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Mgr. Gábor Hushegyi

Birth year
1959

Active in
Fond na podporu umenia, Bratislava / Slovak Arts Council, Bratislava

Studied at
Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave / Faculty of Arts at Comenius University, Bratislava

Last modified date
02.04.2019

Contemporary art critic. He graduated in philosophy and aesthetics from the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava (1985). Between 1987 and 1990 he was involved in the new concept of school aesthetic education at the Cabinet of Aesthetic Education of the Institute for Education; from 1990 to 1994 he was Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Education in Nitra, and from 1994 to 2005 in the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava. He worked as a curator in the Kunsthalle / Műcsarnok Budapest (1998 – 1999) and in the Slovak National Museum (2005 – 2013), and was on a diplomatic mission serving as a director of the Slovak Institute in Budapest (2013 – 2017). Gábor Hushegyi currently works as a coordinator of the Arts Council. He is a member of the Slovak Section of the International Association of Critics AICA and the Slovak Committee of ICOM. He has been concerned with 20th and 21st century art criticism, art in public spaces and the history of art criticism. He publishes essays on art in Slovakia and abroad. Since 1998 he has been a correspondent for the Műértő journal (Budapest). In 2011 he received the Lajos Németh Prize for Visual Art Criticism (Budapest).

Curatorial Projects (selection):

2013

Endre Lukoviczky: New York – Budapest. Budapest Galéria, Budapest (HU)

2012

MT⁴Németh Ilona α Jaro Varga. MAGMA Contemporary Art Space, Sepsiszentgyörgy / Sfantu Georghe (RO)

Ilona Németh pohľadom Gábora Hushegyiho. Slovak Institute, Prague (CZ)

Stano Masár: Zblúdilé umenie. Medium Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

Tamás Schild: Moji krásni cigáni. Month of Photography, Brämer Manison, Slovak National Museum – Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, Bratislava (SK)

Monika a Ľubo Stacho: Priestory. E. Zmeták Art Gallery, Nové Zámky (SK)

2011

Znaky v priestore. Naše nové monumenty. Brämer Manison, Slovak National Museum – Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, Bratislava (SK)

Anetta Mona Chisa – Lucia Tkáčová. Óbudai Társaskör, Budapest (HU)

2010

Maďari a stalinizmus v Československu 1948 – 1963. Brämer Manison, Slovak National Museum – Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, Bratislava (SK)

Radovan Čerevka: Home woodoo crisis. Szlovák Intézet, Budapest (HU)

Anna Fabricius. Month of Photography (co-curator), Brämer Manison, Slovak National Museum – Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, Bratislava (SK)

2009

Piroska Nagy: Maďarsko 1988 – 1989. Month of Photography (co-curator), Brämer Manison, Slovak National Museum – Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, Bratislava (SK)

Bartusz – Jakoby, Bondy, časový limit, indigo. (co-curator), Eastern Slovak Gallery, Košice (SK)

2005

Ilona Németh. HattyúHáz, Pécs (HU)

2003

Juraj Bartusz Labilita. Brämer Manison, Slovak National Museum – Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, Bratislava (SK)

Ilona Németh – Karol Pichler. Brämer Manison, Slovak National Museum – Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, Bratislava (SK)

2002

Ilona Németh: Installation. KIMR, Bratislava (SK)

4 Maďari a 4 Slováci. Fény Galéria, Budapest (HU)

MADI. City Museum – Z Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

Ilona Németh: The Code. Slowakisches Institut, Berlin (DE)

2001

Juraj Bartusz: Chlieb náš každodenný ... LIMES Gallery, Komárno (SK)

2000

Emőke Vargová: Déjá-vu. V. Löffler Museum, Košice (SK)

1999

Súčasná slovenská fotografia. (co-curator) Műcsarnok – Ernst Múzeum, Budapest (HU)

1997

PreMOSTenia – átHIDalás – BRIDGing. Eastern Slovak Symposium of the Fine Arts, Štúrovo (SK)

1996

Juraj Bartusz. KIMR, Bratislava (SK)

Publication (selection):

Sokszínű városaink. Ed. Karádi Éva, Hushegyi Gábor. Kossuth Kiadó, Budapest 2016, 312.

Cordon, neo-normalisation, social art / Kordon, neonormalizáció, közösségi művészet / Kordón, neonormalizácia, spoločenské umenie. In: Dilemma. Three Central-European Versions of Ilona Németh´s Exhibitions / Németh Ilona kiállításának három közép-európai változata / Tri stredoeurópske varianty výstavy Ilony Németh. Ed. Edit András. Kalligram, Bratislava 2013, 15-30, 199-211, 281-292.

Transart Communication. Studio erté 1987-2007. (Co-author) Kalligram, Bratislava, 2008, 294.

Németh. Kalligram, Bratislava, 2008, 112.

Bartusz. Nadácia Kalligram, Bratislava, 2004, 80.

Németh Ilona. Kalligram, Bratislava, 2001, 112.

Ilona Németh. (Translation: Chris Sullivan) Kalligram, Bratislava, 2001, 112.

Kortárs Magyar Művészeti Lexikon I-III. (Lexicon of Contemporary Hungarian Art I-III.) Ed.: Fitz Péter. Enciklopédia Kiadó, Budapest, 1999-2001, 774, 991, 976.

Published texts (selection):

Kortárs és jelenkori magyar képzőművészek. (monographic study) In: Magyarok Szlovákiában III. köt. Kultúra (1989-2006). Ed. Csanda Gábor – Tóth Károly. Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet, Šamorín, 2006, 67-95.

La Importancia, Posición y Papel de Stúdió Erté (1987-1989) en el Arte de (Checo) Eslovaquia . In: Arte Acción 2 1978-1998. Ed.: Richard Martel.. IVAM Institut Valencia d´Art Modern, Valencia (ESP), 2004, 390-403.

Influences and traces of classical Hungarian Conceptual and Neoconceptual Art in Slovak art, illustrated by the works of Peter Rónai. / Vplyvy a stopy klasického maďarského konceptuálneho a neokonceptuálneho umenia v slovenskom umení ilustrované na diele Petra Rónaia. In: Conceptual Art at the Turn of Millennium / Konceptuálne umenie na zlome tisícročí / Konceptuális művészet az ezredfordulón. AICA Section Hungary – Slovak Section of AICA, Budapest – Bratislava, 2002, 68-88.

Importance. Place et rôle du Studio erté (1987-1997) dans l´art de la (Tchéco)Slovaquie / The Importance. Position and Role of Studio erté (1987-1997) in the Art of (Czécho)Slovakia. In: Art Action 1958-1998. Ed.: Richard Martel. Éditions Intervention, Québec, Canada, 2001, 458-467.

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