2018, Opcja Gallery, Krakkow, (PL) 2018 YG Art Fair, Goldberger Institute of Contemporary Art, Budapest (HU) 2018 Latarka Art Fair, 2018, Patyolat, Budapest (HU) 2018 Pszeudo Random III. MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2018 DECODE, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2018 MAMŰ stand, Artmarket, Budapest (HU) 2018 65. Autumn Fair in Vásárhely, Alföldi Gallery, Hódmezővásárhely (HU) 2018 Body’s Slim 3, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2018 Fervere, IDEA (installation), Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest (HU) 2018 V4 Art Conects – V4 Art Connects: Structures / Illusions / Interactions, MIKVE and Castle Garden, Budapest (HU) 2018 I Wash My Hands – Semmelweis 200, (Hungarian Artist’s Book Association) Karinthy Salon, Budapest (HU) 2018 Common Affairs | Collaborative Art Projects – Arboretum, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU) 2017 YG Art Fair, Zsilip, Budapest (HU) 2017 Latarka Contemporary Art Fair 2017, Latarka, Budapest (HU) 2017 PX, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2017 Exhibition of Hungarian Artist’s Book Association, Oliver Bonnin Gallery, Paris, (FR) 2017 Space-Pictures, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2017 MAMŰ stand, Artmarket, Budapest (HU) 2017 DUNAPEST festival, #ERROR707 – Runningteather, Margaret island (HU) 2017 Ugly Artworks Random II. MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2017 Upmost Layer II., Veresegyháza, Udvarház Gallery (HU) 2017 Riders on the Mall / ROM /, MÜSZI Art Center, Budapest (HU) 2017 RGB, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2016 MAMŰ stand, Artmarket, Budapest (HU) 2016 MATTER OF DECISION, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU) 2016 30 years ago, University of West Hungary, Győr (HU) 2016 Reflections, Ferenc Besenyei Cultural House, Hódmezővásárhely (HU) 2016 Random, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU)
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