Arion Gábor KUDÁSZ
Arion Gábor KUDÁSZ
Arion was born in Budapest, in 1978. Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.
His work is balancing between documentary and staged photography in long-term projects exploring urban development, environmental issues and engineered landscape. He received the József Pécsi scholarship in 2011, 2007 and 2004.
Since 2007 he works on his doctorate thesis with support from a state scholarship at the DLA school of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, where he teaches as assistant lecturer. In 2010 Arion took part in the European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today project. He received the "Márciusi Ifjak" award of the Hungarian Republic.
Works of Arion were exhibited in group shows at venues like Musée de L`Elysée, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Aperture Gallery, and festivals from Lodz to Pingyao. Arion is a member of the Association of Young Photographers Hungary.
Gabriella Csizek wrote about the other works of Kudász:
,,Gábor Arion Kudász shows us our lost natural spaces, the landscapes rewritten by humanity following the rules of classic image-making. His landscapes are vast still-lives on the edges of populated land and open areas, with all the material things that may well be seen as the negative effect of humanity on nature. The absurdity of his pictures stems from the subject itself and the manner of representation. Bridges and roundabouts, construction sites and billboards sit in the landscape so organically, it almost hurts. But they certainly force us to reconsider our notions of beauty and what is natural.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Middle, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest
Stranger in the Landscape, Hungarian Institute, Warsaw
2011 What`s this! Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest
2010 Bonsai-land, Nádor Gallery, Széchenyi square, Pécs
Bonsai-land (Japan Today Vol.12: Silva Bingaz and Andreas Gefeller),
Sanat Limani, Istanbul
2009 Photographs, Vintage Gallery, Budapest
Waste Union, HCC - Hungarian Cultural Centre, London
Green Area, Café Foto, Fotofestiwal, Lódz
2008 After the Eden, PMKK - Hungarian Cultural Centre, Prague
Green Area, Fiducia Galeria, Ostrava
Waste Union, Lumen Gallery, Budapest
2007 Under The Concrete, ZAK Gallery, Berlin
2006 Green Area, Lumen Gallery, Budapest
2005 Emese and Arion, Hegyvidék Galéria, Budapest
2001 Photo Digital, Budapest
Sisters and Brothers, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Animalicious, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest
Sense of Place, BOZAR, Brussels
Landscapes Speak the Same Language, Hungarian Institute, Brussels
Rangefinder, Kepes Institute, Eger
Budapest Pozitive, Vetrinjski dvor, Maribor
D book show, Helsinki, Finland
2011 European Eyes on Japan, Vol 12., Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori,
Japan
Budapest Positive, Mai Manó House (House of Hungarian Photographers),
Budapest
Lab East, V8 Gallery, Cologne
Cities on the river, SVU Gallery, Bratislava
Cities on the river, MKM Magacin, Mraljevica Marka, Belgrade
Facing Forward, The Forward Thinking Museum, online
Einsichten. Ansichten., Gallery of the Hungarian Embassy, Berlin
2010 Art Fanatics - Art Collections 2, Műcsarnok, Budapest
Felhőgyár - FFS, Mai Manó House (House of Hungarian Photographers)
La Biennale Jeune Création Européenne, City Gallery, Bratislav
Rarely Seen Photographs - Collection of The Hungarian Museum of
Photography, Mai Manó House, Budapest
Live Sync - Hungarian Art Forum, MOCA, Shanghai
Liberation Formula., Donumenta, Regensburg
Cities On The River, Városi Művészeti Múzeum, Győr
to loop, KUNSTBÜROBERLIN, Berlin
2009 La Biennale Jeune Création Européenne, Fabrique ą Montrouge, Montrouge
Expanded Realities, Contemporary Hungarian Photo, Pécsi Galéria, Pécs
Regardez-moi - I’m Back, Immanence, Paris
Urbanity - Twenty Years Later, City Gallery, Prague
The sunny side. Galeria Młodzi, Fotofestiwal, Lódz
K&H Bank Collection, Ferenczi és Tsai Galéria, Budapest
2008 What’s Up? - a panorama of contemporary hungarian art, Kunsthalle,
Budapest
Transylvania Photography Awards, Szabadság Square, Budapest
MOMENTS, Media Center Lume, Helsinki
MOMENTS, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Pécsi József scolarship, Mai Manó House, Budapest
Stalking Utopia, Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Ungarn, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Ungarn, Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle an
der Saale
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Ungarn, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen
Photo50, London Art Fair, London
2007 Gallery for wintertime, ZAK Gallery, Berlin
reGeneration, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena
Pécsi József Grant, Accademia d’Ungheria, Rome
Elek, Fabricius, Kudász, Vintage Galéria, Budapest
2006 reGeneration, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao
reGeneration, Aperture Gallery, New York
2005 reGeneration – 50 photographers of tomorrow, Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne
reGeneration, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan
ARC Poster Exhibition, Budapest
2004
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012 Rado Star Prize (finalist)
Photobook Slam Berlin, winner
2011 József Pécsi Art Photography Scholarship, Final Year
2010 “Márciusi Ifjak” award of the Republic of Hungary
2008 Transylvania Photography Awards, Category of Nature and Environment
2007 József Pécsi Art Photography Scholarship, Second Year
2006 Sittcomm Award, Short listed
2005 Hungarian Press Photo, Nature and Environment (series), 1st prize
Pro Cultura Urbis, Budapest Photographic Scolarship
Epson Art Photo Award, best selected work
2004 József Pécsi Art Photography Scholarship, First year
2002 ARC Poster Exhibition, Prize of Quality
’Us and the Others’ International Photo Competition, 2nd prize
2001 Hewlett-Packard Invision International Digital Photo Competition,
Overall winner
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2008 International Summer School of Photography, Latvia, Lecturer
2007- Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Department of
Photography, Assistant Lecturer
2003- Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Department of
Photography, Artist teacher
STUDIES
2007- Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, DLA program
2004 Transatlantic Culture Exchange, Choice mastercourse
1998-2003 Hungarian University of Craft and Design, Budapest (MIE)
1997-1998 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, English-Communication (PPKE)
RESIDENCIES
2012 Artist House Gjutars, Vantaa, Finland
2010 European Eyes on Japan vol. 12, Eu-Japan Fest Committee, Tottori, Japan
2002 Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) - Erasmus
2000 Ioan Andreescu Academy of Visual Arts in Cluj-Napoca - Ceepus
1995 Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA - Youth For Understanding (YFU)
MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Hungarian Artists (MAOE)
Studio of Young Photographers (FFS)
COLLECTIONS
Hungarian Photography Museum, Kecskemét
Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne
K&H Bank contemporary collection
BOOKS
MIDDLE, Faur Zsófi Gallery, 2012
Tábor (Camp), Holnap Kiadó, Budapest, 2007, ISBN 978-963-346-731-2
Contemporary Photography from Hungary No.6, Faur Zsófi Gallery, 2010,
Camp, Blurb.com, 2010, ISBN 978-963-06-9766-8
Bonsai land, Blurb.com, 2011