Mira Dalma Makai
(1990-)
ARTISTS
Tibor Hajas
(1946 - 1980)
Tibor Hajas was, by current consensus, the greatest Hungarian poet/writer/performance artist of his generation. Conceptual and Actionist as an artist, as a poet and a writer, he is venerated for his precise—pushed to the limits to the point of utmost cruelty—use of language. Hajas, star of the Budapest underground of the 1970s, was “pushed” into the visual arts by the death of his friend, the sculptor Istvan Dombrovszky. His early Fluxus related actions, Letter to my Friend in Paris (1975) and Self-Fashion Show (1976) were made in dialogue with the Paris street-plays of Janos Gat. After 1978, his performances, in which his own body turns into the medium, were done exclusively for the camera of the photographer János Vető. In these theatrical, ritualistic, and exceedingly beautiful works, Hajas probed life at its limits.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Emergency Landing, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1997 Emergency Landing, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1990 Nightmare Works, Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts,
Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
1987 1946-1980 posthumous exhibition, Székesfehérvár (H)
1980 G. Permafo, Wrocław (PL)
1978/1979 Bercsényi 28-30 Gallery, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Summer Wine - Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest
1999/2001 Viewpoints/Positions Art in Central- Europe,
Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien, Ludwig Museum, Budapest,
Fundacio Miró, Barcelona, Hansard Gallery/City Gallery
Southampton, Národní G., Prága
1999/2000 Global Conceptualism Points of Origin –
1950s/1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, Miami Art Museum, Miami (USA)
1998 Body and the East, Moderna G., Ljubljana
1996/1997 Beyond Art/Jenseits von Kunst, Ludwig Museum and
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
1994 Europa, Europa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
1990 Nuit de la photographie, Musée Elysée, Lausanne
1989 "Más-kép", Ernst Museum, Budapest
1988 Fotohof, Kurt Kaindle Galerie, Salzburg
1987 Out of Eastern Europe
Private Photography, List Visual Center, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusets (US)
Magic works, Budapest Gallery Lajos street, Budapest
Bilder. Zeitgenössische ungarische Fotografie,
Fotogalerie, Bécs
1986 Photos, Liget Gallery, Budapest
1984 Situation, Budapest Gallery Lajos street, Budapest
1983 Film/Art, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1982 "Fotóhasználat a grafikában", Óbuda Galéria, Budapest
1981 Tendencies 1970-1980, 6., “Hard and soft” postconteptulaist tendecies, Óbuda Gallery, Budapest
Erweiterte Fotografie, 5. Internationale Biennálé, Wiener
Secession, Bécs
14. Mednarodni graficni b., Ljubljana
1980 6 HongaARSE Kunstenaars, M.van Hedendaagse Kunst,
Gent
"II. Esztergomi Fotóbiennálé",Vármúzeum, Esztergom
"A Makói Művésztelep kiállítása", Pataki I. Művelődési
Ház, Makó
1979 Photogramms, Józsefvárosi Kiállítóterem, Budapest
European Dialogue, B. of Sydney
Works and Words, Stichtung De Appel, Amsterdam
1978 Miedzynarodowe Triennale Rysunku, Wrocław
1977 Möbius, Fiatal Művészek Klubja, Budapest
1976 Dia-pályázat, Fiatal Művészek Klubja, Budapest "Tavaszi
Tárlat", Fiatal Művészek Klubja, Budapest
1975 Comics, Fiatal Művészek Klubja, Budapest "Tavaszi
Tárlat", Fiatal Művészek Klubja, Budapest
Expositions – Fotó/Art, Hatvany Lajos Museum, Hatvan
1973 Texts, Balatonboglári kápolnatárlat
1978, gelatin silver vintage copy, I/I, 20 x 30 cm
1979, gelatin silver vintage copy, 39 x 50 cm
1979, gelatin silver vintage copy, 40 x 50 cm
1978, gelatin silver vintage copy, 18 x 24,5 cm
1979, gelatin silver vintage copy, 16 x 11,5 cm