Márta KISS
"My path started as a restorer but after I started to paint my own paintings, I chose to be a painter. For nearly two decades my art was defined by a traditional oil technique and a view based sight with the addition of magical and symbolic elements. A few years ago my experimental mood led me to a technical innovation: I started to be interested in doing embroidery on paintings. It was exciting not because of the decorative function but an opportunity for a new opening space. This emergency (allergic reaction of chemicals and paints) made me choose a different direction in my techniques and my visual thinking. In the past in addition to the figural elements and the dramatic spectacle, the story was also important: myths, fairy tales, Biblical stories or even invisible regions had been intertwined with people's everyday life. I was always interested in how you can express in pictures the everyday’s consciousness and the invisible things. Lately I’ve been thinking how to create with a simple toolbox and symbolized motives, either from the collective or from my own inner world."
CV
Born: 1974, Budapest
Lives and works in Budapest
Education
2004 – 2005 STSI University of Arts, Gamelan Music Department, Surakarta, Java (ID)
1996 – 2001 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Painting and Restoration, Budapest (H)
1993 – 1996 Vocational School of Fine and Applied Arts, evening classes, Department of Jewellery, Budapest (H)
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2024 I saw it in my dreams, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
2023 Finally I embroider something abstract, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
2021 Gate, Ady 25 Gallery, Budapest
2019 Becoming a gardener, Eötvös 10, Budapest
2018 Kiss Márta exhibition, San Marco Gallery (OKK), Budapest
2017 i you (s)he, Patyolat, Budapest
2015 Storytelling Silence, Hal Köz Gallery, Debrecen
2015 People, Angels, Csepel Gallery, Budapest
2012 We Are They, kArton Gallery, Budapest
2011 Exhibition, Hal Köz Galéria, Debrecen
2010 City Dwellers, joint exhibition with Sara Osgyányi, IF Café, Budapest
2010 ...behind, Pelikan Gallery, Székesfehérvár
2009 Stories, Volksbank Galéria, Budapest
2009 Stories, József Attila Múzeum, Makó
2008 Java tales, Anno Mesebolt, Budapest
2008 Silence and Chat, Karinthy Salon, Budapest
2007 I brought this in my scoop, Apropodium Gallery, Budapest
2005 kissmárta dimension, Retorta, Budapest
2005 Journey into the world of imagination, two-person exhibition I Gusti Nengah 2005 Nurata, One Gallery, Jakarta, (Indonesia)
2004 One and a half year, solo studio exhibition, Budapest
2003 Fairies, Trafó Café, Budapest
Group exhibitions (selected)
2023
Everyone was a child, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
Come as you are, (organized by The Space Art Gallery), KPMG Hungary, Budapest
Mirror Spaces, Spring Exhibition of Óbuda Artists VII, Esernyős Gallery, Budapest
2022
Sensitive spaces, MÚK Gallery, Budapest
Question of Being, Exhibition of Óbuda Women Artists on the occasion of the Ars Sacra Festival, Óbuda Cultural Centre, Budapest
2021
Infinitivity, in memory of János Pilinszky, Esernyős Gallery, Budapest
Our Feast, NewSpace Gallery, Szentendre
Horizon, Reök Palace, Szeged
Transgenerational effects, Contemporary Art Live Gallery, Valley of Arts, Kapolcs
reART - Contemporary Environment Exhibition, Ökoindustria Expo 2021, Budapest
Exhibition of artists from Óbuda, Spring exhibition, Budapest
2020
See, see!, online exhibition organised by MANK Gallery
Networks, Ady Gallery and Exhibition Space, Budapest
The enjoyment of leisure time, exhibition of Óbuda artists, online exhibition organised by T-Art
2019
T-Art - Live Painting, OKK, San Marco Gallery, Budapest
III Óbuda Spring Art Exhibition, Umbrella Gallery, Budapest
2018
4th Óbuda Art Exhibition, Day by Day -Any Time in Óbuda, Umbrella Gallery, Budapest
II Óbuda Spring Art Exhibition, Dandelion Jungle, Umbrella Gallery, Budapest
2017
Cic!, Erdős Renée House, Budapest
Óbuda Spring Art Exhibition, Et in arcadia ego, Umbrella Gallery, Budapest
Spaces and People, Hal Köz Gallery, Debrecen
2016
Looking East, Contemporary Hungarian Figurative Art, Lucera, Olaszország
Home Altars, Selection from the contemporary collection of Völgyi-Skonda, Asztrik Kákonyi Gallery, Esztergom
Day of Painting, San Marco Gallery, Budapest
Jury of the "Roman Coast 14″ competition, Budapest
There will always be dragons, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest
Still life Biennal, Csepel Galéria, Budapest
2015
Sky-sign-image, Selection from the contemporary collection of Völgyi-Skonda, Szent József House, Budapest
Painting Day, San Marco Gallery, Budapest
Differently, Tat Gallery, Budapest
Artists of Óbuda IV, St. Joseph House, Budapest
Fine Art HERE AND NOW, National Salon, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2014
Women's Line III, Painting Day, Bartók'29 Exhibition Hall, Budapest
Border Creatures, Chapel Gallery, Kecskemét
Pictures, Hal Köz Gallery, Debrecen
2013
Idol, Selection from the contemporary collection of Völgyi-Skonda, Barabás-Villa, Budapest
A Personal Connection with Gold, exhibition of the Throughways group, Vízivárosi Gallery, Budapest
Naked, Hal Köz gallery, Debrecen
2012
Out into the wild, Selection from the contemporary collection of Völgyi-Skonda, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest
2011
II KIM Salon, Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, Budapest
Summer Art Exhibition, Reök Palace, Szeged
Hungarian Bath Life, Selection from the contemporary collection of Völgyi-Skonda, KOGART Gallery, Budapest
Hungarian Bath Life, Selection from the contemporary collection of Völgyi-Skonda, MODEM, Debrecen
Grass, field, lawn, Boltíves Gallery, Budapest
2010
9/29, Kertész 29 Gallery, Budapest
XIII Biennial of Panel Painting, Reök Palace, Szeged
2009
Portrait, self-care, Volksbank Gallery, Budapest
Exhibition of Miklós Volgyi's contemporary collection, Aulich Art Gallery, Budapest
2008
Plavna International Art Camp exhibition, Novi Sad, Serbia
VI Christian Iconography Biennial, Kecskemét
2007 Bread factory project 2007, Siofok
2005 Solo's face on sketches, Gramedia, Surakarta, Indonesia
2004 Still Life, Pécs
1999 Sonderausstellung, Galerie Mensh, Hamburg
Art Fairs
2025 Art & Antique, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
2024 Budapest Contemporary, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
2023 Budapest Contemporary, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
2023 Art & Antique, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
2016 Art Market, Hal Köz gallery, Budapest
2013 Art Market, Hal Köz gallery, Budapest
2008 Budapest Art Fair, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Awards, Scholarships
2008 IV Christian Iconography Biennale - Special Jury Prize
2004 Dharmasiswa Scholarship - Java, Solo, STSI
2003 Republic Scholarship
Fábián Takáts: In the depths of my consciousness, Life and Literature - Volume LXVIII, Number 37, 13.09.2024.
Emese Lengyel: Acrylic and fancy yarn with some irony, Magyar Nemzet, 2023.01.14.
Tünde Sipos:Open Gates - Exhibition of Márta Kiss at Ady 25 Gallery, kultura.hu, 2021.09.28.
Tünde Sipos: Personally - Paintings by Márta Kiss, kultura.hu, 2020.11.21.
Garami Gréta: Spring - Exhibition of Márta Kiss painter, kulturközpont.hu, 2018.02
Kinga Böjtös: I, You, Woman - Márta Kiss exhibition at Patyolat, artnews.hu, 2017.11.29.
The Rock Flower - Javanese tales and legends, Naphegy Publishing House, 2008
