Artists



Csáji, Attila

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. He is one of the prominent personality of the contemporary Hungarian art. In the 60s and 70s, he set out to organise the new Hungarian Avant-garde (SZÜRENON, the Hungarian avant-garde exhibition series in Poland, "R" exhibition, shows in the Balatonboglár Chapel, series of shows in Yugoslavia etc.).He especially contributed to a fresh start-minded artistic process, which takes effect today, and today the exhibitions organized by him have art-historical importance. In the mid-70s, he started to explore the pictorial possibilities provided by laser light. Aided by the Central Physics Research Institute, he explored the visual possibilities of the coherent laser light. He experimented a new visual transformational method, the so-called superposition method (international patent in 1980).

Laser shows (selection)

1981    
Finlandia Palace (Cell crystals, Braid belt), Helsinki
1982 Bella Center (Cell crystals), Copenhagen
1983 Messepalast (laser light mobile show), Stuttgart
2004 "Return" (laser environment), Hungarian Academy Rome, Falconieri Palace
2011 "Return", Grote Kerk, Hague

Memberships

1992 Szinyei Merse Pál Society, president                      
1992-1994 National Association of Hungarian Artists, president
1992-1995 Curator for the Visual Arts of the National Cultural Fund, president
1999 International György Kepes Society

Scholarships

BWA scholarship
Soros scholarship
Interscience Technology scholarship 
Scholarship of Province of Brabant 
Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy Rome

Collective exhibitions (selection)

He attended more than 500 exhibitions.

1983           
ELECTRA 83, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1984 "LICHT-BLICKE"- Hologram World Expo, Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
1991 "The Sixties", Hungarian National Gallery
1996 „Beyond art", Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2002 LUX EUROPAE, Copenhagen
2003 V. International Light Symposium, Kepes Center, Eger 
2010 VIII. International Light Symposium, Pécs Cultural Centre, Pécs 
2012
"We belong together" group exhibition, Forrás Galéria, Budapest

Individual exhibitions (selection)

1977    Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest         
1980 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1983 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1988 Műcsarnok, Budapest
2007 Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2008 Symbol Gallery
Hungarien Contemporary Gallery, Dunaszerdahely
Székely Museum, Gyárfás Picture Gallery, Sepsiszentgyörgy
2010 Klebelsberg Kuno Culture Mansion, Budapest
Suez Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

Works in Collections (selection)

Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár
Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Kinshan and Seoul Modern Museum
Kozawa Collection, Tokyo
MIT Collection, Cambridge
National Museum, Poznan
National Museum, Szczecin
Brasov Museum, Brasov
East- Slovakia Museum, Kosice
Richardson Collection
Jodhpuri Maharaja's Collection
Manekraj Art Promotion Foundation
Körmendi-Csák Collection

Bibliography

1997        

Hegyi, Lóránd, Körner, Éva, Mezei, Ottó, Sík, Csaba: Csáji Attila

(Edited by Körmendi Gallery)

2009 Csáji, Attila: Billenő idő
2009 Csáji, Attila: Time ont he Tilt

Exhibitions