Can Togay

(1955, Budapest)

Can Togay is a film director, multimedia artist, writer and university lecturer. He was a member of Péter Halász’s theatre between 1969 and 1974. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University in 1978 and was a postgraduate student at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris from 1978 to 1980. He completed his studies in film directing at the College of Theatre and Film Arts under Zoltán Fábri in 1984. His oeuvre includes film, literature, public installations and AI-generated projects. He contributed to several projects in the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture programme (Opening, Off-Season, Madách Knowledge Festival, Man Behind Bars). He participated in the exhibition Thinking in Pictures – Photographs by Filmmakers at the Kunsthalle Budapest in 2021. He was co-creator of the immersive installation Csontváry (CODE, 2025). He presented an AI exhibition at the House of Arts in Veszprém in 2024. He received the Béla Balázs Award in 2001 and the Pro Urbe Budapest recognition in 2025.