Zsuzsa Sztruhár

My name is Zsuzsa Sztruhár and I am a hungarian fine artist and composer. I originally took a degree as a painter at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (Budapest), in 2011. Since then I have been creating audiovisual installations, kinetic music sculptures and interactive sound instruments which I call ‘Music (or Melody) machines’. In 2014 I became admitted to the doctorate course of the University of Fine Arts, where my research field and subject became these music machines and instruments and the connection, transition and translation possibilities and interfaces of music and fine arts. In 2020 I completed my dissertation and graduation with summa cum laude.

In 2016 I gained Erasmus scolarship which I spent in Venice, Italy, where I lived from 2017 to 2019. During this time I was engaged in composing music, and I wrote a 250 pages partiture with more than 60 pieces for piano. In Venice I sometimes used to play parts of this music on pianos at public places. The 3-volume music piece is a collection of etudes and valses, which all together form a spiritual composition which relates the calvary of the soul accross a spiritual journey of life, much like the Tarot describes the way of the soul. When I am invited to play or give a ...

2020. dec. Sussessful defense of doctoral thesis – attainment of DLA (PhD) degree (summa cum laude)

2017-2018 Accademia di Belli Arti, Venice, (Italy) (as part of postgraduate Erasmus scholarship)

2014- 2017 DLA – doctorate of liberal arts at Doctoral School of Hungarian University of Fine Arts

Supervisor: Eszter Radák

2006-2011 Hungarian University of Fine Arts – department painting, Budapest

masters: Árpád Szabados, Péter Kiss, Imre Bukta
2 MA degree in Painting and as Professor of Fine Arts,

2010 Erasmus scholarship – Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, (Spain), Facultad de Bellas Artes

2001-2006 Eötvös József Secondary Grammar School (bilingual English course), Tata

Exhibitions

2025. febr. - may ImageMusic - collective exhibition by OSAS Budapest, Vasarely Museum

2024. may - aug. Waves and Harmonies, Solo Exhibition Piarist Church of the Monastery, Tata, Hungary

2023. oct. Design Without Borders Exhibition, FUGA, Centre of Architecture, Budapest

2022. oct. Design Without Borders Exhibition – collective international exhibition of designers and artists,
Kiscelli Museum, Budapest

2021. jan. Derkó’20 – Online exhibition of the winners of Derkovits – award

2020. jún. Art and Game – collective exhibition of young contemporary artists, MANK Gallery, Szentendre

2020. febr. Derkó 2020

Exhibition of the winners of Derkovits – award Kunsthalle (Műcsarnok), Budapest

2019. nov. Waves and Harmonies – solo exhibition
Fasor Evangelic Community Hall, Budapest

2019. okt. Passageway – Exhibition of the Hermina – collective (of musicians and fine artists)

HUFA, Barcsay Hall, Budapest

2019. jan....