Tamás Komoróczky
born in Békéscsaba, Hungary, 1963
lives and works in Berlin
In his videos, computer graphics, mural works and installations he composes complex visual and acoustic structures. A kind of „sample-pirating” from elements of the internet, design and advertisements.
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www.komoroczky.com
The artist and his work
Starting is career as a video artist in the late 1980s, Komoróczky rose to fame and outstanding reputation already in the 1990s. Recognition of his work came not only in becoming part of numerous institutional and private collections, but also in represening Hungary at the Venice Biennale in 2001.
An artist of multiple talent, besides videos, Komoróczky makes installations, objects, wallpapers and prints.
Komoróczky constructs decorative patterns from elements he selects from the mass culture of electronic media. Behind a vivid, playful and spectacular surface, there is almost always a great deal of underlying philosophy and irony.
Living in Berlin for the past 8 years, his work has come to be richly inspired by the everyday of that city and its art scene.
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BIOGRAPHY
- 1986 - 1990 Degree in Painting, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
- 1990 - 1992 Postgraduate studies at the Mural Department,
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
- 1991 Video Department, Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1996 Founding member of the Újlak Group and Tűzoltó72. Exhibition Place, Budapest
- 1995 -1998 Derkovits scholarship
- 1997 Co-founder of the U.F.F. Gallery
- 1998 Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome
- Assistant of Professor of Painting Department at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
- Artist in Residence at the Gasworks Gallery, London
- 1998 - 2000 Projects in C3 (Center for Culture and Communication), Budapest
- 2005 Scholarship of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
- 2007 Artist in Residence at the European Center for Contemporary Art Actions,
Strasbourg
SOLO SHOWS (selection since 2001)
- A Poem About Nothing, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2010
- Delusion with Chord Suite, Pixel Gallery, Millenáris, Budapest, 2009
- The Phantom of the Museum, Vasarely Museum, Pécs, 2008
- “Schkitz#2”, Írókéz Gallery, Szombathely, 2008
- Recorded, Lada Gallery, Berlin, 2007
- Hunting Trip, Impex Gallery, Budapest, 2007
- Dr.Sample & Mr.Shooter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2005
- God speed, acb Gallery, Budapest, 2004
- Turboreflex - Supercut, acb Gallery, Budapest, 2003
- Oscillatory, Compensation, Dream, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2002
- Supervision, Gallery Display, Praha, 2002
- Then Nothing Else but the Buzzing of the Bees, RAM Gallery, Rotterdam, 2002
- Things fall out now this way, now that, BBS, Budapest, 2002
- Supervision, Galleria U, Helsinki, 2002
- Social Intercourse,49.Biennale di Venezia, Hungarian Pavilion, 2001
BIENNALS
- Oscillatory, Compensation, Dream, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2002
- Social Intercourse,49. Biennale di Venezia, Hungarian Pavilion, 2001
