GERGŐ SZINYOVA

born in Budapest, 1986
lives and works in Budapest

Having completed his art academy studies just a few years ago, Gergő Szinyova has developed an approach that is marked by a respect for classical predecessors and the exploitation of the potential tension generated by oppositions. Besides traditions, the young painter takes inspiration from numerous contemporary phenomena. Surfing the World Wide Web on a daily basis, he checks out the latest posts on his favourite photography, architecture, music, and design blogs, to collect inspiring sources in electronic folders. Over the course of his visual roaming, he has accumulated an archive of several thousand digital images and references. Surveying his collection of impressions, he analyses them from the emic (internal) and etic (non-participatory) perspectives that derive from cultural anthropological field work, integrating them into his own visual systems, while listening to electronic experimental music. Through the simultaneous application of the emic and the etic perspectives, the source images he analyses – be they references to the history of painting, architectural plans, sprayed graffiti or minimalist photos of objects – are made to transform into his own motifs in a way that often leaves the original elements and properties recognisable. Therefore the viewers have a feeling “as if” they had already met the elements emerging on the surfaces, in a different sense and context. Rather than belonging to the artist’s individual vocabulary of forms, this method of composition is a phenomenon extending to almost all the segments of the visual culture of our time. Using the chain of abstraction of “removal, filtering, integration”, Szinyova reflects on the current (crisis) situation of visual representation through its own set of notions.

Mónika Zsikla

EXHIBITIONS

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

2005 – 2010

Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Karma, Kisterem, Budapest

2021

One Way Ticket to Anywhere, Kisterem, Budapest

2019

No Abracadabra, Trafó Gallery, Budapest

2018

Comfortable / Comfortless, Kisterem, Budapest

2016

Imaginary Viaduct, Art+Text Budapest, Budapest

2015

Unplugged (7 works), Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles

2013

Late Works, Art Gallery Paks, Paks

2012

Kisterem, Budapest

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

All, ISBN book + gallery, Budapest

2022

Ereklye, Haydnkopf, Tihanyi Bencés Apátság Galériája, Tihany; Q Contemporary, Budapest
Winter Listing, Kisterem, Budapest

2021

When Art Meets Society / When Society Meets Art, aqb Project Space, Budapest
Sketch, Kisterem, Budapest

2020

Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), Budapest
AIR 2019, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna

2019

Esterházy Art Award Hungary 2019, Ludwig Museum – Contemporary Art Museum
Listing VIII., Kisterem

2018

Meanwhile in Painting, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
The Rest / In Peace, 115–106, Budapest

2017

Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz

2016

Not.a.t.work, Wangechi Mutu’s studio, Brooklyn, New York
Come As You Are, Annarumma Gallery, Naples

2015

The Dys-Picture Generation, Art+Text Budapest, Budapest

2014

Listing III, Kisterem, Budapest
BOOGIE WOOGIE, Trafó Gallery, Budapest

2013

Listing II, Kisterem, Budapest
B side, B55 Gallery, Budapest

2012

Cell, MODEM, Debrecen
Loop, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest
Listing, Kisterem, Budapest
Stolen Objects, FUGA, Budapest
B.C.#2.1, Beach London, London
B.C.#2.1, Mexico Project Space, Leeds

2011

You stand here, public art project organised by Miskolc gallery, Miskolc
GEOMIX 2.0, B55 gallery, Budapest
Paper Panorama, Virág Judit gallery, Budapest
Face Control, ROHAM Gallery, Budapest

2009

I think sixteen hours a day before going to bed, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Contemporary Drawing, VICE gallery, Prague
Contemporary Drawing, Kasarne Kulturpark, Kosice
…to be continued, Budapest Gallery, Budapest

2008

50 days, Studio gallery, Budapest
What’s up?, (with SZ.A.F.) Kunsthalle, Budapest

EDITIONS

2012

B.C.#2, Published by B.C. (UK)
UNTITLED 03, Published by Untitled Zine (BE)

2011

UNTITLED 03, Published by Untitled Zine (BE)
E (M) 01-11 / evenness (minus) 01-11 (personal), Published by Klorofill (HU)
The Past Doesn’t Have To Control Your Future (personal), Self-published (HU)

2010

ONE-WAY TICKET TO ANYWHERE (personal), Published by Kaugummi (FR)

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