Lajos CSONTÓ

graphic artist - photographer

  • Award winner
  • In the press
  • Solo exhibitions

"Since he turned his head to art, Lajos Csontó has been writing a visual diary. Not so much about the events, but rather about the way he experiences, interprets and processes them. He engages in a kind of self-therapy, in which images and fragments of text swirl and occasionally stick together to display an unarticulated feeling, giving way to free-flowing imagery associations, as in a kind of analysis. Next to the magic of speech, the image and the power of sight line up, and they force the viewer, not so much to dialogue, but rather to conduct his own monologue, to look into himself." – Edit András, art historian

 

Artist, he received the Derkovits scholarship in 1992, the Munkácsy award in 2007 and the special creative support of the NKA. He is a scholarship recipient of the Hungarian Academy in Rome and the Cité Internationale Des Arts in Paris, habilitated university associate professor. He creates conceptual works composed of a strange, ironic mixture of the visual and the verbal, subtly emphasizing self-contradictions. In his creations, poetry merges with an experimental attitude, therefore his works are in most cases multi-polar, instinctive, personal and rational at the same time. He has been a continuous individual exhibitor since 1988. His works can be found in several private and public collections. - Art historian Katalin Kopin

Works from the artist's oeuvre

Solo exhibitions

2021
COINCIDENCE, PhotoLab-Vajda Museum, Szentendre, Hungary

2019
FELÜLÍRÁS, B32 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2013
FUNNY STORIES, Modem, Debrecen, Hungary

2011
GOD BLESS, Paks Art Gallery, Paks, Hungary

2010
FALLEN WORDS, Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc, Hungary

2008
COMMON DENOMINATOR, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2005
ANTIMATYAG, Szentendre Gallery, Szentendre, Ferenczy Museum, Hungary

2004
MUSIC IS BEAUTIFUL, House of Arts, Pécs, Hungary

2000
YOU MISUNDERSTANDED, BUT THAT'S YOUR JOB, Budapest French Institute, Hungary

1999
I WANT EVERYTHING FATHER, Budapest, Vintage Gallery, Hungary 

Group exhibitions

2022
The ÚR- ALTERNATIVE COSMOS, M21 Gallery, Pécs, Hungary

2021
EVANGÉLIUM '21, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary

2021
GYÓGYÍR, Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary

2019
PANEL, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary

2018
DESIGN RESISTANCE, DNM

2018
art colony exhibition, Modem, Debrecen, Hungary

2017
HUNGARIAN VIEW – THE WAY THEY SEE IT (Hungarian photography in Warsaw), National Museum of Warsaw, Poland

2017
VIEW - Hungarian photography of the past half century 1967-2017, Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary

2017
SAVE AS ANOTHER, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2015
IMAGINE COMMUNITIES, PRIVATE PERCEPTIONS // PRIVATE NATIONALISM, Budapest, Budapest Gallery, Hungary

2014
A BÖRÖDÖN VISELED, Capa Központ, Budapest, Hungary 

Press releases

2022
02.11.2022 Kunstzt, Lajos Csontó's exhibition entitled Coincidence 

2022
Judit Gellér: The uncast die, THE WORK

2022
Szilvia Csanádi Bognár: Between description and pattern, Lajos Csontó: 2020 Year of the Dog, Photography

2020
Katalin Kopin: Screening - interview with Lajos Csontó - POINT 

2018
Lili Boros: Typography becomes a global medium: conversation with artist Lajos Csontó, Műértő, 9th no.

2014
Judit Geller: Looking up. Dialogue with Lajos Csontó, Artportal, 2014-07-23 2013 Andrea Bordács: Funny story, interview with Lajos Csontó, regarding his exhibition at MODEM, ÚjMűvészet, April

2011
Erika Baglyas: The artist represents - three/four - exhibition of Balázs Faa, Lajos Csontó, Endre Koronczi at the Óbuda Társaskör Gallery, artportal.hu, 11.22.

2011
Erika Baglyas: New gods - God Bless, exhibition by Lajos Csontó, artportal.hu, 09.28.

2011
Áron Fenyvesi: Pixels of Bone in Paks / Fragments of Thought on the Middle Generation of Contemporary Hungarian Fine Art, Balkon 2011/11 

Prizes

2022
PÁL ROSTI AWARD, Hungarian National Museum  

2019
MMA Fine Arts Department scholarship

2014, 2013
CREATIVE SUPPORT OF NKA 

2011
MISKOLC WINTER EXHIBITION AWARD 

2008
MISKOLCI GALLERY SCHOLARSHIP

2007
LABOR - FEE

2006
BUDAPEST CITY-CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS SCHOLARSHIP, Paris

2004
ROMA HUNGARIAN ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP

2000
ANNA NEUFELD FOUNDATION, HINCZ GYULA MEMORIAL AWARD, Vác  

1992-95
GYULA DERKOVITS FINE ARTS SCHOLARSHIP