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.
SELECTED ARTWORKS
SOLO SHOWS
2024 ”Spots”, Camera-Cluj, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, România
2023 ”Leftovers”, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022 ”Révelation(s)”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2022 ”SHC”, acb Attachment, Budapest, Hungary
2022 ”Erosion”, privat place, Budapest, Hungary
2021 “AgGregation”, Pince, Budapest, Hungary
2020 ”Fixation”, Igor Metropol, Budapest, Hungary
2019 ”Density”, acb Attachment, Budapest, Hungary
2019 ”Ag”, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary
2017 ”Post painterly-abstraction”, Várfok Project Room, Budapest, Hungary
GROUP SHOWS
2024 Paris Photo, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2024 ”What Year Are You?", Public Collection Exhbition, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
2023 ”OSAS Plus No.2”, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2023 “Like You and Me”, Mai Mano House, Budapest, Hungary
2023 ”Helmer Transformations”, IKON, Musée Ferenczy, Szentendre, Hungary
2022 ”Youhu”, Kieselbach Gallery and Auction House, Budapest, Hungary
2022 ”Rorschach Image”, Dubniczay Palace, Veszprém, Hungary
2022 ”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
2019 “Bauhaus 100 – Programme for the Future”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2019 “Bauhaus 100”, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2019 “Anatomy of photography”, Rómer Flóris Museum, Győr, Hungary
2019 “Scale, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2019 ”Distracting Modernity”, Sopa Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
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2018 ”#Trashbook – A címváltoztatás jogát fenntartjuk”, ISBN Book + Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018 ”Futures Talent”, Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 ”Time of our lives?”, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
2017 ”Occam’s City”, Labor Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017 ”Esterházy Art Award”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2017 “Layers”, cARTc, Budapest, Hungary
2017 “RUI”, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 “RePlacement”, Interphoto Festival, Hol Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2017 ”#Trashbook: Tej és szivacsok”, Kunst Küche, Budapest, Hungary
2017 ”Fény Kép Emlék Mű”, Fuga Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
2017 ”Instax”, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016 ”In Essence”, KAS Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016 ”Best of Degree”, Várkert Bazár, Budapest, Hungary
2016 ”Degree exhibition”, Fuga Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
2016 ”PHOTO/BOOK 2.0”, Petőfi, Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2016 ”MAMAVORE_photobook és photozine exhibition”, Omnivore Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016 ”Impact: Abstraction & Experiment in Hungarian Photography”, Alma on Dobbin, New York, USA
2016 ”Connections”, FKSE debut exhibition, Labor Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015 ”Alignment & White on White”, Artplacc, Tihany, Hungary
2015 OFF_festival Bratislava, INTERPRETART, Until Titled, Piszory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 ”Másképp”, Tat Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015 ”PHOTO/BOOK”, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2015 ”Constraint freedom”, Nick Art & Design, part of OFF-Biennale Budapest, Pécs, Hungary
2015 ”Interventions”, Mono art & design, Budapest, Hungary
2014 ”PY14”, GT22, Maribor, SIovenia
2014 ”HELLO your name is”, FFS debut exhibition, Paloma, Budapest, Hungary
2014 ”Landscape experiences”, Újbuda Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
2014 OFF_festival Bratislava, MANIFESTO, Interventions, Piszory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 ”Ubik (space/time distortions)”, Casati Art Corner, Budapest, Hungary
2014 ”[re:prezent]”, Open Project Space, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Esztergom Photo Biennale, Esztergom Castle Museum, Esztergom, Hungary
2014 KAUNAS PHOTO Fesztival, M.Zilinskas Art Gallery of the National M.K.Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lituania
2014 ”Open Systems”, M21 – Pécs Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2012 ”Creative Cities”, Sala Dogana, Genova, 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
2021 Artists' Colony of Szentendre, Szentendre, Hungary
2019 Hungarian Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2019 Artists' Colony of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
2018 First Prize, MODEM-award, Debrecen, Hungary
2018 First Prize, Budapest Photo Festival Portfolio Review, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Shortlisted, Esterházy Art Award, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Residency Under Investigation, Bratislava, Slovaquie
2016 Teacher Mobility, Erasmus +, Tartu, Estonia
2015 Minister of Education awards the Fellowship granted by the Republic, Hungary
2015 Semi-Finalist, Leopold Bloom Award, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Second Prize, National Art Student Conference (OMDK), BKF, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Group Prize, ON_AWARD, OFF_festival Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Fotóporta portfolio review, second prix, FUGA Architectural Center, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Nominated, Lucien Hervé et Rodolf Hervé Prix, Paris, France
2013 Campus Hungary team scholarship – research of Cluj artists medial representations, Cluj Napoca, Romania
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris, France
Ferenczy Museum Centrum, Szentendre, Hungary
MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary