Gabriella HAJNAL
„I don’t have an artistic credo. I have works which are different from others - I think it’s already something. I have a firm opinion of many phenomena of life. Of course they are very different from others' views because it’s determined by my own personality. Despite differences of opinions there are certain points where the real but different values can give a lot to each other - thereby to everyone. You need to approach the artwork without prejudice, be open to receiving it and then it will do its trick which has a real quality. I don’t want to talk about the poor and plain eyewash even though it’s increasing in number, thrives - probably with the exponent numeric growth. The judgment is not growing exponentially. But I believe that it’s going to happen. You can not create a masterpiece easily, effortlessly. All the works are suggested as it has in it. What the artist didn’t put in it can only make you believe for a while.”
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Budapest 1928 – Budapest 2023
Full member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Art (1994).
Education
Attended Álmos Jaschik's drawing school from the age of 13
From 1946 she worked as a graphic artist in the photographic studio of "Angelo"
From 1947 she worked in the graphic design studio of Mokép
1951-1957 között folytatta tanulmányait a Magyar Képzőművészeti Főiskola Festő tanszakán.
Mesterei voltak: Hincz Gyula, Papp Gyula, Barcsay Jenő, Bence László
Solo exhibitions
2025 Áramló valóságok, The Space Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest
2022 View, The Space Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest
2016 Esztergom Christian Museum
2015 Hidden Works, Palmetta Design and Textile Art Gallery
2011 Erdős Renée House, Budapest
2009 Gödöllő Royal Castle Riding School, lifework exhibition
2007 Hungarian Jewish Museum - Woven tapestries
2002 City Museum of Art, Győr
1998 Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
1994 Kempinsky Gallery, Budapest
1991 Madách Imre Cultural Centre, Vác
1987 Galerie Saager, Zürich
1985 Somogy Gallery, Kaposvár, Hungary
1983 Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
1980 Palais des Arts et de la Culture, Brest
1979 Galerie Sin Paora, Paris
1978 Kunsthalle, Budapest
1977 Béla Bartók Cultural Centre, Szeged
1976 Gallery Object, Winterthur (Svájc)
1973 Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest
1973 G. “F 15”, Moss (NOR)
1972 Savaria Museum, Szombathely
1970 Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
1970 Moravská G., Brünn
1969 Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest
1969 Daniel Keel Gallery, Zürich
Group exhibitions (selected)
2023 Changing perspectives, The Space Art Gallery
2022 Behind the Space, The Space Art Gallery
2007 Three artists - One family, Hegyvidék Gallery
2005 Tapestry 2., The art of tapestry past and present, Museum of Fine Arts
2001 Tapestry, International Millennium Contemporary Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts
1993 II International Triennial, Tournai (Belgium)
1989 II International Textile Fair and Competition, Kyoto
1988 Eleven textiles, Kunsthalle, Budapest
1987 1st International Textile Fair and Competition, Kyoto
1985 Hungarian Tapestry 1945-1985, Kunsthalle, Budapest
1981 Objects, situations and counterpoints with soft materials, Kunsthalle, Budapest
1981 10th International Textile Biennale, Lausanne
1980 6th Wall and Square Textile Biennale, Savaria Museum, Szombathely
1978 Hungarian Textile Art, Copenhagen, Helsinki
1978 Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Ålborg (Denmark)
1976 Tapestries by Hungarian Artists, Vigo Sternberg Gallery, London
1974 Contemporary Hungarian Tapestries, Museum Arquelogico, Madrid
1969 4th International Tapestry Biennale, Lausanne
1969 Mobilier National, Paris
1966 XXXIII Venice Biennale, Venice
Art Fairs
2024 ARCOmadrid, The Space Art Gallery, Madrid
2023 Budapest Contemporary, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
2023 Art & Antique, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
Works in collections, public buildings
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Ministry of Education and Culture (Ministry of Culture and Education), Budapest
University of Horticulture, Budapest
Átrium Hyatt Hotel, Budapest
Municipality of District II, Budapest
Hungarian Embassy, Vienna
Hungarian Embassy, Havana
Hungarian Embassy, New Delhi
Franciscan Convent High School, Szentendre
Matchmaking room, Szeged
Awards, Scholarships
2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, Hungarian Painting Day
2009 Award for Budapest, General Assembly of Budapest
2000 Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Hungarian Painters
1994 Honor Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
1993 Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, full member
1987 Outstanding Artist
1978 Artist of Merit
1975 Munkácsy Mihály-award
- Opening of the exhibition of Gabriella Hajnal tapestry artist in the Christian Museum, Hungarian Kurir, 2015
- Hajnal Gabriella Life's Work Album, Pesti Műsor Lap- és Könyvkiadó Kft., 1998
- GY. HORVÁTH: Exhibition of Gabriella Hajnal (cat., doc., Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, 1983)
- J. PÁLOSI: About Gabriella Hajnal, Tiszatáj, January 1983
- ZS. Hajnal Gabriella renews the art of tapestry, Budapester Rundschau, 20 January 1978.
- VADAS J.: Gobelinek in quotation marks, Life and Literature, 14 January 1978.
- F. JUHÁSZ: Gabriella Hajnal (cat., doc., Kunsthalle, 1978)
- S. RÁKOS: Complex simplicity, Life and Literature, 3 February 1973.
- F. JUHÁSZ: Gabriella Hajnal, Új Írás, January 1971
- LOSONCZI M.: Chronicle - Exhibition of Gabriella Hajnal, Művészet, 1969/4.
- PERNECZKY G.: Two exhibitions, Élet és Irodalom, 22 February 1969.
- F. JUHÁSZ: Exhibition of Gabriella Hajnal's tapestry (cat., doc., Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest, 1969)