Ákos Bánki

"Ákos BÁNKI was born in 1982 in Hungary. He gained a Master degree in painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2006. He lives and works in Budapest. Ákos is one of the main figures of the new non-figurative painting wave in Hungary. As a total abstract painter who relates to actionism, expressionism, but also conceptualism, and who paints not only with his hand but with his whole body, not only with his mind, but with his guts, the dripping, leaking, flowing energy fields of Ákos Bánki’s works often slap the viewer with their energy, radiance and vibration.
Ákos BÁNKI usually associates photographic studies of figurative elements to his series, extracting, transplanting and translating some of them into his abstract language and then integrating it to his paintings. An experienced reality therefore becomes a physical and psychic manifestation. Sweeping aside figuration, he seeks and sneaks into the psychological, emotive, subconscious quarters of chromatism and visuality in order to make it burst from inside, aiming to generate an effect, in other words to affect the viewer." (Róna Kopeczky, curator and art historian)

2011- DLA Studies, Painting Faculty, University of Pécs
2000-2006 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Painting and Teaching Faculty, Budapest

Collections:
European Parliament Art Collection
Miskolc Gallery
MissionArt Collection
Bodnár Zoltán Collection
Private collections in Hungary, Switzerland and Great Britain.

Scholarships:
2002 Erasmus Scholarship Chelsea College of Art and Design
2013 Erasmus Internship, Antic Theatre, Barcelona
2014 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, Ulim, Moldova

2016 Psychic Space, byArt Gallery, Budapest
2014 BánkiBarcelona, MissionArt Gallery, Budapest
2013 Cumulus, Erlin Gallery, Budapest
2012 Borders (with Dávid Szentgróti) A.P.A. Gallery, Budapest
2012 Ignis (with Károly Klimó) B55 Gallery, Budapest
2012 Canon (with László Seres) Miskolci Gallery, Miskolc
2012 Bánki30, MissionArt Gallery, Budapest
2011 Soul-flower, Blog Contemporary Art Gallery, Veszprém
2011 Barcsay Prize, Museum Barcsay, Szentendre
2010 Abstraction 2.0, B55 Gallery,  Budapest
2008 Abstraction, B55 Gallery,  Budapest
2008 If It’s Red, It’s Manic, VAM Design Center, Budapest
2008 Without Title, Erlin Gallery, Budapest
2008 H-26 (with Ágnes Verebics), 'Mű-VÉSZ Pince' Gallery, Budapest
2007 Bartók 32 Gallery (with Ágnes Verebics), Budapest
2006 A.P.A. Gallery (with Orshi Drozdik) Budapest
2006 House of Art, Miskolc