Balázs Kicsiny

Balázs Kicsiny was born in 1958, in Salgótarján, Hungary. He lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. He is an artist, working with various mediums, from installations, videos to paintings. He graduated at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Painting Department in 1982, received his MA diploma in 1985 and DLA diploma in 2008 also here. Between 2000 and 2004 he was a London correspondent for the Hungarian arts journals Műértő and Balkon. Since 2005 he is a lecturer in artistic research at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts Doctorate School.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2013 The Checkered Doubt, Rooster Gallery, New York
Killing Time II. Volta Show, Inda Galley’s Booth, New York, USA
2012 Killing Time, Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA
2011 The Art of Self Justification, Bázis Gallery, Cluj/Kolozsvár, Romania
Wandering Interpretation, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2010 Temporary Resurrection, Minoritenkirche, Regensburg, Germany
The Misunderstanding, Monoly-Nagy Galerie, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
2008 Permanent Landing I, Johanniter Church, Feldkirch, Austria
Where and When? I, Tallin Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Where and When? II., Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia
2007 An Attempt at Domestication,Somorja, At Home Gallery Synagogue, Samorin,
Slovakia
Clock Goes Around, Pannonhalma Abbey, Hungary
2006 Exact Time, Janos Gat Gallery, New York, USA
Seven Sailors, Museum of Contemporary Art, Szceczin, Poland
2005 An Experiment in Navigation, Hungarian Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice,
Italy

Group exhibitions (selection)

2012 What is Hungarian?Műcsarnok, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Foreign Matter, Modem, Debrecen, Hungary
2011 The New Arrivals 8 Contemporary Artists from Hungary, Palais des Beaux-Arts,
Brussels, Belgium
2009 Messiahs, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
Little Hungarian Pornography, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
Postproduction - Reflections on the Holocaust,ÓbudaiTársaskör, Budapest,
Hungary
Contemporary Hungarian Video Artists, Janos Gat Gallery, New York, USA
2008 11 Contemporary Private Collections, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2007 Bartók’s Bugs, 2B Gallery, Budapest
Homesickness, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1-2-3 The Collection in Focus, Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of
Contemporary Art, Budapest

Works in public collections

Ludwig Museum / Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest;Zacheta Modern Art, Szczecin, Poland; Albertina, Vienna, Austria; King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary; Municipal Picture Gallery / Museum Kiscell, Budapest; Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Hungary;Első Magyar Látványtár, Diszel, Hungary; Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Great Britain

Works in private collections

LászlóGerő Collection, Budapest; Alain Servais’s Collection, Brussels, Belgium;Antal-Lusztig Collection, Debrecen, Hungary;Somlói-Spengler Collection, Budapest, Hungary; Silvio Pötchner’s Collection, Vienna, Austria; Michel Bondon’s, Collection, Rennes, France; Paul Westlake’s Collection, London, United Kingdom

Bibliography (selection)

Ivy Cooper:BalázsKicsiny, Art Forum, April 2012, p. 217-218.
Jessica Baran: BalázsKicsiny, Art in America, May 2012, p. 181.
Richard Umwin: The New Arrivals: 8 Contemporary Artists from Hungary, Frieze, April,
2011, p. 139-140.
The Collection, catalogue, Ludwig Museum / Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest,
2010
The Drawing Book, Edited by Tania Kovats, Published by Black Dog 2006
LászlóKrasznahorkai: Drifted Standing, exhibition catalogue of the 51st Venice
Biennale, Műcsarnok, Budapest, 2005
Hungarian Arts Directory, published by Visiting Arts, 1999, U.K.
Hundred Years Hungarian Arts, Published by Corvina, Budapest, 2000
New Acquisitions, catalogue Hungarian National Gallery,Budapest, 1993
ÉvaKörner: On the Way, catalogue, King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár,
1995
LórántHegyi: NeueIdentitat in der neuen Situation, In: Die zweiteOffentlichkeit. Kunst in Ungarnim 20. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. Hans Knoll, Dresden,1999

Publications

The New Arrivals 8 Contemporary Artists from Hungary, Palais des Beaux-Arts,
Brussels, exhibition catalogue, 2011
DauerhafteLandung – BalázsKicsiny, Johanniter Church, Feldkirch, exhibition
catalogue, 2008
BalázsKicsiny – Exact Time, exhibition catalogue, Janos Gat Gallery, New York,
U.S.A. 2006
BalázsKicsiny - Experiment in Navigation, exhibition catalogue of the 51st Venice
Biennale, Műcsarnok, Budapest, 2005
KicsinyBalázs – Work in Progress, exhibition catalogue, Ludwig Museum Budapest –
Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, 2002
The Captain‘s Story: an attempt in domestication, an installation by BalázsKicsiny,
exhibition catalogue,Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth,
U.K., 2001
KicsinyBalázskiállítása,exhibition catalogue, King Saint Stephen Museum,
Székesfehérvár, 1995
KicsinyBalázskiállítása, StúdióGaléria, exhibition catalogue, Young Artists‘ Studio,
1988

Awards AND grants (selection)

2010 Freund Visiting Artist Fellowship 2011/2012, Sam Fox School of Design &Arts,
Washington University in St. Louis and Kemper Museum St. Louis U.S.A.
2005 O.H.R. Officer of the Order of the Cross of the Hungarian Republic
2002 New Work and Commissions Grant, Art Council of England, Southern Arts
Board
2000 Year of the Artist Grant, Art Council of England, Southern Arts Board
1993 Smohay Award, King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
1992 Munkácsy State Art Award

Web

http://www.balazskicsiny.com