ATTILA CSÖRGŐ
Csörgő’s structures, which are built out of everyday objects and mechanical parts, were meticulously designed or were constructed using the unrefined, but effective “trial and error” approach. They present not simply the results of artistic experimentation, but also the path which led to their creation. Csörgő’s works are not merely tools demonstrating the laws of physics and the natural sciences. Rather, they are guides which introduce us to thinking processes. As constructions which follow the rules of geometry and mechanics while at the same time seeming, at times, to contradict these rules, they trace the outlines of borderline situations and maintain moments of balance which seem fleeting. — Nikolett Erőss
BIO
Born in 1965 in Budapest, Hungary.
Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Awards & Residencies
2011
Atelier Calder, Saché, France.
2008
Nam June Paik Award, Kunststiftung NRW, Cologne, Germany.
Public Collections
Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
CNAP–Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France.
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany.
EVN Sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf, Austria.
FRAC della Regione Piemonte, Italy.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary.
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
MUDAM, Musée d´Art Modern Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Nomas Foundation, Roma, Italy.
exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2019
Spaces for Manoeuvre, Új Budapest Galéria, Budapest
2018
Collisions, Glassyard gallery, Budapest
2016
Constructed View² (with Gábor Ősz), Vintage Galéria, Budapest
2015
Clock-work, in the framework of the OFF-Biennale Budapest, Der Punkt, Budapest
Squaring the Circle, Galeria Arsenal power station, Białystok [PL]
2014
Squaring the Circle, Palais de Tokyo, Paris [FR]
2013
Shapes in Transition, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin [DE]
2012
Attila Csörgő, Roman Signer, Kunsthalle Mainz [DE]
2011
Attila Csörgő, Secession, Vienna [AT]
Archimedean Point, Hamburger Kunsthalle – Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg [DE]
2010
Archimedean Point, MUDAM, Musée d´Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean [LU]
2009
Archimedean Point, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Attila Csörgő, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan [FR]
Magnet Spring, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, [DE]
2008
Wurfelbahnen und Raumkurven, Museum Folkwang im RWE Turm, Essen [DE]
2007
Platonic Geometry, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok [PL]
Attila Csörgő, Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár [HU]
2006
Attila Csörgő, Galleria Contemporaneo Mestre, Venice [IT]
Skin of Space, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana [SI]
2005
Attila Csörgő. Gábor Ősz, Gallery Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam [NL]
2004
Platonic love, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, [UK]
Orange Space, ACB Gallery, Budapest
2002
Peeled City, Art in General, New York City [US]
Semi-Space, Budapest Galéria, Budapest
Semi-Space, Pelikán Galéria, Székesfehérvár [HU]
2001
Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing [FR]
2000
Galerie für Gegenwartskunst Barbara Claassen-Schmal, Bremen [DE]
Laqua Obliqua, Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padua [IT]
1999
Altered States (with Antal Lakner), Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana [SI]
Attila Csörgő. Endre Koronczi, Galeria Monumental, Lisbon [PT]
Gömg-örvény, Liget Galéria, Budapest
1996
Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
1994
Three Solids, Óbudai Pincegaléria, Budapest
1993
G. DAAR, Amsterdam [NL]
Selected group exhibitions
2022
FUTURA – Vermessung der Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle [DE]
2021
Magán és nyilvános terek, FUGA, Budapest
2018
Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City [MX]
2017
Never Ending Stories – Der Loop in Kunst, Film, Architektur, Musik, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg [DE]
Kino-Eye. Around Vertov and Constructivism, Galerie Arsenał, Białystok [PL]
VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice [IT]
Mirror Images – Reflections in art and medicine, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun [CH]
2016
Laboratoires de l´art, Musée des arts et métiers, Paris [FR]
All the Time at Work, BWA Tarnów, Tarnów [PL]
The Camera’s Blind Spot III, curated by Simone Menegoi, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna [IT]
2015
10th Kaunas Biennial, Threads. A Phantasmagoria about Distance, M. K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art Kaunas, Kaunas [LT]
What We Call Love – From Surrealism to Now, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin [IE]
Transparency, Georg Kargl Fine Arts Box, Vienna [AT]
Eppur si muove (And yet it turns). Art et technique, un espace partagé, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg [LU]
Horizontal Standing, in the framework of the OFF-Biennale Budapest, Budapest
The Camera’s Blind Spot II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen [BE]
Mainzer Ansichten 111 Künstler / innen in einem Büro, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz [DE]
Quantum of Disorder, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich [CH]
MIRROR IMAGES in Art and Medicine, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin [DE]
2014
Coffee & Ink, Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogota [COL]
This Secret World that Exist Right There in Public, Rampa Istanbul [TR]
To continue. Notes towards A Sculpture Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome [IT]
Drawing In Space, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz – St.Moritz [CH]
As You Can See, Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw [PL]
2013
NO Questions, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel [CH]
Projections, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte Croix, Les Sables d’Olonnes [FR]
New opening. New beginning, Local_30, Warsaw [PL]
How high is the moon?, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris [FR]
Turbulences II, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Bruxelles [BE]
2012
Les amas d’Hercule, Parc Saint Léger Centre d’Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux [FR]
Turbulences, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris [FR]
Documenta 13, Kassel [DE]
2011
Wir sind alle Astronauten, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany. Traveling to Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen [DE]
Seeing things, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin [DE]
Galerie Poggi & Bertoux Associés, Paris [FR]
2010
Donumenta 2010: Aktuelle Kunst aus Ungarn, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg [DE]
The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris [FR]
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Fine Art & Georg Kargl Box, Vienna [AT]
What Happens if?, Storey Gallery, Lancaster [UK]
2009
Materialen, Muenzsalon, curated by Birte Kleeman, Berlin [DE]
Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna [IT]
2008
Revolution – Forms that turn, 16th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney [AU]
Reykjavik Experiment Marathon, Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson, Reykjavik [ISL]
2007
What You See Is What You Guess, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims [FR]
Time flies, GB Agency, Paris [FR]
Fuori Uso 2006, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest [RO]
2006
Cosmogonies, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec [FR]
Und es bewegt sich…, Museum Bochum [DE]
Venture II, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana [SI]
Fuori Uso, Are you experienced?, Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara [IT]
2005
Nach Rokytník, Die Sammlung der EVN, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Vienna [AT]
Minimalism and After IV, New Acquisitions of the DaimlerChrysler Collection, Haus Huth, Berlin [DE]
Active Image, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow [RU]
Light, Image, Illusion, 3 Aegina Acadamy, Aegina [GR]
Bewegliche Teile / Moving Parts, Museum Tinguely, Basel [CH]
Nothingness, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj / Ljubljana [SI]
2004
Travelling without Moving, W139, Amsterdam [NL]
4 Artists from Hungary, Tanja Rumpf Gallery, Haarlem [NL]
Bewegliche Teile / Moving Parts, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz [AT]
Nothingness, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz [AT]
Soap oper, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Breakthrough, Grote Kerk, Den Haag [NL]
Venture, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj / Ljubljana [SI]
Persistante perspective, Ecole Superieure des Beaux-arts de Mans, Le Mans [FR]
2003
Poetic Justice, 8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul [TR]
Modesty, Galerija Skuc / Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, [SI]
Nyitó kiállítás, ACB Galéria, Budapest
Himmelschwer, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz [AT]
2002
The eye of the beholder, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee [UK]
Twinklings, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana [SI]
September Horse, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin [DE]
Látás, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Modesty, Pavelhaus, Laafeld [AT]
2001
Milano Europe 2000, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan [IT]
Geologists at Sunset, Hotelit, Fort Asperen, Acquoy [NL]
with István Haraszty, St.art Galéria, Budapest
Időképek, Néprajzi Múzeum, Budapest
2000
Uncontrolled, North Exhibitionspace, Copenhagen [DK]
Intuition, innovation, invention, Kunsthalle, Budapest
What, how & for whom, Dom HDLU, Zagreb [HR]
After the Wall, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest-Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin [DE]
Change of Order, National Gallery in the Trade Fair Palace, Prague [CZ]
Germination 6, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen [DE]
Szempontváltás, Kortárs Művészeti Intézet, Dunaújváros [HU]
1999
Tackling Techné, 48. Venice Biennial, Hungarian Pavillion [IT]
Kunst der neunziger Jahren in Ungarn, Akademie der Künste, Berlin [DE]
After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm [SE]
Magyar Ház, with Petra Lemerez, Stuttgart [DE]
Induktív csomópont, Artpool P60, Budapest
1998
Obserwatorium, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw [PL]
Inter/Media/Art, Ernst Múzeum, Budapest
Jenseits von Kunst, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen [BE]
Gallery by Night ‘98, with Antal Lakner, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
1997
Schwerelos Skulpturen, Landesgalerie am OÖ. Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria.
Dawn of the Magicians? II. Lost and Found, Národní Galerie Veletržni Palác, Prague [CZ]
Zeitskulptur, Landesgalerie am OÖ. Landesmuseum, Linz [AT]
Sic!, Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest
Sexmachine, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
1996
The Butterfly Effect, Kunsthalle, Budapest
3×3 from Hungary, Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York City [US]
Beyond Art, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest – Neue Galerie, Graz [AT]
Multilingual Landscapes, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius [LT]
Computer World, The Tannery, London, [UK]
Viszontlátásra!, Budapest Galéria, Budapest
Schwere-los Skulpturen, Landesgalerie am OÖ. Landesmuseum, Linz [AT]
1995
Zusammenziehende Hauser, Kunsthaus, Hamburg [DE]
In and Out of Touch, Budapest Galéria – Haus Ungarn, Berlin, [DE]
with El-Hassan Róza, Goethe Institut, Budapest
1994
22. Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo [BR]
1993
Kisplasztikai Biennálé, Murska Sobota/ Muraszombat [SI]
G. DAAR, Amsterdam [NL]
1992
Space Concepts, Budapest Galéria, Budapest
1991
Germination 6, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen [DE]
publications
Arkhimédészi pont — Csörgő Attila kiállítása a LuMúban, 2009, Litera
Dékei Krisztina: A gömmbe zárt világ — Gondolatok Csörgő Attila: Fél-tér című művével kapcsolatban, 2002, Exindex
Entz Sarolta Réka: Csörgő Attila — Az arkhimédészi pont meg a formateremtés, 2010, Artmagazin 36, 60-62.
Fürth Eszter: Csörgő Attila: Arkhimédészi pont / Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, 2009, Revizor
Szőnyei Tamás: "Tökéletesen vagy sehogy" (Csörgő Attila képzőművész), 1999, Magyar Narancs, XI./31.
Video
Attila Csörgő, Miklós Peternák, Miloš Vojtěchovský | diskuze, Muzeum umění Olomouc, Youtube, 2021
Nyitott Műterem #2 - Csörgő Attila, Trafó House, Youtube, 2021