SzőKe Gáspár

I was born in 1983 in Budapest where I got acquainted with the basics of painting in Hungary’s oldest secondary school of arts (the institute is 242 years old this year). I graduated in 2009 from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts majoring in Painting where my master was Zoltán Tölg-Molnár. My abstract painting – inseparably interwoven with it - is complemented by my pop music and my teaching: I have been part of the Budapest underground music life as Gazsi Rap Show since 1996. I have been teaching since 2009 at the Painting Faculty of my former alma mater, Secondary School of Visual Arts in Budapest. Besides numerous group and standalone exhibitions, among my individual presentations from the past few years are „Forms, Contrasts, I’m building and disrupting” (Budapest, Neon Gallery, 2014), „The Lost Monor Rolls” (Budapest, MÜSZI, 2016) and „Layers” (Budapest, Karinthy Szalon, 2020).
I prepare my works of unique design on various carriers using oil and acrylic paint. What they have in common, beside the diversity of the applied raw materials, is the persistent quest for the harmony of color and form, and the playful and systematic combination of them.

Schools, trainings:
Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts, Painting Department, Budapest 1998-2003
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Budapest 2003-2009
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Visual Education Department 2003-2009
Qualified Talent Mentoring – 30 H0ours Accredited Training, 2017
Prizes, Scholarships:
Endre Domanovszky Prize of Excellence 2002
Endre Domanovszky First Prize 2003
Fundamenta Prize 2006, 2007, 2008
Erasmus Scholarship, Valencia, Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia 2006

Selected Exhibitions:
Layers – solo exhibition – Karinthy Szalon, Budapest, 2020
Two new pictures – solo exhibition – Vitrin Gallery, Budapest, 2019
Update - Kisképző – group exhibition – Bartók 1 Gallery, Budapest, 2019
Kisképző 240 – group exhibition – Műcsarnok#Box, Budapest, 2019
Who’s who in the Rap business? – solo exhibition – Telep Gallery, Budapest 2018
Always the same, yet different at all times – solo exhibition Lollipop Factory Budapest, Budapest, 2017
Lost scrolls from Monor – solo exhibition – Müszi, Budapest, 2016
Superheroes – exhibition of István Máriás, Ottó Szabó and Gáspár Szőke – Csili House of Culture Budapest, 2016
Lost pictures – solo exhibition, Kisüzem, Budapest, 2015
Görkt turned into a hill – solo exhibition – Lollipop Factory Budapest, Budapest, 2015 Shapes, contrasts, I build, I disorganize – Neon Gallery, Budapest, 2014
3!!! – exhibition of Gáspár Szőke, Balázs Juhász and György Kemény –kArton Gallery, Budapest, 2013
Ferencvárosi Pincegaléria/ The Szőke-Clan strikes back –The amazing adventures of Höpp an Kő –Fer-encvárosi Pincegaléria, Budapest, 2013
Ledfield – The exhibition of Balázs Juhász, Noémi Mondik and Gáspár Szőke – Kolor, Budapest 2012
Szőke-Clan – Crappy Itches – ...