Bálint Szombathy
Bálint Szombathy (Art Lover, Karen Eliot; 17 October 1950, Pačir, Serbia) is a poet, critic, visual artist, art writer and performance artist.
In 1969, he and Slavko Matković founded the group Bosch + Bosch, a platform of neo-avant-garde artists from Vojvodina, Serbia and Hungary. The group played an important role in connecting with related movements and artists throughout Europe, particularly through its access to relevant information from the Western world. Szombathy has worked with photography since the late 1960s. He mainly used photography to document his performances and conceptual projects. He worked as a graphic editor for the newspaper Magyar Szó (1974-1985), the magazine Uj Symposion (1985-1989) and the newspaper Családi Kör (1993-1999).
Balint Szombathy took part in numerous prestigious international exhibitions in Europe, the USA and Canada, such as Body and the East, After the Wall, Non-Aligned Modernity, and also exhibited in various museums in Europe, such as the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, the Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin and others. He has received numerous awards for his work: Lajos Kassák Prize, Paris (1989); Mihály Munkácsy Prize, Budapest (2008); Vladislav Ribnikar Prize, Belgrade (2015); Grand Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, Budapest (2018). [1]
- Literature
- Emőke G. Komoróczy, "Egy par excellence közép-európai művész: Szombathy Bálint akció- és konceptuális művészete", in Komoróczy, Avantgárd kontinuitás a XX. században. A párizsi Magyar Műhely és köre, Budapest: Hét Krajcár, 2016, pp 435-472. (Hungarian)
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