Áron Gábor
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
Áron Gábor works and lives in Budapest and Badacsonytomaj. His works contain powerful pictorial graphic elements, as well as a natural and facile use and rhyming of the different mediums – which is the influence of Mikós Erdélyi and the Indigó group. His paintings, graphics, experimental films, and installations use the source of the sliding and mirroring of the different layers into each other. Strong color contrasts, cold and warm color effects are built into his works, which are applied with gold and silver, operating with very delicate transitions in the details.
STUDIES
1989. Exhibition and Study Trip in USA and Canada
1985. Study in England
1984. Study Trip in Italy, Germany and Switzerland
1983. Study Trip in Finland
1981. Graduated from the Fine Art University in Budapest
1979-86. Indigo Group led by Miklos Erdely
1968-75. Study drawing at the Moholy-Nagy Studio from Ernő Fisher
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025. Visszapörgetve, acb galéria, Budapest
2023. Körkérdés, Műcsarnok, Budapest
2023. Mélység vonzásában, Zsdrál Art Galéria, Balatonfüred
2022. Gondolatok a fejről, Fészek Galéria, Budapest
2022. TÉR-KÉRDÉSEK A selection of works from the last four decades, Faur Zsófi Galéria, Budapest
2022. TÉR-KÉRDÉSEK Szín-tézis series, B32 Galéria, Budapest
2020. Elevenedés Szín-tézis series Bartók Boulevard, Faur Zsófi Galéria, Budapest
2019. Contrasts II., G.Heller Zsuzsa képzőművésszel, Révfülöp
2018. Dialogue Gallery Zsofi Faur, Budapest
2016. ‘Poll’ Book Launch and exhibition, Gallery Zsofi Faur, Budapest
2014. ‘Under the Spell of Depth’, Gallery Raiffeisen, Budapest
2014. ‘Whisper in the Ear’, Gallery Zsofi Faur, Budapest
2013. ‘Light Labyrinth’, Zsofi Faur Gallery, Budapest
2011. 'Unexpected Happenings', Zsófi Faur Gallery, Budapest
2011. 'Synthesis', Centro Arte Lupier, Gardone Valtrompia, Italy
2009. 'Synthesis', G13 Gallery, Budapest
2008. 'Light processes' Judit Virág Contemporary Gallery, Budapest
2007. 'Light Stream' Fészek Gallery, Budapest
2004. 'Mediterráneum Rome-Badacsony-Lisbon' Csikász Gallery, Veszprém, Hungary
2004. Il Café Europe - Centro Di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2004. Hungarian Academy, Rome, Italy
2004. Gallery Virag Judit, Budapest
2003. Haworth Hungary, Budapest
2003. G. Heller Zsuzsa-Gábor Áron, Die Botschaft der Republik Ungarn, Berlin
2002. Visible and Invisible, Vadnai Gallery, Budapest
2000. Picture Gallery (Kiscelli Museum), Budapest
2000. Painting and Sculpture, Schloss Gutenberg, Austria
1999. Art House, Pécs
1998. Ernst Museum, Budapest
1996. Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
1995. Pandora Gallery, Budapest
1993. Pécs Gallery, Hungary
1993. Pandora Gallery, Budapest
1991. French Institut, Budapest (FMK), Budapest
1989. Video Installation, French Institut, Budapest
1987. Studio Gallery, Budapest
1985. Young Artists Club (FMK), Budapest
1983. Hungarian Culture Institute, Helsinki
1983. City Gallery, Porvo, Finland
1982. Videoton Culture House, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023.
Landing International Exhibition, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest
Evocations A nomadic Exhibition Project, International Exhibition: Shazar Gallery - Naples, ltaly; Galerie Brugier-Rigail - Paris, France; Galeria Petra Seiser - Attersee, Austria; Faur Zsófi Galéria - Budapest, Hungary
Interactions, Meeting of the Arts across Europe, Csigó Mill, Gyulakeszi
Tendencies, Reök Palace, Szeged
My Imaginary Land, Faur Zsófi Galéria, Budapest
2022. The outside to me - The inside to me, Faur Zsófi Galéria, Budapest
2021.
Bak Imre x Gábor Áron, Káli Cool, Káptalantóti
20 years 20 stories 20 artists, Faur Zsófi Galéria, Budapest
One artist - Ones designer, Faur Zsófi Galéria, Budapest
2020.
Exhibition in Káli Cool, Káptalantóti
25 years- 30 artists, Vizivárosi Galéria, Budapest
Resident Art Garden 2020, Lovas
2019.
Hommage a Fischer Ernő, Mester Galéria, Budapest
Dentro il disegno/ Inside the Drawing, Saluzzo, Olaszország
2018. Gesicht-Volto Gallery Martin Mertens, Curated by Lóránd Hegyi, Berlin, Germany
2017.
HARD END SOFT exhibition, Gallery Zsofi Faur, Budapest
Private collection of Istvan Hoffmann, Kunsthalle
2016. Hungarian Artists and the Computer, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2015.
Artists and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Hungarian Consulate New York
Overture Hungary-Imago-Mundi Exhibition in Venice, Italy
2014.
Art Fair, Busan, Korea
Waldsee 1944, Cruel Correspondence, 2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Megapixel, Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2013. Viewing Angles, Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2012. Graphic Biennale of Győr, Győr, Hungary
2011-12. 'Paperworks' - Zsófi Faur Gallery, Budapest
2011.
Paper Panorama, Judit Virág Contemporary Gallery
Graphic Triennial of Győr, Hungary
2010.
Painting Biennial Szombathely, Picture Gallery of Szombathely
'Art Fanatics' - Contemporary Private Collections - Kunsthalle, Budapest
2009.
'Hungarikons' - Museum of Literature, Budapest
'Tolerance in Art' - Exhibition of Contemporary Slovakian and Hungarian Artists, Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
'Black and White I.', G13 Gallery, Budapest
ÉS Exibition, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
Selection from the Contemporary Art Collection of István Hoffmann, French Institute, Budapest
2008.
Hommage á El Kazovszkij, Várfok Gallery, Budapest
Budapest Art Fair, Judit Virág Contemporary Gallery, Budapest
Graphic Biennale of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary
2007.
'ARTINACT' Opening of the new building at the Picture Gallery of Paks, Hungary
'Fresh Painting' Judit Virág Contemporary Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
'The North Shore' Modern and Contemporary Art Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
'The Independent Painting' Judit Virág Gallery and Auction House
'Hungarian Contemporary Art' from the Raiffeisen Collection, Budapest
'Applied Artists', Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2006.
Cowparade, Charity Auction, Palace of Arts
Cowparade, Budapest
'The Road' 1956-2006, Kunsthalle, Budapest
'Landmark' Selection from the works of the students of Ignác Kokas, Kunsthalle,
Hommage á Mulasics, XO Gallery, Budapest
2005.
'Living Classics' City Art Museum, Győr, Hungary
’The Enigma of Modernity’, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
XIX. National Small Objects Biennial, Pécs, Hungary
Youth Artists - FMK - those 80' KOGArt Art Foundation, Budapest
2004. ‘Classic topics II. Lithography’, Gallery IX., Budapest
2003. Art of the '90s, Selection from the Collection of the Museum of Győr, Csikász Gallery, Veszprém
2002.
The 90th III., City Museum, Győr
Re Conciliations, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
Noé Allianz, Israelite Museum, Budapest
Graphic Biennial, Miskolc
2001.
Re Conciliations, Espace Commines, Paris
2000.
V. Contemporary Hungarian Graphic, Japan
Hungarian Contemporary Fine Art, EU Mission, Brussels
A.R.C.O. 2000. Éri Gallery, Madrid
1999.
The New Collection of the 90th, Győr
Head Exhibition’, Olof Palma House, Budapest
Consulate General of the Republic Hungary, New York
1998.
Donau Eschingen, Hungarian Culture Week, Germany
ART-EXPO Budapest
1997.
New prints’, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
Selection from the Collection of the National Gallery, Budapest
Oil/ canvas, Kunsthalle, Budapest
New Works, Paksi Picture Gallery, Paks
Contemporary Collection, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Culture of the Taste, French Institut, Budapest
Contemporary Hungarian Graphic, Museo Nacional de la Culturas, Brasil
Artists Portraits, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
1996.
’Unusual prints’, World Trade Center, Vienna
Art Expo, Budapest
Art Cologne, Cologne
1995.
Rape of Europe, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
Contemporary Hungarian Art in the Albertina Collection
Strange Prints, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
Strange Prints, World Trade Center, Wien
Art Fair, Art Cologne,
Budapest Gallery, Budapest
4 Artists from the Vác Atelier, Fészek Gallery, Budapest
1994.
Graphic Exhibition, Fészek Club, Budapest
Fine Art in the 80th, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Exhibition of the Derkovits Scholarship, Picture Gallery, Szombathely
1993.
Friendship, Pandora Gallery, Budapest
Art Expo, Budapest
1992.
World Trade Center Airport, Vienna
‘The Stranger is Nice’, Budapest és Kaposvár
Art Expo, Budapest
Contemporary Hungarian Art, Sothebys‘, Budapest
Contemporary Hungarian Art, Kunsthalle, Budapest Sydny
1991.
Metaphore, Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Atlanta, Georgia
Hungarian Video Art in the 80th, Toronto
Hungarian Artists, Paris
Art Expo, Budapest
1990.
Féte de l image, Paris
Europe House, Albi, Paris
Contemporary Hungarian Art, Hampton
Art International USA, Europe -Ŕsia Biennial, Ankara
1989.
TÉR, Pécs Gallery, Curated by Lóránd Hegyi, Pécs
Stuart Levi Gallery, New York
Ludwig Collection, Aachen
Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco
Contemporary Hungarian Art, Neue Galerie, Graz
1988.
V. Europaien Graphic Biennial, Heidelberg
Prix Ars Electronic, Computer Graphic, Linz
Line Art, International Art Fair, Gent
Christie's‘ Exhibition and Auction, Amsterdam
Abstraktion and Minimal Art, Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco
1987.
Table Painting Biennial, Szeged
New Works, Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár
Hungarian Weeks, Dortmund
Dawn, 8 Dokumenta, Kassel
1986.
Studio Exhibition, Historical Museum, Budapest
Computer Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Budapest
1985.
University of California, California
Record Exhibition, Budapest
Pannon Programm, General Art, Budapest
Graphic Biennial, Miskolc
Cziffra Foundation, Paris
California Gallery, Route One, Point Reyes Santa Rosa College,
1984.
XIV. Sommer Exhibition, Szeged
Rome Aquarell Exhibition, Rome
International Contemporary Art, Budapest
Hungarian Painting and Graphic Exhibition, Poznan
1983.
Painting Biennial, Szeged
Hungarian Culture House, Helsinki
Contemporary Hungarian Graphic and Drawing Art, Hungarian
City Gallery, Porvo
Budapest Film Art, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1982. I. Salgótarján Drawing Biennial, Salgótarján
1981. Yearly Young Artists Exhibition, Szentendre
AWARDS, ACCOMPLISMENTS
2003. European Fine Art Scholarship, Lisbon, Portugal
1994-95. Scholarship of the Academy of Fine Art Rome
1987. Eötvös József Scholarship
1983-86. Derkovits Scholarship
ARTWORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Hungary
István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
City Library, Békéscsaba, Hungary
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
City House, Porvoo, Finland
Albertina, Dresden, Germany
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Accademia d’Art, Grand Canaria, Spain
Contemporary Collection, Paks, Hungary
Ministry of Culture, Lisbon, Portugal