Miklós Kiss
kissmiklos (Miklós Kiss / miklɔːʃ kiʃ /; born September 19, 1981 in Dunaújváros , Hungary ) is a Hungarian designer and visual artist who processes elements of graphic design, design, visual arts and architecture.
Career
Kiss graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied graphics, painting and art education from 2000 to 2006. During his studies he exhibited in the Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle in the Ludwig Museum, Budapest , and in the Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros. After completing his studies, Kiss was invited to the Essl Award exhibition at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg , where he received a special award.
Since 2008 Kiss has been working as a visual artist and graphic designer who combines graphics, design and interior architecture in his projects. Most of the works of art by Miklós Kiss explore the boundaries and transitions between art and design and are intended to offer an interaction with the viewer.
Since 2011, Miklós Kiss has been carrying out his guerrilla art campaign Goldenroach with 14 carat gold-plated bronze cockroaches in museums and galleries and making them part of the respective exhibition: Tate Modern, Tate Britain, British Museum, Saatschi Gallery, MUMOK, Hamburger Bahnhof, Center Pompidou, Louvre, MAXXI, Vatican Museums, MOMA and the Venice Biennale. In the first legal exhibition Goldenroach Unlimited in Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest, Kiss installed 12,000 gold-plated cockroaches in 2014, along with a 14-carat gold cockroach that was hidden under the plastic insects. The guerrilla art and installation Goldenroach was intended to examine the definition of art in terms of the location and the manner of representation.
Kiss created several public art installations, including Ball.Room , in the Design Terminal, Elisabeth Park, 2016 and Just Decoration Tag Cloud in Mom Park, 2017, Budapest. In 2019 Kiss exhibited his installation Ball.Room with his emograms in the main pavilion of the Gwangju Design Biennale. In 2020 he had his first international solo exhibition at Lotte Gallery Incheon, South Korea .
Commercial work (selection)
- Kiss made the overall signage design for the Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport . (2009)
- The Kunstgewerbemuseum bought its furniture collection from recycled tires. (2011)
- In collaboration with Heineken , Kiss developed a limited edition of bottle designs and two large installations. (2012-2014)
- Kiss created the brand and packaging design for the first Hungarian perfume line Viktoria Minya. (2013-2018)
- Kiss was commissioned by the Budapest Central European Fashion Week to create a new identity and brand design for the retail design blog. (2018)
- Kiss was invited to create a comprehensive city branding for the city of Kaposvár . (2016-2019)
- Design projects for the Lincoln Center (New York) and the Hotel Four Seasons (Budapest). Kiss developed its own rebranding concepts based on the existing logo of the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation and the New York Magazine . (2019)
- In collaboration with the Archikon architecture firm, Kiss designed the interior for the restaurant in the House of Millennium. He created exaggerated large-format ornaments, plates and vases based on the Eosin technique of the Zsolnay porcelain factory. (2019)
Private life
Miklós Kiss has been married to the photographer Eszter Sara Cseh since 2018.
The extraordinary marriage proposal, which in 2018 was disguised as a guerrilla action in MOMA, was followed by an extraordinary wedding ceremony. The design of the wedding identity was based on the manipulation of some famous classic oil paintings. The faces on these iconic paintings have been exchanged for the portraits of the bride and groom. The pictures were printed in original size on canvas and the wedding started with a real exhibition opening. The wedding identity included invitation cards that resembled invitations to exhibitions and museum postcards, a photo book, and a special edition for wine labels.
Selected exhibitions
2019 Ball.Room. Installation, Gwangju Design Biennial Main Pavilion, South Korea
2017 Just Decoration Tag Cloud, Installation, Mom Park Shopping Center, Budapest
2016 Myself, interactive exhibition, Budapest
2016 Ball.Room. Installation, Design Terminal, Budapest
2014 Goldenroach Unlimited, exhibition, Mücsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest
Publications (selection)
- Novum, World of Graphic Design (04/19), Stiebner Verlag GmbH, D-80636 Munich
- Flora & Fauna, Viction: workshop Ltd., Hong Kong
- Lot Logos 8, Gestalten, Berlin
- Branding & Spaces Design, Instituto Monsa de Ediciones, Barcelona
- Bon Appétit / Complete Branding for Restaurants, Cafés and Bakeries / Sendpoints Publishing Co., Ltd. Guangzhou, China
- Eat and Stay, Sandu Publishing Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China
- BOB / International Magazine of Space Design / 132 / A&C Publiching Co., Ltd., Seoul
- AIT / architecture, interior design, technical expansion / 3.2015 / Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
- Computer Arts, Issue # 221 (December 2013), Future Publishing Ltd., Bath
- How to use type, Laurence King Publishing Ltd., London
- Computer Arts Collection Volume 1 Part 4: Branding by Franklin Till, Future Publishing Ltd., Bath, UK
- Communication Arts, Volume 54, Number 3, Coyne & Blanchard, Inc., California
- Introducing: Visual Identities for Small Business, Gestalten, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ miklos kiss sneaks goldenroach into the main pavilion of the 2017 venice biennale. July 8, 2017, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Farkas-Zentai Lili: Miklós Kiss | Ball.Room. reloaded. In: HYPEANDHYPER. February 14, 2020, accessed May 30, 2020 (UK English).
- ^ Heineken Pop up store for the Central European Fashion Days by Kiss Miklós, Budapest. Retrieved May 30, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Elegáns, érzéki és nőies: az első magyar parfümmárka. Retrieved May 30, 2020 (Hungarian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiss, Miklós |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kissmiklos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian designer and visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dunaújváros , Hungary |