István László’s work explores the relationship between physical and digital artefacts and their role as mediators in remodelling experiences of collective memory. Through current innovative methodologies, his recent work explores the potential of virtual objects and their impact on our perception of the authenticity of visual representation in our digitally mediated realities.


Born in 1981 in Tirgu Mures. Lives and works in Dublin

 

Studies

2019 - 2023 Dublin City University, PhD Candidate, Digital Media Technologies in Urban Space, Dublin

2017 - 2019 National College of Art and Design, MFA, Digital Art, Dublin

2004 - 2006 New Media Technology, Film & Sound, Dublin

1999 - 2003 University of Art and Design, Sculpture Department, Cluj

Selected Exhibitions

2022

Maybe 5, Proxy, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Sf. Gheorge
Pop-Up Tanking, Budapest

2021

191st RHA, Annual, Dublin

2019

Glossary of Distant Narratives, Pilot (Fabrica de Pensule), Cluj

MFA Digital Art, Annex, NCAD, Dublin

2018

All Other Places, Point Square, Dublin

Personaje/Alakok, K'Arte, Targu Mures

2017

Maybe 4, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Sf. Gheorge

2015

Never Alone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 

Itt es most- Here and now, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest

Repertories of (in)discreetness, Tranzit, Bucharest

2014

Through the Collector's Eye, The Office, Cluj

2012

2 Collections, Cultural Palace, Targu Mures

Maybe 3, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Sf. Gheorge

Salonul de vara, Plan-B Gallery, Cluj

'A Gathering', Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

''A Gathering', Greek Festival, Athens

European Travellers. Art from Cluj Today, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest

Cer variabil. Works from the Mircea Pinte Collection, Cluj in dialog with Collectie G+W, The Netherlands Collectors House, Heerlen

2011

Things are not what they seem to be, B5 studio, Targu Mures

Eu sunt roman: ruta Bucuresti-Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva

2010

Darklight: State of at the Nation, Goethe Institut, Washington DC

The Anatomy of Skulls, Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin (solo)

Find and Replace, B5 studio, Targu Mures (solo)

I know three colours on earth, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

Mircea Pinte Collection, The Museum of Art, Cluj

New Film at Cake Contemporary Arts, Kildare

Preset Adjustments II, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (solo)

2009

Feedback 1989, Tirane

State of Tranzition, B5 studio, Targu Mures

No Pass, Biennale of Hungarian artists living abroad, Budapest

Preset Adjustments, Plan-B Gallery, Berlin (solo)

Track Changes, Wilkinson Gallery, London

Portraits of the Artists as Young Artists, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest

2008

Berlin Show 1, Plan-B Gallery, Berlin

On The Spot, Anaid Gallery, Bucharest

2006

Darklight Festival program for VU Space, Mediated ArtDepartament at Victoria University, Melbourne

Darklight Festival 2006, Dublin

2004

Art for the masses, SUPERNOVA Group,Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu

Art for the masses, Protokoll,Cluj Biennale de Paris 2004 , Paris

2003

Docu-Fiction, University of Architecture, Bucharest Re:location 4, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporaine, Luxembourg

Re:location 2, Galeria UAP Cluj / O.K Centrum, Linz

Inflexible Clash, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros

2002

Grandma in the city, Atash Gallery,Cluj ( solo)

Coleurs Locale, Fortress Gallery, Targu Mures

Super Us / SUPERNOVA, Casa Matei ,Cluj

SUPERNOVA, Sindan Cultural Center, Cluj

SUPERNOVA, Atash Gallery, Cluj A.E., Casa Tranzit, Cluj

Public Talks / Lectures

2019       Part-time Lecturer, Media Art, Dublin City University, Dublin

2019       Public Talk, Royal Hibernian Academy, Split Focus-Panel Discussion, Dublin

2013 / 2019 Lecturer, The Drawing Studio, Dublin

2012       Guest Lecturer, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin

2010       Public Talk, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin

Grants / Awards   

2019 / 2020 Peer Residency, Royal Hibernian Academy

2016   The Liberties Art Commission / Shortlisted

2011 / 2013 Luas Public Art Commission

2010 / 2011 Communitas Visual Arts award


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