Zsolt Fekete
Curriculum vitae
Born June 11th, 1967, Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely in Hungarian), Romania
2011, 2015, 2016 Fellowships of the NKA (National Cultural Fund, Hungary)
2009 Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest DLA undergraduate
2006 Orbán Balázs Fellowship for Photographic Art of the Illyés Public Foundation (Hungary)
2006 Fellowship for Creation of the College for Photography of the National Foundation for Culture in Hungary
since 1998 Member of the Romanian Visual Artists’ Union
1997 Master Degree at the Hungarian University of Arts and Crafts, Department of Visual Communication, Photography Section
1996-1998 Pécsi József Fellowship for Photography (Hungary)
Individual exhibitions
2016 Two Fekete, ALT Gallery, Târgu Mureş
2014 Recaptured moments, Ethnographical Museum, Cluj, Szekler National Museum, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
2013 Recaptured moments, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, and four other museums in main cities of Romania
2012 Recaptured moments, The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
2012 I’m Not Afraid, Magma, Sfântu Gheorghe
2009 Butter Apple, Lumen Gallery, Budapest
2009 Where is Z?, Artkatakomba, Budapest
2007 Probable, B5 Stúdió, Târgu Mureş
2006 Homeless Environments 2. Boulevard Festival, Lumen Gallery, Budapest
2005 Homeless Environments 1. Lumen Gallery, Budapest
1999 Images, UAP Gallery, Palace of Culture, Târgu Mureş
Group exhibitions (selection)
2016 Couleur Locale 3, No Man’s Land, Bucharest
2016 Images and pixels. Photographic Art and Beyond, Műcsarnok, Budapest
2015 Totem, UAP Gallery, Târgu Mureş
2015 Exhibition of the Firtosváralja Creative Camp, Cultural House, Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania
2014 Family Nest, Hungarian Institute, Paris
2013 Month of Photography in the Slovak National Museum, Bratislava
2013 Present Continuous, The Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest
2013 Interni familiari, Art Factory 03, Catania, Italy
2012 Progressive Searchings, The Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest
2011 Jugglery, B5 Studio, Târgu Mureş
2010 Paris Photo, Lumen Gallery, Paris, Carrousel du Louvre
2010 B5 Studio, Târgu Mureş, with Zsolt Birtalan and József Bob
2007 PragueBiennale 3
2007 Kieselbach Gallery and Auction House
2007 Face to Face, Impex, Budapest
2007 Scenes Untraceable by GPS, Ernst Museum, Budapest
2007 kArton Gallery, Budapest
2006 City–Landscape–Intervention, Dorottya Gallery (curators: Suzanne Gamauf, Kati Simon)
2006 The City of Art—The Art of the City, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros Hungary
2004 Dokumentum 6, „The Reality Strikes Back”, Mai Manó House, Budapest (curators: Antal Jokesz, Zsolt Petrányi)
2004 Trivial, Tranzit House, Cluj, Romania (Arteast Foundation, Tranzit Foundation)
2003 A Day in Budapest, Millenáris, Budapest
2002 Dokk, Documentarist Photographic Exhibition, Mag-ház, Budapest
2000 Haus Ungarn, Berlin (with Eszter Gyurján)
1998 Exhibition of the scholars of the Pécsi József Fellowship, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
1998 The Date – organized by Internet Galaxis 999, Visual Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest
1997 Profil Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
1997 Haus Ungarn, Students’ exhibition, Berlin
1997 Contemporary Hungarian Photography, Pécs, Hungary
1996 Travaux en cours – exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles, France
1995 Photographic Biennial, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1995 Medium 3, Visual Arts Exhibition, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
1994 Andar per Mostre – Fotografi dell’Ungheria, Spilimbergo, Italy
Publications
Several materials published in Imago (Bratislava, Slovakia), Photographers International (Taipei), Fotóművészet (Budapest), Balkon (Budapest), Magyar Szemle (Budapest), The Room (Budapest), Romania Literara (Bucharest), Washington Post, NRC Handelsblad
Books
Tirami sù / Tanger, András Visky / Zsolt Fekete, Koinónia Publisher, Cluj, 2006
The Photograph of Time. In the footsteps of Balázs Orbán and Ferenc Veress, Méry-Ratio Publisher, 2010
