Artists



Fehér, László

Biography:

1953 he was born on 17th March, in Székesfehérvár
1971 − 1976 studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
His masters: Lajos Szentiványi and Ignác Kokas
He lives in Budapest and in Tác.

Awards:

1978—81. Derkovits Scholarship of the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture
1982. Award of the Young Artists’ Studio
1986. Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome
1987. 19th International Painting Festival, award of the jury
1990. 2nd prize, Young Eastern-European Painters’ Festival, Rotterdam
1993. Munkácsy Mihály Award
1995. 28th Summer Exhibition, Szeged — special award of “Foundation for Szeged”
1996. Millecentenary Competition – 1100 years in Europe – 100 years arts promotion – special award of MTM Communication, Budapest
2000. Kossuth Award
2002. 5th Hungarian Pastel Biennale, professional award of MAOE
2003. “End of Painting?” Exhibition, award of Hungarian Painters Association
2003. Award “For Hungarian Jewish Culture”
2004. Award of Porsche Hungary Ltd., 51st Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely, Hódmezővásárhely
2005. Silver Degree, 15th “Faces and Fates” Hungarian Portrait Biennale
2006. Art Export, Hungarian Artists’ Shops, Talens Company – tender for the 400th birthday of Rembrandt, Painters’ Category, 1st prize
2006. Prima Award (Category of Hungarian Fine Arts)
2007. Ambassador of Hungarian Culture

Pieces of Art in public collections:

• Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
• Young Artists’ Studio, Budapest,
• Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Hungary,
• Herman Ottó Museum, Miskolc, Hungary
• Déri Múzeum, Debrecen, Hungary
• Somogy County Museums, Kaposvár, Hungary
• County Library, Békéscsaba, Hungary
• Modern Museum Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
• Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
• Neue Galerie der Stadt (Lentos), Lenz, Austria
• Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria
• Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany
• Städtische Galerie, Wendlingen am Neckar, Germany
• Tragor Ignác Museum, Vác, Hungary
• Gallery Kara, Geneva, Switzerland
• Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
• Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany,
• City Gallery

Most Important Individual Exhibitions:

1977. Cultural Hall, Kincsesbánya
1979. FÁÉV, Székesfehérvár
1980. Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
1983. Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest
1986. Youth Hall, Székesfehérvár
1988. Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Műcsarnok (Palace of Arts), Budapest
1989. Fészek Gallery, Dialogue II (with Franz Pichler), Budapest
Gallery Panetta (with László Mulasics), Mannheim, Barbican Centre
Concourse Gallery, London
1990. XLIV. La Biennale di Venezia, Hungarian Hall, Venedig
1990/91. “Pictures 1975—1980”, Free Culture Hall, Székesfehérvár
1991. Gallery Synthese, Lenz; Gallery Paolo Majorana, Brescia
1992. IFA Gallery, Stuttgart
IFA Gallery, Berlin
Hungarian Culture and Information Centre, Stuttgart
1993. Fészek Gallery, Budapest
Capital City Exhibition Hall
Kiscelli Museum (collective), Budapest
Pécsi Gallery, Pécs
Gallery Gaudens Pedit, Innsbruck
Gallery Cuenca, Ulm
1994. Leslie Sacks Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Gallery Dambier Masset, Paris
1995. Ludwig Museum, “New Pictures”, Budapest
Museum National de Arta, Cluj
1996. Levy Gallery, Hamburg;
Fészek Gallery, Budapest;
Art Expo; Művész Gallery, Budapest;
Zichy Gallery, Leiden;
Spiritusz Gallery, Budapest
1997. Fészek Gallery, Budapest;
Leiden Culturstad ´97; Garage van de Blonkpanden Institut Hongrois, Leiden;
OTP Bank Gallery, Bank Centre, Budapest;
Gallery OZ, Paris;
Gallery CO10, Düsseldorf;
Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais, Liechtenstein, Vienna – retrospektive (catalogue)
1998. Holbein Hause, Augsburg;
XO Gallery, Budapest
1999. Coutts Bank, Vienna;
Galerie Koczoh, München (with Károly Kelemen);
Gallery CO10, Düsseldorf (Spuren der Erinnerung);
Pozitavská Gallery, Nové Zámky, Pertu No. 3., (with Martin Knut)
2000. XO Gallery, Budapest;
Várfok 14 Gallery, Budapest;
Palais Shönborn, Vienna;
FIAC 2000 – Várfok Gallery, Paris
2001. Rippl-Rónai Museum, Kaposvár;
Vadnai Gallery, Budapest;
L’Esplanade (Connexion-Déconnexion), Saint-Etienne;
Imre Kálmán Museum, Siófok;
Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest
2002. Festetics Palace, Dég;
Painters’ Studio, Sopron;
“Portrait”, Godot Gallery, Budapest; Art Garage, Zug
2003. Fészek Gallery (50 years, jubilee exhibition), Budapest
2004. Starting Point, Gallery’13, Budapest (Soroksár);
“Faces from the Circus”, Várfok Gallery, Budapest;
Szinyei Saloon, Budapest;
Gallery CO10, Düsseldorf
2005. KOGART House, Budapest;
City Concert and Exhibition Hall (synagogue), Zalaegerszeg
2007. Ludwig Museum, Budapest – retrospective
2008. " The story of Judit" Gallery Orel Art Paris - France

Most Important Collective Exhibitions:

1977. Annual Exhibition of Young Artists’ Studio, Csók István Gallery, Székesfehérvár
1979. Triennial of Realist Painters, Sipka Utcai Gallery, Sofia
1980. 39th Venetian Biennale; Venedig, Hungarian Hall, Venetia,
Stúdió ´80, Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest
1982. L’art hongrois contemporain, Musee Cantini, Marseille,
Palais d’Europe, Menton,
Palais Conserva-toire, Lyon,
Salon Régain, Clermont-Ferrand,
Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
1983. Young Hungarian Artists, Hungarian Institute, Warsaw;
“Szín(tézis)próba (Colour/thesis/rehearsal)”, Dorottya Street Exhibition Hall, Budapest
1984. International Water Colour Competition, Ginaida Gin Foundation, Rome;
Young Artists from Hungary, Galeria Studio, Warsaw
1985. Drei Generationen ungarischer Maler, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz;
“40 years of Creation” , Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest;
“Tradition and Present 1-2”, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
1986. “Eclectic ‘85”, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest;
“Dialogue II”, Fészek Gallery, Budapest;
International Impact Art Festival, City Art Gallery, Kyoto;
“Donators, Donations”, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest;
“Oil/Canvas”, Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest;
The Merics Collection, Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár
1987. Neue Sensibilität, Ungarische Malerei der 80er Jahre, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Villa Merkel, Ausstellungshalle Westfalenpark, Dortmund, Imre Bak, Gábor Bachman, Ákos Birkás, László Fehér, Károly Kelemen, Attila Kovács, László Rajk, András Wahorn,
ELAC, Art Contemporain, Lyon, Ungarische Mythen, Landeskulturzentrum Ursulienhof,
Linz, 19’eme Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Alte Gefühle — Vier ungarische Künstler, Galeria Knoll, Vienna,
“New Trends in Hungarian Art“, Dom Umeni mesta Brna, Brno
1988. “Connections” – Fonticolli, Fraterno, Soós, Fehér, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest;
Budapest ‘88, Gallery Knoll, Vienna;
“Arti et Amitiae“, Amsterdam
Philips Auktion, London, 22.; Kunstmesse, Koln
1989. „Kunst heute in Ungarn“, Neue Galerie der Stadt, Lenz;
Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen;
“Contemporary Hungarian Art“, Národni Gallery, Prague;
“Hungarian Avantgarde in the 1980s“, Walker Hill Art Centre, Seoul;
Kunstverein, Mannheim, Schloss, Mochental, Ehingen, Stadtmuseum, Oldenburg;
„Kunst der letzten zehn Jahre“, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna;
“Budapester Belvedere“, Kampnagelfabrik KX, Hamburg; Argelander Gallery, Bonn
1990. Leere Raume, Gallery Bavaria Film Studios, Munich;
„Vier Künstler aus Budapest“ — Borbás, Fehér, Mulasics, Szõnyei, Galerie in der Georg Trakl Forschungs und Gedenkstätte, Salzburg,
„Drei Künstler aus Ungarn“ — Borbás, Fehér, Mulasics, Städtische Galerie, Wendlingen am Nedkar,
IFA Galerie, Bonn,
Einsteinhaus, Ulm,
“Hungarian Contemporary Art“, Stuart Levy Gallery, New York,
“13 Hungarian Artists”, Galeria Zacheta, Warschau,
“Eastern European Young Artists’ Festival “, Rotterdam,
„Zeichen im Fluss“, Museum moderner Kunst, Wien,
Galeria hlavniho mesta Prahy, Prague,
Pécsi Gallery, Pécs,
Galerija grada Zagreba, Zagreb,
„Ungarische Avantgarde in der Malerei der 80er Jahre“, Rathaus, Fellbach,
„Kunst der 80er Jahre aus der Sammlung der Neuen Galerie“, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
1991. “Zeitsprünge — Kunstwerke im Dialog“, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz,
“Pools”, Stuart Levy Gallery, New York,
„Posoionen“ — Ungarische Kunst der 90er Jahre, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich,
“Metaphoric”, Pécsi Gallery, Pécs,
Kennesaw State College, Marietta, Georgia,
„Kunst Europa“, Kunsthalle, Bremen,
“Free Zone“, Taidehalli, Helsinki,
“Free Zone”, Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest,
“Free Worlds – Metaphors and Realities in Contemporary Hungarian Art”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,
Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Borbás, Fehér, Klimó, Mulasics,
Galeria Auris, Hammeelinna,
Galerie Bel’Arte, Helsinki
1989—1990. „Ein Museum auf Reisen“, Die Sammlung der Neuen Galerie Graz,
Musée St. Pierre, Lyon,
“Künstlerische Konfrontationen”, Rathaus der Altstadt, Torun,
“Budapest Contemporary Hungarian Art in Dublin”, RHH, Gallegher Gallery, Dublin,
“Hungarian Modern Art”, Seoul Art Centre and Museum, Seoul,
Art Cologne, Kunstmesse, Koln,
Art Fair, Los Angeles
1992. „Hungarica“ — Arte Ungherese degli anni ´80 e sue Origini, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Palazzo Braschi, Rome
„Ungarn, Zeit, Kunst“, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Galerie der Bayerischen Landesbank, Munich,
“Time and Tide”, E. A. U. Co. Ltd. Tokyo
1993. „Konfrontationen, Neuerwerbungen 1990—1993“, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
“Hungary: Before and After”, IMF Visitors’ Centre, Washington DC,
“Variations on Pop-Art”, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hanover, Messe
1994. „Kommentar zu Europa“, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna,
“Quatra plasticiens hongrois” (Barábas, Bukta, Fehér, Julius), L’Hippodrome, Douai,
“Fine Arts in the 80s”, Ernst Museum, Budapest,
“More than Ten, The Soros Foundation is 10 Years Old”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1995. “Eastern Inspirations”, Sándor Palace, Budapest,
“Albertina Shopping”, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
26th Szeged Summer Exhibition, Móra Ferenc Museum, Exhibition Hall, Szeged
“New compositions” 1985—1995, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
42nd Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely, Tornyai János Museum, Hódmezõvásárhely
2nd Hungarian Pastel Biennale, Balassi Bálint Museum, Esztergom
1996. V. A. M. Design Gallery, Budapest, “Homage to Millecentenary”, Kempinski Gallery, Budapest,
“Millecentenary”, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
“Myths, Memory, History”, Fõvárosi Képtár — Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
“Vie Individuali”, Palazzo Reale, Arengario, Mailand,
“A Legacy Envisioned. A Century of Modern Art to Celebrate Hungary’s 1100 years: 896—1996”, World Bank Hall, Washington,
“Landscape after Landscape” , Fészek Gallery, Budapest,
“Artworks and Behaviour 1990—1996”, Csók István Exhibition Hall, Székesfehérvár
1997. “Artist Portraits”, Fészek Gallery, Budapest,
“Myths, Memories, History”, Lienz, Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest,
“Dialogues de l’Ombre”, Espace Electra, Paris,
“Diaspora (and) Art”, Jewish Museum, Budapest, Pest Centre Gallery, Budapest,
“Interactus III”, Accademia D’Ungheria, Rome,
“Artists’ Kitchen”, Erdész Gallery, Szentendre,
“114/7920 (114 Artworks out of 7920)”, Selection from the Contemporary Collection’s Material, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1998. “Hungarian Spring 1848—1849”, Zacheta, Warsaw
“Sensitivities”, European Academy for the Arts, London,
“Masterpieces and Master Pieces”, First Hungarian Art & Artefact Repository Foundation, Tapolca, Diszel, Hungary
„Avantgarde in 20. Jahrhundert”, Neue Galerie der Stradt Linz, Lenz,
“FIAC ‘98”, Paris — Várfok Gallery,
„Nomen est Omen“ — Kunsthalle, Steyr, Austria,
“Circle of Roses“, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1999. “Farewell to the 20th Century”, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest,
“ARCO ‘99”, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Várfok Gallery,
“Ungarn 2000”, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
“Hallmark”, Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest,
“Ungarn 1999 Most — Zeitgenössische Kunst”, Museum Bohum,
“FIAC ‘99”, Paris, Várfok Gallery,
”Our 20th Century“, Szent István Király Museum (Csók István Exhibition Hall), Székesfehérvár,
„Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ungarn“, Galerie der Stadt Fellbach und Rathausfoyer, Fellbach
“Aspekte (Positionen 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949—1999)“, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein, 20er Haus, Vienna
2000. “L’Autre moitié de l’Europe”, Galerie Nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris
“History – Picture“, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest,
“Artists’ Kitchen”, Erdész Gallery, Szentendre,
“Artists, Wine, Cheese and Collections”, V.A.M. — R.S. Gallery, Budapest
“With Arts to the New Century” – contemporary sculpture exhibition on the ice of Lake City Park, Városliget, Budapest
“The Free Culture Hall is 25 Years Old - our exhibitors”, Free Culture Hall, Székesfehérvár
3rd Exhibition of State Awarded Artists, Olof Palme House, Budapest,
“Kunst 2000” Zurich — Gallery Annamarie M. Andresen
2001. “Re-conciliations”, Quinze artistes contemporains hongrois, Espace Commines, Paris
Salon de l’ Hotel de Ville, Bobigny
“Dialogue, Painting, Sculpture”, Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest
“Values in the 3rd Millennium”, Pataky Gallery, Budapest,
“Chair/Place/Inaugural”, Exhibition of Hungarian Artists with Kossuth Award, Federation of Hungarian Fine and Applied Arts, Budapest,
31st Szeged Summer Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Szeged,
“Crème” MEO, Contemporary Arts Collection, Budapest,
“Bridge of Time“ (Időhíd-Zeitbrücke), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau,
„Langzame Opmerkingen“, Sint-Jorispond Centrum Elzenveld, Antwerp
2002. “Green” Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest,
“Contemporary Artworks from the Dénes Deák Collection”, City Exhibition Hall, Deák Collection, Székesfehérvár,
“Brit- Noah”, Hungarian Jewish Museum, Budapest,
“Master Paintbrushes”, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest,
“Re-Conciliations”, Capital City Exhibition Hall, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest;
“Strand”, GAG Gallery, Budapest;
“Situation Ungarn - Kunst - vor und nach der Wende - Stiftung Branderburger Tor” im Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin;
“9×9”, City Hall, Leiden;
“Inherited Realism”, Szombathelyi Exhibition Hall, Szombathely;
“Among Houses”, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest;
“December Night” (series of contemporary private collections), from the Ledényi Attila collection, Godot Gallery, Budapest;
Hungarian Pastell Biennale, Esztergom
2003. “Lipstick” Szombathelyi Exhibition Hall, Szombathely;
“Crème 2003”, MEO, Budapest;
Lentos Museum (permanent exhibition), Lenz
“The End of Painting?”, Olof Palme House, Budapest;
32nd Summer Exhibition, Szeged
Collection of the Tragor Ignác Museum, Vác; Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest;
“Without Bonds”, Godot Gallery, Budapest;
“Near Far” Museum of Arts, Olmutz;
“Portrait”, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest;
“Values in the 3rd Millenary, Pataky Cultural Centre, Budapest;
50th Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely, Tornyai János Museum, Hódmezővásárhely; Autumn Exhibition of Fejér County, Csók István Exhibition Hall, Székesfehérvár;
“Hungary Unplugged”, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels;
“The Soul’s Way”, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest;
“Idyllen und Katastrophen”, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
2004. “Idylls and Catastrophes”, Vízivárosi Gallery, Budapest
“On the Hill” Scheffer Gallery, Budapest
“Holocaust Put to Silence”, Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest
“Streams”, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
“Passage Europe”, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne
“Techno-real? –notes to a debate”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros;
51st Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely, Tornyai János Museum, Hódmezővásárhely; “Thought, Line, Drawing”, Pécsi Kis Gallery, Miskolci Gallery, City Arts Museum,
FMK – those 80’s…,KOGART House, Budapest
2005. “Sacrifice – Propitiation”, Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest
“Hungarian Art of the Recent 25 Years” from the Hernádi Collection, Kassák Museum, Budapest
“Hungarian Artists: An Exhibition of Passion, Interludes and Progress”, Lighthouse Centre for the Arts, Tequesta, Florida, U.S.A.
Fejér County Exhibition - 2005, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dunaújváros
“Children Crying Heartily”, City Exhibition Hall, Győr
Krems, Frauenbad, Baden, Schüttkasten, Weinstadt Museum, Allensteig, Universität für Angewandte Kunst
“Europe in Art”, HVB Bank, Budapest
52nd Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely, Tornyai János Museum, Hódmezővásárhely
“My Most Favourite Pictures”, Kassák Museum, Budapest
“Changing the Steps”, Szent István Király Museum, Csók István Exhibition Hall, Székesfehérvár;
“Living Classics”, Városi Művészeti Museum, Győr;
“ÉS Tárlat”, Gallery’ 13, Budapest (Soroksár)
“The Praise of Art Dealing”, First Hungarian Art & Artefact Repository Foundation, Tapolca-Diszel.
8th International Drawing and Graphics Biennale, City Arts Museum, Győr.
2006. “ÉS Tárlat”, Szombathely, Vas County Cultural and Youth Centre, Médium Gallery, Szombathely
“99 Years”, Modem, Debrecen
“In the Name of Mimesis”, Tragor Ignác Museum, Vác
“Homage to Mulasics”, Várfok Gallery, Budapest
20th Hungarian Aquarelle Biennale, Templom Gallery, Eger
53rd Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely, Alföldi Gallery, Hódmezővásárhely
“Landmarks” - selection from the Artworks of Ignác Kokas’ students, Műcsarnok (Palace of Art), Budapest
“Thought-Line-Drawing”, Aulich Art Gallery, Budapest
“Come with Me.” - paintings, sculptures, photos - selection from the Ferenc Karvalits Collection, Vízivárosi Gallery, Budapest
“Aktuelle Kunst aus Ungarn”, Stiftung Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum, Ulm
2007. “Faces and Spaces” – pictures from a contemporary fine arts collection, Gönczi Gallery Zalaegerszeg
“Hiding Drawings” – selection from the Pán-Mezei Graphics Collection, 2B Gallery, Budapest
2008 The Sun Street Boys are back - Images of 12 feature film of Szomjas, György responding 12 artists, Forrás Gallery, Budapest
2009 The Sun Street Boys are back - Images of 12 feature film of Szomjas, György responding 12 artists, MEDIAWAVE, Győr
2011 Exhibition "Magyar művészet", National Art Museum of China, Beijing