Tamás Soós | Einspach Fine Art & Photography

Tamás Soós
(b. 1955)

born in Budapest, Hungary

Tamás Soós’s art grows in an organic manner defying single-word definitions. The artists has a variety of different series of works related to his main topic: melancholy. However, in 2008 he aims to expand his oeuvre and he begins to experiment with a new, grid-like visual scheme. This accommodated a range of works: cross shaped paintings invoking the radicalism of Suprematism (The Melancholy of Order); timeless realist portraits floating in homogenous spaces (Realistic Melancholy); colourful abstract line-tangles written on white paper (Line of Existence); and earlier pieces, dating from different periods in the 80s – from the first works on paper conjuring up abstract jungles (Substance), through post-modern compositions of new painting (Mythology), to projections of inner landscapes billowing with ghostly lights (Metaphysical landscapes).

EDUCATION

1980-1985 Hungarian University of Applied Arts

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS

1985 Award of Studio of Young Artists' Association
1986 Prize of the III. National Drawing Biennale, Salgótarján
1987 XXII. Internationale Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Graz
1987 Derkovits Prize, Hungary
1988 IV. Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Nürnberg
1991 ARTEST - Stipendiat im Künstlerhaus Boswil, Switzerland
1994 Hungarian Academy in Rome, Rome
1998 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2002 Sirius Art Centre, Cobh, Ireland
2005 Zuger Kulturstiftung, Zug, Switzerland
2008 Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, Wien

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Kiscell Museum - Municipal Gallery, Budapest
King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár
Jannus Pannonius Museum, Pécs
Contemporary Collection, Paks
Győr Gallery, Győr
Unilever, Budapest
Hypo-Bank, Budapest
Raiffeisen Bank, Budapest
Four Seasons Hotel, Budapest
Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Albertina, Wien
Galerie der Stadt Wels
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Kupferstich- Kabinet, der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
Moderna Galerija, Skopje
Collection Fellbach
KIASMA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Kleist Museum, Frankfurt/Oder
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
Embassy of Hungary, Washington

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 De l'esprit - Early works, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest (HU)

2019 Melancholy, Maksla XO Gallery, Riga (LV)

2018 Praefiguratio, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2018 A place for reflection, FUGA, Budapest (HU)

2017 In the Shadows, Fészek Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2013 News, A38 Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2010 Small Pictures, Fordítóház, Balatonfüred (HU)

2009 Melancholia, Fészek Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2009 The gaze of Melancholia, Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2006 Realistic Melancholia, Haworth Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2005 Monochrome Fragmante, Maria Opferung, Zug (CH)

2004 Nomad Project, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (HU)

2004 Realistic Melancholia, Fészek Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2002 Lithographs, Raiffeisen Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2001 Realistic Melancholia, Fészek Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2001 Next Gallery, Leiden (NL)

1999 Hungarian Consulate, New York (US)
1999 Institut Hongrois, Paris (FR)

1998 Yuko Shiraishi - Soós Tamás, Ernst Museum, Budapest (HU)
1998 Sai Gallery Alexie, New York, Budapest (HU)
1998 Institut Francais, Budapest (HU)

1997 Realistic Melancholia/Get Geist, Fészek Gallery, Budapest (HU)

1996 Baroque Melancholia, Kiscell Museum - Municipal Gallery, Budapest (HU)

1995 Baroque Melancholia, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (HU)

1995 Hungarian Institute, Helsinki (FI)

1995 Galeria Justus, Kannus (FI)

1994 Pandora Gallery, Budapest (HU)

1993 Pro Helvetia, Budapest (HU)

1992 Melancholia, Fészek Gallery (HU)

1991 Barock Melancholie, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
1991 Melancholie, Galerie der Stadt Wels (AT)

1989 Soós Tamás - Erwin Wurm, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest (HU)

1988 Metaphysische Landschaft, Galerie Eremitage, Berlin (DE)

1987 Alte Gefühle, Galerie Knoll, Wien (AT)

1986 Hannibal, IH Gallery, Székesfehérvár (HU)

1985 Mitology, Liget Gallery, Budapest (HU)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Summer Wine, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest (HU)

2018 Viennacontemporary 2018, Vienna (AT)

2018 Paper Space, Horizont Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2010 INTERVENTIONS, Lukács Archive, Budapest (HU)
2010 Locked in the seven towers, Melancholy in modern art, MODEM, Debrecen (HU)

2009 Hommage El Kazovszkij, Várfok Gallery, XO Hall, Budapest (HU)
2009 Coup d'oeil, Selection from the collection of István Hoffman, Institut Francais, Budapest (HU)
2009 Austrian-Hungarian Selection, from the Contemporary Collection of Péter Szép, István Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár (HU)
2009 Tolerance in Art, Danubiana, Meulensteen Art Museum, Pozsony (SK)
2009 Péter Szép Collection, Hungarian Institute, Stuttgart (DE)
2009 Akzent Ungarn, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
2009 Das grosse Kunststück. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Péter Szép (DE)
2009 Vision Trinitatis – Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Annaberg bei Chemnitz (DE)

2008 Zeitgenössiche Kunst Ungarn-Niederösterreich, Lilienfeld (AT)

2008 SpaceForce, Kunsthalle, Millenium Park, Budapest (HU)

2008 Goldene Schüsse, Zeitgenössiche Kunst aus der Sammlung Péter Szép, Collegium Hungaricum, Wien (AT)

2007 Hungarian Art, Expressionistic Tendencies in Hungarian

Contemporary Art 1980-2007,
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Pozsony (SK)

2007 Collection of Zsolt Somlói and Katalin Spengler,
“Horror vacui” art from 1968 to the present, Vízivárosi Gallery,

Budapest (HU)
2007 Expressionist Phenomena in Contemporary Hungarian Art, 1980- 2007
Municipal Art Museum Gallery, Győr (HU)
2007 ARTINACT, Paks Gallery, Paks (HU)

2006 Hommage á Mulasics, Várfok Gallery, XO hall, Budapest (HU)

2006 Skulpturen, Plastiken, Objekte, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (AT)

2005 Contemporary Art in the Basement, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (AT)

2005 Pisctures, Sculptures, Kiscell Museum - Municipal Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2004 Future Vision, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin (DE)
2004 Contemporary Hungarian Art, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Washington (US)

2003 Future Vision, Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc, Kecskeméti Képtár, Kecskemét (HU)

2002 Future Vision, Ernst Museum, MEO, Budapest (HU)
2002 New Acquisitions, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (HU)
2002 A selection from the Raiffeisen Bank collection, Raiffeisen Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2002 Future Vision, Szombathely Gallery, Szombathely (HU)
2002 Janos Xantus Museum, Győr (HU)
Hungaarse Kunstenaars in Leiden, Centrum Beeldende

Kunst, Leiden (NL)

2001 Sculpture from Here and Beyond, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)

2001 Zeitbrücke, Ungarische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Museum. Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Wörlen, Passau (DE)

2000 Into the New Millennium with Art, City Park Lake, Budapest (HU)

2000 Dialogue, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)

1999 Metal Mark, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
1999 Salon '99, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
1999 Ungarische Künstler, Gallerie Hellhof, Kronberg
1999 Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ungarn, Galerie der Stadt Fellbach,

Fellbach (DE)

1998 Aus dem Archiv Ankaufe, 1990 – 1997, Galerie der stadt Wels,

Wels (AT)
1998 Newly Acquired and Long-Unseen Works, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (HU)
1998 Sammlung Zeitgenössicher ungarischer Maler, Stiftung International Kinderrettungsdienst, Coutts Bank, Wien (AT)
1998 Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ungarn, Donaueschingen (DE)

1997 Pandora Gallery, Hungarian Consulate, New York (US)

1997 Generations, Ernst Museum, Budapest (HU)

1997 NGYSZ, Contemporary Art Collection, British Embassy, Budapest (HU)

1997 White Flags, Knoll Gallery, Budapest (HU)

1997 Oil, canvas / Contemporary Hungarian Painting, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)

1996 A selection of the material of Artaria Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)

1996 Art Cologne, Pandora Gallery, Köln (DE)

1995 Contemporary Hungarian Sculpture, Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)

1995 Contemporary Hungarian artists in the graphic art collection of the Albertina, Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)

1994 Artisti dell Accadamia d'Ungheria, Roma (IT)

1993 Free Worlds, Metaphor and Realities in Contemporary Art, Musée. d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (CA)

1992 Sotheby's Auction, Budapest (HU)

1991 Metaphor, Kennesaw State Collage, Marietta, Georgia
Free Worlds, Metaphor and Realities in Contemporary

Hungarian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (CA)

1990 Contemporary Hungarian Art, Cultural Center, Southampton

Der Prix “Ars Electronica”, Internationales Kompendium der Computerkünstler, Linz (AT)

1989 Kunst Heute in Ungarn, Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen (DE)

1988 Madarske vytvarne umeni XX. Stoleti, Narodni Galerie v Práze,

Mestská Knihovná, Praha (CZ)
1988 Contacts: Fonticoli, Fraterno, Fehér, Soós, Vigadó Gallery,

Budapest (HU)

1988 IV. Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle,

Nürnberg (DE)
1988 Budapest '88, 8 Ungarische Maler, Galerie Knoll, Wien, Arti

at Amitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
1988 Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz (AT)
1988 Philips Auction, London (GB)
1988 Exhibition of the Studio of Young Artists, Manyezs, Moscow (RU)

1987 Neue Sensibilitat – Ungarische Malerei der 80-er Jahre, Galerie der Esslingen, Villa Merkel (DE)
1987 Austellungshalle, Westfalenpark, Dortmund (DE)

1987 Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst aus Ungarn, Galerie der Künstler, München (DE)
1987 Vecchi sentimenti, Quatro artisti ungheres, Bibliotheca Comunale, Tuscania (IT)
1987 Mythen aus Ungarn, Galerie Landeskulturcentrum Ursulienhof, Linz (AT)
1987 Christie's Auction, Amsterdam (NL)
1987 Internationale Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)

1986 Eklektika 85, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (HU)
1985 Peintres Contemporains Hongrois, Paris (FR)

1985 Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (FR)

1985 Drei Generationen ungarischer Künstler, Neue Galerie

am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
1985 Snapshot, Three generations of Hungarian painters,

Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
1985 Hungarian Painters, Gallery Route One, University of California, Los Angeles (US)