Lóránt Méhes Zuzu
1951, Szabadszállás
Lóránt Zuzu Méhes is one of the most important artists of Hungarian photorealistic painting, one of the initiators of Hungarian installation art and a prominent representative of the esoteric spiritual movements of the 1980s and 1990s.For people familiar with Hungarian art in recent decades, Zuzu's name may be synonymous with Hungarian avant-garde art. As a member of the Budapest chapter of the Lajos Vajda Vajda Studio in Szentendre, Zuzu is a painter who has proven his talent in many artistic fields. His works are mainly on the borderline of hyperrealism and surreal abstraction. A distinctive feature of all his works is that they are imbued with the pop sensibility of the Hungarian underground.
The playfulness of his work and his art, which has been going on for decades, and the unbridled serenity that radiates from Zuzu's whole personality, show the way: how to live joyfully and effortlessly.
1979 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
1971 Applied School of Fine and Applied Arts, Budapest
2023
Put on glasses..., The Space Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest
2021
Easy, Easy/ The wheel turns, K.A.S. Gallery, Budapest
2016
New photos (Smoke, Kaleidoscope, Lights on the wall), Galeria Byart, Budapest
OLD AND NEW, Léna & Roselly Gallery, Budapest
2014
Retrospective exhibition of Lóránt Zuzu Méhes, Kiskunfélegyháza, House of Culture
2013
We Resurrect - New Images, Zuzu-Vető exhibition, Neon Gallery, Budapest
2015
Photos from the 70s, Neon Gallery, Budapest
MORE LIGHT! Light Environments, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2011
G13 gallery, Budapest
2010
Lóránt Méhes Zuzu exhibition, Memoart, Budapest
2009
Lóránt Méhes Zuzu exhibition, Mono Gallery, Budapest
2008
Lóránt Méhes Zuzu exhibition, Memoart, Budapest
2007
Lóránt Méhes Zuzu retrospective exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest
2004
Freshly painted, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2002
Small Pictures (1982-2002), Blitz Gallery, Budapest
2000
emory-light-painting, Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest
1998
Rózsa café, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1997
Oil on canvas, Kunsthalle, Budapest and National Gallery, Bucharest
1995
Circle and Light, Hungarian Cultural Institute, New Delhi
1993
Lóránt Méhes Zuzu exhibition, Mono Gallery, Budapest
1991
The Altar of Divine Love, Dorottya Street Exhibition Hall, Budapest
1989
Altar in the black exhibition hall, Young Artists Club, Budapest
1988
Stories for Csilla, Liget Gallery, Budapest
1987
Magic works, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1986
In quotation marks, Csók István Picture Gallery, Székesfehérvár
1984
Tulip carpet, Lágymányosi Community House, Budapest
Flags, Obo, Obosutras, Studio Gallery, Budapest
1983
New flags, new winds, Young Artists Club, Budapest
1982
Today is a beautiful day, Rabinec Studio, Budapest
Cellar sculpture exhibition, Vajda Lajos Studio, Szentendre
1981
Bam-Bam, just a little bit quieter (Many fake snow for nothing), Bercsényi College, Budapest
New tractor workshop (Impossible pictures in an impossible place), Bercsényi College, Budapest
Tibetan Autumn Camp, Young Artists Club, Budapest
1976
Rózsa actions, Budapest, Rózsa presszó
2022
Synthesis 2022, Széphárom Community Square, Budapest
2021
Synthesis 2021, Széphárom Community Square, Budapest
Standby outdoor group exhibition, Kodály körönd, Károly-kert, Budapest
2020
Art Market Budapest
2019
Age Treasures, Danube Museum, Esztergom
The Freedom Of The Past, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Romania
Public private affairs, ArtMalom, Szentendre
2014-2015
Constellation, Balázs Fekete, Pál Gerber, Lóránt Méhes exhibition, Supermarket Gallery, Budapest
2014
Hungarian Hippi, group exhibition, kArton Gallery, Budapest
2007
Mari and Évike, Zuzu-Vető exhibition, Memoart, Budapest
2006
Zuzu-Vető exhibition, Kis Terem, Budapest
2003
Cream II, MEO Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest
2001
Cream I, MEO Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest
1993
Variations on Pop Art - Chapters from Hungarian Art, Ernst Museum, Budapest and Hannover
1991
Contemporary art. A selection from the collections of the Ludwig Museum and the Hungarian National Gallery, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1989
Contemporary Hungarian Art, National Gallery, Prague and House of Arts, Bratislava
1986
Aspekte ungarischer Maierei der Gegenwart, Leverkusen, Halle, Münster
1985
Prezentacja Malarzy Krajów Socjalistycznych, Szcecin
ConDrei Generationen ungarischer Künstler, Graz
Contemporary Visual Art in Hungary, Glasgow
Unkarin Maalaustaidetta 1945-85, Helsinki
Post-traditionelle Kunst, Mana Galerie, Vienna
1984
Grenzzeichen ’84, Landesgalerie im Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt
Gud and Grammatic, Charlottenburg, Copenhagen
Plánum '84, Almássy Square Leisure Centre, Budapest
2023
Art & Antique, The Space Gallery, Budapest
2012
Munkácsy Mihály-Award
1996-1997
Accademia Hungarica Rome Award
1987
Derkovits Award (with János Vető)
First Hungarian Visual Library Foundation
St Stephen the King Museum, Székesfehérvár
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Krisztina Dékei:Going back to the shadows of an old age - Lóránt Méhes' retrospective exhibition at the Ernst Museum – Artmagazin Online, 2022.12.17.
Csaba Kozák: Zuzu at home, ÚjMűvészet, 15 September 2014.
Zsuzsa Simon:Lóránt Zuzu Méhes the painter – Balkon, 2008/6. epa.oszk.hu
István Hajdu: Shining Justification - Zuzu - Lóránt Méhes retrospective (fine arts) - Magyar Narancs 2007/37. magyarnarancs.hu
Noémi Forián Szabó: Lóránt Méhes retrospective exhibition. Ernst Museum, 31.08.2007 - 30.09., Rooms 1-4.
Noémi Forián Szabó: Relax, relax the social-pessimionist neo-barbarian wheel turns – Artmagazin Online. Artmagazin 2006/6. 32-37 o.
Zsigmond Károlyi: Loan exhibition of the works of Lóránt Méhes. Mozgó Világ, 1980/8, 42-46.
