Gábor SZENTELEKI
"One of the basic aspirations of my painting is to show only enough of the human body to tell the particular little story I want to tell. These are often not stories at all, but feelings, fragments, crumbs of reality that speak to me with their intimacy. The bodies in the paintings are not body parts, but entities in their own right that give the feeling of the human body, but are formally adapted to the content. Such is the case with the series Home, which evokes the archetype of the dwelling house. The form is the same, the contours draw a virtuous line around the identities, but within them, they can still show themselves through personal details. Impressions of memories, traces of sunburns, wounds, freckles, bloodstains of blushes bring to life the human hidden inside."
CV
Born: Körmend, 1978
Lives and works in Budapest.
EDUCATION
1998- 2005: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, painting
1997- 98: Berzsenyi Dániel Teacher Training College, Department of Drawing
1996- 97: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Regional Talent Search Programme
1992- 96: Secondary Art School and High School, Szombathely, painting, graphic arts and design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Uncovered, B32 Gallery, Budapest
2022 Flesh and Metal, together with László Marosi, metalwork designer, FISE Gallery, Budapest
2016 Self-critical portrait, collaboration with Lőrinck Borsos and Kata Oltai, Latarka Gallery / Karton Gallery / 115-106 Gallery, Budapest
2013 Secret Garden, Culture Barn, Viszák
2012 Tales they didn't know, Koller Gallery, Budapest
2010 Everyday stories, Galleria dell' Ombra, Brescia, Italy
2010 Ari Kupsus gallery, Budapest
2009 Werk Academia, Budapest
2008 Dimension mentali, Rocca di Cento, Cento, Italy
2008 Cá Cornera Galéria, Porto Viro, Italy
2008 Dimensioni Mentali, Galleria del carbone, Ferrara, Italy
2007 House of Arts, Miskolc
2007 Koller Gallery, Budapest
2006 They are happy..., Szinyei Salon, Budapest
2006 House of Arts – Szalon, Szombathely
2006 Városi Gallery, Körmend
2005 Today's figures, St. art Gallery, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS
2024
Who go the same way, arrive at the same place, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
Paradise as a State of Consciousness, a selection of works from the Miszla-Art Artists' Colony 2023-24. Umbrella Gallery, Budapest
Contemporary Balaton, Liszt Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Safe Space, The Space Art Gallery, Budapest
Gyermely 30, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2023
Everyone was a child, The Space Gallery, Budapest
Urban Animals, Picture Gallery, Szombathely
Closed spaces, Picture gallery, Szombathely
Tiny_art 2.0, Pintér Gallery, Budapest
Behind an Beyond Hungarikon, selection from the Kárpáti Collection, Black House, Szeged
2022
FA (Folk + Art) Fine Arts Workshop exhibition, Szombathely Gallery
2021
Maticska Award Winners exhibition, Art9 Gallery, Budapest
2020
The Power of Imagination, UP Gallery, Budapest
2017
Painting Day, Bálna, Budapest
64th Váráhely Autumn Fair
Children in Hungarian Art, Villa Vaszary, Balatonfüred
2016
Comment by the narrator, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest
Vital Agony, Base Gallery, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Self-critical portrait, Latarka Gallery, Karton Gallery, 115-106 Gallery, Budapest
2015
CAT COT DOT DOG, AQB Gallery, Budapest
Insecurity State, LÄRM, Budapest
2014
Rethought Retrospective, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest
Nuit Blanche II. AQB gallery, Budapest
Border Creatures, Chapel Gallery, Kecskemét
Nuit Blanche I. AQB gallery, Budapest
2013
Artplacc, Tihany
The Light of the Soul, Hungarian Academy of Rome, Italy
2012
It clearly says so! Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
Living Hungarian Painting, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
B.I.FOKvALITÁS, Kecskemét
Miszla Art, Aquarium, Budapest, Lutheran Bishopric, Reményik Sándor Gallery, Romania
Hungarica, Knoll Gallery, Vienna
2011
No borders. Appeal to haven, Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague, Czech republic
Opening up to the Carpathian Basin, Doys and Young People, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Hungarikonok, Castle Vaszary, Balatonfüred
58th Vásárhely Autumn Exhibition, Hórmezővásárhely, Alföldi Gallery
Hungarikonok, Villa Vermes, Dunaszerdahely, Slovakia
Simple Majority, presenting artistic collaborations, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Giovanni Artisti Ungheresi, Galleria Civica, Palazzo Loffredo, Potenza, Italy
Hommage á Horváth Gábor, Miskolci Gallery, Miskolc
2010
From the glass hill, acb Gallery, Budapest
Hungaricons, Festetics Castle, Keszthely
The Corporation 10, acb gallery, Budapest
Hungaricons, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
4th Arte Laguna, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Hungaricons, Dobó István Castle Museum, Eger
Introductory exhibition of new FKSE members, FKSE Gallery
2009
Hungaricons, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest
Roland Horváth, Ákos Szabó, Gábor Szenteleki, Koller Gallery, Budapest
The Time of Painting, Reök, Szeged
Incontra, Alpok Adria- Pannónia, Museo d’Arte Moderna Ugo Cará, Muggia, Italy
2008
Hungarian Renaissance - Modern Renaissance, Médium Gallery, Szombathely
Black Egg(s), Inda Gallery, Budapest
Modern Renaissance, City Gallery, Körmend
2007
Les Elysées de L’arte, Avenue des Champs- Elysées, Páris
Jeune Creation Européenne, Biennale intérante d'art contemporain, La Ville de Montrouge, Paris- Montrouge
Natura Morte, St.Art gallery, Budapest
The Time of Painting, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2005
Current, Women's body in contemporary art, Szinyei Salon, Budapest
No bet, Fire warehouse, Budapest
Reincarnation of the Muse- Caravaggio, Menora Saag Centrum Artis, Ipolyság, Slovakia
2004
Reincarnation of the Muse- Caravaggio, Gallery Limes, Komarno, Slovakia
All Over The Corporation, Welcome to Europe, Sweden, Skellefteå
2003
Friendship- Stone Oil, Ifi Genius in the Lobby- POSZT- Dante Café, Approach Gallery, Pécs
Tolcsvai Land- art Artists' Colony, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest
2002
Váli Video Remix 0. 2.- MKE lobby, Budapest
"Meditation", Ifi Géniusz In the Lobby- POSZT- Uránia cinema, Pécs
"Voice- Picture", Deutsche Telecom- art award, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
2001
Fifth Night, all-arts festival - Kultiplex, Budapest
Váli Video Remix 0. 1., POSZT - House of Civil Organisations, Pécs
Blade, Óbuda Society Gallery, Budapest
2000
Free Fall, Trafó, Budapest
1999
"Festival on the border", Öregtorony, Kőszeg
Nagy Gábor class exhibition, City Gallery, Csongrád
Berzsenyi Dániel College exhibition, Gallery, Szombathely
1997
Exhibition with Péter Lendvai and Erik Mátrai, Kosztolányi Kávéház, Budapest
1994
Exhibition with Csilla Kecskés, Chapel of Batthyány- Strattmann Castle, Körmend
ART FAIRS
2025 Art and Antique, The Space Contemporary Art Gallery stand, Budapest
2024 Art & Antique, INDA Gallery, Bálna, Budapest
AWARDS, PRIZES, RECOGNITION
2023 Ministry of Culture and Innovation, János Apáczai Csere János Award for Vocational Training
2017 Hungarian Painting Day Foundation and the Jenő Maticska Prize of the Ministry of Human Resources
2011 58th Vásárhely Autumn Fair, Csongrád County Municipality prize and special prize
2011 Budapest Gallery and the Budapest Municipality Art Trusteeship, Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris
2010 4th Arte Laguna, Galleria dell'Ombra and Galleria Perelá Special Prizes
2010 Koller-award
2005 MAOE Diploma award
2004 László Óváry memorial ring
2003 Amadeus creative grant
MEMBERSHIPS
Studio of Young Artists' Association
The Corporation
- Skin portraits. New paintings by Gábor Szenteleki – Révész Emese, Új Művészet, 2024/11-12, 14-17.
- Eszter Anna Szabó:We were all children... we just forget- An exhibition everyone should see, WMV magazine, online, 24 November 2023.
- Ditta Tóth Tóth: Prepared Body Experiences, Representations of Affectivity in the Works of Rita Besnyő, László Marosi and Gábor Szenteleki, Hungarian Applied Art, 2023/1, pp. 7-8
- Antal Józing:A workshop in Szombathely brought together Sándor Petőfi and contemporary painting, Nyugat.hu, 2022. november 13.
- Veronika Laczai:Renewal in permanence, Artmagazine online, 2022-04-06
- Bernadett Mózer: Gábor Szenteleki: "I was waiting for a motif that would not frighten people", papgeno.hu, 2019. április 19.
- Tünde Sipos: "I am Borsos Lőrinc", Kortarsonline, 2016-02-11
- Nemes Z. Márió: Figure and Story, New Art, November 2010, Vol. XXI No. 11, pp. 20-21.
- Zsuzsa Triznyáné Szőnyi: "After the thunderstorm", Premier Magazine, , July-August 2010, pp. 62- 63
- László Győrffy: Mesmerizing Tales, Listener, 2010, September
- Erika Baglyas:The company gives awards, Kultura.hu, 2010, June 24.
- Errorista: The levitation of the pomegranate seed is very important, Style Magazine, Vol. VII, February 2009, 60- 63 pages,
- Alexa Csizmadia: Black egg(s), Artportal, 2008
- Literary Journal, October 2007, Vol.VII., No.7. with my illustrations
- Perenyei Mónika: senzaria.hu, Reinterpreted tradition, New Art, June 2007, Vol.XVIII, No.6.
- Sándor Hornyik:Kampec Dolores - the subjective time of painting, , Műértő, April 2007, 1. and 6. p.
- István Sinkó: Still lifes, Műértő, 2007, March
- Péter Sinkovits:The Best and the Longest in 2006, New Art, February 2007, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, No. 13, page 13
- Balázs Barták:The Confrontation of Worldviews, Nyugat.hu, 17 October 2006.
- Judit Tóth: The Braid of Beauty, Vas Népe, Tuesday 5 September 2006, Volume 51, Number 208, Page 10
- Judit Tóth: Just like his paintings, Vas Népe, Saturday 2 September 2006, Volume 51, Number 206, Page 3
- Muladi Brigitta: Circular Question, New Art, February 2006, Volume XVII No. 2
- Judit Tóth: In the attraction of bizarre beauty, Vas Népe weekend, 4 February 2006, Vol. 51, No. 30, Page 12
- László Hemrik:The Beauty of the Grotesque, New Art, November 2005, Volume XVI No. 11, pp. 43- 44
- Gábor Rieder: Diversity in the Barcsay Hall, MKE, graduation exhibition of painters, New Art, September 2005
- Muladi Brigitta : Eternal theme?, Life and Literature, Vol. 49, 18 November 2005, No. 46
- Möbius: Omnia Vincit Art-Mort, sugo.hu, 2005 October 7.
- Judit Zsolnai: Tűzoltó utca and Europe, on the exhibitions Without a bet and Fresh Europe, kontextus.hu, 2005
- Miklós Forgács: The Silence of the Bible - today's view, ujszo.com, 16 March 2005.
- Anikó Erdősi: Blade, New Art, June 2001, page 42
- Contemporaries searched and found, Vas Népe March 2003
- Barbara Mátrai: “Gábor Szenteleki, Life Path Analysis from the Perspective of Narration”, thesis, University of Miskolc, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Cultural Anthropology, consultant: András Bán, 2001
- Sándor Hornyik: Freefall in the Transformer, New Art, July 2000
