ABOUT
Balázs Hudecek
Education:
2003–2008 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Conservator Department – Applied arts objects conservator, specialized for siliceous objects
2004–2005 Art Preservation Assistant Training Course, Budapest
2000–2002 Decorator School
Workplaces:
2001-2019 Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre, Silicate Conservator Artist, responsible for art objects
2013-2019- WEATEAM Hungary Bt. Founder and Manager for the exhibition builder Company
A member of the new generation of Szentendre artists. He started out as painter and sculptor, later he turned to media-based art.
The common idea behind his artworks is the closeness of nature, or, conversely, the alienation from it. His wooden statues may allude to self-destruction – that means, to the inconsiderate elimination of our environment –, but these allusions are never direct. His objects get new functions by a change of the roles of the different materials and instruments. He recreates and reinterprets, disintegrates and rebuilds, calls into question accepted roles and overwrites rigid clichés. His sculptures are exact diagnoses for the off-the-balance system of relations of our times. The pin that is bored into the wall, the wooden magnet that attracts wood, a saw that floats on the water or slices a hill, an axe that splits cut-up wood are all telling about the disorder of scales and balances. His works constitute a unique, sovereign microcosm, governed by irreal rules. His artworks have two poles, just like his symbolic horseshoe magnet, but his aim is not to widen the antagonism between the two poles but to narrow it.
Katalin Kopin
art historian
Solo exhibitions:
2007 Loosening and Tightening, Skanzen Gallery, Szentendre (with Zsóka Papp)
2008 VAM Design Center, Budapest; Breaking,
Vörösmarty Cinema, Budapest (with Péter Rizmayer);
BO2 MMM, Vörösmarty Cinema, Budapest [with Péter Rizmayer)
2009 Naturally, Szentendre Open Air Museum;
Vörösmarty Cinema, Budapest; Ideal Mass, Boulevard & Brezsnyev Gallery, Budapest
2010 Bug installation, Szentendre, Main square
(with Péter Rizmayer)
2012 Forest by the piece, Budapest,
Faur Zsófi Gallery
2013 The Tree of Knowledge (with Péter Rizmayer), Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest
2014 PUNISH/You, Us and Them (with Péter Rizmayer), Latarka Gallery, Budapest
2017 Meteor and minute catastrophes (with Rizmayer Péter), Czóbel Gallery, Szentendre
2019 Tree-saw, Art Capital, Szentendre
2023 We mow with matches, Shigishoara, Romania
2023 Follyart, Badacsonyörs, Folly Arborethum
2024 Lutheran Church in Szentendre, Hungary
2024 Studio Vajda Lajos, Szentendre, Hungary
Public space sculptures:
2004 Beat, Pilisszentkereszt, Community Healthcare House
2013 Radises, Pilisszentkereszt, Slovak House
2019 Tree-saw, Szentendre, Art Capital, Commotion Park
2022 Evergreen Cone, Badacsonyörs, Folly Arboretum
2022 Floating Bunch, Badacsonyörs, Folly Arborétum
2022 Evergreen Earth, Badacsonyörs-Folly Arborétum
2022 Resinous Cone, Badacsonyörs-Folly Arborétum
2023 Tree-saw, Badacsonyörs-Folly Arborétum
Prizes and awards:
2019 Shanghai / F@IMP 2.0 festival, Silver Award / I'm from Hungary c. short movie
2019 Art Capital / Winner of the Public Art competition
2023 Arte Laguna Prize / Land Art / finalist
2023 Premio Combat Prize / Video Art / finalist
2024 Arte Laguna Prize / Sculptures and installations / finalist
Main group exhibitions:
2003 Affections, Skanzen Gallery, Szentendre
2004–2008 International Small Hungarian Performance and Hard Music Festival, Art Mill, Szentendre
2006 Code-installation exhibition, Art Mill, Szentendre
2008 Space Collage, Art Mill, Szentendre
2009 Erotikart exhibition, Győr
2009 Abstract erotic, Gallery B55, Budapest
2010 Szentendre in the Gödör, Budapest (with Péter Rizmayer)
2011 Face control, Roham Gallery, Budapest
2011 Closed into Contemporaries, Erdész Gallery, Szentendre
2012 Animal, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest
2012 Springtime, Budapest Spring Festival, Balassi Institute, Budapest
2012 Szentendre in the Palace, Palace of Culture, Targu Mures
2016 Interconnected Ambitions, Kunsthalle Budapest
2016 Biosphere reservation, Artplacc, Tihany
2018 Rebirth, Tawn Hall Gallery, Szentendre
2019 Green border, Lajos Vajda Gallery, Szentendre
2023 Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
2023 Premio Combat Prize, Livorno, Italy
2023 Stigma, Studio Vajda Lajos, Szentendre, Hungary
2024 Swiss Art Expo, Zürich, Switzerland
2024 Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
Works in collections:
Contemporary collection of the Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre
Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre
Rechnitzer Collection, Budapest