© 2023 Zsolt Molnár

CV

Born in 1989, Celldömölk, Hungary
Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary

REPRESENTED BY

Kisterem Gallery
www.kisterem.hu

STUDIES

2008-2013 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Department of Teacher of Fine Arts, Budapest
2007-2012 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Arts, Budapest
2003-2007 Secondary School of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Arts, Szombathely

MEMBERSHIP

Studio of Young Artists' Association

AIR | AWARD | SCHOLARSHIP

2021 Artist in Residence, Lisbon, PT
2020 Finalist at ACAX and Leopold Bloom Young Visual
Art Award (Residency Unlimited in New York)
2019 Nomination for Esterhazy Art Award 2019 AT/HU
2019 Finalist at Leopold Bloom Art Award 2020
2018 Artist in Residence - Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, AT
2017 Nomination for Esterhazy Art Award 2017 AT/HU
2017 Graphic of the Year Art Award, HUFA, Budapest
2015 | 2016 | 2017 Derkovits Gyula Fine Art Scholarship
2014 Artist in Residence, Krems an der Donau, AT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Red Foliage, Parthenón-fríz Hall, Budapest
2022 Vienna Contemporary (duo with Ádám Kokesch), Kisterem Gallery, Vienna, AT
2021 Stillness of Remains (collaboration with Tünde Ruzicska), Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2021 Along the Edge of the Leaf, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2018 Art Rotterdam (duo with Ádám Kokesch), Kisterem Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Agro-Wave, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2017 Agro Scenario, Art Gallery Paks, Paks
2016 Mobil Structures, Labor Gallery, Budapest
2012 Portraits and Carcasses (duo with Ádám Dallos), Labor Gallery, Budapest

PUBLIC ART

Border, 2023
mural, 5 x 7 m
Location: 9700 Szombathely Koszegi utca 6.

CATALOUGE

Zsolt Molnár: Agro Scenario
Art Gallery Paks, 2018
Authors: Mónika Zsikla and Eszter Márkus

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Listing X., Kisterem Gallery, Budapest,
2022 Winter Listing, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2022 Youhu, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest
2022 Our Heritage - Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest
2022 The Man Who Stepped in Paint, MKE Profil, Budapest
2021 Leave It All Behind, Manuel Zoia Gallery, Milano, IT
2021 Sketch, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2020 Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace, Budapest
2019 Short List 2019 Esterhazy Art Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2019 Listing 8, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2019 Leopold Bloom Art Award Finalists, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2019 AiR 2018, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, AT
2019 Conditio Inhumana, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2018 Scale, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2018 On the Edge of Geometry, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
2018 Lemuel Gulliver’s Memory, Artpool P60, Budapest
2017 Short List 2017 Esterhazy Art Award, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2017 Derko 2017, M21 Gallery, Pécs
2017 Listing 6, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2017 True Copy, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2017 Derko 2017, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2016 Derko 2016, M21 Gallery, Pécs
2016 Listing 5, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2016 The Traditional Annual Exhibition of the SYAA, 115-106 Apartment-gallery, Budapest
2016 Intermediate Preferences, New Irókéz Gallery, Szombathely
2016 Derko 2016 - Reporting Exhibition of the Derkovits Fine Arts Scholarship Awardees, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2016 Everybody Has a Dream / Everybody Has a Mistake, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2015 Inverse, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2015 Everybody Has a Dream / Everybody Has a Mistake, Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc
2015 OFF Biennale, Irókéz Gallery, Szombathely
2014 The Most - The SYAA’s Traditional Annual Exhibition, Budapest
2014 1/1/2, Fuga, Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest
2014 Layers, Latarka Gallery, Polish Institute, Budapest
2013 Fingerprints, Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest
2013 45th International Artistic Symposium Final Exhibition, Esterhazy Palace, Gyor
2013 Exhibition of the New Members of The Studio of Young Artists, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2012 5th Young Art Show, Piestany, SK
2012 Fresh - Empathy / Manipulation, Kogart House, Budapest
2012 Graphic Open 2012, Kondor Béla Gallery, Budapest

WORKS IN COLLECTION

Krinzinger Gallery’s collection, Vienna

SLECTED PUBLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS

2022 (book) Youhu: The New Generation of Hungarian Contemporary Art, Kieselbach Gallery, 2022
2022 (book) Our Heritage - Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest
2022 (online) KubaParis: Stillness of Remains
2021 Art Magazin - Márkus Eszter: Térbe kilépo vonalak, XIX. évf, 6. szám (in Hungarian)
2021 Élet és Irodalom - Széplaky Gerda: Malevics hernyófészke, XV. évf, 25. szám (in Hungarian)
2020 (interview) Art Magazin @ Kincsem Palota > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpkGgKPDruw&t=3s
2020 Élet és Irodalom - György Péter: Az eltunt ország nyomában, XIV. évf, 38. szám (in Hungarian)
2020 (online) KubaParis: Finally We Can Learn Something
2020 (book) Révész Emese: Válogatott írások a grafikáról, Új Muvészet Alapítvány
2019 (interview) Leopold Bloom Art Award 2019 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI01h56osLw
2019 (online) Blok Magazine: The Best and Worst of Art in Central Europe in 2019
2019 (book) AiR 2018, Krinzinger Projekte, 2019
2018 Új Muvészet - Révész Emese: Helyzetszabályozó pollinátor, 2018/10 (in Hungarian)
2018 (book) Living Line - Contemporary graphic arts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, HUFA
2018 (online) Artportal - Gadó Flóra: A stabilitás és az összeomlás közötti állapot (in Hungarian)
2017 (online) Balkon online - Márkus Eszter: Egy strukturalista forgatókönyv (in Hungarian)
2017 Élet és Irodalom - Sinkó István: Az érzelmes dizájn, LXI. évf, 44. szám (in Hungarian)
2016 (online) Szilágyi Róza Tekla: A helyzetszabályozó, Artkartell, 2016 (in Hungarian)
2016 Élet és Irodalom - Juhász Anna: Rugalmas merevség, LIX. évf, 46. szám (in Hungarian)
2015 Balkon - Inside Expressz (in Hungarian)
 
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ARTIST STATEMENT

The subject of my artistic research is defined by the artistic reflection on ecological questions.
I am engaged in observing systems of relationships that expose the connections between
society and the ecosystem, and their interdependence. (The ecosystem meaning the entire
system of living beings and their inanimate environment, an open system that is capable of
self-regulation to some degree.) Recently, the most fascinating aspects of this complex
relationship for me were the technological developments carried out in the field of agriculture,
such as digitization, the question of sustainability, and the Internet of Things (IoT) – trends
that have been transforming many industries in the last decade. It is especially intriguing for
me to see how different scientific innovations are introduced to our natural environments, or
in other words, the question of how or until which point can the effects of artificial presence
be escalated.

In order to visually define the social-ecological system I intend to get to know and
comprehend, I invoke opposites that form integral parts of the subject in question.

- analysis of dimension: the difference between 2D and 3D
- connections between organic and inorganic materials
- figurativity and abstraction
- confrontation of micro and macro qualities
- processes between open and closed systems
- simultaneous application of craft (collage-architectures) and industrial technologies

Apart from my personal involvement, this topic in its wider sense is also a current political
issue as well as a question of moral philosophy that defines our present and future on a global
scale.