MÁTÉ DOBOKAY

Máté Dobokay’s conceptual artistic practice continues the long Hungarian tradition of pushing the boundaries of photography, uncovering the inner structures, raw materials, chemical and physical components of the photographic medium, often without a camera and as a result of lengthy research experimentation. In his analytical pieces, the light-sensitive paper, the photographic substances, and the chemical reactions all serve as tools of artistic examination.

Since his studies at the University, Máté Dobokay has been questioning photography and constantly looking for its point of convergence with painting, starting from the idea that there is no justification for isolating photography from other arts. His experimental work in which photography is only a tool, allows him to create images using light as a brush.

Máté Dobokay (1988, Pécs) lives and works in Budapest. He studied at the University of Pécs and in the Photography BA Program of the University of Kaposvár. His works have earned him numerous awards and scholarships and has already been the subject of various solo and group exhibitions in galleries and major European institutions. He was also the youngest artist in the New York exhibition "IMPACT: Abstraction & Experiment in Hungarian Photography" alongside László Moholy-Nagy in 2016, and was awarded the MODEM prize in 2018.

EXHIBITION AT THE GALLERY

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SOLO SHOW

2024
”Spots”, Camera-Cluj, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, România

2023
”Leftovers”, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2022
”Révelation(s)”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
”SHC”, acb Attachment, Budapest, Hungary
”Erosion”, privat place, Budapest, Hungary

2021
”AgGregation”, Pince, Budapest, Hungary

2020
”Fixation”, Igor Metropol, Budapest, Hungary

2019
”Density”, acb Attachment, Budapest, Hungary
”Ag”, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary

2017
”Post painterly-abstraction”, Várfok Project Room, Budapest, Hungary

GROUP SHOW

2024
”What Year Are You?", Public Collection Exhibition, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary

2023
”OSAS Plus No.2”, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
“Like You and Me”, Mai Mano House, Budapest, Hungary
”Helmer Transformations”, IKON, Musée Ferenczy, Szentendre, Hungary

2022
”Youhu”, Kieselbach Gallery and Auction House, Budapest, Hungary
”Rorschach Image”, Dubniczay Palace, Veszprém, Hungary
”Substraction”, Martyn Ferenc Gallery, House of Arts and Literature, Pécs, Hungary

2020
”Among Highlights - Selection of Masterpieces”, Kieselbach Gallery and Auction House, Budapest, Hungary

2019
”Substance”, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
“Bauhaus 100 – Programme for the Future”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
“Bauhaus 100”, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
“Anatomy of photography”, Rómer Flóris Museum, Győr, Hungary
“Scale, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
”Distracting Modernity”, Sopa Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia

2018
”#Trashbook – A címváltoztatás jogát fenntartjuk”, ISBN Book + Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
”Futures Talent”, Unseen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
”Time of our lives?”, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary

2017
”Occam’s City”, Labor Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
”Esterházy Art Award”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
“Layers”, cARTc, Budapest, Hungary
“RUI”, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
“RePlacement”, Interphoto Festival, Hol Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
”#Trashbook: Tej és szivacsok”, Kunst Küche, Budapest, Hungary
”Fény Kép Emlék Mű”, Fuga Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
”Instax”, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2016
”In Essence”, KAS Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
”Best of Degree”, Várkert Bazár, Budapest, Hungary
”Degree exhibition”, Fuga Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
”PHOTO/BOOK 2.0”, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary
”MAMAVORE_photobook és photozine exhibition”, Omnivore Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
”Impact: Abstraction & Experiment in Hungarian Photography”, Alma on Dobbin, New York, USA
”Connections”, FKSE debut exhibition, Labor Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2015
”Alignment & White on White”, Artplacc, Tihany, Hungary
OFF_festival Bratislava, INTERPRETART, Until Titled, Piszory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
”Másképp”, Tat Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
”PHOTO/BOOK”, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary
”Constraint freedom”, Nick Art & Design, part of OFF-Biennale Budapest, Pécs, Hungary
”Interventions”, Mono art & design, Budapest, Hungary

2014
”PY14”, GT22, Maribor, SIovenia
”HELLO your name is”, FFS debut exhibition, Paloma, Budapest, Hungary
”Landscape experiences”, Újbuda Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
OFF_festival Bratislava, MANIFESTO, Interventions, Piszory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
”Ubik (space/time distortions)”, Casati Art Corner, Budapest, Hungary
”[re:prezent]”, Open Project Space, Budapest, Hungary
Esztergom Photo Biennale, Esztergom Castle Museum, Esztergom, Hungary
KAUNAS PHOTO Fesztival, M.Zilinskas Art Gallery of the National M.K.Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
”Open Systems”, M21 – Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary

2012
”Creative Cities”, Sala Dogana, Genoa, Italy

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2022 Budapest Gallery - Cité International des Arts Artists Exchange Program, Paris, France
2021 Visegrad Fund residency in FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic
Artists' Colony of Szentendre, Szentendre, Hungary
2019 Hungarian Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Artists' Colony of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
2018 MODEM-award, premier prix, Debrecen, Hungary
Budapest Photo Festival Portfolio Review, Main Prize, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Esterházy Art Award, shortlisted, Budapest, Hungary
Residency Under Investigation, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 Erasmus +, Teacher mobility, Tartu, Estonia
2015 Minister of Education awards the Fellowship granted by the Republic, Hungary
Leopold Bloom Award, semi-finalist, Budapest, Hungary
National Art Student Conference (OMDK), second prize, BKF, Budapest, Hungary
2014 ON_AWARD, OFF_festival Bratislava, group prize, Bratislava, Slovakia
Fotóporta portfolio review, second prize, FUGA Architectural Center, Budapest, Hungary
Lucien Hervé et Rodolf Hervé Prix, nominated, Paris, France
2013 Campus Hungary team scholarship – research of Cluj artists medial representations, Cluj Napoca, Romania