Tamás Körösényi belonged to the most famous and the most original contemporary sculptors in Hungary. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (Iván Szabó) and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Bruno Gironcoli), he absolved a few study stays in Austria and Germany (Herder stipendium) and he gained a number of national and international awards. From the year 1999 he is the head of the department of sculpting of the University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Tamás Körösényi entered the art scene in the 70s of the last century and from the beginning he surveys the borders of sculpting. Until the beginning of the 80s artworks with figural character were created as well as in the style of pop-art, minimal-art and conceptual art (Drill, 1978; Still-life, 1980 – 82; Lunchboxes, 1982). In the year 1982 the Giacometti’s series was created, which set the direction of the development of Körösényi’s works with the idea of a mask or the idea of masking (Arsenal, 1983). The figures, created by the artist are in a certain stage of forming consciously unfinished and covered with a cloak or drapery. The figures show the artist’s relationship to the figural tradition and simultaneously indicate the direction of the creation’s development in which the drapery or covers become more and more dominant parts and even the carriers of the contents of the artworks. In the nineties Körösényi’s new sculptor’s idea started to shape emphasising the system of relationships. Its basis he formulated with a language of organic forms (Fügung).
(Zsófia Kiss-Szemán)
EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION AND CAREER
1971 – 1976
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1982 – 1983
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1990 – 2010
Professor at Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
1999 – 2010
Head of Sculpture Department, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
1982 – 1983
Herder Grant, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1997 –
Munkácsy Award
2000 –
Art Scholarship of Frakfurt
2007 – 2010
Elected as Member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Art
2008 –
Herczeg Klára Award
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Movement Shifting into Space, Kisterem, Budapest
2013
Art lives!, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2010
Sculptures, Kisterem, Budapest
Art Lives, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Art Collection, Budapest
The Expanded Space of the Human Spirit, Parthenón-fríz hall, Budapest
2009
Specialize, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Prague
Heroic Elegy, Park Gallery, Budapest
2008
Art Lives, Schöffer Museum, Kalocsa
2007
To Touch, to Move…,Kisterem, Budapest
Moji duchovia, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Pálffy Palace, Bratislava, SK
2006
Contemporary Hungarian Art Gallery, Dunajská Streda, SK
2005
My Ghosts, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bucharest (with Emőke Konecsny), RO
2004
From My Unrealized Exhitbitons, Raiffesisen Gallery, Budapest
2002
Private Mythologies (with Károly Klimó and Tamás Soós), Gutmann Gallery, Budapest
2001
Frankfurt Variations, Budapest Exhibition Hall, Budapest
1997
Articulations, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Kreuzungspunkte Linz. Junge Kunst und Meisterwerke, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
Tolerance in Art, Danubiana, Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava
2008
Dimension Fragile, Österreichische Papiermacher Museum, Steyrermühl
2007
Hungarian Art, Danubiana, Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava
2004
Göbel/Klimo/Körösényi, Galerie Gut Gasteil, Prigglitz
2002
Vision Image and Perception, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
1998
Ungarn; Avangarde im 20. Jahrhundert, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz