EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2008 – 2014
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Department of Painting and Intermedia
2011 – 2011
Chelsea College of Art and Design, UAL London
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2023 –
Klára Herczeg prize
Culture Moves residency, Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin (D)
Research internship @ Archive Charlotte Posenenske, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, (DE)
2022 –
Research internship @ Archive Charlotte Posenenske, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, (DE)
VARP @ Meetfactory, Prague (CZ)
Strabag AAW shortlist
2021 –
A-i-R @ Petőmihályfa (HU), by Krinzinger Gallery (AT)
2020 –
Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung, research stipendum for the year 2021
2019 –
Nomination for the Esterházy Art Award
2017 –
Nomination for the Esterházy Art Award
Visegrad Artist in Residency, Art in General, Brooklyn, New York (USA)
2016 –
Member, Studio of Young Artists Association
2016 –
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris – residency, Budapest Gallery, Ville de Paris (FR)
2015 – 2017
Derkovits Scholarship
2015 –
National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference
General special prize awarded by the Joint Committees, painting section
2013 –
ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2013 Collector’s Invitation, Transcending Cultures, (AT)
2012 –
Amadeus Art Foundation’s Scholarship
2011 –
Erasmus Scholarship, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UAL London (UK)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Untitleist, Kisterem, Budapest
HALF-LIFE | Wannsee Golf-core, Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin (D)
2021
Picnic on the Driving Range, Schemnitz Gallery, Banská Štiavnica (SK)
2019
Open due to Vacation, Kisterem, Budapest
Dust on a Shelf, Galeria Kabinet T, Zlin (CZ)
Works from the gray zone, Liget Gallery, Budapest
2017
Occam’s City (with Máté Dobokay), Labor, Budapest
2016
Melting Point, Horizont Gallery, Budapest
2015
Offsetting, Horizont Gallery, Budapest
Focus in Defocus (with Emese Fodor) Labor, Budapest
2012
Multifilter (with Bence Pálinkás), Löffler Gallery, Košice
Autoimmun (with Tamás Juhász), Ferencvárosi Helytörténeti Gyűjtemény, Budapest
2011
Temporarily Inside, Chelsea College of Art Project Space, London (UK)
Temporarily Inside, Löffler Gallery, Nuit Blanche 2011, Košice (SK)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Breaking the Frame (Esterhazy AAW 2023), Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2022
Youhu, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest
Winter Listing, Kisterem, Budapest
AiR, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT)
2021
Sketch, Kisterem, Budapest
WAMS, aqb Project Space, Budapest
2020
Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), Budapest
Sanctio - Sactrestia, Kővágóőrs
2019
Esterházy Art Award Hungary 2019, Ludwig Museum – Contemporary Art Museum
Listing VIII., Kisterem
Scooter IV – Action of Young Art, Ján Koniarek Gallery, Trnava (SK)
SEKRESTYE Basement edition, Pince Gallery, Budapest
Bauhaus 100, Vasarely Musum, Budapest
Sacrestia visitation, Kővágóőrs camp
2018
Time of our lives? MODEM, Debrecen
Where do we go from here?, 7. Symposium Lytomisl, Galerie Miroslav Kubík (CZ)
Distracting Modernity, Šopa Gallery, Kosice (SK)
Future to be erased completely, Barcsay terem - MKE, Budapest
Listing VII., Kisterem, Budapest
Meanwhile in Painting, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Book-object, ISBN Books and Gallery, Budapest
2017
Exhibition of the Nominees for Esterhazy Art Award 2017, Ludwig Museum Budapest
DAAVS, DIG Gallery, Košice (SK)
Parallel Vienna, Horizont Gallery, Vienna (AT)
Salt, Labor/Kunstküche, Budapest
Save the last one for me, final show at Art in General – Artist in Residency program, Brooklyn (USA)
Autism as Metaphor, Institute of Conteporary Art, Dunaújváros, and King Saint Stephan Museum, Székesfehérvár
Amygdala – Félelmetes válogatás, Miskolc Graphic Triennial, Miskolc
Derkó 2017, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2016
Interference, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Discomfort on a tolerable degree, Povvera, Berlin (D)
Seed Capital, m21 Gallery, Pécs
Limbo Fever, Horizont Gallery, Budapest
What Kind of Creature is an Artist? – The SYAA’s Traditional Annual Exhibition, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Accumulator, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
CONNECTIONS (with Máté Dobokay), Labor, Budapest
DERKÓ 2016, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2015
Timebase, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Bibliography, Gallery by Night, Studio Gallery
Creation-works, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2014
Revolution without Movement (with Miklós Mécs, Judit Fischer and András Zalavári), tranzit.sk, Bratislava, (SK)
The Most – The SYAA’s Traditional Annual Exhibition, Budapest
Best of Diploma, MKE, Budapest
Private Nationalism, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, m21 Gallery, Pécs
Private Nationalism, Kunsthalle, Košice (SK)
2013
ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2013, Transcending Cultures, Essl Museum, Vienna (AT)
Subjective Objects, Latarka, Budapest
Ex Co, Labor, Budapest
X-Ray Texture Pack, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Showroom for Young Art, Vienna (AT)
Liget 30, Olof Palme House, Budapest
Empire P, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2011, Nominees’ Exhibition, Mai Manó House, Budapest
28/31 Exhibition of the New Members of The SYAA, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2012
MalomKörzés, ArtMill, Szentendre
2011
Rock–Paper–Scissors (with Klára Rudas and Misi Szilágyi) N&n Gallery, Budapest
Budapest Flow, Virág Judit Contemporary Gallery, Budapest
Sanjeev’s TV Shop, S&S Electronics, Camberwell, London (UK)
2010
Elements Cuisine, 4D Gallery, Galanta (SK)
Videos
SELECTED PRESS
TYLER, Patrick: Standardizáció kilátással. Interjú Kristóf Gáborral, Új Művészet, 2021/4 – HUN
SIRBIK, Attila: Az absztrakt leképezés feltérképezése. Kristóf Gábor, Kútvölgyi-Szabó Áron és Szentesi Csaba, Ez nem kunszt, Új Művészet elméleti melléklet, 2021/2
RIEDER, Gábor: A GOLFLABDA SZELETELŐ
GYÖRGY, Péter: Az eltűnt ország nyomában, Élet és Irodalom, LXIV. /38. – HUN
RIEDER, Gábor: A TÍZES ÉVEK, artkartell.hu
HERMANN, Veronika: Unvisible Cities – HUN
KASZÁS, Gábor: Szabadság a hullámtérben – balkon.art – HUN
MÁRKUS, Eszter: Y-generációs absztraktok – artportal.hu – HUN
MÉSZÁROS, Zsolt: Interferencia – artkartell.hu – HUN
FEKETE, Szilvia: Unotodox absztrakció – Élet és Irodalom, LXI./3. – HUN
Melting Point featured on Footnotes on Art, and Art Viewer – ENG
Melting Point – exhibition catalogue published by Horizont Gallery – HUN/ENG
Porté az Artmagazin Online hU36 sorozatában – HUN
GÖMÖR, Béla: Ipari Antiforradalom – Műértő, 2016 dec.-2017 jan. – HUN
A (2) HÉT MŰTÁRGYA – 01.: Heidi (Kristóf Gábor) – artmagazinonline.hu – HUN
VÁNYA, Zsófia : Talán limbó? – kortarsonline.hu – HUN
VÁNYA, Zsófia : Heidik és kidobott matracok – kortarsonline.hu – HUN
MARGL, Ferenc: Ki az a Heidi? – artportal.hu – HUN
KOSINSKY, Richárd : Klisé után eredeti – artkartell.hu – HUN
MÉLYI, József : Arányos ofszetek – Élet és Irodalom, LIX./25. – HUN
KOCSIS, Katica : Funkicóvesztett, selejt nyomólemezek mint műalkotások – prae.hu – HUN
‘Although the borders are still there, they no more need to be controlled’ – artguideeast.com – ENG
Offsetting – Horizont Gallery – HUN/ENG