István Jelenczki

(1956, Budapest)

He is a self-taught artist who works with photographs, painted photographs, films and performance art. In his works, he focuses on the progressively deepening phases of life and their manifestations on the road to death. In 1989, he received an art scholarship from the Soros Foundation, and he received a Derkovits scholarship in 1990. In 1994, he was honoured with a special prize by the documentary film jury at the 25th Hungarian Film Week. In 2006, he received the Gundel Art Award, and in 2013, he won the grand prize in the documentary category from the national student jury at the 42nd Hungarian Film Week. That same year, he received the Hungarian Heritage Award for his work in cinematic art. He has been a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts since 2013 and received the Academy's Grand Prize in 2022.