Gusztáv Hámos

(1955, Budapest)

Gusztáv Hámos participated in conceptual art exhibitions in Budapest, the Netherlands, and East Berlin between 1974 and 1979. He moved to West Berlin in 1979. He studied at the German Film Academy from 1979 to 1983. He has been taking part in international film festivals since 1980. He won a scholarship in New York in 1987. He was a guest lecturer at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts between 1990 and 1991, and in 1998. He gave lectures in Łódź, Warsaw, Cologne, Dresden, Beijing and Budapest between 1992 and 1996. He taught video art at the German Film Academy from 1995 to 2000. He organised exhibition and event series at the Goethe Institute in Budapest from 1997 to 1998.