Tamás Jovanovics
(b. 1974)
Tamás Jovanovics was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1974. He graduated in 1997 and obtained his PhD in Painting in 2004 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and also obtained a MA degree in 1999 and a PhD in Fine Arts in 2004 at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence / France. Since 1999 he has held exhibitions in numerous galleries and museums, public and private, in Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, London, Milan, Moscow and New York. In 2007 he won a public art competition that he completed in 2008. The permanent and monumental installation is located on three facades of a University campus in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. The three-dimensional structures - made of steel and aluminium and weighing approximately 14 tons - are applied onto the facades and the roofs of the three 23 m high buildings. The site ultimately won the FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Award in 2009 as the best public sector development of the year. In 2009 he was selected for an Artist in Residence for three months in New York (USA) at the Harlem Studio Fellowship by MontrasioArte. In the same year, he received a special mention by the curators of the Milan based Premio Artivisive San Fedele. In 2014 he had the honour to have one of the last solo shows in the legendary, monumental Templespace of the Kiscell Museum in Budapest.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Cumulative Layout Shift, Einspach Fine Art and Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2022 The Eternal Dilemma of Abstraction, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2021 You'll have to scream louder, Galerie Leonhard, Graz, Austria (until 5 June 2021)
2019 Entering the Mess. Perplexing Geometries. Várfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (with Esther Stocker)
2017 Puckish Geometry, Három Hét Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
2016 Out of Night's Darkness, Jingling, Várfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Tamas Jovanovics, MAAB Gallery, Milano, Italy
2014 Mus(e)ic, Várfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (with Károly Keserü)
2014 Swing Out, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2013 Tamás Jovanovics - MAAB Gallery, Padova, Italy
2011 Magnificent Coincidence, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK (with Károly Keserü)
2011 Két művész Londonból, B55 Galéria, Budapest, Hungary (with Károly Keserű)
2010 Tamás Jovánovics. Colonne meta-fisiche e altre dissoluzioni, Leo Galleries, Monza, Italy
2009 Sospensioni, Villa Rampone, Roppolo, Italy
2009 Scaffoldings, Harlem Studio Fellowship by MontrasioArte, New York, U.S.A. (with Mariagrazia Pontorno)
2009 Back and Forth between Architecture – Art – Architecture, Hungarian Cultural Center, London, United Kingdom, curated by James Putnam
2008 Private View, Studio Zucchi, Milano, Italy, curated by Matteo Galbiati
2007 Geometrical Secession – Reacting to an Adamesque Interior, Hungarian Cultural Center, London, United Kingdom, curated by James Putnam
2005 Platán Galéria, Lengyel Intézet, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Tímea Jerger
2004 K.A.S. Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Ilona Nyakas
2003 Gutmann Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zoltán Prosek
2003 Fészek Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Éva Molnár
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Summer Wine, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest
2022 'Superficie/Surface', Montrasio Arte, Milano, Italy, from
2022 'Delineo Ergo Sum', Vasarely Museum, Budapest, from 24 January to 24 April 2022
2020 'Structure as Hell', est_projects_, Vienna, Austria
2020 Code and Algorithm. Hommage à Vera Molnar. Vasarely Museum / Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Bauhaus100. Programme for the Now. Contemporary Viewpoints, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2018 GameOmetry, Vasarely Museum / Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2018 'Osas on the Road: Budapest-Bratislava-Vienna', Vasarely Museum / Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2018 'OSAS Budapest Young Generation', Artmark Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2018 'Introduction to OSAS', Galeria Z, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 'Konkret und Minimal', Artmark Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2018 'Fugue', Vasarely Museum / Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2018 'Paint it Black!', Ungarisches Kulturinstitut Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2018 'Biennale d'Arte di Alessandria OMNIA 2018. Caos Colore. Anno I', Palazzo Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy
2018 'Black', Vàrfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017 'OSAS come back', Vasarely Museum / Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2017 'Autism as Metaphor', ICA-D Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
2017 'Autism as Metaphor', Szent Istvan Kiraly Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
2016/2017 'Geometrie Imprecise', LaGalleria Arte Contemporanea, Complesso Museale Palazzo Ducale di Mantova, Mantova, Italy
2016/2017 'Progressive Intentions', Conceptual Tendencies from the 1970’s to the Present, The Hungarian Institute in Istanbul, Istambul, Turkey
2016 'Unscharfe Geometrie' - Die Weiterentwicklung der konkreten Kunst, Artmark Galerie, Wien, AT
2015 'VÁRFOK 25': Várfok Gallery’s 25th anniversary exhibition, Várfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015 'Black. An idea of Light', Corte'sy Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2015 Hungary Next Generation, Artmark Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2015 'Roots for the Future,' Salone Centrale BPM, Milano, Italy
2015 'Interpretations of Ornament in Fine Arts Today (1990-2015)', Várfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014/2015 'Installációk a Fővárosi Képtárban 1992–2014', Municipal Gallery, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2014/2015 'Embodying Colour', Museum Vasarely, Budapest, Hungary,
2014 'Remember', Artmark Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2014 'Angles', Vàrfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014 'Space as Space', Museum Vasarely, Buapest, Hungary, curated by Dóra Maurer, András Wolsky & Barna Benedek
2013 'Kaleidoskop und Das kleine Format', Artmark Galerie, Vienna, AT
2013 'COCA / Constructive / Open structures / Concrete / Abstract', Artmark Galerie, Vienna, Austria, curated by Hartwig Knack
2013 'NEO-GEO-POST', Museum Vasarely, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Pia Jardi & Julia N. Mészáros
2012 'To live with Passion', B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2012 'Melodie discontinue: variazioni sulla superficie del tempo - Cesare GALLUZZO, Tamás JOVÁNOVICS, Elena MODORATI, Patrizia NOVELLO, Enrico CASTELLANI', Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Italy, curated by Davide Sarchioni e Matteo Galbiati
2012 'Back and Forth - 8 Artists from London', B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Estelle Thompson and Tamás Jovánovics
2011 'Free Port of Art, First CEI Trieste Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Art', Magazzino 26, Porto Vecchio, Trieste, Italy, curated by Trieste Contemporanea
2011 'Geomix 2.0', B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsuzsa Dárdai
2011 'Transparency - Looking through', Museum Vasarely, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Dóra Maurer
2010 'Il segreto dello sguardo. Premio Artivisive San Fedele 2009-2010', Galleria San Fedele, Milano, Italy, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Luca Barnabé, Ilaria Bignotti, Chiara Canali, Andrea Dall’Asta S.I., Matteo Galbiati, Chiara Gatti, Angela Madesani, Massimo Marchetti, Kevin McManus, Barbara Sorrentini, Michele Tavola, Fabio Vittorini and Giuseppe Zito S.I.
2010 'Art Fanatics. Contemporary Private Art Collections 2', Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsolt Petrányi
2009 'Geomix', B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsuzsa Dárdai
2009 'Line. The sensation of one dimension', B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zsuzsa Dárdai
2009 'L’Uomo e il suo Destino. Premio Artivisive San Fedele 2008-2009', Galleria San Fedele, Milano, Italy, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Luca Barnabé, Ilaria Bignotti, Chiara Canali, Andrea Dall’Asta S.I., Matteo Galbiati, Chiara Gatti, Angela Madesani, Massimo Marchetti, Barbara Sorrentini, Michele Tavola, Fabio Vittorini, Francesco Zanot and Giuseppe Zito S.I.
2009 'Harlem States of Mind from Apollo to Lennox', Museo Civico Floriano Bodini, Gemonio, Italy, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Raffaele Bedarida és and Francesca Montrasio, esszék essays by Matteo Galbiati and Chiara Gatti
2009 'Harlem States of Mind from Apollo to Lennox', Galleria MontrasioArte, Milano, Italy, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Raffaele Bedarida és and Francesca Montrasio, essays by Matteo Galbiati and Chiara Gatti
2008 'Concrete-Constructive Wanted 1', Museum Vasarely, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Dóra Maurer, essays by József Mélyi
2008 'Premio Arteingenua 2008. I Concorso Internazionale di Pittura, scultura e fotografia per giovani Artisti', Piccolo Miglio in Castello, Castello di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
2007 'Frisch Gestrichen', Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken, Germany
2007 'Space Lab, Research Development Group', Slade School of Fine Art, Woburn Institute, London, United Kingdom, curated by James Putnam
2007 Mark Barrow Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, curated by Mark Barrow
2006 'Roma in miniatura', Academy of Hungary, Rome, Italy, curated by Miklós Sulyok
2005 'Real and Virtual Spaces', A.S. Puškin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation, curated by Dóra Maurer and Zoltán Prosek
2003 'Geometria I', Gutmann Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Zoltán Prosek
2002 'Zweite Welt', Galerie in den Treptowers, Allianz Versicherungs-AG, Berlin, Germany, curated by Dóra Maurer
