Adél Kiss

I work on canvas using traditional painting techniques. Oil and acryl are my favorite materials and I like to combine various techniques and create unusual material combinations and surfaces in order to make my end product more exciting. I frequently apply several layers of paint and lazure to arrive at interesting color effects.

I have always been interested in painting people, especially people that live around me. A personal contact with my model is key to a good picture. Without a personal contact painting loses its purpose and the product will lack life altogether. Most of my oeuvre is pictures of people. Although I have had topics other than humans, e.g. landscapes and animals, these too I have represented using the characteristics of a portrait.

I am very attracted to strong colors and like experimenting with techniques, which I often use to make the visual effect more powerful. If it serves the purpose of expression I am ready to exaggerate. My works frequently combine archetypes, symbols, sacral and profane motives, often in peculiar composition. The people, spaces, and objects in my pictures are realistic and unrealistic at the same time.
It is not conventional beauty that I am interested in but the aura of the mod...

2003-2007 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, HU
Majors: MA Teacher of Visual Art
2002-2007 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, HU
Majors: MA Painting
Master: Dóra Maurer
2000-2002 Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, HU
Major: Drawing and Visual Communication

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Tolnay Salon, Madách Theatre, Budapest, HU
- MONAR Gallery, Walk in the forest, Monor, HU
- Rózsa Gallery, Rózsa Culture House Budapest, HU
2009 - Department of Applied Linguistics, ELTE Faculty of Arts, Budapest, HU
2008 - Clinic Ciris, Budapest
- exhibition accompanying the student conference “Unfamiliar Acquaintance – Familiar Stranger: The
Dimensions of Applied Linguistics”; Department
of Applied Linguistics, ELTE Faculty of Arts, Budapest, HU
- PSZINAPSZIS 2008 /organized as part of the 12th Budapest Days of
Psychology/; József Attila Cultural Center, Angyalföld, Budapest, HU
- Vigadó Cultural and Civic Center, Monor, HU
2007 - Rózsa Gallery, Rózsa Culture House, Budapest, HU
- 2007. december – 2008. january, Rózsa Gallery, Rózsa Culture House, Budapest

JOINT EXHIBITIONS /SELECTION/
2012 59th Vásárhelyi Autumn Exhibition, Alföldi Galéria, Hódmezővásárhely, Hu
„A hetes busszal jöttem én” , Magyar Építőművészek Székházának Koós Károly terme, Budapest, Hu
The Night of Open Churches, Roman Chatocic Church, Monor, Hu
Art Moments Spicy Selection/ Pécs - AMS 2012, Re:Public Galéria, Zsolnay Kulturális Negyed, Pécs, Hu
SANS REPÉRES – Spicy Collection, Hungarian Institut Paris, Paris, France...