Csaba Nemes
He was born in Kisvárda,1966. Lives and works in Budapest.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
| 2018 | Continuous Past, Knoll Galéria Budapest |
2017 | Historical Choreographies, Knoll Galéria Budapest Side-Sectional View, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna Fall in...., House of Arts, Ústi nad Labem (CZ) Milieu et L’EGO, Inda galéria, Budapest |
| 2016 | Stolen Facades, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (AT) |
| 2015 | Stolen Facades, Knoll Galéria Budapest When Politics Enters Daily Life, Mocak, Krakow (PL) Not an Art Scene, Knoll Galéria Budapest (HU) |
2014 | Don´ Try to Make it Logical! - MMSU, Rijeka (HR) Experiment for Catching up, Knoll Galerie Wien |
2013 | This is Not a War, Knoll Galéria Budapest Migration, Remise/Galerie allerArt, Bludenz (A) |
| 2012 | Father`s Name: Nemes Csaba, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna Filmretrospektiv, Paksi Képtár, Paks Fathers Name: Csaba Nemes, Knoll Gallery Budapest |
| 2010 | Áll ide! (Stand here!) - Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest |
| 2009 | The Last House, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Litvania Jeden Tag ist 1956 (Everyday56), Knoll Gallery Vienna Puhányok-Mindennap56 (Softies-Everyday56), Knoll Gallery Budapest |
| 2007 | Remake, Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest Remake, Pavillon, Wels, Austria Remake, Knoll Gallery Budapest |
| 2006 | Knoll Gallery Vienna Afrikai Nap (Sun in Africa), Menü Pont Galéria, Műcsarnok, Budapest |
| 2004-2005 | Picture-Blog, Knoll Gallery Budapest (with Zsolt Keserue) |
| 2004 | His environment, Knoll Gallery Vienna |
| 2002 | Between me and myself, Knoll Gallery Budapest Deák Erika Galéria, Budapest |
| 1998 | Common Cover, Raum Für Kunst (Public Appearances - Steierischer Herbst), Graz, Austria Szerzödésszegés (Breach of Contract), Liget Galéria, Budapest |
| 1997 | Folyamatos múlt (Continuous past), ICA-Dunaújváros* |
| 1994 | Milieu et L’EGO, Institut Français, Budapest (with Balázs Beöthy, Roland Pereszlényi) |
| 1993 | A pénz diszkrét pálya (The Discreet Charm of Money/The Money is a Discreet Road), Bartók 32 Galéria, Budapest (with Zsolt Veress) |
| 1992 | Filmcímek (Movietitles), Poster-Project, approx. 25 giant posters in Budapest |
| 1990 | Part, Institut Français, Budapest (with Zsolt Veress) |
Thematic Exhibitions (Selection)
2019 | For Anyone but not for Everyone – Demokratie ∞ verhandeln, Kunstpavillon der Tiroler Künstler*schaft, Innsbruck |
| 2018 | INTERPRETIVE COMMUNITIES new acquisitions 2012–2018, Kassák Múzeum, Budapest Guerilla of Enlightenment - THEY SHOULDN´T BE ABLE TO PRETEND THEY DIDN´T KNOW ANYTHING, Rotor, Graz HateFree?, Labor, Budapest Motherland, Mocak, Krakkow Reconciliation, Main Abbey, Pannonhalma Forsaken Utopias, Knoll Galerie Wien and Galerie Gans, Vienna |
| 2017 | LOOK! New Acquisitions, Albertina, Vienna Vanishing Points 2.0, http://enyeszpontok.tumblr.com/ - off biennale 2, Budapest Forsaken Utopias, Budapest Gallery, Budapest HateFree?, Muzeum Romské Kultury, Brno Sketch, Liget Galéria, Budapest Transcending the Past, Shaping the Future, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin Universal Hospitality 2, Futura, Prague Cinemaport, Teleport Gallery, Trafó, Budapest |
| 2016 | The Space Between Us, pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow (Un)geduldiges Papier, Motorenhalle, Dresden Curated_by: Edit Sasvári: Homage - Ideal or Pattern?, Knoll Gallerie Wien, Vienna Universal Hospitality - Into the City, Alte Post, Vienna Bank of No, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| 2015 |
Suppressed History and Contaminated Places, rotor, Graz (A) Imagined Communities, Personal Imaginations - Private Nacionalism Project - Kiscelli Múzeum/Budapest Galéria, Budapest +45+55+95, Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest Hotel Metropole - Der Erinnerung eine Zukunft geben, City Centrale, Vienna Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK), Leipzig (DE) |
| 2014 | This can´t Possiby Be True, Emil Filla Gallery-Armaturka, Usti nad Labem (CZ) Unicorn is more than Nation - The Age of Nation, Knoll Galéria Budapest Unicorn is more than Nation - The Age of Nation, Knoll Gallery Vienna Private Nationalism Project, m21 galéria, Pécs (HU) Not too Distant Present, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest (HU) |
| 2013 | Leopold Bloom Art Award Exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest Imagine the Law, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest (HU) Border-Transgression in the Museum (Múzeumi határszegések), Backstage Galéria, Akvárium Klub, Budapest
Conceptualism today - Conceptual art in Hungary since the 1990s Exceeded History? (Meghaladott történelem?), Austrian Culturial Forum, Budapest |
| 2011 | Mimetic structures (Mimetikus szerkezetek), Municipial Gallery, Miskolc History in Art, MOCAK, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow Loophole to Happiness, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague Stücke des Widerstands - Pièces de résistance, Motorenhalle, Dresden Érzelmi tér (Emotional Space), Knoll Galéria BudapestLoophole to Happines, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź |
| 2010 | Kiutak a boldogság felé (Loophole to Happiness), House of Contemporary Arts - Trafó Gallery, Budapest Panorama, Knoll Gallery Budapest Donumenta, Regensburg Joy and Diasaster - Notes on the Economy, Künstlerhaus/K-haus, Vienna A pult mögött - a posztszocialista gazdaság jelenségei a kortárs művészetben (Over the Counter - The Phenomena of Post-socialist Economy in Contermporary Art), Műcsarnok, Budapest Félreérthetetlen mondatok - az újragondolt gyűjtemény (Unmistakable Sentences. The Collection Revisited), Ludwig Múzeum - Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum, Budapest "Ich kenne drei Farben auf Erden" (I know three colours on the world), NKV, Wiesbaden "Let's Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity" Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 2009 | 1989 - Year of Miracles - Austria and the End of the Cold War, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York Köztes idö: a galéria (Interval: the Gallery), Dorottya Galéria, Budapest Kis magyar pornográfia (Small Hungarian Pornography), Modem, Debrecen |
| 2008 | Revolution, I Love You - 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy, International Project Space, Birmingham Revolution, I Love You - 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy, Trafó, Budapest Revolution, I Love You - 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy, CACT-Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki Mint a mozi (Like Movie) – Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest Familienangelegenheiten (Family-matters), Kunstverein Ulm, Németország Rehab – Labor, Budapest Ez a város egy távoli bolygó? (Is this Town a Remote Planet?), Knoll Galéria, Budapest |
| 2006 | Jegyzet és vázlat (Notes and Sketsches), Stúdió Galéria, Budapest Iránypontok (Directions - A selection of works by former students of Ignác Kokas), Műcsarnok, Budapest |
| 2004 | Unsere neuen Nachbarn (Our new neigbours), Lower Austria - Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kultur Unframed Landscapes, Mile end ecology Pavilion, London Unframed Landscapes, Galerija Prosirenih Medija, Zagreb, Croatia Tájkép keret nélkül (Unframed Landscapes), ICA-Dunaújváros* A másik története – Budapest errances, Le Carosse, Paris Extra-Temporal - Új lapot nyitunk (Turning the page) Kogart, Budapest* |
| 2003 | Extra-Temporal - Cruising Danubio, Comonidad de Madrid* Promenade - Arc en Ciel, Liévin, France Passage - MAC Sallaumines, France Extra-Temporal - Prague Biennial, Prague* |
| 2002 | Innen nézve XXXXX (Seeing from Here), Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest Budapest Box, Ludwig Múzeum Budapest Das ist Kunst (This is Art), Friedrichshof, Austria* Házak között (Between Houses), Deák Erika Galéria, Budapest Common Name - Oh, it’s a Curator, Rotor, Graz, Austria Die Geschichte eines Tages (A Days Story)- Transsexual Express, Mücsarnok, Budapest |
| 2001 | Extra-Temporal – Casino 2001, storyboard, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium* The House of Light - At Home Gallery, Somorja, Slovakia Le main dans le nuages - Histories Hongroises, Musee d’art moderne de Lille Metropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France* Tu connais? – Glassbox, Paris Közös sebesség - Rövid történetek (Common Speed – Short Stories), Budapest Galéria, Budapest* |
| 2000 | Média-Modell, Műcsarnok, Budapest Art Narrative, Knoll Galerie, Vienna Art Narrative, Knoll Galéria, Budapest Endless, Deák Erika Galéria, Budapest The House of Light - Ludwig Project Room, Budapest Retrospective storyboards - It's amusing to see what money does, ICA-Dunaújváros Sonntag – Psychedelic, SKUC Galerie, Ljubljana, Slovenia Carrier – Áthallások, Mûcsarnok, Budapest Carpe diem – Millenium rizikó, Trafó, Budapest |
| 1999 | The Passion and the Wave, Dolmabahce Palace, 6th Istanbul Biannial* Kunst der neunziger Jahre in Ungarn (Hungarian Art of the 90ies), Akademie der Künste, Berlin* Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Emilia Filly Gallery, Usty nad Labem, Czech Republik* Common Name - Young and Serious,- storyboard, Ernst Muzeum, Budapest* Sonntag – Zeit-Spiel, IFA Galerie, Berlin* Die Geschichte eines Tages – Tell me more…, Pavel–Haus, Laafeld, Austria |
| 1998 | Antológia (Anthology), Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest* Observatorium, Warsaw, Poland* Sonntag - Goethe Institute, Budapest |
| 1997 | Ostranenie, Dessau, Germany (EMARE-program) Chimera, Aktuelle Photokunst aus Mitteleuropa, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle* Millecentenárium, Bartók 32 Galéria, Budapest To see the possibility – The Roundabout, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland |
| 1996 | On Line On Site, CBK-Rotterdam, The Netherlands Közös sebesség – Sent–I–Mental Blue, Budapest Galéria, Budapest Common Name - Sao Paulo Biennale, Brasil* |
| 1995 | Kulturabkommen, PBK, Hamburg, Germany* The Image of Europe, Poster-project, Cyprus* |
| 1994 | Übergange (XXXXX), Passau, Germany* |
| 1993 | Polifónia, SCCA-exhibition, Budapest* |
| 1992 | Vier (Four), Horn, Austria* Knoll Galéria, Budapest |
| 1991 | SVB VOCE, Contemporary Hungarian Video-Installation, Műcsarnok* |
| 1990 | Kunst, Europa 1991, Bremen, Germany* Common Name Production: Storyboards in collaboration with Ágnes Szépfalvi) |
Selected Bibliography
| Zsámboki Miklós: Találkozás egy homlokzattal, in: Élet és irodalom, 2016. jan. 22. | |
| Maja & Reuben Fowkes: Csaba Nemes: On Frozen Assets and Friendship, in: Csaba Nemes: When Politics Enters Daily Life, exh. cat., MOCAK, Krakow, 2015-2016 | |
| Agnieszka Sachar: The roma in the Art of Csaba Nemes, in: Csaba Nemes: When Politics Enters Daily Life, exh. cat., MOCAK, Krakow, 2015-2016 | |
| William Corwin: Around Town, Frieze 171. - 2015. May, http://www.frieze.com/issue/print_back/around-town3/ | |
| Anna Miller: Csaba Nemes, Gdy polityka wchodzi w codzienność, in: Magazyn SZUM, 2016, 12. | |
„Amikor azt kalkulálod, hogy meddig mehetsz el, az már nem demokrácia” - Gócza Anita interjúja 1. rész: 2014-09-25, http://artportal.hu/magazin/kortars/amikor-azt-kalkulalod-hogy-meddig-mehetsz-el-az-mar-nem-demokracia-i 2. rész: 2014-09-27, http://artportal.hu/magazin/kortars/amikor-azt-kalkulalod-hogy-meddig-mehetsz-el-az-mar-nem-demokracia-ii | |
| Csaba Nemes interviewed by Tamara Moyzes - on Artyčok.TV! http://artycok.tv/lang/en-us/25758/csaba-nemes- | |
| - | Linnea West: Studio Visit with Csaba Nemes http://contextandidentity.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/studio-visit-with-csaba-nemes/ |
| - | Heiter und mit tiefem Ernst, in: Voralberger Nachrichten, 29. Mai, 2013 http://www.vorarlbergernachrichten.at/kultur/2013/05/28/heiter-und-mit-tiefem-ernst.vn |
| - | Barta Edit: Nem az a kérdés, hova állj! (The Question is not, where to stand) Fotopost, 2010.12.02., http://fotopost.hu/textura/nem-az-kerdes-hova-allj |
| - | Emese Kürti: The Last House,in: Állj ide!-Stand here!, exh. cat. Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest, p. 27-34. |
| - | Edit Sasvári: Outspoken and Vital - The most recent works of Csaba Nemes, in: Állj ide!-Stand here!, exh. cat., Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest, p. 11-18. |
| - | Katharina Deschka-Hoech: Die Müdigkeit des Diktators, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24.04.2010 |
| - | News from Hungary - Csaba Nemes`s four paintings and Softies (Rael Artel`s Interview with the Artist) in: LET’S TALK ABOUT NATIONALISM! - Between Ideology and Identity, Exh. cat. Ed.: Rael Artel, Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, 2010, p.37-42. |
| - | Miklós Peternák: Post Video-Footnotes to the Transformation of Hungarian Videomaking, in: Transitland - Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, Ed.: Edit András, Budapest, 2009, Ludwig Múzeum - Kortárs Műszeti Múzeum, 105-116.o. |
| - | Katja Melzer: Jeder Tag eine Revolution (Every Day is a Revolution), http://www.artmagazine.cc/content41791.html |
| - | Csizmadia Alexa: Leo Fitzmauri - Nemes Csaba, Szellemkép 2009/1, 2-4.o. |
| - | Turai Hedvig: Kerüljük a romantikát (Forbear the romanticism), Műértö, 2009 május |
| - | Maja and Reuben Fowkes: Reviews - Softies, Time Out - Budapest, April 2009, p.68. |
| - | Maja and Reuben Fowkes: In the studio: Csaba Nemes. Time Out Budapest, March 2009, 67.o. |
| - | Matt Price: Revolution I Love You, Art Monthly 2.09/323, p. 27-28. |
| - | Pilinger Erzsébet: A személyesen innen és túl (Beyond and beside of the Personal), Balkon 2007_9. p.18-26. |
| - | Kevin Shopland: Remaking History, Budapest Sun, 24.10.2007 http://www.budapestsun.com/news/59355 |
| - | Balázs Beothy: „In the end, I decided on animation“ - Interview with Csaba Nemes, 22. March 2007. http://www.exindex.hu/index.php?l=en&page=3&id=388 |
| - | Ines Gebetsroither: Patterns of memory, EIKON 2004/46 |
| - | Augustín Pérez Rubio: Cruising Danubio, Catalogue, 2004 |
| - | Maja and Reuben Fowkes: Tájkép keret nélkül / Unframed landscapes, Catalogue, 2004 |
| - | Spengler Katalin: Amikor érzed a gravitációt, Műértô 2002 march |
| - | Tér és Rend, 2000. december |
| - | Kovács, Ágnes Veronika, „Rájöttem, hogy lehet ezt könnyedebben is csinálni”, Balkon 2000/10 |
| - | Vályi, Gábor, „Be a múzeumba!”, ÉS, 2000. június 23. |
| - | Anders Kreuger: 6th Istanbul Biennial, Artelier, 1999 |
| - | Die horen-Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kritik, 1999 |
| - | János Szoboszlai: Selbstportrait einer Generation - Die zweite Öffentlichkeit - Kunst in Ungarn im 20. Jahrhundert, 1999 |
| - | Susan Snodgrass: Csaba Nemes, Istanbul Biennal Catalogue, 1999 |
| - | Beatrix Ruf: Ágnes Szépfalvi und Zsolt Veress, ART AT RINGIER 1995/1998 Catalogue |
| - | János Szoboszlai: Súlytalanság, Balkon, 1998/10 |
| - | Susan Snodgrass: Report from Budapest /In a Free State, Art in America, 1998/10 |
| - | Szoboszlai János: Folyamatos múlt (Continuos Past), ICA-D Catalogue, 1997 |
| - | Tibor Várnagy: Punkt, Loch, Platz, Raum, Chimera Catalogue 1997 |
| - | Suzanne Mészöly: "Zsolt Veress”, 23. Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo Catalogue, 1996 |
| - | János Szoboszlai: Csaba Nemes, The Image of Europe KYPRIA 1995 |
| - | András Zwickl: Okkupation des Sehens - Csaba Nemes und der öffentliche Raum, Neue Bildende Kunst 1995/6 |
| - | László Beke: Kunst, Europa, Kunstverein Bremen Catalogue 1991 |
Prizes, Residencies
| 2014 | Residency Unlimited (RU), NYC |
| 2013 | Leopold Bloom Art Award |
| 2010 | Gasworks residency program, London |
| 2003 | Residence KulturKontakt Wien, Austria |
| 2002 | Residence Arc en Ciel, Liévin, France |
| 2001 | Eötvös Scholarship, residence Glassbox, Paris |
| 1998 | In and Out of Touch, London, England |
| 1997 | EMARE Program Werkleitz Geseltschaft, Tornitz, Germany |
| 1996 | Hungarian Academy Rome, Italy |
| 1994 | Residence of Salzburg County |
| 1991 | 26. Internationale Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Graz, Austria |
Works in Public Collections - Selection
| - | Albertina, Vienna (AT) |
| Pompidou Centre, Paris (FR) | |
| - | Mocak, Krakow (PL) |
| Museum for Fine Arts/Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest | |
| - | Ludwig Múzeum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest |
| - | Museum Kiscell - Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest |
| - | Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria |
| - | ICA-Dunaújváros, Hungary |
| - | Michael Ringier, Switzerland |
| - | Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest |
| - | István Király Múzeum Székesfehérvár, Hungary |
| - | MAC Sallaumines, France |
