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András Gál has been working in monochrome painting since the mid-1990s and has participated in several major international exhibitions, including the Mies van der Rohe Haus in Berlin, Hunter College in New York, and the Venice Biennale. He completed his studies at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts’ painting department between 1987 and 1991. His masters were: Lajos Sváby, Károly Klimó and Zoltán Tölg-Molnár. In 1992, he received the Barcsay prize. In 1996, he received a scholarship from the Hungarian Academy in Rome. In 1997, he became a fine arts scholarship recipient of the city of Vienna, and in the same year, he won the third prize in the Hungarian Asphalt Award. Between 1997 and 1999, he received a Derkovits scholarship; in 2001, he received a Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship. In 2008, he participated in an artist exchange program with the support of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. In 2021, he received the Mihály Munkácsy Award.
“In Hungarian monochrome painting, András Gál came closest to radical painting, and on the domestic scene he most consistently strives to participate directly in the international monochrome discourse.”
János Sturcz, art historian, MMA academician
IG András Gál
photo by Miklós Déri
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Academic studies
1991-1994 – Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts – Postgraduate studies at the Mural Department / Budapest
1987–1991 – Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts – Painting diploma / Budapest
1982-1986 – School of Art and Design / Budapest
Solo and duo exhibitions (selected)
2025
– Inventarium – TOBE Project @ TOBE Gallery / Budapest (upcoming)
2023
– Absolute Emotion / Watercolor – TOBE Project @ TOBE Cabinet / Budapest
2019
– Radical Paintings | Curated by Mónika Zsikla – Budapest Galéria / Budapest
2018
– New Works – Bartók 32 Gallery / Budapest
2017
– Color Contrast with Dorothee Joachim – Modern Gallery – Vass László Collection / Veszprém
2016
– The Shape of Color – Institute of Contemporary Art / Dunaújváros
2015
– Systemic Paintings with Robert Schaberl – Galerie Loft 8 / Vienna
2012
– András Gál with Robert Schaberl – Vasarely Museum / Budapest
2011
– András Gál with Dirk Rathke – B55 Gallery / Budapest
2009
– Die Grenze der Malerei – Bergner + Job Galerie / Mainz
– Dialogue with Krzysztof Gliszczynski – Hungarian Cultural Institute / Warsaw
2008
– The Border of Painting – Ernst Museum / Budapest
2005
– Andras Gal with Thomas Pihl – Galerie De Rijk / The Hague
2003
– Recent Paintings – Vadnai Galéria / Budapest
– ACP – Viviane Ehrli Galerie / Zürich
2002
– András Gál with Tinka von Hasselbach – Verein für Aktuelle Kunst / Oberhausen
– Duplicate – Art-Garage / Zug
2001
– Aniconic Paintings with Hartwig Kompa – Goethe Institute / Budapest
2000
– Paintings 1995–2000 – Institute of Contemporary Art / Dunaújváros
– Who’s Afraid of Yellow… – Szent István Király Museum / Székesfehérvár
– Le peintre de l’espace se jette dans le vide! – French Institute / Budapest
1999
– Vice-Versa – Pécsi Kisgaléria / Pécs
– An Aspect of Observation with Ágnes Deli – Kunsthalle / Budapest
1997
– New Paintings – Fészek Galéria / Budapest
1995
– Dichotomy – Pandora Gallery / Budapest
Group exhibitions (selected)
2025
– WestFarbe VI Paint vs.Colour – Prozessualtät und Erscheinung Raum Schroth im Museum Wilheim Morgner / Soest
– Non-replaceable items, III. National Salon – Kunsthalle / Budapest
2024
– The Image of Color, the Mystery of the Image, Antal-Lusztig Collection, MODEM / Debrecen
– JUST TO BE by TOBE – Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center / Sofia
2023
– Technocool | Curated by Zsolt Petrányi – Hungarian National Gallery
/ Budapest
– Energy, Works from the Schroth Collection -Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Wilhelm Morgner Museum / Soest
– FCKN LOVE I. – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2021
– Tabula Rasa – Godot Institute of Contemporary Art / Budapest
– NFT SUX – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Monochrome Stories – Antal-Lusztig Collection, MODEM / Debrecen
– Monochrome Stories – Centrul de Interes / Cluj
Napoca
2020
– A Nightmare Before Xmas – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Free Play, II. National Salon – Kunsthalle / Budapest
– Dialogues, Hellweg konkret – Schroth Raum, Wilhelm Morgner Museum / Soest
2019
– Bauhaus 100 | Curated by József Kezmán – Ludwig Museum / Budapest
– Poetry of Minimalism – Accademia d’Ungheria / Rome
– Identities, Personal Structures – European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora / Venice
2017
– Open Borders, Personal Structures – European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora / Venice
2016
– GEM / GAMEclip – Antal-Lusztig Collection, MODEM / Debrecen
2015
– Overture Hungary, Imago Mundi [Contemporary Artists from Hungary] – Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini / Venice
2013
– Zelts – Mark Rothko Art Centre / Daugavpils, Latvia
– Dialog. Modern / Contemporary / Monochrome – Antal-Lusztig Collection, Kepes Institute / Eger
2010
– Untitled – Christa Wenzl Collection, French Institute / Budapest
– Scene Hungary in NRW, Non-Figurative Painting: Ruhr Region Meets Hungary – Verein für Aktuelle Kunst / Oberhausen
2008
– Gegenstandslos – Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung / Bonn
2007
– White and Black – Vasarely Museum / Budapest
– Painting – Painting, International Monochrome Painting – Modern Gallery, Vass László Collection / Veszprém
– Personal Structures: Time, Arti et Amicitiae / Amsterdam
– Color-Based Paintings III – Bergner + Job Galerie / Mainz
– 1-2-3 Focus on the Collection – Ludwig Museum / Budapest
2006
– 10 Years of Strabag Painting Award – Ludwig Museum / Budapest
2005
– Constructive Concepts – Modern Gallery, Vass László Collection / Veszprém
– Personal Structures – Ludwig Museum / Koblenz
2004
– Die Farbe hat mich II. (Not Just Red), Acquisitions 2000–2004 – Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum / Hagen
– Personal Structures – Galerie Lausberg / Düsseldorf
2003
– Seeing Red – Contemporary Nonobjective Painting, Hunter College – Times Square Gallery, MFA Building / New York City
2002
– The Independent Life of Color, International and Hungarian Monochrome Painting – Kunsthalle / Budapest
2001
– Hungarian Art Today – Foyer Erholungshaus, Bayer AG / Leverkusen
2000
– Young Art Hungary – Dresden Bank Gallery / Munich
1999
– Slika/Platno, Selected Hungarian Artists – City Gallery / Ljubljana
– The 90s – Rómer Flóris Art Museum / Győr
– Freies Gestalten – Stadtmuseum / Graz
1998
– Anthology – Ludwig Museum / Budapest
– Observatory – Contemporary Art Centre, Ujazdowski Castle / Warsaw
– Ulei/Panza – National Art Museum / Chisinau, Moldova
1997
– Strabag Painting Award – Ludwig Museum / Budapest
– Oil/Canvas – Kunsthalle / Budapest
1996
– Aqua – Accademia d’Ungheria / Rome
1992
– 27th International Painting Weeks in Styria – Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum / Graz
Presence in art fairs
2024
– (un)FAIR Milano TOBE Gallery | TOBE Project / Milan
2023
– Budapest Contemporary – TOBE Gallery | TOBE Project / Budapest
– Art & Antique Budapest – TOBE Gallery | TOBE Project / Budapest
2011
– Art Market Budapest – B55 Gallery / Budapest
Awards, scholarships, residencies
2025
– Artist in Residence – Künstlerhaus / Soest
2021
– Mihály Munkácsy Award / Budapest
2008
– Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg / Sttutgart
2007
– Art – Universitas Program / painting installation – Semmelweis University Faculty of Dentistry / Budapest
2001
– Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship / Budapest
2000
– Artist in Residence / Vienna
1997-1999
– Derkovits Scholarship / Budapest
1997
– Strabag Painting Award – 3rd Prize / Budapest
– Scholarship of the Kunstverein Alte Schmiede / Vienna
1996
– Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome/ Rome
1992
– Barcsay Prize / Budapest
Works in collections
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum / Graz, Austria
Osthaus Museum / Hagen, Germany
Sammlung Schroth / Soest, Germany
Ludwig Museum / Budapest
Hungarian National Gallery / Budapest
Szent István Király Museum / Székesfehérvár
Institute of Contemporary Art / Dunaújváros
Rómer Flóris Art Museum / Győr
Modern Gallery – Vass László Collection / Veszprém
Antal-Lusztig Collection / Debrecen
Publications
2013
– Who’s afraid of Yellow… András Gál Monochrome Paintings – Published by B55 Contemporary Art Gallery | Texts by Evelyn Bergner, Gergely Nagy, Sándor Radnóti and András Rényi | Design by Péter Barák | Printed by Kapitális Press (HU) | ISBN 978-963-08-6732-0
2004
– András Gál | Colour Container, Monochrome paintings – Published by Vadnai Galéria | ISBN 963-216-361-3
