Peter Puklus

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WORKS

  • The Hero Mother - How to build a house
  • The Epic Love Story of a Warrior
  • Handbook to the Stars
  • One and a half meter
  • Sculptures and objects

NEWS

 

2021

Group exhibitions:
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), Tallin Art Hall, Tallin, Estonia

 

2020

Group exhibitions:
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
When Images Collide, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim / Ludwigschafen / Heidelberg, Germany

 

2019

Solo exhibitions:
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany
Life is Techno, ParisBerlin Fotohaus, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
The Hero Mother – How to build a house, Museo delle Trame Mediterranee – Fondazione Orestiadi, On the Road Photofestival, Gibellina, Italy

Group exhibitions:
Westkunst – Ostkunst, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Geometry of Imagination, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
1000 Hands, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Bauhaus 100, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Anatomy of Photography, Esterházy Palace, Győr, Hungary
How to deal with history? Ostlook platform on KOLGA Tbilisi Photo Festival, Folklore Center Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
Photobook. Storytelling – Paperlust Photobook Fest, New Art Foundation Znaczy Sie, Krakow, Poland
Photobook. Asset – Paperlust Photobook Fest, Galeria i, Krakow, Poland
Camera Lucida, The Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Family, MODEM – Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks (20th-21st century), International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland
Esterházy Art Award 2019, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Art fairs:
Unseen with Robert Morat Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherland
ParisPhoto with Robert Morat Gallery, Paris, France

Events:
Guest lecturer at Sputnik Photos International Mentoring Program, Warsaw, Poland
Artist talk at Breda Photofestival, Breda, Netherlands
Artist talk at Unseen Living Room, Unseen Photofestival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Workshop leader at CEPV, Vevey, Switzerland
Finalist of Esterházy Art Award 2019, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Book proposal, workshop and artist talk at Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design (UMPRUM), Prague, Czech Republic
Nominee at Highlights of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
Artist talk at easttopics, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Lecturer at Capazine – Let’s dance, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary

 

2018

Solo exhibitions:
One and a half meter, Folia Gallery, Paris, France
The Hero Mother – How to build a house, GlassYard Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
The Hero Mother – How to build a house, Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland
Life is Techno, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Stupid, double solo show with Radek Brousil at Fait Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic

Group exhibitions:
Thirtythree, Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
Related by Sister Languages, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Loading… Works from the Foam Collection, FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
GWB Review, Zipernowsky House, Budapest, Hungary
The Geometry of Imagination, Mai Manó House, Budapest, Hungary
The Zone, Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Pigment – Zones of visibility, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Art fairs:
The Hero Mother, Glassyard Gallery at Artissima, Torino, Italy
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, Conrads Gallery at Art Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Interviews and publications:
One thousand Polish hands on Mai Manó House
Arnis Balcus: FK asks – Exhibition experience on FK Magazine
‘Stupid’ by Radek Brousil and Peter Puklus at Fait Gallery MEM on Blok Magazine
Life is Techno on Footnotes on Art

Life is Techno on Blok Magazine

Tóth Emese: Szétszed és összerak on Tiszatáj Online (in Hungarian)
Margl Ferenc: Puklus Péter – Life is Techno on Magyar Narancs (in Hungarian)
Johnny Crisp: Interview with Peter Puklus in Perdiz #9
Bóné Ferenc: Technokunst on Designisso (in Hungarian)
Radek Brousil & Peter Puklus: Stupid on Artmirror
Kölüs Lajos: Emlékszilánkok on Új Művészet (in Hungarian)
Abafáy-Deák Csillag: Jelek a Földről on Új Művészet (in Hungarian)
Simon Bettina: Lemondani a személyességről on Revizor (in Hungarian)
Zoltan Alexander: Emerging artists from Budapest on Artlyst
Bea Istvánkó: Hardcore Techno on Artkartell (in Hungarian)
Bálint Kollár: We visited Peter Puklus in his studio on WeLoveBudapest (in Hungarian)
Bálint Kollár: “On my exhibitions I don’t hold the visitor’s hand” interview on Kapcsolj be! (in Hungarian)
Patrícia Szabó: According to Peter Puklus the message is the most important on Nesze!szer (in Hungarian)

Events, lectures, talks and workshops
Mode Suisse – workshop at ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Jäger & Sammler – Symposium: “Materiel Proben: Foto Objekt Raum” artist talk at Freundeskreis des Hauses der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Body and Object – workshop with Agnieszka Rays at Mai Manó House, Budapest, Hungary
Artist personality – Media production workshop and lecture series with Gábor Arion Kudász at MOME, Budapest, Hungary
Body and Object – workshop at CEPV, Vevey, Switzerland
Fotómappa – Portfolio consultation at Capa Center, Budapest, Hungray
Photobook bloc. Central Europe in photography books – referral of Hungarian photobooks, International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland
Guided tour at ‘Life is Techno’ solo exhibition in Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary


 

2017

Solo exhibitions:
Handbook to the Stars, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, New Positions – Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Handbook to the Stars, Josef Sudek Studio, Prague, Czech Republic
Belonging(s), double solo with Anna Orlowska, Platan Gallery – Polish Institute, Budapest, Hungary

Group exhibitions:
Esterhazy Art Award 2017, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Central by East Central, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
Viewfinders – Hungarian Photography from the past half century 1967-2017, Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
CO-OP Insights: Thread Count by Der Grief, Unseen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From book to book, TIC Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Oslo Photobook Festival, Fffotografer, Oslo, Norway
Westkunst – Ostkunst, A new collection display. Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Middle, Central, Eastern European Photography, Polish Ambassador’s residence in Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
Books to play with, Book Art Museum, Fotofestiwal Lodz, Poland
Facts and clarifications, Riga Photomonth, Riga, Latvia
Instax, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Agens und Reagens, Ratskeller, Berlin, Germany
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist:
– Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
– College of Art and Design, Lesley University, Cambridge, USA
– Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
– The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
– Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs, USA
– Düsseldorf Photo Week-end, Düsseldorf, Germany

Art fairs:
Untitled Art Fair, Conrads Gallery, Miami Beach, USA
Paris Photo, Robert Morat Gallery, Paris, France
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, New Positions – Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Photo London, Robert Morat Gallery, London, UK

Residencies and awards:
Finalist at “Leave Your Mark” program by UniCredit Bank, Hungary
Finalist at Esterhazy Art Award 2017, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Grand Prix, Images Vevey, Switzerland
Longlisted for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018
Artist-in-Residency at Residenza Petrolio, Carovigno, Italy

Events, lectures, talks and workshops:
Knowledge of Media Production, artist talk and lecture at Master Class of Photography at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary
‘From Handbook to Hero Mother’, artist talk and workshop at Luca School of Arts, Gent, Belgium
Fototreff Spezial #1, Peter Puklus & Simon Karlstetter in conversation at Fototreff, Berlin, Germany
‘From Handbook to Hero Mother’, artist talk at Photobookfest, Moscow, Russia
‘From the Handbook to the Warrior’, artist talk at Self Publish Riga, Riga, Latvia
Studio visit by Yamile Calderon and her students from Oslo Fotokunstskole, Budapest, Hungary
Virtual studio visit by Thomas Albdorf and his students from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Selected publications, reviews and interviews:
Andrei Zavadski: Photographing the 20th century (interview) on openDemocracy
Simon Karlstetter: Diese 10 Fotografietalente solltet ihr euch merken in I-D Vice Germany

Jörg Colberg: Understanding Photobooks – The Form and Content of Photographic Books, Focal Press – Routledge, 2017 New York, USA

Jörg Colberg: A Conversation with Peter Puklus in Conscientious Photography Magazine
Nassim Daghighian: Peter Puklus Interview in Photo-theoria #14
Erik Vroons: Steamy Windows and Distorted Rearviews – How Photographic Images Can Function in Artist Books in GUP Magazine #52 – Mirror issue
GR-09022017 published by Skried Publishing

Felipe Abreu: Dos prazeres de se perder em um labirinto (in Portuguese) on Medium

Barnabás Bencsik: TOP 10: Art in Central and Eastern Europe on Magazin Szum

Brad Feuerhelm: The Anachronist, Her Muse, His Mother Europa on American Suburb X