PETER PUKLUS
Beside the photographic gaze which can always be found in the center of Puklus’ works, he recently started to explore undiscovered territories beyond the wooden frame. His recent projects involve sculptures, objects, paintings, installations, drawings and videos. Either in the gallery space or in a photo-book form, storytelling has a substantial role. Puklus mixes different genres and medias and makes them relate each other. Oil on canvas paintings, tufted rugs and wooden installations became more and more visible and are usually mixed with photography and other media.
BIO
Born in 1980 in Cluj [RO]
Lives and works in Budapest.
Education
2006 – 2009 Doctoral School, MOME, Budapest
2005 – 2006 Masters in New Media, ENSCI/Les Ateliers, Paris
2005 – Graduated in photography at MOME, Budapest
2004 – Erasmus Grant, Photography, ESAG, École Penninghen/Académie Julien, Paris
2000 – 2005 MFA in photography at MOME, Budapest
Residencies & Awards
2019
Winner of Esterházy Art Award 2019, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Finalist of Esterházy Art Award 2019, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Nominee at Highlights of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
2017
Finalist at “Leave Your Mark” program by UniCredit Bank, Hungary
Finalist at Esterhazy Art Award 2017, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Grand Prix Images Vevey, Vevey [CH]
Longlisted for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018
Artist-in-Residency at Residenza Petrolio, Carovigno, Italy
2016
Artist-in-Residence at Residency Unlimited in cooperation with ACAX supported by Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York
2014
Artist-in-Residence at Schloss Laudon by KulturKontakt Austria, BMUKK, Vienna [A]
2011
Artist-in-Residence at St a nica Contemporary, Banská Stiavnicá [SK]
2008
Artist-in-Residence at Sweedish School of Art, Nykarleby, [FIN]
Public and Corporate Collections
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
I’ve Been Lying My Whole Life, Ferenczy Museum Centrum, Szentendre [HU]
2021
My Language in not Silence, Glassyard Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
2020
You told I had beautiful hands, Artkartell projectspace, Budapest, Hungary
2019
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany
Life is Techno, ParisBerlin Fotohaus, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
The Hero Mother – How to build a house, Museo delle Trame Mediterranee – Fondazione
Orestiadi, On the Road Photofestival, Gibellina, Italy
2018
The Hero Mother – How to build a house, Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland
Life is Techno, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Stupid, double solo show with Radek Brousil at Fait Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2017
Handbook to the Stars, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow [RUS]
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, New Positions – Art Cologne, Cologne, [D]
Handbook to the Stars, Josef Sudek Studio, Prague [D]
Belonging(s) with Anna Orlowska, Platán Gallery – Polish Institute, Budapest
2016
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, Capa Center, Budapest
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, Raster Gallery, Warsaw [PL]
New Works, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf [D]
Unsafe to Dance, C/O Berlin, Berlin [D]
One and a Half Meter, Robert Morat Gallery, Berlin [D]
2015
Painted Plaster Head, Unseen Photo Fair and Festival, Amsterdam [NL]
2014
Texts and Signs, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest
2013
Handbook to the Stars, Foam, Amsterdam [NL]
2012
Peter Puklus, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest
2011
Handbook to the Stars, Lumen Gallery, Budapest
2010
Budapest Eden, Photoport Gallery, Bratislava [SK]
2008
Intimacy – No Title, SEDF, Bratislava [SK]
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Youhu, Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest
Blind Spots | Photobook Exhibition, Medphoto Festival 4: Democracy, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
2021
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), Tallin Art Hall, Tallin, Estonia
Private and Public Spaces: A Photo-based Selection from the Balázs-Dénes Collection, FUGA (Budapest Center of Architecture), Budapest
2020
Eight weeks, Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
Staged Realities, EEP Berlin and Ostlook Platform, Berlin, Germany
Joint Gesture, Conrads Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Pleasure Garden, Podbielsky Contemporary, Milano, Italy
Ghosting Love, Esterházy Castle, Eisenstadt, Austria
Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks, Museum of Art, Olumuc, Czech Republic
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
When Images Collide, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim / Ludwigschafen / Heidelberg, Germany
2019
Westkunst – Ostkunst, A new collection display. Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Geometry of Imagination, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, Poland
1000 Hands, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Bauhaus 100, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Anatomy of Photography, Esterházy Palace, Győr, Hungary
How to deal with history? Ostlook platform on KOLGA Tbilisi Photo Festival, Folklore Center Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
Photobook. Storytelling – Paperlust Photobook Fest, New Art Foundation Znaczy Sie, Krakow, Poland
Photobook. Asset – Paperlust Photobook Fest, Galeria i, Krakow, Poland
Camera Lucida, The Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Family, MODEM – Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks (20th-21st century), International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland
Esterházy Art Award 2019, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Seasonal Effect, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018
Form Creation Strategies, Labor, Budapest, Hungary
Act by kaetha in tête, Berlin, Germany
Reflected – Works from the Foam Collection, Atelier Néerlandais, Paris, France
Thirtythree, Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
Related by Sister Languages, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Loading… Works from the Foam Collection, FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
GWB Review, Zipernowsky House, Budapest, Hungary
The Geometry of Imagination, Mai Manó House, Budapest, Hungary
The Zone, Inda Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Pigment – Zones of visibility, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Time Overlay, Hungarian House of Photography – Mai Manó House, Budapest, Hungary
Sammlerstücke, Freundeskreis des Hauses der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2017
Untitled Art Fair, Conrads Gallery, Miami [USA]
Paris Photo, Robert Morat Gallery, Paris [F]
If Art Can Start A New Again, Lishui International Photographic Festival, Lishui [PRC]
Well Known Photographers from Central Europe, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok [PL]
From book to book, TIC Gallery, Brno [CZ]
Oslo Photobook Festival, Fotografer, Oslo [N]
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus, Graz [A]
Books to play with, Book Art Museum, Fotofestiwal Lodz [PL]
Facts and Clarifications, Riga Photomonth, Riga [LV]
Instax, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest
Agens und Reagens, Ratskeller, Berlin [D]
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist:
Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona [S]
College of Art and Design, Lesley University, Cambridge [USA]
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle [CH]
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow [RUS]
Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs [USA]
Düsseldorf Photo Week-end, Düsseldorf [D]
Photo London, Robert Morat Gallery, London [GB]
2016
Insights – The Wienerberger Contemporary Photography Project, Albertina, Vienna [A]
Recycled Architecture, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist, IvoryPress, Madrid, [E]
Viennacontemporary, Raster Gallery, Warsaw and Trapéz Gallery, Budapest, Vienna [A]
Paris Photo, Robert Morat Gallery, Paris [F]
Zine & Self-Published Photo Book Fair at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York [USA]
Amsterdam Art Fair, Conrads Gallery, Amsterdam [NL]
2015
Cubism Prolonged, Art Plus Text, Budapest
Unseen Photo Fair, Robert Morat Galerie, Amsterdam [NL]
Reframe Memory, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens [GR]
Unseen Dummy Award 2014 shortlists, Belfast Photography Festival, Belfast [IRL]
Art Rotterdam, Trapéz Gallery, Rotterdam [NL]
2014
Shaped Reality, Krokus Gallery, Bratislava [SK]
The Experiment: What is Hungarian Photographic Art, ICP, New York [USA]
Unseen Dummy Award exhibition, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam [NL]
Foam’s Spotlight – 5 Years of Talent, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles [F]
Vienna Photobook Festival, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna [A]
Reflected, Works from the Foam Collection, Foam, Amsterdam [NL]
Darmstadt Days of Photography, Darmstadt [D]
Fotografia Europea Festival, Reggio Emilia [I]
The Flood Wall, Exposure Twelve, Berlin [D]
Haunting Monumentality III, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb [HR]
Fatal Jump from a Stool, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Say It. HU>, Knoll Gallery, Vienna [A]
Works by Artists in Residence, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Vienna [A]
2013
Sculptures, Camera Austria, Graz [A]
Viennafair, Trapéz Gallery, Vienna [A]
Foam Talents 2013, Rosphoto, Saint Petersburg [RUS]
Unseen Photo Fair, Robert Morat Galerie, Amsterdam [NL]
FOAM Talents, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam [NL]
Leopold Bloom Art Award Finalists’ exhibition, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Still – Photography at the Museum, MODEM, Debrecen [H]
Books &Foam, FOAM, Amsterdam [NL]
Grey Zone, Krokus Gallery, Bratislava [SK]
Trapéz 1, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest
Festival International de Mode & de Photographie, Hyères [F]
2012
World Models, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Jedentag, Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg [D]
2011
4th Fotobook Festival, Dummy Award, Kassel [D]
Speaks for Itself, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2010
Jahresgaben, Kustverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, [D]
Photographie Hongoise Contemporaine, Institut Hongrois de Paris, Paris [F]
Private Landscape – Junge Fotografie aus Ungrarn, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf [D]
Private Landscape – Junge Fotografie aus Ungrarn, Stadthausgaleire, Münster [D]
Relations – Who? Whom? With what? City Gallery, Székesfehérvár [H]
Best Before End, Inda Gallery, Budapest
Lab East, ewz.selection, Zürich [CH]
Art Fanatics, Kozma-kArton Collection, Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest
2009
Young Hungarian Photography, Central European House of Photography, Bratislava [SK]
Renaissance Photography Prize, The Music Room, London [GB]
Regardez-moi – I’m back ! Gallery Immanence, Paris [F]
Fotofestiwal, 8th International Festival of Photography, Lodz [PL]
2008
Woman Drawn with Light, G13 Art Gallery, Budapest
2007
Gallery for Wintertime, Zak Gallery, Berlin [D]
First Photography Biennial, Dunaújváros [H]
2006
International Photo Month, Krakow [PL]
publications
Photobooks
Puklus Péter: Handbook to the Stars published by Stokovec, Space for Culture 2011. hardcover, 64 pages, 16 x 21 cm, edition of 300
Puklus Péter: One and a half meter published by Kehrer 2012. hardcover 17 x 21,2 cm 96 pages 63 b/w and color illustrations
Puklus Péter: The Epic Love Story of a Warrior published by SPBH Editions 2016. hardcover, 468 pages, 15 x 20 cm, edition of 500
Puklus Péter: The Hero Mother – How to build a house, 2021, Witty Books (Italy) and Images Vevey (Switzerland); Hardcover, fabric, illustrated, sewn; 120 pages; 16 x 23 cm; printed and bound in Italy by Grafiche Veneziane, Designer: Paolo Berra
Interviews and articles
Gerhard Clausing: Peter Puklus – The Hero Mother. How to Build a House, 2022, PhotoBook Journal
Füri Katalin: Fotókönyvmustra. Első rész, 2022, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár
Nagy Gergely: Kockára tenni az egészet a bizonytalan végeredmény érdekében. Interjú Puklus Péterrel, 2022, A mű
Ilias Lois: ‘The Hero Mother – How to build a house’ by Peter Puklus, 2022, Velvet Eyes