Born in 1965 in Budapest, Hungary. Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Combining the media of photography, sculpture, and drawing, the works of Attila Csörgő offer viewers an intelligent and playful introduction to questions of science and technology. The results are often unexpected, amusing, or even poetical. In long-term experiments the artist explores branches of science such as kinetics, optics, or geometry to examine questions of perception; and on this basis he develops his theories about the construction of reality.
Selected solo exhibitions
2022
FUTURA. Vermessung der Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2019
Attila Csörgő – Spaces for Manoeuvre, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
Collisions and Missing Parts (with Vadim Fishkin), Hollybush Gardens, London, UK.
2018
Attila Csörgő | Ursuppe, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
Collisions and Missing Parts (with Vadim Fishkin), Associazione Barriera, Turin, Italy.
Ütközések / Collisions – kiállítás megnyitó, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
2016
Constructed View² (with Gábor Ősz), Vintage Galéria, Budapest, Hungary.
2015
Attila Csörgő. Clock-work, in the framework of the OFF-Biennale Budapest, Der Punkt, Budapest, Hungary.
Attila Csörgő. Squaring the Circle, Galeria Arsenal power station, Bialystok, Poland.
2014
Attila Csörgő. Squaring the Circle, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
2013
Shapes in Transition, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
2012
Attila Csörgő. Roman Signer, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany.
2011
Attila Csörgő, Secession, Vienna, Austria.
Archimedean Point, Hamburger Kunsthalle – Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany.
2010
Archimedean Point, MUDAM, Musée d´Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg.
2009
Archimedean Point, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary.
Attila Csörgő, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France.
Magnet Spring, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
2008
Wurfelbahnen und Raumkurven, Museum Folkwang im RWE Turm, Essen, Germany.
2007
Platonic Geometry, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland.
Attila Csörgő, Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
2006
Attila Csörgő, Galleria Contemporaneo Mestre, Venice, Italy.
Skin of Space, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2005
Attila Csörgő. Gábor Ősz, Gallery Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2004
Platonic love, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Orange Space, ACB Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
2002
Peeled City, Art in General, New York City, USA.
Semi-Space, Budapest Galéria, Budapest, Hungary.
2001
Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France.
2000
Galerie für Gegenwartskunst Barbara Claassen-Schmal, Bremen, Germany.
Laqua Obliqua, Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padua, Italy.
1999
Altered States (with Antal Lakner), Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Attila Csörgő. Endre Koronczi, Galeria Monumental, Lisbon, Portugal.
1996
Stúdió Galéria, Budapest, Hungary.
1994
Three Solids, Óbudai Pincegaléria, Budapest, Hungary.
Selected group exhibitions
2022
FUTURA. Vermessung der Zeit, curated by Bogomir Ecker und Brigitte Kölle, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
2021
… Line as Thought, Lines as Universe …, curated by Séamus Kealy & Nikolaus Gansterer, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria.
2019
La mesure du monde, Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan, France.
The Rhythm of Space, Museo della Grafica, Pisa, Italy.
Worlds in Motion – Mudam Collection, curated by Lisa Baldelli & Marie-Noëlle Farcy, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg.
Zero Gravity – Apollo 11 and the notion of space, ERES-Stiftung, Munich, Germany.
40,000 – A Museum of Curiosity, 14th Fellbach Triennial for Small Sculpture, Alte Kelter Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany.
Negative Space – Trajectories of Sculpture, ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2018
ERROR – The Art of Imperfection, DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum, Berlin, Germany.
Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City, Mexico.
2017
Never Ending Stories – Der Loop in Kunst, Film, Architektur, Musik, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Kino-Eye. Around Vertov and Constructivism, Galerie Arsenał, Białystok, Poland.
VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Mirror Images – Reflections in art and medicine, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland.
2016
Laboratoires de l´art, Musée des arts et métiers, Paris, France.
All the Time at Work, BWA Tarnów, Tarnów, Poland.
The Camera’s Blind Spot III, curated by Simone Menegoi, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna, Italy.
2015
10th Kaunas Biennial, Threads. A Phantasmagoria about Distance, M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuania.
What We Call Love – From Surrealism to Now, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Transparency, Georg Kargl Fine Arts Box, Vienna, Austria.
Eppur si muove (And yet it turns). Art et technique, un espace partagé, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Horizontal Standing, in the framework of the OFF-Biennale Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
The Camera’s Blind Spot II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Mainzer Ansichten 111 Künstler / innen in einem Büro, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Quantum of Disorder, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland.
MIRROR IMAGES in Art and Medicine, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin, Germany.
2014
Coffee & Ink, Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogota, Colombia.
This Secret World that Exist Right There in Public, Rampa Istanbul, Turkey.
To continue. Notes towards A Sculpture Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy.
Drawing In Space, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz – St.Moritz, Switzerland.
As You Can See, Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2013
NO Questions, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland.
Projections, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte Croix, Les Sables d’Olonnes, France.
New opening. New beginning, Local_30, Warsaw, Poland.
How high is the moon?, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, France.
Turbulences II, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2012
Les amas d’Hercule, Parc Saint Léger Centre d’Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France.
Turbulences, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.
Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany.
2011
Wir sind alle Astronauten, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany. Traveling to Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Seeing things, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
Galerie Poggi & Bertoux Associés, Paris, France.
2010
Documenta 2010: Aktuelle Kunst aus Ungarn, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany.
The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Fine Art & Georg Kargl Box, Vienna, Austria.
What Happens if?, Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK.
2009
Materialen, Muenzsalon, curated by Birte Kleeman, Berlin, Germany.
Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy.
2008
Revolution – Forms that turn, 16th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Reykjavik Experiment Marathon, Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2007
What You See Is What You Guess, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France.
Time flies, GB Agency, Paris, France.
Fuori Uso 2006, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania.
2006
Cosmogonies, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France.
Und es bewegt sich…, Museum Bochum, Germany.
Venture II, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Fuori Uso, Are you experienced?, Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy.
2005
Nach Rokytník, Die Sammlung der EVN, Museum of Modern Art Foundation
Ludwig, Vienna, Austria.
Minimalism and After IV, New Acquisitions of the DaimlerChrysler Collection, Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany.
Active Image, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
Light, Image, Illusion, 3 Aegina Acadamy, Aegina, Greece.
Bewegliche Teile / Moving Parts, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland.
Nothingness, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj / Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2004
Travelling without Moving, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
4 Artists from Hungary, Tanja Rumpf Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Bewegliche Teile / Moving Parts, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria.
Nothingness, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria.
Soap oper, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
Breakthrough, Grote Kerk, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Venture, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj / Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Persistante perspective, Ecole Superieure des Beaux-arts de Mans, Le Mans, France.
2003
Poetic Justice, 8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey.
Modesty, Galerija Škuc / Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2002
The eye of the beholder, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK.
Twinklings, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2001
Milano Europe 2000, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy.
Geologists at Sunset, Hotelit, Fort Asperen, Acquoy, The Netherlands.
2000
Uncontrolled, North Exhibitionspace, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Intuition, innovation, invention, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
What, how & for whom, Dom HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia.
After the Wall, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest-Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany.
Change of Order, National Gallery in the Trade Fair Palace, Prague, Czech Republic.
Germination 6, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
1999
Tackling Techné, 48. Venice Biennial, Hungarian Pavillion, Italy.
Kunst der neunziger Jahren in Ungarn, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.
After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
1998
Obserwatorium, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
Inter/Media/Art, Ernst Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary.
Jenseits von Kunst, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium.
1997
Schwerelos Skulpturen, Landesgalerie am OÖ. Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria.
Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary.
Sexmachine, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest, Hungary.
1996
The Butterfly Effect, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
3×3 from Hungary, Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York City, USA.
Beyond Art, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest – Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.
Multilingual Landscapes, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Computer World, The Tannery, London, UK.
1995
Zusammenziehende Häuser, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany.
In and Out of Touch, Budapest Galéria – Haus Ungarn, Berlin, Germany.
1994
22. Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1992
Space Concepts, Budapest Galéria, Budapest, Hungary.
Awards and residencies
2011
Atelier Calder, Saché, France.
2008
Nam June Paik Award, Kunststiftung NRW, Cologne, Germany.
Public collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
CNAP–Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France.
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany.
EVN Sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf, Austria.
FRAC della Regione Piemonte, Italy.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary.
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
MUDAM, Musée d´Art Modern Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Nomas Foundation, Roma, Italy.