Róbert Szabó Benke

(1970, Törökkanizsa / Novi Kneževac, SRB)

Róbert Szabó Benke primarily works with staged, conceptual photography, focusing on stories and interactions arising through encounters, exploring their conscious experience and analysis, and elevating all this to an artistic level. After his retrospective exhibition held in 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Újvidék (Novi Sad), organised in collaboration with the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, he took on an active role in organising cultural life in Vajdaság (Vojvodina). He curated over thirty Hungarian and foreign contemporary photography and fine art exhibitions at the Cultural Zone Gallery in Kanjiža between 2021 and 2025; in recognition of his presidency and artistic direction, the association was awarded the Forum Fine Arts Prize in December 2024. In recent years, he has held several solo shows in Serbia and has also participated in group exhibitions at the Hungarian National Museum and TOBE Gallery. His works can be found in the collections of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Kōfu, Japan), the Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaújváros, the Miskolc Gallery – City Art Museum, and in the photography collection of Róbert Alföldi.