Bukta Imre

Bukta Imre, 1952, Mezőszemere

Self‑taught artist, graduated in 1970 in Eger, and also sat a skilled‑trade examination. Self‑taught. Worked in state industry while attending art schools. His masters were the painters Kishonty Jenő, Pető János, and Pataki János.

1970– 71: organised an artist retreat with Sándor Bernáth(y) in Tiszafüred, thereby pledging himself to art.

1971–73: soldier, then corporate decorator in Eger and Tiszaújváros.

1975: returns to his home village and creates his unique, so‑called agricultural art.

From 1975 to 90 he was a member of the FKS (president 1987).

At 1977 in the Tisza Chemical Combine artists’ colony they experiment with plastics, meeting the artists of the Vajda Lajos Studio. The 1978 exhibition in Budapest draws attention, and from then on it has been continuously present at both domestic and overseas exhibitions.

He worked at various artist colonies:

Zalaegerszeg – 1979

1979–84: Makó and Csongrád

1986 and 1988: Dombóvár

1986–89: participant in the New Lady Courier Revue

1980 – 94: a member of the Szentendrei Grafikai Műhely.

Numerous domestic and foreign publications have appeared on his works and exhibitions. Books about him have been published:

András Bán, Tihamér Novotny: Imre Bukta, New Art Publisher 1998

Bukta Imre, A38 Kiadó 2006.

Bukta, Modem, 2008

Selected solo exhibitions:

1978 Stúdió Galéria, Budapest

1979 Stadtgalerie, Wels, Austria (with Klimó Károlly, with Farkas Ádám). Young Artists Club, Budapest (with Bernáth/y, with Sándor, with László fe‑Lugossy, with Viktor Lois). Csepeli Paper Factory Youth Club, Budapest (with Bernáth/y, with Sándor, with László fe‑Lugossy).

1980 at the County Library exhibition space, the Eger Theatre Gallery and in Pécs (with István Zámbó)

1981 Helikon Gallery, Budapest Bastion Gallery, Budapest Pataky Gallery, Budapest (with Samu Gézával)

1982 Experiment, Galerie der Künstlergruppe, Stuttgart, Germany (with Samu Géza) Madách Gallery, Vác (with István Zámbó) Georgi Dimitrov Cultural Centre, Veszprém (with István Balog)

1983 Three Hungarian artists (András Baranyay, Imre Bukta, János Kalmár), Municipal Gallery and Art Association, Erlangen, Germany 1984 Kecskemét Gallery, Kecskemét

1985 Youth House, Székesfehérvár

1986 Ady Endre Cultural Centre, Miskolc (with Győrffy Sándor) 1987 Cultural House, Csongrád (with Elekes Károlly and Szabó Szilárd)

1988 Ernst Museum, Budapest (with Samu Géza) Black Eagle Paleontological Museum, Székesfehérvár XLIIIrd Venice Biennale, Hungarian Pavilion, Venice (with Sándor Pinczehelyi, Samu Géza) Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

1989 County Library, Békéscsaba National Cultural Palace, Sofia, Bulgaria, (with Sándor Pinczehelyi, Géza Samu) Imre Bukta, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Géza Samu. Hungarian contribution to the Biennale in Venice, Hungarian Cultural House, East Berlin, NDK New Art of Hungary. Four Artists: Imre Bukta, Áron Gábor, Géza Samu, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA Bel’Arte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (with Géza Samu)

1991 Várfok 14 Workshop Gallery, Budapest

1993 – Pára, Szentendre Painting Repository, Forts of Szentendre 14 Workshop Gallery, Budapest ICA 2. Staging Room Exhibition, Budapest Smart Landscape, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Barcsay Room, Budapest (with Gerber Páll, Kicsiny Balázs, Palkó Tibor) Galerie der Stadt Wels, Wels, Austria

1994 Innocences, Uitz Terem, Dunaújváros (with Gerber Páll and Kicsiny Balázzsa) Youth House, Szeged Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia Beyond the house, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest

1995 Near – Far, Várfok 14 Workshop Gallery, Budapest 1996 Várfok 14 Workshop Gallery, Budapest Bukta Imre Munkácsy Prize laureate’s academic introductory exhibition.

1996 International Cultural Centre Gallery, Kraków, (with Karl Halász) Unreviewable Landscape, Kunstraum ARTAQUE, Karlsruhe

1997 New Works, Várfok Gallery, Budapest 14 Faded Landscape, Óbuda Community Gallery, Budapest

1998 Journey in an unblessed space, Budapest Historical Museum, City Gallery / Kiscelli Museum, Budapest Castle Fork 14 Workshop Gallery, Budapest

1999 XLVIII. Venice Biennale, Hungarian Pavilion, Venice (Benczúr Émes, Csörgő Attila, Erdélyi Gábor, Imre Mariann) Pelikán Gallery, Székesfehérvár Várfok 14 Workshop Gallery, Budapest

_2000_ Sárospataki Képtár, Sárospatak Rippl‑Rónai Múzeum, Kaposvár

2001 K. Bazovsky House, Budapest

2002 Várfok 14 Gallery, Budapest

2003 Raiffeisen Gallery, Budapest

2005 Fészek Gallery, Budapest – Landscape in the Picture, Picture in the Landscape; Godot Gallery, Budapest – Landscape in the Picture, Picture in the Landscape; Vintage Gallery, Friday 13; Lajos Hatvany Museum, Hatvan (with Tibor Palkó); MÚ Theatre, Budapest

2006 K‑Petrys House, Budapest Volksbank Gallery, Debrecen without an address, Lajos Hatvany Museum, Hatvan

2007 Erzsi, Piri, Sári, Mariska, Rozális, Ella, Bella, Juci, Karolina, come to have dinner! Godot Gallery, Budapest

2008 Expanded landscape, retrospective exhibition, MODEM, Debrecen

2009 Trip: Sükő, Godot Gallery, Budapest; Ericsson Gallery, Budapest

Selected group exhibitions:

1969 Mezőszemerei exhibition of amateur artists, Mezőszemere

1971 Cultural Centre, Mezőkövesd

1974 Exhibition of autodidact artists of Lenin Town, Cultural House, Lenin Town

1977 Studio ‘77’, István Csók Picture Gallery, Székesfehérvár People and Their Creation, János Xanthus Museum, Győr Turn of Fate, (The Commemorative Exhibition of the Great October Socialist Revolution), Eger Studio Experimental Workshop, Gyula Derkovits Cultural Centre, Lenin City

1978 Pestmegyei Tárlat. Ferenczy Károly Museum, Szentendre Sorsforduló, Gárdonyi Géza Theatre, Eger Hatvany Lajos Museum, Hatvan Studio de Budapest, Grand Palais des Champs‑Élysées, Paris, France, Experiments with Plastics in Fine Art, Exhibition Hall of the Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest Studio ’78, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

1979 Boundaries, Industrial Arts Museum, exhibition at the Csongrád Art Colony, Budapest. Cultural House, Csongrád Studio '79, Pécs Gallery, Youth House, Pécs Drawing Today. I., International Youth Triennale of Drawing, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany Square and Form Exhibition, Zala County Cultural Centre, Zalaegerszeg

1980 Studio '80', Art Pavilion Budapest, XI. Biennale of Paris, International Youth Artists Exhibition, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Porte Stains Exhibition, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery New Acquisitions, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

_1981 Studio ’_81 . Youth House, Szeged, XX‑century art in the Pogány Zsolt collection, István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár _1982 About the arts, Tradition I., the exhibition series of the Young Visual Artists Studio, Pataky Gallery (Kőbánya) Exhibition of Szentendre graphics, Pécs Gallery, Pécs Szentendre Graphic Workshop. Vigadó Gallery, Budapest Egoland Art, Fészek Gallery, Budapest

1982 Multiple kinds of realism, Fészek Gallery, Budapest Photo Usage in Graphics, Óbuda Gallery, Budapest

1983 Makói Művésztelep 1979‑1983, József Attila Művelődési Központ, Makó Szentendrei Tárlat “83,” Szentendre Képtár, Szentendre Studio “83” (1‑2.), Ernst Múzeum, Budapest Művészeti szimpózionok eredményei I., Szobrászat, Műcsarnok, Budapest 3rd Biennale of European Graphic Art, Baden‑Baden, NSZK

1984 Outcomes of the Second Art Symposium, Painting, Graphics, Fresco, Exhibition Hall, Budapest – A Traveling Exhibition of Young Hungarian Artists, Linz, Austria. A Traveling Exhibition of Young Hungarian Artists, Güssing 1984–1986 Hungarian Graphics Exhibition (traversing exhibition). Finland

1985 101 object, object art in Hungary 1955 to 1985, Óbuda Gallery, Budapest Contemporary Visual Art in Hungary, Eighteen Artists, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, selection from the material of the above-mentioned exhibition in Great Britain. Kiss István Collection, Székesfehérvár Studio ' 85, Ernst Museum, Budapest International Graphics Biennale, Várna, Bulgaria 15. Spring Collection, Sándor Nógrád Museum, Salgótarján

1986 Kilátó, (Water Tower, Margaret’s Island), Budapest. The Dunaújváros Collection I. – Graphics, Exhibition of the Young Artists' Studio. Uitz Terem, Dunaújváros. X. National Watercolour Biennale, Gárdonyi Géza Museum, Eger. Hungarian Watercolours. Porin Art Museum, Pori, Finland. Studio ’86, Budapest Historical Museum, Budapest.

1987 Studio ’86, Miskolc Gallery, five representatives of contemporary Hungarian drawing, Selection of works from the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery, Magyar Intézet, Paris Magical Works, Budapest Gallery, Exhibition Hall, Budapest Magical Works, Szombathely Image Gallery, Today’s Hungarian Art in Szombathely. (Contemporary Hungarian Art), Exhibition Hall, Budapest Studio ’87, Ernst Museum, Budapest Art Today II, Budapest Gallery, Exhibition Hall, Budapest Art Today II, Szentendre Graphic Workshop, Szentendre Art Today II, County Library, Eger Pest County Autodidact Visual Artists Exhibition. Szentendre Image Gallery, Szentendre Pest County Autodidact Visual Artists Exhibition, Art’éria Gallery, Szentendre Pest County Autodidact Visual Artists Exhibition, Göcsej Museum, Zalaegerszeg Pest County Autodidact Visual Artists Exhibition, Stadsmuseum, Woerden, The Netherlands Old and New Avant‑Garde, Csók István Image Gallery, Székesfehérvár Open‑Air Exhibition, Vajda Lajos Studio Piceműhelye, Szentendre The Szentendre Art’éria Gallery Exhibition, Göcsej Museum, Zalaegerszeg Contemporary Visual Art from Hungary, Artists’ Gallery, Munich, Germany Selection from the new acquisitions of the István Király Museum in Székesfehérvár, Csók István Image Gallery, Székesfehérvár 1988 Studio ’88, Ernst Museum, Budapest

1990 7 Life, Youth Artists Club, Budapest Blue‑Red, Uitz Room, Dunaújváros Contemporary Hungarian Art, Sala Dalles, Bucharest, Romania Triumph, Charlottenborg Art Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark Triumph, The Uninhabitable, Exhibition Hall, Budapest Resources / Resource Art, Exhibition Hall, Budapest SZETA Exhibition and Auction. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 1991 Unicornis, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest Unicornis, Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc The County Library's Exhibitions, 50. County Library, Békéscsaba Unicornis, Gödöllő Gallery, Gödöllő The Smohay Prize in its tenth year (1981–1991), Csók István Picture Book, Székesfehérvár Unicornis, Uitz Room, Dunaújváros Artistic Confrontations Torun ’91, Old Town Hall, Torun, Poland Meta ’90, Pécs Meta ’90, Kennesaw Meta ’90, Atlanta Meta ’90, Georgia Symbolic Endeavours I., Budapest Gallery Display House, Budapest Free Worlds. Metaphors and Realities in Contemporary Hungarian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Free Worlds. Metaphors and Realities in Contemporary Hungarian Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor (USA).

1992 Free Worlds. Metaphors and Realities in Contemporary Hungarian Art, Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma, USA Free Worlds. Metaphors and Realities in Contemporary Hungarian Art, Museé d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada Free Worlds. Metaphors and Realities in Contemporary Hungarian Art, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada The great Zsuga – 100 painted Cézanne’s work *Card Players*, Óbudai Pincegaleria, Budapest. Introduction to Contemporary Art, István Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár. Terra-Magma Art-Nature, Buda Castle, Budapest. The Columbus egg, Exhibition of Hungarian and Iber‑American Contemporary Artists, Műcsarnok, Palme-ház, Budapest.

1993 Colourful water, International Watercolour Exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest Atlantis II. – Szentendre, Atlantis Gallery, Budapest Idols, prints, Greek Temple Exhibition Hall, Vác (with the Pantheon group) Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy Hungarica, Museum for Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Selection from the Contemporary Visual Arts Collection of the Ferenczy Museum in Szentendre, Erdély Ferenc Cultural Centre, Kecskemét

1994 22nd Biennale of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (with Attila Csörgő, Orsolya Drozdik) Trunk Line, Western Railway Station, Budapest More than ten, the Soros Foundation Contemporary Art Centre – Budapest, in celebration of its ten‑year anniversary Ludwig Museum, Budapest Artéria Gallery exhibitions of its artists Aktív Art Gallery, Szentendre

1995 Erlin Gallery, Budapest Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States Kunst aus Ungarn. Six contemporary artists from Hungary, cultural centre of the Republic of Hungary, Stuttgart, Germany Kunst aus Ungarn. Six contemporary artists from Hungary, Town Hall, Bissingen, Germany Kunst aus Ungarn. Six contemporary artists from Hungary, Haus Opherdicke, Unna, Germany Kunst aus Ungarn. Six contemporary artists from Hungary, Schloss Ettlingen, Ettlingen, Germany New acquisitions at the Budapest Historical Museum in the Capital Picture Gallery 1985–1995, BTM Capital Picture Gallery / Kiscelli Museum Temple Hall, Oratory, Budapest

1996 Art History in contemporary art, Uitz Gallery, Budapest Images of Peace. New Hungarian avant‑garde, Consulate General of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Budapest Honlét‑friz, Hungarian Agricultural Museum, Budapest

1997 Nineteen from the Vajda Lajos Studio, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest Schwere-los / Weightless, Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz, Austria Weightless / Schwere-los, Museum of Contemporary Art – Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Budapest, Merics Collection, St. Stephen’s King Museum in the building of Országzászló Square, Székesfehérvár Sept sculptors contemporaries, Château de Biron (Dordogne), France Szeged Art Depot exhibition, Danube Gallery, Budapest De Valigia in Hungary, / De Valigia in Hungary, Western Railway Station, Budapest