art historian, curator
EDUCATION
1997 Contemporary Art in the Context
of Museums, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Wien, Austria
1994- PhD studies in Art History, Thesis:
Originality and Appropriation, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
1994 M.A. in Art History
Thesis: Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills (1978-80), ELTE, Budapest
1993 M.A. in Literature and
Linguistics, Thesis: Language and Visual Art (Richard Long) ELTE, Budapest
GRANTS
2000-1 International Policy Fellowship, Open
Society Institute, Budapest
1996-7 Hungarian State Eotvos Grant (3+3 months
at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam)
1994-97 Erno Kallai Art Critic Scholarschip, Ministry of
Culture and Education, Budapest, Hungary
WORK EXPERIENCE, POSITIONS
1999- Director, Grand Turizmo Art Consulting,
Budapest, Hungary
1997- Director, Institute of Contemporary
Art - Dunaujvaros, Hungary
1998-9 Lecturer, Academy of Fine Art, Intermedia
Department, Budapest, Hungary
1994-96 Visual arts program coordinator, Soros Center for
Contemporary Arts - Budapest, Hungary
1994 Curator, Mucsarnok (Kunsthalle),
Budapest, Hungary
CONFERENCES, LECTURES (selection)
2000 Does contemporyry art need museums anymore?
CIMAM General meeting, Budapest (E)
1998 Art and its mediation in the Western and
Eastern European counties, IFA, Stuttgart, Germany (E)
Contemporary Art in the Context of Museums: The ICA-D,
Institute für Kulturwissenschaft, Wien, Austria (E)
1997 Who by Fire?, The Institutional
Frame of Art in Central Europe, ICA-D (E)
CURATORIAL (selection)
1999 Christoph Draeger-Martin Frei (CH): Yellow and
Red, ICA-D
Barbara Visser (NL): DECORUMDECOREALISMDECOREALISMUS, ICA-D
ARITMIA 7, ICA-D
Public District, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústi nad Labem, Czech Republic
1998 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ICA-D
Nicolas Baginsky (D): Killer Mosquitos, ICA-D
Total Recall (János Kosa and András Kapitány), ICA-D
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
1999 Selbportrat einer Geberation - Orientierungspunkte
zur ungarischen bildenden Kunst der neuziger Jahre,
in. Die zweite Öffenktlichkeit, Kunst in Ungarn im 20. jahrhundert,
Knoll - Verlag der Kunst, Dresden (D)
Soft Confrontation, in. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
cat., ICA-D (H, E)
1998 ...and the background, in. White
Flags, Knoll Gallery (H)
1997 Milieu et l'ego. From Frame to Frame,
in. Jenseits von Kunst (edited by Peter Weibel) pp.606-607. (D)
Memories (on Mirjam Staub's art), in No.3. Mirajam Staub: Emlékek/Memories,
cat., ICA-D (H, E)
Notes on the project of Antal Lakner and Georg Winter,
in. UGAR, cat., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (H, D)
Three spaces (Notes on the art of/from the margin) in.
ISLAND - OTOK,
Visual Arts Library, Meandar-SCCA-Zagreb, 1997 (E, CR)
ICA-D
= Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaujvaros, Hungary
H / E / D / CR = language of publications,
lectures (H-Hungarian, E-English, D-German, CR-Croatian)
cat.
= catalogue