Szacsva

Szacsva

szacsva@perimedialab.hu
www.perimedialab.hu

education:
1988-93 Academy of Visual Arts, Kolozsvár (MFA)
1995-97 Participations to international workshops at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1997 research-semester at the Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet, Mainz
2001-2003 Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp (Post-graduate diploma)
2005-2008 DLA-Doctoral Program at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2009 Doctorate in Media Art at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest

selected awards:
1995/96/97 KulturKontakt (scholarship) Vienna, Austria
1998 In and Out of Touch, British-Hungarian exchange program, London
1999 Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy, Rome
1999/2000 DAAD Forschungsstippendium, Berlin
2001/2002 MÖB-Hungarian State Scholarship for studytrip to Antwerp, Belgium
2008 Winner of the Projections on Lake Competition, Pasadena (USA)
2009 Tranzit Residency Scholarship, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria

selected solo exhibitions and projects:
1993 Museum of Arts, Kolozsvár
1995 Mesured Picture, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
1997 I like America and America likes me, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest (with K. R. Huffman and E. Wohlgemuth)
1997 Antimedia, e-mail-project
1998 Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (with Borut Korosec)
1998 The Cismar Installation, Künstlerhaus Cismar, Germany
1999 Man fügt eins zu Man zieht eins ab (with Balázs Beöthy and Péter Szarka), Künstlerhaus
Bethanien Berlin, Germany
2001 Photographies, capcMusée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
2001 Centre Odyssud, Blagnac, France
2002 Folyamat Gallery, Budapest
2003 Vintage Gallery, Budapest
2004 Compillation Europe (with Eperjesi Ágnes), Galerie am Hauptplatz, Hainburg, Austria
2007 Launch of the Perimedia Online Project and Peripublic, a daily online peripublication
2007 The Diós-Mákos Effect, B5 Studio, Marosvásárhely
2008 Launch of the Perichronic, another daily online publication
2009 Launch of the Periprojection, an online publication
2010 Air Parade and Fire Works, video retrospective, Pixel Gallery, Budapest

selected group exhibitions:
1995
Nagoya University of Arts, Japan
Art Gallery Skopje, Macedonia
Egyetemi Színpad, Budapest, Hungary
Körmendi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Studio Annual Exhibition, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1996
Drug, Bartók Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Mamû Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1998
Budapest-Marseille, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary
Gallery by Night 98, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Das Model, Haus-Ungarn, Berlin , Germany
Junge Kunst International 98, Museum für Kunst-Overbeck-Gesselschaft, Lübeck
1999
Internet.galaxis, Lightbox-project, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Sight-seing, Künstlerhaus Plüschow, Germany
The Dreamfactory’s Running Smoothly, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Künstlerhaus Cismar Stipendiaten 98/99, Brunswiker Pavillon Kiel, Germany
Studio Exhibition, Hungarian Institute in Bukarest, Roumania
2000
True Dream of Anyone, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Budapest, Hungary
Crosstalk, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Derkovits Scholarschip Holders Exhibition,. Hungarian Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia
Media Model, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Mimi Doesn’t Forget, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2001
Short Stories, Budapest Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
Derkovits Scholarship holders Exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Out of Time, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Cream, MEO Collection of Contemporary Art Budapest, Hungary
Rosszban Jóban, Cifrapalota, Kecskemét, Hungary
2002
Bildbetrachtung, Galerie 52, Berlin, Germany
Among Houses, Deak Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Display, Galleria Loop, Lecce, Italy
2003
Cream 2003, MEO Collection of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Summertime 2003, Vintage Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
IN OUT at the Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
ARTFORUM 2003, Berlin, Germany
2004
Laut_Los, Kampl Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Summertime 2004, Vintage Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1.Kunstsalon/Kunstforum Berlin, Germany
2005
Happy Friday (happening), Erzsebet Restaurant, Special Saloon, Budapest, Hungary
Reading in absence, House of Contemporary Arts, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Private Matter?, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Collection!, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
Come With Me, Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Generally Believed, Former Mongolian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Emergency Room. Berlin Test, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin, Germany
00130Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Sculptors, B2 Gallery, Budapest
2007
Hírtelen, Dorottya Galllery, Budapest
Lost and Found, MODEM, Debrecen
I Don’t Need Power, I Have Too Much, ACUD Gallery Berlin, Germany
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Preview Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1m². (Hungarian Contemporary Photography 2007), Hattyúház Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Ottobre. Uscita, Desiderio e Memoria, Galleria Artra, Milano, Italy
The Collection in Focus, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2008
Time Print 08, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bruxelles, Belgium
Unsellables from Budapest, Reaktor, Budapest
What’s up?, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Illusion of space, Nitra Gallery, Slovakia
Artelibro Festival, Bologna, Italy
Hollywould, Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles, USA
Projections on Lake, Pasadena, USA
Europa Neurotisch, Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam, Holland
2009
Another Time, Another Place. Hungarian Video Artists, Catzen Art Center, Washington DC, USA
Processes, Videospace, Budapest
Temporary Videospace Pécs, Király street 27., Temporary City, Public Art Labs, Pécs, Hungary
Almost Nothing, Király street 42., Temporary City, Public Art Labs, Pécs, Hungary
Instable, Nemart Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
Europa Neurotisch, Petersburg Project Space/Bar Europa, Amsterdam, Holland
Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Serbia
2010
KunstVlaai 2010, Amsterdam, Holland
Cockcroaches (performance), Platán Gallery, Budapest
Violenza Invisibile, Festarte, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy
Liberation Formula, Donumenta (Video compillation) Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
Festarte Video Festival, Torre Maggiore di Villa San Rufolo, Ravello Lab, Ravello, Italy
Hungarian Hobbies, Contemporary videos, Artists with Atitudes, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam

video screenings (participations);
2001 Gallery by Night, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Ex Röltex Festival, ex Röltex space, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Hounted by Detail, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Holland
2005 Are You Ready?, NBK, Berlin, Germany
2005 Cafka 05 Festival, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
2005 It’s Hard to Touch Reality, Írók boltja, Budapest
2005 59 Seconds Festival, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, USA
2005 59 Seconds Festival, Media Arts Center San Diego, USA
2006 59 Seconds Festival presentation at Screen Society of the Program for Film-Video-Digital at Duke
University, USA
2006 European tour of 59 Seconds Video Festival, Offycina, Szczecin, Poland
2006 Multimedia Festival Multiplace, 59 Seconds Video Festival, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
2006 Videonálé, Gyor, Hungary
2006 59 Seconds Festival, Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA
2006 Camera Obscura 2006, Sidney, Australia
2006 SummerEuroTour 06, of 59 Second Festival, Gallery A.M. 180, Prague, Ceck Republic
2006 Boum! Video Night, Fort de Mutzig, Strasbourg, France
2006 Inport 2006, Tallin, Estonia
2007 Modern Art Oxford, UK
2007 Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2007 Europe Now/Europe Next Encounter, Kollegium Budapest, Budapest
2008 Screening on the 50 Years Anniversary of the Young Artist’s Studio, Budapest
2008 One Minute, Film &Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland
2008 The Whole World, Tank.tv
2008 Les Instants Video, Marseille, France
2008 ISFF Detmold 2008, Germany
2008 Optica Festival, Madrid, Gijón (Spain), Paris, France
2008 25.Kasseler DokFest, Kassel, Germany
2009 Video Cocktail, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, College Art Association, Los Angeles, USA
2009 Crosstalk Festival, Gödör Club, Budapest, Hungary
2009 State of Transition, B5 Studio, Marosvásárhely, Romania
2010 Public Video Screening, Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA
2010 Open Air, Open Source, Vidéos hongroises contemporaines, Institut Hongrois de Paris
2010 Povvera Thyvös Mutárgybutik, Szentendre, Hungary

videography:
Figuratif (09:00) Marseille 1996
Finger exercises (13:00) Marseille 1996
Croquant (06:30) Marseille 1996
Frank (08:14) Berlin 1999
Street Art and Street Phylosophy (25:00) Budapest 2004
Hard Edges with Smooth Transitions Between (13:00) Budapest 2005
This is the Story (01:41) Budapest 2006
Happy Friday Funeral (30:00) Budapest 2007
126 News (17:56) Budapest 2008
Pericycle (03:00) Budapest 2008
Air Parade and Fire Works, 2009
Night Shots here and There 2009
Day and Night 2009
Watch your God 2009
Untitled Loop 2010

selected lectures and presentations:
1999 Kunsthochschule, Berlin, Germany
2002 FISZ Conference, Eötvös Kollégium, Budapest, Hungary
2003 Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerpen, Belgium
2006 Tranzit.hu filmscreenings, Gödör Klub, Budapest
2006 From the perspective of the artist, The Aestethics of Resistance symposium, Kunsthalle, Budapest,
Hungary
2006 Lettre-arcképcsarnok, Muvészeti kerekasztal, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2007 Continental Breakfast, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Social East Seminar on Art and Empire, Art Gallery, Manchester, England
2007 Round table discussion about Documenta 12, FKSE, Budapest
2008 YouTube lessons, FKSE, Budapest
2008 Round table discussion relaed to the exhibition Lost Toys by Calin Dan, Video Space Budapest
2009 Crosstalk Video Presentations, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2010 Public discussion, Ikon Day 2010, Kunsthalle, Budapest

printed and online publications:
-My Mért and Champ des mots XI, (visual poetry), in Magyar Mûhely, Paris 1995/3
-Antimedia, (theses for the lecture at the Lincolnshire-Humberside University), Nettime Archive 1997
-Helyzetkép cím nélkül, avagy hol van a képzõmûvészet helye a nagy médiarendszerben? (essay), in Magyar
Mûhely/121, Budapest 2002
-Why a Show on this Book? (essay), in: Empire in Different Colors. Another Finger Exercise, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2007
-A muvészeti élet hierarchiája, Tranzitblog.hu 2008
-A Universe üzenete, Tranzitblog.hu 2008
-A muvészet nevében, Tranzitblog.hu 2009
-Pepsi sziget és AVIVA díj, Tranzitblog.hu 2009
-Mi is a baj a Google-lal?, Tranzitblog.hu 2009
-„Die baby or something of the sort…“, Tranzitblog.hu 2009

bibliography:
-Microcosm -- installation-project for the solo exhibition at FMK Gallery, Budapest, in Élet és Irodalom,
Budapest, March 1995
-Z(w)eitgeist Szacsva y Pál/Német Gábor, in Balkon, March, 1996
-Radák Eszter: Gallery by Night International, in Balkon, March-April 1997
-Interview with Szacsva y Pál, BBC Radio, Hull, England, October 1997
-Zoltan V. Nagy: Seriously unserious programatic works, in Balkon, Budapest, April 1998
-Zsolt Petrányi: A Guide to the Manning of an Observation Post, in Observatorium (exhibition catalogue)
Kunsthalle Budapest 1998
-Dr. Roswita Siewert: Szacsva y Pál. Das relativ Absolute, in Junge Kunst International (exhibition catalogue)
Lübeck 1998
-Zsolt Petrányi: Camouflaged artist’s, rambling art, in Rejtözködö (exhibition catalogue), Budapest 1998
-Gábor Németh: Carressing the Untouchable, in Szacsva y Pál: Installations 1995-98, Budapest 1999
-Group exhibition in Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel of the Künstlerhaus Cismar Scholarship holders (exhibition
catalogue) Kiel 1998
-Christoph Tannert: Szacsva y Pál, in Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Internationales Atelierprogramm 98/99, Berlin
-Edith Molnár: Szacsva y Pál, in True Dream of Anyone (exhibition catalogue), Trafó, House of Contemporary
Arts, Budapest 2000
-Eszter Lázár: True Dream of Anyone, in: Balkon, Budapest 2000/5
-Zsolt Petrányi: Áthallás, in Áthallás (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthalle Budapest 2000
-Zsolt Petrányi: Szacsva y Pál, in Szacsva y Pál Photographs, Budapest 2000
-Christoph Tannert: Szacsva y Pál, in Szacsva y Pál Photographs, Budapest 2000
-Heather Galbraith, Tímár Katalin: Szacsva y Pál in Liquor (exhibition catalogue), Trafó-House of Contemporary
Arts Budapest 2001
-József Készman: Short Stories, in Short Stories (exhibition catalogue), Budapest
-Katalin Timár: Hibrid identitás (Szacsva y Pálról), in Ex Symposion, Veszprém 2000
-Hemrik László: (short)sztorizunk -- avagy ha jó az idô, lent vagyunk a téren. Rövid történetek a Budapest
Galéria Kiállítóházában, in Új Mûvészet, Budapest 2001 XII/5
-Hans Hermann Kotte: Der Untergrund der Dinge, in Berliner Zeitung, Berlin, 20. April 2001
-Miklós Peternák: Introduction, in Media Model (exhibition catalogue), Budapest 2001
-Lívia Páldi: Likôr – A tapasztalat evidenciája, in Balkon, Budapest 2001/7
-Erzsébet Tatai: Szacsva y Pál, in Lexicon of Contemporary Hungarian Art, Enciklopédia, Budapest 2001
-Attila Horányi: Szacsva y Pál, in Magyar Lettre nr 43, Budapest 2001
-Ronald Berg: Kopfring mit Klappspiegel, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, March 2nd 2002
-Christoph Tannert: Out of Time, in BE-Magazine/8, Berlin 2002
-Richard Rabensaat: Zurück im Mikrokosmos, TAZ Berlin, Nr. 7036/ 23.04.2003., page 25.
-György Gábor: A la rechèrche…On Szacsva y Pál‘s exhibition at Vintage Gallery Budapest, in Balkon nr. 9,
Budapest 2003
-Louis Kaplan: On Szacsva y Pál‘s works, in After Hours (exhibition catalogue), Antwerp 2004
-Petrányi Zsolt: Festészet-vita (8) A médiakritikus képek nyitott halmaza A technistákról -- tágabb értelemben,
Muérto 2004. január
-Molnár Edit: Szacsva y Pál, in Private Matter? (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthalle, Budapest 2005
-Sigrid Feeser: Lost & Found. Ungarn im Spiegel seiner zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstforum
International, Band 184/2007
-Ágnes Bihari: Szacsva y Pál a muvész és a tudós a perimedialab képzomuvészeti website-ról, in: NOL
(http://nol.hu/cikk/439646/)
-Timothy Brennan: Spectators Unite!, in: Empire in Different Colors. Another Finger Exercise, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2007
-Timothy Brennan: Distractions of Order, in: Empire in Different Colors. Another Finger Exercise, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2007
-Judit Angel: Szacsva y Pál, in Na mi van? (exhibition catalog) Kunsthalle, Budapest 2008
-Maja & Reuben Fowkes: Art & Philosophy, in Art Monthly Nr.323, London 2009
- Götz Eszter: Lépcsoházparádé, in: Kultúra.hu,/2010. February, http://kultura.hu/main.php?folderID=948&articleID=297218&ctag=articlelist&iid=1
- Tamás Gáspár Miklós: Szacsva y Pál haditudósításai, ÉS/LIV. évfolyam/10, Budapest, 2010. March
-Dékei Kriszta: Súrlódó „perifelhok“, in: Magyar Narancs/XII évfolyam/9, Budapest, 2010 March
-Hornyik Sándor: A Birodalom proletárjai, in: Tranzitblog.hu/2010 március, http://tranzit.blog.hu/page/2
-Maria Marcos: Without a script. The frame of Social Events, Interview with Szacsva y Pál, in: Exindex.hu, http://exindex.hu/index.php?l=hu&page=3&id=747

works in collections and archives:
MEO Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest
Förderkreis Schloss Plüschow (Germany)
Best of First Screening of 59 Second Film/Video Collection, New York
Museum of Art Gyor, (Hungary)
E-Flux Video Rental, New York
Tank.tv archive
Freewaves Video Archive, Los Angeles
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest