Tamas Dezsö
(b. 1978)
The subject of Tamas Dezsö's works is human and non-human, plant identity, as well as man's relationship to the environment, to nature, i.e. to the non-human. Through a variety of art forms and media - including photographs, sculptures, kinetic works, installations – and with a strong theoretical background and research, he formulates the questions and problems that the ecological crisis, the impending climate catastrophe, i.e. our Anthropocene age raises very sharply. Each of his works is a problematisation, which takes shape through the sensual image or reality of an Azorean forest, a hedge or pine tree hundreds of years old, the world's smallest insect, a piece of a 4.5 billion year old meteorite, 19th century engravings or even metronomes. Dezsö's works show the end of man's planetary dominance, man's blindness to everything that is not him, and the essentially unknown, silent world of the non-human world, of nature, plants, insects, animals, trying to make them speak. The artist explores the traces in man that connect him to the environment, to the plant identity, proving that our species is not superior, but only one among the organic and inorganic beings of the world.
György Cséka
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Coda, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2022 Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
2021 Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, UGM Studio of Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
2018 Notes for an Epilogue, Clervaux Cité de l'Image, Clervaux, Luxembourg
2016 Notes for an Epilogue, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2016 Notes for an Epilogue, Argentea Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2015 Notes for an Epilogue, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014 Here, Anywhere, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Notes for an Epilogue, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, United States
2013 Epilogue, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2013 Notes for an Epilogue, Athens Photo Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2012 Here, Anywhere, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Notes for an Epilogue, Várfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2011 Here, Anywhere, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, United States
2011 Here, Anywhere, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, United States
2011 Here, Anywhere, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2011 Here, Anywhere, Biennale Mediations, Poznan, Poland
2011 Romania, Half King Gallery, New York, United States
2011 Here, Anywhere, Chobi Mela, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
2011 Here, Anywhere, Balassi Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Here, Anywhere, Raiffeisen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Upstarts, Historical Museum, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
2006 Hotel, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Summer Wine - Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest
2023 Doomsday Brain Check, MAGMA Contemporary, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
2022 Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, United States
2022 Foto Wien – Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria
2022 Extra Ordinary – The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021 The Armory Show – Robert Koch Gallery, New York, United States
2020 The Armory Show – Robert Koch Gallery, New York, United States
2019 Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, United States
2018 Sir Elton John: A Time for Reflection, AIPAD, New York City, United States
2018 Another Europe – Austrian Cultural Forum, King’s Cross, London, United Kingdom
2017 Photo London – The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2017 In My View – The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2017 Photofairs – Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2017 An Overview of Hungarian Photography, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Hungarian photography from the past half century, Robert Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
2016 Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2016 Storytelling – Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, United States
2016 Expo Chicago – Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2016 When Frost Was Spectre-Grey, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016 516 ARTS/UNM Art Museum, Future Tense, Albuquerque, United States
2016 AIPAD New York – Robert Koch Gallery, New York, United States
2015 Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2015 Unseen Photo Fair – The Photographers’ Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 Expo Chicago – Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2015 Ex & Post – Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2015 Photo London – The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014 Unseen Photo Fair – The Photographers’ Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 CinEast, Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg
2014 AIPAD New York – Robert Koch Gallery, New York, United States
2013 Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2013 Paris Photo Los Angeles – Robert Koch Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2013 New Excursions in the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, United States
2013 Hungarian Art Photography, National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2013 TraNshformation, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2013 Expo Chicago – Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2012 Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, United States
2012 Inside/Outside, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2012 PhotoIreland Festival, Magazines on the Wall, Dublin, Ireland
2012 Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2012 Photoville, Photo District News, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, United States
2012 Expo Chicago – Robert Koch Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, United States
2012 Jeune Création Européenne, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2012 AIPAD New York – Robert Koch Gallery, New York, United States
2012 What is Hungarian? – Contemporary Answers, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2012 BeLa Editions Gallery, JCE Grand Prize, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Tower Museum, Foto Foyle, Derry City, United Kingdom
2011 Paris Photo – Robert Koch Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2011 The Terry O’Neill Tag Awards, HotShoe Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011 Biennale Jeune Création Européenne, Montrouge, Paris, France
2011 Galerie Huit – Transience, Arles, France
2011 Belfast Photo Festival, Waterfront Hall, Belfast, United Kingdom
2011 Ulsan International Photography Festival, Ulsan, South Korea
2011 Young Contemporary Statements, Pecs, Hungary
2011 Budapest Positive, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2010 New York Photo Festival, powerHouse Arena, New York, United States
2010 East Side Story – Chroniques d’Europe Centrale, HSBC, Paris, France
2010 Foto8 Summer Show, HOST Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010 Live Sync. – Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2010 Foto8 Summershow, Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom
2010 Present Continuous, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia
2007 Pécsi József Grant Exhibition, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Risk, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Ungarn heute, Hungarian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
2006 Selected Images, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005 Hungary Today, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
