Ferenc Bartus

I am Ferenc Bartus, a painter. I was born in Kazincbarcika in 1974.

I have been living and creating in Budapest since 2001. From 2005 to 2011, I completed my fine arts studies at the painting department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, and then graduated from the master's degree in art teacher training.

Ars poetica
"Fragments of Self-Research"
The basic experience and motivation of my creative period was the search for the "WAY". I focus on the world through my own Universe, perceive and perceive "reality". The goal was to recognize my own being, to find my being, to emotionally explore its essence.
I view and depict my inner world based on the principles of Nietzsche's "Dionysian art". My images are born from the relationship and combined effects of the manifestations of ratio (the sight that unfolds before me) and controlled automatism (the being breaking to the surface).
On the breaking out of the individual from the closed forms, from the body; my works are about the duel between physical and spiritual existence, the relationship between "dream" and "reality". Their content is made up of the conditions of my own inner existence, the continuous evolution of matter and forms, and the mappings of objectified reality.


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2018-2019 Hungarian University of Fine Arts / art teacher
2005-2011 Hungarian University of Fine Arts / painting
2004-2005 BLOCK ART Workshop
2003-2004 István Dési Huber Fine Arts Circle and Drawing School
1998-2001 Zoltán Kodály Elementary Art School / Kazincbarcika

Individual exhibitions:

2021 Kings and Adventurers exhibition, Magyar Műhely Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2020 FLASHBACK exhibition, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2018 Exhibition "Destroyed Movements", Magyar Műhely Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2017 Book presentation in conjunction with the exhibition "On the Edge of Existence", Tat Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2017 HYPNAGOG exhibition, János Nagy Balogh Exhibition Hall, Budapest (HU)
2017 Rapid Eye Movement exhibition, Endre Horváth Gallery, Balassagyarmat (HU)
2015 Exhibition entitled Childhood Imaginations, Magyar Műhely Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2015 Similarities and Differences exhibition, Palota Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2013 EXPERIMENTS-OVERLAPS exhibition, with Zopán Nagy. MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2012 Exhibition titled Surface Painting, Magyar Műhely Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2012 Exhibition of painter Ferenc Bartus, Adeline Gallery, Rákospalota (HU)
Exhibition of 2012 Barcsay award-winning artists, Barcsay Museum, Szentedre (HU)
2011 Fragments exhibition, Fészek Galéria Herman room, Budapest (HU)
2010 On the Road exhibition, Eckermann Café, Budapest (HU)

Selected group exhibitions:
2023
Baby Boom + X + Y exhibition, MAMŰ Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Szárhegy 2022 / Lăzarea 2022, Bernády Ház, Marosvásá...