András Gál

Biographie

 

1968

Born in Budapest
Lives and works in Budapest

1982-86

School of Art and Design, Budapest
1987-91

Degree in Painting, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1991-1994

Postgraduate studies at the Mural Department, Hungarian
Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1995-96

Assistant professor of Painting Department, Hungarian
Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
2002

Assistant curator Colour - a Life of its Own / Hungarian
and International Monochrome Painting,Kunsthalle Budapest
2007

Chief Curator - Painting Painting,International Monochrome Painting in Vass collection

2007-2009

Vass Collection Veszprém H

 

 

2007, 2009
BERGNER + JOB Galerie

 

 

 

 

Awards

 

1992

Barcsay Prize, Budapest
1996

Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome
1997

Scholarship of the Kunstverein Alte Schmiede. Vienna
1997

3rd Prize, Strabag Painting Competitition, Budapest
1997-1999

Derkovits Scholarship, Budapest
2000

Artist in Residence, Vienna
2001

Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship, Budapest
2007

Art - Universitas Program / painting installation, Semmelweis University
Faculty of Dentistry, Budapest
2008

Kunststiftung Baden- Württemberg, Sttutgart

 

 

 

Selected solo exhibitions

 

1995

Dichotomia. Pandora Gallery, Budapest
1997

New paintings. Fészek Gallery, Budapest
1998

Collegium Budapest / Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest
1999

Vice-versa. Smallgallery, Pécs H

“ Perception of an Aspect ”. Dorottya Gallery, Budapest - with Ágnes Deli
2000

Paintings 1995-2000. Institut of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros H
“ Le Peintre de l’espace se jette dans le vide ! ” Institut Français, Budapest
“Who ’s afraid of yellow… ” St. Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár H
2001

Simultaneous. Vadnai Gallery, Budapest

Aniconic paintings. Goethe Institut - with Hartwig Kompa, Budapest
2002

Verein für Aktuelle Kunst / Ruhrgebeit e.V. - with Tinka von Hasselbach, Oberhausen
Duplicate. Art-Garage, Zug CH

Recent paintings. Vadnai Gallery, Budapest
2003

ACP Viviane Ehrli Galerie, Zürich
2004

After Caput Mortuum. Fészek Gallery,Budapest
2005

Colour container. Hungarian Culturel Centre London
2005

Andras Gal and Thomas Pihl,Galerie De Rijk,Den Haag,NL
2006

Blow Up.Fészek Gallery,Budapest – with Éva Kőves
2007

Evolution of the Painting - with Krzysztof Gliszczynski, Galeria Platan, Polish Institute,Budapest

2009

THE BORDER OF PAINTING,

BERGNER+JOB Galerie, Mainz

 

 

 

 

Selected group exhibitions

 

1992

27. Internationalen Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Germinations 7. European Biennale for young artists, Magasin,C.N.A.C., Grenoble
1994

Reduction. Na-Ne Gallery, Budapest
1995

Kulturabkommen. PBK, Kino Metropolis, Hamburg
1996

The Least. Ernst Museum, Budapest

Acqua. Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri, Rome
kulanz. Knoll Gallery, Budapest
1997

Strabag painting competition Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Oil / Canvas. Contemporary Hungarian Painting in the 90’s, Kunsthalle, Budapest
New acquisitions. Institut of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
The Hidden. Ernst Museum, Budapest
Bourse Viera da Silva-Arpad Szenes. Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
1998

Anthology. Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Obserwatorium. Exhibition of Young Hungarian Artists from the 90’s.
The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Yellow. Barcsay -Hall, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1999

The 90’s. Municipal Art Museum, Győr H
Freies gestalten. Stadtmuseum, Graz
2000

Junge Kunst Ungarn. Dresden Bank, München
Dialogue. Kunsthalle, Budapest
2001

Touch - The Allegories of Painting. Ateliers Pro Arts/ A.P.A.!, Budapest
Ungarische Kunst Heute. Foyer Erholungshaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen
2002

Colour - a Life of its Own. an exhibition of hungarian and international
monochrome painting, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2003

Seeing Red - Contemporary Nonobjective Painting, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery,
MFA Building,New York City
2004

Painting - Painting, Vadnai Gallery, Budapest
Die Farbe hat mich II. (nicht nur rot) Neuerwerbungen 2000-2004
für die Sammlungen des Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen
Personal structures.Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg,Düsseldorf
2005

Choreography.Vadnai Gallery,Budapest
New acquisitions 1995-2005. St.Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár H
Personal structures.Ludwig Museum at the Deutschherrenhaus,Koblenz
Constructive conceptions. Vass Collection,Veszprém H
Personal structures.Vadnai Gallery,Budapest
Special for viennAfair ’05: Private Collecting Budapest ,Knoll Galerie,Wien
2006

Ten Years of the Strabag Painting Prize . Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2007

White and Black, Open Structures Art Society, OSAS, Vasarely Museum,Budapest
Painting Painting,International Monochrome Painting in Vass collection 2007-2009,Vass Collection Veszprém H
Time-Space-Existence. Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Color based paintings III.

BERGNER+JOB Galerie, Mainz
1-2-3 The Collection in Focus ,LUMU Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest

 

 

 

 

Public and corporate collections

 

Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Institut of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros H
St.Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár H
Karl Ernst Osthaus – Museum Hagen
Vass Collection ,Veszprém H
T-Com, Budapest
E-on Hungária ,Budapest
Západoslovenská energetika,Bratistlava SK
Strabag ,Budapest
LUMU Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Municipal Art Museum, Győr H

 

 

 

Selected Bibliography

HOLLER-SCHUSTER, Günther: 27. Internationalen Malerwochen in der Steiermark, (Cat.) Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 1992
Germinations 7. (Cat.) European Biennale for young artists Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble 1992/93
Kulturabkommen,Eine ausstellung der PBK zu Ungarn in Hamburg’95,PBK,Hamburg
PÁLDI Lívia: Posztkubizmus. Interview with András Gál, Balkon, 1996/3.
KOVÁCS Attila: A little can be just as enjoyable as a lot – and vice- versa!(Cat.) András Gál - New paintings, Fészek Gallery, Budapest, 1997
TÍMÁR Katalin: Oil / Canvas. (Cat.) Kunsthalle, Budapest 1997
Anthology. (Cat.) Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 1998
PETRÁNYI Zsolt: Obserwatorium. (Cat.) Exhibition of Young Hungarian Artists from the 90's. Kunsthalle, Budapest 1998
RADNÓTI Sándor: Két kései minimalista. Élet és Irodalom,1999. june 2.
PETRÁNYI Zsolt: Egy aspektus észrevétele. Interview with Ágnes Deli and András Gál,
Balkon, 1999/7, 8.
PASSUTH Krisztina: Before the Exhibition of András Gál.(Cat.) Bild und Bildlichkeit, Collegium Budapest, 1998/99
NÉRAY Katalin: Monochrome. András Gál Paintings 1995 - 2000 (Cat.) St.Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár 2000
KOLLÁR József: Sárgamezes zombi/Who’s afraid of yellow… Balkon, 2000/10
PÁLDI Lívia: Szimultán. Balkon, 2001/8.
STURCZ János: “ You see what you see ”. The Reception of Radical Monochrome Painting in Hungary in the 1990s, Colour - a life of its own, an exhibition of hungarian and international monochrome painting, (Cat.) Kunsthalle, Budapest, 2002
STURCZ János: Colour - A Life of Its Own / Das eigenleben der Farbe. Praesens, 2002/1
AKNAI Katalin: The Thin Red Line. Interview with András Gál, Balkon, 2002/7, 8.
VOGEL Maria: Leidenschaft fürs Monochrome. 10. September 2002/Nr.208, Neue Zuger Zeitung
TÉREY János: Sonja útja a Saxonia mozitól a Pirnai térig. Válogatott Versek, Olaj/Vászon (monokróm himnusz Gál Andrásnak) Palatinus 2003
GLUECK Grace: ART REVIEW,Only Red, Please. Yellow and Blue Are Not Wanted. The New York Times, April 18,2003,Friday
Seeing Red - On nonobjective Painting and Color Theory.(Cat.)Edited by Michael Fehr and Sanford Wurmfeld,Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen,Salon Verlag ,Cologne 2004
BACSÓ Béla: Szín és anyag. Megjegyzések Gál András műveihez.Kiállni a zavart.Filozófiai és művészetelméleti írások. Kijárat kiadó,2004
IVÁNYI Bianca: Personal structures.Balkon,2005/5
KOVÁCS Attila:Az átalakuló plasztikusság...1967-2005.Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem,Budapest, 2005
LODERMEYER,Peter:Personal structures symposion, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
GlobalArtAffairs Publishing ,New York City,2005
FÖLDÉNYI F. László:Látványok és idézőjelek.Élet és Irodalom,2006,may 19.
10 Jahre STRABAG Malerpreis.(Cat.) Museum Ludwig – Museum für
Gegenwartskunst , Budapest 2006
BEKE László:Various pairs of Black and White opposites,White and Black .(Cat.)Open Structures Art Society,OSAS,Vasarely Museum,Budapest 2007
IMRE GYörgyi:Monochrome painting-Radical painting,Painting Painting,International Monochrome Painting in Vass collection 2007-2009,(Cat.) Art House/Modern Gallery-Vass László Collection, Veszprém 2007
BORDÁCS Andrea:Szín(t)vallás,Új Művészet 2007 18/7
STURCZ János: A klasszikus konstruktívizmustól a radikális monokróm festészetig.Műértő 2007/7-8
NAGY Barbara:A láthatóság határán.Műértő 2007/7-8
WÖRSDÖRFER Clara Maria: Farbfelder wecken im Kopf Bilder. Allgemeine Zeitung, Main-Rheiner Regional nachrichten 19.11.2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ausstellungseröffnung
6. Juni 2009
A.K. Job, András Gál

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

untitled/mauve
2008
oil on canvas
57 x 57 cm

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untitled/mauve
2008
oil on canvas
57 x 57 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

black painting
2009
oil on canvas
57 x 57 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

flash painting
2008
oil on canvas
111 x 117 cm