ANTAL LAKNER
Antal Lakner is one of the Hungarian artists emerging in the 1990s, who have achieved international recognition. Working at the border between reality and fiction, he creates works of a subversive nature, integrating visual arts into quotidian reality, or querying the traditional approach to art objects and the monotonous rituals of audience behaviour by transforming the institutional environment. The most versatile practitioners of post-conceptual art, Antal Lakner discards the notion of art as exclusively viable within a closed institutional environment. Rather than envisioning the creative process as the solitary work of an artist under inspiration and full of pathos, he approaches his work with the attitude of an engineer: adapting the precise planning process characteristic of industrial production or scientific research, he focuses on the conceptual content conveyed, rather than on the techniques utilised. In his recent work, he started to create alternative living spaces and furnishings, integrating everyday objects into the world of art.
BIO
Born in 1966 in Budapest.
Lives and works in Budapest.
Education
2015 – 2018 PhD Researcher, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
1992 – 1995 Post-Graduate in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts Budapest
1988 – 1992 Degree in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts Budapest
Teaching & Presentations
2020 – Senior Lecturer, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
Supervisor at Channeling Art&Tech - interna onal workshop, Meetlab Budapest
2018 Interna onale Gastprofessur an der HfBK Dresden
2017 Harbour for Cultures, 8th CEI Venice Forum for A.C. Trieste Contemporanea, Venice
2016 Somatic City, workshop, Institute of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, STU Bratislava [SK]
2015 Monthly Guest / workshop, Studio for Immediate Spaces Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam [NL]
Guest professor, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest,
2015 – 2014 FusiCity, International Workshop, System D Academy Sandberg Instituut – Téreltérítés Munkacsoport [Space Detournement Working Group] Budapest
2009 Founder of Téreltérítés Munkacsoport [Space Detournement Working Group]
2007 – 2014 Guest professor, Architectural department, University of Technology, Budapest
Award & Residencies
2008 Munkácsy prize, Budapest
2006 Art in General, artist in residency, New York, [USA]
2004 Drac Ile-de-France aide individuelle á la creation, Award, Paris, [F]
Le Recollets – Grant byDirection des Affaires Culturelles, Mairie de Paris, [F]
Eötvös Grant, Budapest
2002 – 2003 Residency Cité Internatinale des Arts, Paris, [F]
2001 – 2002 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, International Studio Program, Berlin, [D]
2000 D.C.A.– Gammel Dok, Artist in Residence Program, Copenhagen, [DK]
1999 – 2002 Derkovits Grant, Budapest
1996 In and out of touch, Artist in Residence Program, London, [UK]
1993 Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague, [NL]
Public Collections
Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
Szombathelyi Képtár [Szombathely Art Gallery], Hungary
Győri Városi Művészeti Múzeum [Győr City Art Museum], Hungary
Projects with Téreltérítés Munkacsoport [Space Detournement Working Group]
2014
[FUSI]city, International Workshop, System D Academy, Sandberg Instituut – Téreltérítés Munkacsoport [Space Detournement Working Group] Design Week, Budapest
2011
SMS – Sick Museum Syndrome – AROMAGUIDE, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2010
High on Art – Climbing Ernst, Ernst Museum, Budapest
2009
Smogreductor HUNGARIAN ALGAE – DIY air cleaner and head turner,
Blaha Lujza Square, Placc Festival, Budapest
2008 – 2014
Téreltérítésfull semester course on the history, theories, and practices of spatiality and spatial perception, Architectural department, University of Technology, Budapest
2008
King Mathias Ventilation Shaft – A Renaissance of irritation, Képíró street, Budapest
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin [D] 2000 | 5. International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul [TR] 1997
exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Projects
2019
Casa Activa – atopia future home, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest
Casa Activa, Art Encounters, Timisoara, [RO]
2012
Workstation, Ludwig Museum Budapest
2009
HTM Haptic Training Machine, Kisterem, Budapest
2006
INERS – Elevator stretching, Art in General, New York, [USA]
2005
States of micro- and double gravity, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
PASSIVE DRESS – habit de gravitation double, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, [F]
2004
HER– Plankton Class Marine Unit, MEO – Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest
2002
Art Mobile, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, [D]
2001
INERS – Passive Working Devices, Art Mobile-Human Powered Biennale Vehicles, Hungarian Pavilion & Giardini di Castello, XLIX. Venice Biennale, Venice, [I]
INERS – Wallmaster, 1x1 tábla, Budapest
2000
EUROFARM, Hal Antwerpen, [B]
INERS – Passzív Munkaeszközök, Pécsi Kisgaléria, Pécs [H]
1999
HER – The Icelandic Army, Zenit Gallery, Budapest
Altered states with Attila Csörgő, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana [SLO]
Lakner Antal kiállítása, Pécsi Kisgaléria, Pécs
1998
INERS – the Power, Studio Gallery, Budapest
1997
UGAR, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin [D]
1994
Bartók Travel, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
1993
Pope Collection, Gallery ’56, Budapest
Emmental Expedition with Georg Winter, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Az űr – Alternatív kozmoszok, Zsolnay Negyed – m21 Galéria, Pécs, [HU]
Irányjelek – új lehetőség a műtárgy-szerzeményezésben, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
OUR HERITAGE - Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest
2021
Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday, Ludwig Musem Budapest
MENÜ Imaginaire / OFF-Biennále Budapest, Culinary Institute of Europe
Private and Public Spaces: A Photo-based Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, FUGA (Budapest Center of Architecture), Budapest
2020
Danube Dialogues, Contemporary Art Festival, Novi Sad, [SRB]
2019
Seasonal Effect, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest
EUFÓRIA? Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest
Artissima Telephone, OGR , Torino [IT]
Moon Museum, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
BAUHAUS 100. programme for the now – contemporary viewpoints, Ludwig Museum Budapest
2018
Menü Imaginaire, Trafo, Budapest,
2017
Gazdálkodj okosan! Ludwig Museum Budapest
Game kapocs, Modem, Debrecen
2015
Curated by Vienna – Subtle Patterns of Capital, Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna [A]
„Ekstase – Askese“. Mehr von Weniger!, Vögele Kultur Zentrum Pfaffikon, [CH]
Salon de L’astronautique de Plaisance, Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels [B]
2014
Buildering: Misbehaving the City, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, [USA]
Határtalan design, Új Budapest Galéria, Budapest
2013
Social Design, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem [CZ]
Fantasztikus anyag, Kisterem, Budapest
2012
Sport In Art, MOCAK The Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków [PL]
2011
Auf die Plätze, Die Sportausstellung, Deutsches Hygienie-Museum, Dresden [D]
Examples to follow, Mumbai, India [IND]
Nyaraló művek, 320°, Siófok
2010
Examples to follow, Uferhallen, Berlin [D]
2009
Sk-interfaces, Casino Luxembourg [L]
Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, [USA]
Kis magyar pornográfia, MODEM, Debrecen
2008
Na mi van? Műcsarnok, Budapest
Testgyakorlatok, Kortárs Művészeti Intézet, Dunaújváros
Koncept, koncepció, szemelvények, Vasarely Múzeum, Budapest
2007
Résidents, Espace Electra, Paris [F]
Leibesübungen, Kunsthalle Göppingen [D]
10th Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach [D]
Made in, made out, Projectroom, Berlin [D]
Dorchester Festival, [GB]
Kurátorok - Művészek, Budapest Galéria, Budapest
Lost and found, MODEM, Debrecen
2006
27th Sao Paulo Biennale, [BR]
Lost and found, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden [D]
Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin [D]
Positioning – In the New Reality of Europe, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo [J]
Post-modellism, Kunsthall, Bergen [N]
2005
DOMICILE: Privé/Public, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne [F]
Pillanatkép, Műcsarnok, Budapest
2004
Call me Istanbul, ZKM Karlsruhe [D]
Szappanopera, Műcsarnok, Budapest
2002
MANIFESTA 4, Frankfurt am Main [D]
Body Power / Power Play, Württembergischer Kunsverein, Stuttgart [D]
2000
After the Wall, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin [D]
Szempontváltás, Kortárs Művészeti Intézet, Dunaújváros
1999
After The Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm [S]
publications
Antal Lakner: Workstation, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, 2014
Kaincz Orsolya: Sodródó lakozás – Lakner Antal szobanomád bútorai a Glassyard Galériában, 2019, Építészfórum
Video
Lakner Antal: Casa Activa _ atopia future home, 2019, Facebook
Szükségünk van még a testünkre?, 2012, Indexvideó