These small-sized watercolours are my first impressions of my stay at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. All of them were made in my studio during my erasmus program, and they picture the atmosphere and life in the atelier. Some of the paintings are more like a mesmeric, fictional image based on the place’s spirit.
Bánkúti Gergő
Studies
2014 – 2019 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Painter (MFA)
master: József Gaál, assistant lecturers: Mária Chilf, Ákos Wechter
2018 – 2019 University of Granada - Faculty of Fine Arts, Granada, Spain (exchange)
2017 – 2017 National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria (exchange)
2011 – 2014 Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary
Visual Artist (BA)
teachers: Erzsébet F. Balogh, István Erőss, Péter Földi, Tamás Kopasz
2009 – 2011 Jaschik Álmos Art High School, Budapest, Hungary
Decorator and window-dresser (NQR)
2005 – 2009 Madách Imre Gymnasium and Vocational High School, Salgótarján, Hungary
Drawing and painting specialization
Solo exhibitions and performances
2022 ’People do strange things’ Moving Gallery, Innsbruck (HU)
2020 ’Tarot’ San Marco Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2019 ’Still missing’ Bitamine Faktoria, Irún (ES)
2018 ’The soil underfoot is enough for me’ Labor Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2017 ’I inherited a pigeon heart’ TELEP Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2014 ’Solo exhibition’ Aba Sámuel Elementary School, Kazár (HU)
2013 ’The face of our house’ County Hall, Salgótarján (HU)
2013 ’Solo exhibition’ Madách Imre Gymnasium, Salgótarján (HU)
Group exhibitions
2022 ’DERKÓ’ Kunsthalle Budapest (HU)
2021 ’Art Market Budapest’ MANK, Budapest (HU)
2021 ’IKSIT ’ HDLU Rijeka, (HR)
2021 ’Koschatzky Art Award’ Palais Schönborn-Batthyány, Vienna (AU)
2021 ’DERKÓ’ Kunsthalle Budapest (HU)
2020 ’Searching for T-Art 2’ Józsefváros Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2020 ’ IKSIT - international ceramic symposium II.’ Kammerhof Museum, Gmunden (AU)
2020 ’ IKSIT - international ceramic symposium I.’ Folk Art Museum, Innsbruck (AU)
2019 ’IV. National Drawing Triennial’ Dornyay Béla Museum, Salgótarján (HU)
2019 ’66. Autumn exhibition’ Alföld Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2019 ’China and Hungary’ Pintér Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2019 ’Searching for T-Art’ Szent József Ház, Budapest (HU)
2019 ’Terem’ Godot Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2019 ’Water, Air, Earth, Fire’ Dual Art Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2019 ’35. Spring Exhibition’ Dornyay Béla Museum, Salgótarján (HU)
2019 ’I do not trust words’ Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest (HU)
2019 ’Group exhibition’ - Mission Art Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’Art Market Budapest’ University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’III. National Watercolor Triennal' Kepes Institute, Eger (HU)
2018 ’Transmimesis: Empathy to Ugliness’ Voloshyn Gallery, Kiev (UA)
2018 ’Locus Focus’ Godot Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’Ari Kupsus Scholarship Exhibition' Ari Kupsus Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’Goldiloks Zone' Castle Gallery, Veszprém (HU)
2018 ’Amadeus Foundation's Exhibition’ Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’Ja sam/I am…’ International Exhibition, Decumanus Gallery, Krk (HR)
2018 ’Ludwig Foundation’s Exhibition’ Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’Výstava Odcizení podle slovníku’ Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem (CZ)
2018 ’Silver Javelin’ Sport in the Contemporary Fine Art, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’The Seven Deadly Sins’ IX. Contemporary Iconographic Biennal, Kecskemét (HU)
2018 ’To Death with a Smile’ Poster contest and exhibition - MUMEDI the Mexican Museum of Design, Mexico City (MX)
2017 ’YG’ Art fair and exhibition, Zsilip, Budapest (HU)
2017 ’I came to you because I love you’ Csili Culture Center, Budapest (HU)
2016 ’Aura exotic’ A.P.A. Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2015 ’In/visible’ III. National Drawing and Graphic Biennale, Győr (HU)
2015 ’Trimester, quarter’ Bartók32 Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2015 ’33. Spring Exhibition’ Dornyay Béla Museum, Salgótarján (HU)
2015 ’Csók István’ Hungarian University of Fine Arts - Barcsay hall, Budapest (HU)
2014 ’Everything is in its place’ Kepes György Art Institute, Eger (HU)
2014 ’Írka’ Jurányi Art Incubator House, Budapest (HU)
2014 ’Field of force’ Little Synagogue, Eger (HU)
2014 ’Bukowski in the Süsü’ József Attila Culture Center, Budapest (HU)
2013 ’32. Spring Exhibition’ Dornyay Béla Museum, Salgótarján (HU)
2013 ’Gray-matter’ Student Gallery, Eger (HU)
Publications
2020 ’Az élet kártyajáték, csak nem ismerjük a játékszabályokat’ by Gréta Garami - Újművészet art magazine, Budapest (HU)
https://www.ujmuveszet.hu/2020/12/az-elet-kartyajatek-csak-nem-ismerjuk-a-jatekszabalyokat/
2020 ’Sárkányt csiklandozni, anyagot szelídíteni’ illustration and interview by Daniel Veress - Apokrif literature magazine, Budapest (HU)
https://apokrifonline.com/2020/11/03/elozetes-apokrif-2020-3
2020 ’Potato shrines’ by Markéta Kosinová - Swarmmag online magazine
https://swarmmag.com/art/potato-shrines/
2018 ’The soil underfoot is enough for me’ by Katalin Nagy T. - Újművészet art magazine, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’Travel and art ('Tarot' series)’ Brovdi Art Foundation, Uzhhorod - https://molbert.brovdi.art/2017-2/en/novyny/podorozh-ta-mistectvo-%D2%91er%D2%91o-bankuti-priyihav-iz-ugorshhini-shhob-poznajomitisya-z-ukrayinoyu-ta-znajti-nathnennya (UA)
2018 ’The Seven Deadly Sins’ Catalogue of the IX. Contemporary Iconographic Biennal, Kecskemét (HU)
2018 ’Ja sam.../I am...’ Exhibition Catalogue - Decumanus Gallery, Krk -
https://www.kreativnkrk.com/novosti/2018/05/08/pi2018-katalog-catalogue/ (HR)
2018 ’Niglo II.’ International Art Review, Strassbourg (FR)
2018 ’Untitled Watercolours’ Matador Review, online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago - http://www.matadorreview.com/gerg-bnkti/ (US)
2018 ’Potato Sculptures’ Novelty Magazine, online art magazine - http://www.noveltymag.co.uk/potato-sculptures/ (GB)
2018 ’Silver Javelin’ Hungarian Olympic and Sport Museum, Budapest (HU)
2017 ’Niglo’ International Art Review, Sofia, Bulgaria (BG)
2016 ’Creative of the Week’ Phenomenon online cultural magazine based in Budapest - https://phenomenon.hu/a-het-kreativja-bankuti-gergo/ (HU)
2015 Catalogue of the National Art Students' Associations Conference (HU)
Awards
2021-2022 ’Derkovits Gyula Scholarship’ Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
2019 ’Gruber Béla Award’ Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)
2018 ’Eszterházy Károly University's Award for Young Artists' III. National Watercolor Triennal' - Kepes Institute, Eger (HU)
2018 ’Ari Kupsus Scholarship' Ari Kupsus Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2018 'Ludwig Grant' Ludwig Foundation (MX)
2018 'Unilever Art Award' National Fine Arts Competition (HU)
2017 ’Silver Easel’ International Student Painting Contest, Ukraine - five awards (UA)
2015 National Art Students' Associations Conference, first award - painting section (HU)
Residencies, symposiums
2022 Power of Less, International Ceramic and Nature Art Symposium - Kufstein (AU)
2020 IKSIT 6th International Ceramic Symposium - Innsbruck (AU)
2020 Bildingship Artist in Residence - Innsbruck (AU)
2019 Bitamine Faktoria Artist in Residence - Irun (ES)
2019 V. International Painting Symposium - Bokros (SK)
2019 II. South Balaton Contemporary Workshop - Szólád (HU)
2018 Artist in Residence - Brovdi Art Foundation, Uzhhorod (UA)
2013 Minimum Party Art Camp, Kászonaltíz (RO)
2013 Nagykáta-Erdőszőlő Art Camp (HU)
Other vocational activity
2020-23 Regular participation in weekly visual art workshops for kids and youth in "bilding" Art - and Architecture school - Innsbruck, Austria.
2014 Final thesis about aged people’s visual skills in which I used my grandmother’s drawings and compared them with children drawings and also with naive, and hungarian folk art.
2009–2014 Art camp for children in Bódvalenke, Hungary, where our group organised many kind of activities, also improved the children visual skillsa
My name is Gergő Bánkúti, I was born in Hungary in 1991 and I am a visual artist. I hold a BA in visual arts from the Eszterházy Károly University and an MFA painter degree from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. I mainly work in painting, drawing, installation and sculpture (ceramic) art, but I am open to experiment with diverse ways of creation and various techniques depending on the environment, the context and the given possibilities. I am also interested in the usage of text and its connection to visual information. Over the course of my artistic practice I have been juxtaposing personally important texts with materials from my home village or relics from the past. These materials are the base of my installations and sculptures. My approach to creation has always been influenced by remembrance, memories and ancient symbols of the past and our relationship to them. Both as a personal narrative and also as a larger social history about a disappearing life.