Zsolt Asztalos

(1974, Mátészalka)

Zsolt Asztalos graduated in painting from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1999, where his tutors were Gábor Dienes and Dóra Maurer. His works address two main themes: the situation of the everyday individual in consumer society, and the relationship to the past and to memory, explored through installation, graphic art, painting, photography and video. Over the last five years he has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions (MKE Parthenon Frieze, Budapest; Kiscelli Museum, Budapest; MODEM, Debrecen; Art Brussels, Brussels / Molnár Ani Gallery; ICA-D, Dunaújváros; Ludwig Museum, Budapest). He has been nominated twice for the Leopold Bloom Art Award (2019, 2023). He held the Gyula Derkovits Scholarship between 2011 and 2013, and he was an exhibitor at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2013. He was awarded the Mihály Munkácsy Prize In 2016. His works are preserved in the collections of the MODEM, the ICA-D, the King Saint Stephen Museum in Székesfehérvár, and the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest.