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| Tamás Jovánovics (3rd from left) at the B55 opening |
Tamás Jovánovics was born in Budapest/Hungary in 1974. He graduated in 1997 and obtained his PhD in 2004 in Fine Art at Magyar Képzömüvészeti Egyetem in Budapest and also obtained a degree in 1999 and a PhD in 2004 in Fine Arts at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence/France. Since 1999 he has held exhibitions in numerous galleries and museums, both public and private, in Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, London, Milan, Moscow and New York. In 2007 he won a public art competition and in 2008 he completed the permanent and monumental installations located on three facades of the Nyíregyházi Föiskola campus in Nyíregyháza/Hungary. The three-dimensional structures, made of steel and aluminium and weighing approximately 14 tons ,are applied onto the facades and the ceilings of the building and rising to a maximum heights of 23 metres. The site ultimately won the FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Award in 2009, as the best public sector development of the year. In 2009 he was selected for an Artist in Residence for three months in New York (USA) at the Harlem Studio Fellowship by MontrasioArte. In the same year he received a special mention by the curators of the Milan based Premio Artivisive San Fedele. He lives and works in London.
Solo Shows
2011 - Magnificent Coincidence, together with Károly Keserű, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK, curated by Patrick Heide
2011 - Két művész Londonból, together with Károly Keserű, B55 Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsuzsa Csébi
2010 - Tamás Jovánovics. Colonne meta-fisiche e altre dissoluzioni, Leo Galleries, Monza, Italy, curated by Matteo Galbiati
2009 - Sospensioni, Villa Rampone, Roppolo, Italy, curated by Alessandro Firpo
2009 - Scaffoldings, together with Mariagrazia Pontorno, Harlem Studio Fellowship by MontrasioArte, New York, U.S.A., curated by Raffaele Bedarida
2009 - Back and Forth between Architecture – Art – Architecture, Hungarian Cultural Center, London, United Kingdom, curated by James Putnam
2008 - Private View, Studio Zucchi, Milano, Italy, curated by Matteo Galbiati
2007 - Geometrical Secession – Reacting to an Adamesque Interior, Hungarian Cultural Center, London, United Kingdom, curated by James Putnam
2005 - Platán Galéria, Lengyel Intézet, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Tímea Jerger
2004 - K.A.S. Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Ilona Nyakas
2003 - Gutmann Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zoltán Prosek
2003 - Fészek Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Éva Molnár
Selected group Shows
2012 - Back and Forth, 8 Artsists from London, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Estelle Thompson and Tamás Jovánovics
2011 - Free Port of Art, First CEI Trieste Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Art, Magazzino 26, Porto Vecchio, Trieste, Italy, curated by Trieste Contemporanea
2011 - Geomix 2.0, B55 Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsuzsa Dárdai
2011 - Transzparencia – Átlátás, Vasarely Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Dóra Maurer
2010 - Il segreto dello sguardo. Premio Artivisive San Fedele 2009-2010, Galleria San Fedele, Milano, Italy, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Luca Barnabé, Ilaria Bignotti, Chiara Canali, Andrea Dall’Asta S.I., Matteo Galbiati, Chiara Gatti, Angela Madesani, Massimo Marchetti, Kevin McManus, Barbara Sorrentini, Michele Tavola, Fabio Vittorini and Giuseppe Zito S.I.
2010 - Art Fanatics. Kortárs magángyüjtemények 2, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsolt Petrányi
2009 - Geomix - Sok irányzat, sok irányból, B55 Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsuzsa Dárdai
2009 - Vonal. Az egydimenzió érzete, B55 Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsuzsa Dárdai
2009 - L’Uomo e il suo Destino. Premio Artivisive San Fedele 2008-2009, Galleria San Fedele, Milano, Italy, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Luca Barnabé, Ilaria Bignotti, Chiara Canali, Andrea Dall’Asta S.I., Matteo Galbiati, Chiara Gatti, Angela Madesani, Massimo Marchetti, Barbara Sorrentini, Michele Tavola, Fabio Vittorini, Francesco Zanot and Giuseppe Zito S.I.
2009 - Harlem States of Mind from Apollo to Lennox, Museo Civico Floriano Bodini, Gemonio, Italy, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Raffaele Bedarida és and Francesca Montrasio, esszék essays by Matteo Galbiati and Chiara Gatti
2009 - Harlem States of Mind from Apollo to Lennox, Galleria MontrasioArte, Milano, Italy, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Raffaele Bedarida és and Francesca Montrasio, essays by Matteo Galbiati and Chiara Gatti
2008 - Konstruktív-konkrét kerestetik 1, Vasarely Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Dóra Maurer, essays by József Mélyi
2008 - Premio Arteingenua 2008. I Concorso Internazionale di Pittura, scultura e fotografia per giovani Artisti, Piccolo Miglio in Castello, Castello di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
2007 - Frisch Gestrichen, Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken, Germany
2007 - Space Lab, Research Development Group, Slade School of Fine Art, Woburn Institute, London, United Kingdom, curated by James Putnam
2007 - Mark Barrow Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, curated by Mark Barrow
2006 - Roma in miniatura, Római Magyar Akadémia, Rome, Italy, curated by Miklós Sulyok
2006 - Szeresd Budapestet Pályázat, Dorottya utca 4, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Iván András Bojár
2005 - Institut Für Kulturwissenschaft, Vienna ,Austria, curated by Hans Belting
2005 - Real and Virtual Spaces, A.S. Puškin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation, curated by Dóra Maurer and Zoltán Prosek
2004 - Le Zèle du Dézir-Torrent of Desire ; Festival International d’Arts Vivants, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Espace Senghor & Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium
2003 - Geometria I, Gutmann Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zoltán Prosek
2002 - Zweite Welt, Galerie in den Treptowers, Allianz Versicherungs-AG, Berlin, Germany, curated by Dóra Maurer
