Klára Rudas
Born in Budapest in 1983. Lives and works here.
Studies:
2008-2014 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, painting, Budapest
2006-2008 Nóvusz School of Art, Graphics, Budapest
2004 John Cabot University, Department of Art History, Rome
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2021 Partial Lightness with Hajnalka Tulisz, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna
2019 Klára Herczeg Prize Exhibition - with Mária Berhidi, Labor, Budapest
2018 Keep in Mind - With Orsolya Barna, Knoll Gallerie Wien, Vienna
2017 Illustrations in Reality, Knoll Gallery Budapest, Budapest
2016 To Train a Structure, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna
2015 Figure, FKSE Project Room, Budapest
2012 Reconstruction, Espoo, Museum of Modern Art EMMA, Helsinki
Selected Thematic Exhibitions:
2024 Facts and Miracles-Levels of Reality through Perception and Picture, Knoll Gallery Bp
2022 Spektakulär unscheinbar, Künstlerhaus, Bregenz
2021 Esterházy Art Award Short List 2021, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Openness - Getting to Know the Unknown, Gallery Weekend Budapest, Lóvasút
2018 Interpretive Communities. New Compositions, 2012-2018, Kassák Museum, Budapest
2017 Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Our common Story, Barcsay Hall, MKE, Budapest
2016 Hommage - Ideal or Pattern, Knoll Gallery Budapest, Budapest
Curated by_Edit Sasvári: Homage - Ideal or Pattern, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna
I Wake up, I Get up to Bed, FKSE, Budapest
Vanishing-Points (Enyészpontok), enyeszpontok.tumblr.com
2015 Exhibition of Esterhazy Art Prize nominees, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
Utopia as a Practice, Gallery by Nicht, FKSE Gallery, Budapest
Expansion, Teleport Gallery, Budapest
2014 Most of FKSE's annual exhibitions are in Budapest
Heroes' Place, Higgs Field Gallery, Budapest
Awards, Scholarships:
2021 Nominated for the Esterházy Art Prize
2019 Klára Herczeg Award, junior degree
2018 MeetFactory residency program, Prague
2017 Dukley Art Center Residence Program, Kotor (Montenegro)
2016 Derkovits Scholarship
Budapest Gallery-Stuttgart Kunststiftung BadenWürttemberg artist exchange scholarship
Nominated for the Esterházy Art Prize
2014 Winner of the Inside Express competition for the contemporary art magazine Balkon
Works in public collection:
Kassák Museum - Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest
Selected Bibliography:
- Bálint Orsolya: ""Who will pick up the rubbish after the revolution on Monday morning? "Caring as work and art"," ("Ki fogja felszedni a szemetet a forradolom után hétfő reggel? - Gondoskodás mint munka és művészet"), Nepszava 2024.01.28., https://nepszava.hu/3223177_ki-fogja-felszedni-a-szemetet-a-forradalom-utan-hetfo-reggel-gondoskodas-mint-munka-es-muveszet
-Dani Veress: Kallantyúk - Interviews with the artist Klára Rudas, in: Apokrif Literary Journal, winter 2021, XIV. Volume 4, pp. 46-54.
-Abstract Hungary, Ed.: Sandro Droschl, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, 2019
-Kriszta Dékei: Would you exhibit today in Kassák?, in Magyar Narancs, Sept. 2018. 27, p. 32.
-Júliusz Huth: The Scandal of Real Hungary in Vienna has Somewhat Obscured the Exhibition "Abstract Hungary" in Graz. So, Now Go to Graz! Artportal, Jul 2017 15.
-Gábor Rieder: Abstract Hungary, Artkartell, Jun 2017 28.
-Flora Gadó: Hommage - Ideal or Sample?, Balkon 2017/1.
-Gábor Rieder: Clever Abstraction with Sensitive Forms. Klára Rudas introduces herself at the Knoll Gallery, Artkartell, Feb. 2017 25.
