Gábor Kerekes
(1945 - 2014)
The Balázs Béla Award-winning Gábor Kerekes (1945, Oberhart, Germany - 2014, Budapest) is known for his precision and experimental photography. He developed an interest in photography in 1971 when he was gifted a Voigtländer camera. In 1973, several years after completing his secondary education at the Kölcsey Grammar School in Budapest, he qualified as a professional photographer. Then, for a period of two years, he was a reporter for the Budapest Photographers’ Cooperative. From 1974 –1979 he was employed as a photographer by the Iron Industrial Research Institute. He worked as a photojournalist for Képes 7 from 1985 and for Képes Európa from 1990. He subsequently became a freelance photographer.
Kerekes founded or joined several major photography groups and workshops. In 1977, he became a founding member of the Studio of Young Photographers, serving as its art director from 1986. He joined the Association of Hungarian Photographers in 1980. In 1981, he became a member of the ‘Dokumentum’ group – with János Szerencsés, Antal Jokesz and János Vető. In 1995, he joined forces with György Stalter to found the ASA photo studio, where he has taught ever since. In 2005, he became a founding member of the +Műhely photography workshop. He regularly lectures and leads courses for the FotóFalu Projekt.
Kerekes held his first solo exhibition at the Ferencváros Cellar Exhibition Hall in Budapest in 1997. Since then, his works have featured in solo and group exhibitions in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe: Amsterdam, Arles, Berlin, Bonn, Bradford, Bratislava, Brescia, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Esslingen, Lausanne, London, Lyon, Milan, Nantes, Paris, Vienna, Warsaw and Zagreb. His photography has also been shown at prestigious exhibition halls in the United States: Denver, Kansas City, Massachusetts, New York and San Francisco. Articles about his work have been published in numerous catalogues and in professional journals and magazines.
Works by Kerekes may be found at the Galerie der Stadt (Esslingen), the Hungarian Museum of Photography (Kecskemét), the Musée de l'Élysée (Lausanne), the Museo Ken Damy (Brescia), the National Museum of Film, Television and Photography (Bradford) and in several private collections.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Body, Fetish, Death, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest
2015 Zona, Artphoto Gallery, Budapest
2014 Stars and Science, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
2011 Modern Vision, Hungarian Photography Then and Now,
Hotshoe Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Mia Milano – Art Fair, by Gallery Nessim, Milano, Italy
Serien, Gabor Kerekes in Galerie Hiltawsky, Berlin,Germany
Zwischen Himmel und Erde, Galerie Fotoforum,Innsbruck,
Austria
2010 Paris Photo, Ester Woederhoff Galerie, Paris, France
Dubai Art Fair, Dubai /EA/
Photon Galerija, Photomagic, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009 Paris Salon – By Vintage Gallery, Paris, France
Start, Strasbourg – By Nessim Gallery, Strasbourg, France
Orientations, Raiffeisen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2008 2 X New York, Nessim Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
Observations, Hungaraian Museum of Photography,
Kecskemét, Hungary
2007 Fly Off, Hungarian Studio Gallery, Hungary
Fly Off, Nessim Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Early Works, Kerekes Gábor & Szilágyi Lenke, Vintage
Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Budapest Feeling, Miesiac Fotografii W Krakowie,
Palac Goetza, Krakow, Poland
2005 Sense of Orientation, Hungarian House of Photography,
Budapest, Hungary
2004 Sense of Orientation, Gallery W.V. Zoetendaal, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Fotofo 2004, Bratislava, Slovakia
Gabor Kerekes, El Fracaso de la Ciencia, Galeria
Contraluz, Pamplona, Spain
2003 Seventies-Eighties, Mai Manó House, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Obra Reciente – Gabor Kerekes, Galeria Spectrum Sotos,
Spain
Festival Internacional de Fotografia Huesca, Huesca, Spain
Fiction/Science, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2000 Paris Photo, Paris Salon, Piramid, Paris, France
Fotofo 2000, Bratislava, Slovakia
Le Sense de l’Orientations, Budapest Galéria, Budapest,
Hungary
1999 Made In Hungary, Museum Voor Fotografie, Antwerpen,
Belgium
Le Sense de l’Orientations, Pécs Galéria, Pécs, Hungary
1998 Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1997 Gallery Robert Koch, San Francisco, USA
Galerie Contretype, Bruxelles, Belgium
Albumen Works, Bolt Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1995 Observations, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Vasarely Museum, Pécs, Hungary
Bolt Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1994 Le Parvis, Tarbes, France
1993 Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
Museo Ken Damy, Milano, Italy
1992 Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1988 Mala Gallery, Warsawa, Poland
1985 Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1977 Pince Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
