Magda CSUTAK

(1945, Romania)

1964-70Ion Andreescu Fine Arts Academy, Ceramics Class (RO)
1974-77Associate of Research Institute for Optic Glass and Fine Ceramics in Bucharest
1977Political Asylum in Austria
since 1978Member of Vienna Künstlerhaus
since 1979Member of Paris Art Magazine „Magyar Műhely”

Awards

2019Herczeg Klára-Prize
2010Munkácsy Mihály-Prize
1986Austrian State Scholarship
1985Theodor-Körner-Prize

Public art

In Honor of the Earth, 1974, fire clay, Medgidia (RO)

Works in public collections

Consiliul de Cultura si Arte (Bukarest)
Museum Segesvár (Sighisoara, RO)
Museum for Contemporary Art – Ludwig Museum (Budapest)
Kunstsammlung Stadt Wien, Albertina (Wien)
Republik Österreich
König St. Stephan Museum (Székesfehérvár, HU)
Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
Municipal Picture Gallery – Kiscell Museum (Budapest)
ÖBV (Wien)
MAK ‒ Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Wien)

Solo exhibitions

2023„Dampferfart“ for Astrit´s Schmidt Burghardt Birthday, Berlin, Spree-East Side Gallery,
„DIGITAL“-accompanied with piano playing, video montage
2019ZERO AND SOMETHING, (NULL UND ETWAS), Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2016APPROACHING ZERO, Appreciation Exhibition, ÖBV Atrium, Vienna
2015WALZER, Exhibition of Magda Csutak and Miklós Erdély (retrospective of 1985), acb Galéria, Budapest
2014SUM ZERO, Galerie Splitter Art, Vienna
APPROACHING ZERO, MAGMA Contemporary Art Space,
Saint George (RO)
2011Parallel exhibition: Magda Csutak, Ingo Nussbaumer, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
2006EQUAL-INDIVIDUAL, Museum Kiscell – Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest
20052B Galéria, Budapest (together with Janos Megyik)
2001SiO2 – Camera, Vienna (together with Cécile Dujarden)
2000CONSEQUENCE AND STRENGTH, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Vienna, (together with Sárközi Pusztai Éva, Waltraud Palme)
1995STILL LIFE, Art Expo – Vizivárosi Galéria, Budapest
THOUSAND 1 NANO, Galerie Station 3, Vienna
1992THOUSAND 1 NANO, Budapest Galéria, Lajos utca, Budapest
1985JEWISH-CHRISTIAN, atelier exhibition, Fuhrmanngasse, Vienna (together with Miklós Erdély)
1982Postgassegalerie, Vienna
1970Theatre of Sf. Gheorghe (RO)

Group exhibitions

2025-26GRAPHICS IN EUROPE The Graphic Editions of Galerie Lindner/ Vienna
Vasarely Museum, Budapest
2025EXPERIMENTUM, Art Center of Transylvania, Sf. Gheorghe, RO
Women’s Quota 02. Women Artists, Creative Women from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
ARTGENÈVE, International Art Fair, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2024Art Cologne, International Art Fair, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2024Viennacontemporary, International Art Fair, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
curated-by: Dr.Friedemann Malsch, Untold Narratives, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2023-24“ABSENCE ” 80 years since the Holocaust in Northern Transilvania, Aluvial Project Space, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2023-24Graphics in Europe CONSTRUCTIVE CONCRETE CONCEPTUAL, Kammerhof Museum Gmunden
2024Christine König Galerie STAGE BREGENZ 2024
2023HUMAN_NATURE,Mitgliederausstellung, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2021CCC.Click,Connect,Collect, König2, Vienna
202030 YEARS: A SHORT CENTURY, Online Exhibition, Christine König Galerie
ARTGENÈVE, International Art Fair,
Christine König Galerie, Vienna
HERCZEG KLÁRA-PRIZE exhibition, Labor Galéria, Budapest
ME, MYSELF AND I, online exhibition, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
HORTUS CONCLUSUS, sculpture park, Jagdschlossgasse 25, 1130 Vienna
2019CONVERSATION, Franz Kerschbaum & Magda Csutak,
Christine König Galerie, Vienna
ART BRÜSSELS, ART BRU37, Art Fair, Molnár Ani Galéria
VIENNACONTEMPORARY, International Art Fair,
Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2018BRUCH SPUR ZEICHEN, Sabine Müller-Funk & friends, Kunstraum Nestroyhof, Vienna, NOEDOK, St. Pölten
CONCRETE-WOMAN, Vienna, Female Artists and Concrete Art, curated by_Gerald A. Matt, Galerie Steinek, Vienna
THE 1990s, Setting 3: Mobile Art in a Mobile Market,
Vienna Museum, MUSA
2017THE POETRY OF SUCCINCTNESS, Artmark Galerie, Vienna
ABSTRAKTIONEN, Fotogalerie, Wien
POST CONTEMPORARY (POCO), Telep Galéria, Budapest
ART ENCOUNTERS – Production:Re:Production, MAGMA, Contemporary Art Biennale, Timisoara (RO)
KUNST ZIEHT KREISE, Artmark Galerie, Vienna
2016MATZAH, 2B Galéria, Budapest
SYMMETRY FESTIVAL 2016 VIENNA – NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
2015DESTINY AND SYMBOL, Hungarian Art in Transylvania 1920-1990, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest
TOWARDS NEW FRONTIERS, EPS-HEP 2015 (High Energy Physics 2015), University of Vienna
JIFFYCHAT 03, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
WHAT´S NEXT? WIENER WUNDERKAMMER 2015, TU, Vienna
2014DIALOGUE OF SILENCE, Artmark Galerie, Vienna
KONSTRUKTIV + INTER + CONCRETE,
16 international artists – 16 positions
MűvészetMalom (ArtMill), Szentendre (HU)
2013THE SMALL FORMAT, Artmark Galerie, Vienna
COCA (Constructive Open Structures Concrete Abstract), Artmark Galerie, Vienna
ZEICHEN ZEICHEN, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2012OSAS PLUS (The Open Structures Art Society),
Vasarely Museum, Budapest
2009THE BUJDOSO COLLECTION, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
CYCLE 4.0, Contemporary Art from Central Europe, Lilienfeld Abbey
CONCRETE ART CONNECTION, Concrete Art from Central Europe, Artmark Galerie, Vienna
IMAGINABLE – UNIMAGINABLE. Hypothesis Visual Transformations / A22 Galéria, Budapest
2008Gmunden Symposiums für Concrete Art, a documentation,
Landesgalerie Linz
ZEITRAUMZEIT, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2007THE COLLECTION IN FOCUS, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
2006RE: MBRANDT 400 – Contemporary Hungarian Artists Respond, Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest
2005SELF PORTRAIT, 2B Galéria, Budapest
2004EUROPA FRIES, Mission Art Gallery, Vienna, Bratislava, Paris, Stuttgart, Berlin, Rome
TRANSEUROPA, Kulturverband, Favoriten, Vienna
2002THE PLENTY OF VACUUM, Artmark Galerie, Spital am Pyhrn (AT)
A PROPOS PAPER, Galerie Gigant, Vienna
2001THE UNDIVIDED FORM TO READ, ARTPool P60, Budapest
SiO2, Camera, Vienna
1999THE THING WITH THE PHOTO, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna
SPATIO CHIARO, Arsenale, Venice
PERSPECTIVE, Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest
OUR TWENTIETH CENTURY. HUNGARIAN ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Csók István Galéria, Székesfehérvár (HU)
1998GEOGRAPHY-GEOMETRY, Concrete Art on the Danube,
Ráday Galéria, Budapest
1997GEOGRAPHY-GEOMETRY, Concrete Art on the Danube, Galerie Peter Lindner, Vienna
Cultural Centre Zichino Palace, Bratislava
JENSEITS VON KUNST (BEYOND ART), Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
1996WORKS AND ATTITUDES 1990-1996. 20th Century Hungarian Art, Csók István Galéria, Székesfehérvár (HU)
GEOGRAPHY-GEOMETRY, Concrete Art on the Danube, Presentation, Albertina, Vienna
JENSEITS VON KUNST (BEYOND ART), Ludwig Museum, Budapest
4×1, Leopold Bloom Galéria, Szombathely (HU)
1987IN MEMORY OF THE JEWISH POGROM,
Protestant Church in Iserlon (DE)
1985KALEIDOSKOP ´85, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Vienna
1982HOMMAGE À LA TERRE NATALE, Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest
1981TACTILITY – VISUALITY, space installation in the group exhibition „Attitude”, Großweikersdorf (AT)
1976International Ceramics Exhibition, Sopot (PL)
1974IV. International Ceramics Biennale, Vallauris (FR)