János Sugár
János Sugár (* 1958 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian conceptual artist , sculptor and filmmaker .
life and work
János Sugár studied sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. During his studies between 1980 and 1986, Sugár was a member of the interdisciplinary Indigo Group (INDIGO = Inter-Disciplinary-Thinking in Hungarian), which was founded in 1978 by Miklós Erdély . This group of artists included András Böröcz, Ildikó Enyedi , László Révész and János Szirtes. János Sugár works in the fields of sculpture, installation , performance , film and video art . Between 1990 and 1995 Sugár was one of the directors of the Balázs Béla Stúdiós in Budapest. In 1994, 95 and 96 Sugár organized the MetaForum Conference Series with Geert Lovink and Diana McCarty . The Anthology Film Archives in New York City has been showing his films since 1998 . In 1990 János Sugár was appointed professor at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts , where he was a founding member of the Intermedia Department .
The 2001 film The Typewriter of the Illiterate is about the Kalashnikov machine gun . Do you know my method from 2002 and Monument of No Erase from 2006 are other well-known short films by János Sugár.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1992: documenta IX , Kassel
- 1996: Manifesta I, Rotterdam
- 2000: Aspect - Positions Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- 2001: Heidenheim sculpture symposium
- 2009: Tomorrow is Evidence! , with Bálint Bori and Zoltán Lábas, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
- 2012: Video Vortex # 8 Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
- 2013: unrest of form. Drafts of the political subject Vienna Secession , Vienna
- 2014: Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York
- 2015: Sales in the side rooms . Curator: Harald Falckenberg Galerie Krinzinger , Vienna
Awards (selection)
- 1988: Villa Romana , Florence, Italy
- 1994: Artslink, residency at the Cleveland Institute of Art, USA
- 1998/1999: Fellowships at Experimental Intermedia, New York
- 2000: Künstlerhäuser Worpswede , Worpswede
- 2001: Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York
Web links
- János Sugár monopoly on artistic freedom in Hungary
- artportal János Sugár
- János Sugár at artfacts.net
- János Sugár on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13th-20th September 1992 - catalog in three volumes, volume 1, page 228; Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0
- ↑ blouinartinfo János Sugár , accessed on September 4, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Monoskop The Indigo Group , accessed on September 4, 2016 (English).
- ↑ art quarter budapest János Sugár , accessed on September 4, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Kisterem János Sugár , accessed on September 4, 2016 (English).
- ↑ ladaproject János Sugár , accessed on September 4, 2016 (English).
- ↑ János Sugár , accessed on September 4, 2016 (English).
- ^ Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart Tomorrow is Evidence! accessed on September 4, 2016
- ↑ János Sugár , accessed on September 4, 2016 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sugár, János |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian conceptual artist, sculptor and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |