Born in Budapest, June 24, 1968
Lives and works in Budapest

EDUCATION

1982-86 School of Art and Design , Budapest
1987-91 Degree in Painting, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1991-1994 Postgraduate studies at the Mural Department, Hungarian
Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1995-96 Assistant professor of Painting Department, Hungarian
Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
2002 Assistant curator Colour - a Life of its Own / Hungarian
and International Monochrome Painting,Kunsthalle Budapest
2007 Chief Curator - Painting Painting,International Monochrome Painting in Vass collection 2007-2009 Vass Collection Veszprém H

 

AWARDS

1992 Barcsay Prize, Budapest
1996 Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome
1997 Scholarship of the Kunstverein Alte Schmiede. Vienna
1997 3rd Prize, Strabag Painting Competitition, Budapest
1997-1999 Derkovits Scholarship, Budapest
2000 Artist in Residence, Vienna
2001 Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship, Budapest
2007 Art - Universitas Program / painting installation, Semmelweis University
Faculty of Dentistry ,Budapest
2008 Kunststiftung Baden- Württemberg,Sttutgart

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Since 1994

1995 Dichotomia. Pandora Gallery, Budapest
1997 New paintings. Fészek Gallery, Budapest
1998 Collegium Budapest / Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest
1999 Vice-versa. Smallgallery, Pécs H
1999 “ Perception of an Aspect ”. Dorottya Gallery, Budapest - with Ágnes Deli
2000 Paintings 1995-2000. Institut of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros H
2000 “ Le Peintre de l’espace se jette dans le vide ! ” Institut Français, Budapest
2000 “ Who ’s afraid of yellow… ” St. Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár H
2001 Simultaneous. Vadnai Gallery, Budapest
2001 Aniconic paintings. Goethe Institut - with Hartwig Kompa, Budapest
2002 Verein für Aktuelle Kunst / Ruhrgebeit e.V. - with Tinka von Hasselbach, Oberhausen
2002 Duplicate. Art-Garage, Zug CH
2003 Recent paintings. Vadnai Gallery, Budapest
2003 ACP Viviane Ehrli Galerie, Zürich
2003 After Caput Mortuum. Fészek Gallery,Budapest
2005 Colour container. Hungarian Culturel Centre London
2005 Andras Gal and Thomas Pihl,Galerie De Rijk,Den Haag,NL
2006 Blow Up.Fészek Gallery,Budapest – with Éva Kőves
2008 Evolution of the Painting - with Krzysztof Gliszczynski, Galeria Platan, Polish Institute,Budapest
2008 Andras Gal – The Border of the Painting ,Ernst Museum/Kunsthalle Budapest

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1992 27. Internationalen Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
1992 Germinations 7. European Biennale for young artists, Magasin,C.N.A.C., Grenoble
1994 Reduction. Na-Ne Gallery, Budapest
1995 Kulturabkommen. PBK, Kino Metropolis, Hamburg
1996 The Least. Ernst Museum, Budapest
1996 Acqua. Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri, Rome
1996 - kulanz. Knoll Gallery, Budapest
1997 Strabag painting competition 1997.Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1997 Oil / Canvas. Contemporary Hungarian Painting in the 90’s, Kunsthalle, Budapest
1997 New acquisitions. Institut of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
1997 The Hidden. Ernst Museum, Budapest
1997 Bourse Viera da Silva-Arpad Szenes. Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
1998 Anthology. Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1998 Obserwatorium. Exhibition of Young Hungarian Artists from the 90’s.
The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
1998 Yellow. Barcsay -Hall, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1999 The 90’s. Municipal Art Museum, Győr H
1999 Freies gestalten. Stadtmuseum, Graz
2000 Junge Kunst Ungarn. Dresden Bank, München
2000 Dialogue. Kunsthalle, Budapest
2001 Touch - The Allegories of Painting. Ateliers Pro Arts/ A.P.A.!, Budapest
2001 Ungarische Kunst Heute. Foyer Erholungshaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen
2002 Colour - a Life of its Own. an exhibition of hungarian and international
monochrome painting, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2003 Seeing Red - Contemporary Nonobjective Painting, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, MFA Building,New York City
2004 Painting - Painting, Vadnai Gallery, Budapest
2004 Die Farbe hat mich II. (nicht nur rot) Neuerwerbungen 2000-2004
für die Sammlungen des Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen
2004 Personal structures.Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg,Düsseldorf
2005 Choreography.Vadnai Gallery,Budapest
2005 New acquisitions 1995-2005. St.Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár H
2005 Personal structures.Ludwig Museum at the Deutschherrenhaus,Koblenz
2005 Constructive conceptions. Vass Collection,Veszprém H
2005 Personal structures.Vadnai Gallery,Budapest
2005 Special for viennAfair ’05: Private Collecting Budapest ,Knoll Galerie,Wien
2006 Ten Years of the Strabag Painting Prize . Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2007 White and Black ,Open Structures Art Society,OSAS,Vasarely Museum,Budapest
2007 Painting Painting,International Monochrome Painting in Vass collection 2007-2009,Vass Collection Veszprém H
2007 Time-Space-Existence. Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2007 Color based paintings III. Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz
2007 1-2-3 The Collection in Focus ,LUMU Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2008 Gegenstandslos, 200 KünstlerInnen aus 18 Ländern, gkg Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V. Bonn

 

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Institut of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros H
St.Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár H
Karl Ernst Osthaus – Museum Hagen
Vass Collection ,Veszprém H
T-Com, Budapest
E-on Hungária ,Budapest
Západoslovenská energetika,Bratistlava SK
Strabag ,Budapest
LUMU Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Municipal Art Museum, Győr H

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

HOLLER-SCHUSTER, Günther: 27. Internationalen Malerwochen in der Steiermark, (Cat.) Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 1992
Germinations 7. (Cat.) European Biennale for young artists Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble 1992/93
Kulturabkommen,Eine ausstellung der PBK zu Ungarn in Hamburg’95,PBK,Hamburg
PÁLDI Lívia: Posztkubizmus. Interview with András Gál, Balkon, 1996/3.
KOVÁCS Attila: A little can be just as enjoyable as a lot – and vice- versa!(Cat.) András Gál - New paintings, Fészek Gallery, Budapest, 1997
TÍMÁR Katalin: Oil / Canvas. (Cat.) Kunsthalle, Budapest 1997
Anthology. (Cat.) Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 1998
PETRÁNYI Zsolt: Obserwatorium. (Cat.) Exhibition of Young Hungarian Artists from the 90's. Kunsthalle, Budapest 1998
RADNÓTI Sándor: Két kései minimalista. Élet és Irodalom,1999. june 2.
PETRÁNYI Zsolt: Egy aspektus észrevétele. Interview with Ágnes Deli and András Gál,
Balkon, 1999/7, 8.
PASSUTH Krisztina: Before the Exhibition of András Gál.(Cat.) Bild und Bildlichkeit, Collegium Budapest, 1998/99
NÉRAY Katalin: Monochrome. András Gál Paintings 1995 - 2000 (Cat.) St.Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár 2000
KOLLÁR József: Sárgamezes zombi/Who’s afraid of yellow… Balkon, 2000/10
PÁLDI Lívia: Szimultán. Balkon, 2001/8.
STURCZ János: “ You see what you see ”. The Reception of Radical Monochrome Painting in Hungary in the 1990s, Colour - a life of its own, an exhibition of hungarian and international monochrome painting, (Cat.) Kunsthalle, Budapest, 2002
STURCZ János: Colour - A Life of Its Own / Das eigenleben der Farbe. Praesens, 2002/1
AKNAI Katalin: The Thin Red Line. Interview with András Gál, Balkon, 2002/7, 8.
VOGEL Maria: Leidenschaft fürs Monochrome. 10. September 2002/Nr.208, Neue Zuger Zeitung
TÉREY János: Sonja útja a Saxonia mozitól a Pirnai térig. Válogatott Versek, Olaj/Vászon (monokróm himnusz Gál Andrásnak) Palatinus 2003
GLUECK Grace: ART REVIEW,Only Red, Please. Yellow and Blue Are Not Wanted. The New York Times, April 18,2003,Friday
Seeing Red - On nonobjective Painting and Color Theory.(Cat.)Edited by Michael Fehr and Sanford Wurmfeld,Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen,Salon Verlag ,Cologne 2004
BACSÓ Béla: Szín és anyag. Megjegyzések Gál András műveihez.Kiállni a zavart.Filozófiai és művészetelméleti írások. Kijárat kiadó,2004
IVÁNYI Bianca: Personal structures.Balkon,2005/5
KOVÁCS Attila:Az átalakuló plasztikusság...1967-2005.Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem,Budapest, 2005
LODERMEYER,Peter:Personal structures symposion, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
GlobalArtAffairs Publishing ,New York City,2005
FÖLDÉNYI F. László:Látványok és idézőjelek.Élet és Irodalom,2006,may 19.
10 Jahre STRABAG Malerpreis.(Cat.) Museum Ludwig – Museum für
Gegenwartskunst , Budapest 2006
BEKE László:Various pairs of Black and White opposites,White and Black .(Cat.)Open Structures Art Society,OSAS,Vasarely Museum,Budapest 2007
IMRE GYörgyi:Monochrome painting-Radical painting,Painting Painting,International Monochrome Painting in Vass collection 2007-2009,(Cat.) Art House/Modern Gallery-Vass László Collection, Veszprém 2007
BORDÁCS Andrea:Szín(t)vallás,Új Művészet 2007 18/7
STURCZ János: A klasszikus konstruktívizmustól a radikális monokróm festészetig.Műértő 2007/7-8
NAGY Barbara:A láthatóság határán.Műértő 2007/7-8
WÖRSDÖRFER Clara Maria: Farbfelder wecken im Kopf Bilder. Allgemeine Zeintung,Main-Rheiner Regional nachrichten 19.11.2007