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Kincsõ Bede is a Romanian visual artist with Hungarian roots, who grew up in a small city in Transylvania, Romania. She is fascinated by the communist past of her homeland, the power of the leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, the control exercised by the security agency Securitate, and how this history is passed down across the generations. Kincsõ got her MA diploma in photography at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. She was awarded with many talent programs during the last few years.
“Three Colours I Know in This World quotes the first line of the Romanian communist anthem. A line translated into the language of photography can help to analyse and understand my artistic and personal motivation too. I didn’t choose the subject, I just tried to clarify what I am looking for behind the picture and because of that, I started to use a method. I started to play with my pictures: so I let them direct me and conduct me. This is a personal story considering the fact that communism created an enormous chasm between the generation of my parents; and that of mine. They lived through communism and they experienced the change of regime as well, but we didn’t. Therefore they know something we don’t. So here is this history I only heard of and wasn’t part of, here are all the traumas inherited from my parents – and they all come together as visions in my head and sensations I feel in my body. My personal motivation is to move closer to my parents. Ceaușescu’s voice, fears, desires, secrets and paranoia stepped into the private lives under the evil eyes of the Securitate. My parents’ best-kept secret was their beliefs, their language, and their souls. This is me.”
IG Kincső Bede
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Academic studies
2021 – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME), Budapest / Photography MA
2017 – University Babeș-Bolyai (UBB), Faculty of Theatre and Television, Cluj-Napoca /
Film editing BA
Solo and duo exhibitions
2024
– Bede Kincső – Új Kriterion Gallery / Csíkszereda
2023
– Kincső Bede invited by Anthony Vaccarello – Saint Laurent Rive Droite / Paris – Los Angeles
– HOTAR with Maria Gutu – Pogo Gallery / Bucharest
2021
– Three Colours I Know in This World – Galeria de Artã Kádár László / Covasna
– Three Colours I Know in This World – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2020
– Three Colours I Know in This World – Paris Photo – Carte Blanche Award / Gare du Nord – Paris
– Three Colours I Know in This World – BredaPhoto Festival / former KPN Building, Breda
2017
– Solo show – Galeria Șoimii Patriei / Cluj-Napoca
Selected group exhibitions
2025
– FCKN LOVE III. – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2024
– JUST TO BE… – Hungarian Cultural Institute / Sofia
– Eastern European Beauty – Contemporary Fashion Photography & Eastern European Aesthetics, curated by Emese Mucsi – Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center / Budapest
– Scooter VI. – Galéria Janá Koniarka / Trnava
– Hányas vagy? / What grade are you? MODEM Collection from a generation theory approach – MODEM / Debrecen
– Winter show: FCKN LOVE II. – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2023
– Eszterházy Art Award–Breaking the Frame Making Future. Curator: Vitus Weh — Ludwig Museum / Budapest
– Újratervezés. Curator: György Cséka — ICA / Dunaújváros
– TO BE continued… – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Please give me something, I can refuse. Curator: Martin Baasch, Krisztián Kukla — Austrian Cultural Forum /
Budapest
– IDENTITIES. Curator: Anna Vittoria Magagna — L’Appartamento Benedetta De Magistris / Milano
– Self on Stage. Curator: Freddy Langer — Galerie Anita Beckers / Frankfurt
– Look at you. Now — Switch Lab / Bucharest
– Like You and Me – Young Hungarian Photography. Curator: Zita Sárvári — Hungarian House of Photography / Budapest
– Fototaxis 2 – no/body/nem/test – Csikász Galéria / Veszprém
– Winter show: FCKN LOVE – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2022
– PHOTO IS:RAEL International Photography Festival – Enav Cultural Center /Tel Aviv
– The Next Great Fashion Image Makers | Photo VOGUE – Base Milano / Milano
– MOME Photo MA degree 2021 | Role Play – Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center / Budapest
– Holnemváros – Debrecen in old pictures and contemporary art – MODEM / Debrecen
2021
– WORK in CONTEXT – 2nd International Symposium Central European Photography – MOME / Budapest
– Images of Light | 2nd National Salon of Photography 2021 – Kunsthalle / Budapest
– Future Perfect #5 – Casa Tranzit | curators: Ágnes-Evelin Kispál, Attila Kispál / Cluj-Napoca
– DOOM – Horizont Gallery / Budapest
2020
– Winter show: The Nightmare Before Xmas – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Coworking, Studio of Young Photographers – SKURC / Budapest
– BODYSCAPE: Nude in Contemporary Hungarian Photography – Budapest Photo Festival – Kiscelli Museum / Budapest
– Photography Scholarship – Association of Hungarian Photographers at Budapest Art Market / Budapest
2018
– Staged Photography – PH21 Gallery / Budapest
Presence in Art Fairs
2025
Art & Antique – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2024
– Paris Photo | Main sector – TOBE Gallery / Paris (upcoming)
2023
– MIA Photo Fair – TOBE Gallery / Milan
– Art & Antique – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2021
– Paris Photo | CURIOSA sector, curated by Shoair Mavlian – TOBE Gallery / Paris
– Art Market Budapest – CAPA Center | MOME University / Budapest
– UNSEEN – TOBE Gallery / Amsterdam
2020
– Art Market Budapest – Association of Hungarian Photographers / Budapest
Awards, scholarships
2024
– Transylvanian Hungarian Contemporary Culture Awards, awarded
2023
– Eszterházy Art Award, shortlisted
2022
– PHOTO IS:RAEL International Photography Festival, winner of the open call
2021
– FUTURES talent program, selected by CAPA Center Budapest and The Calvert Journal London
2020
– Three Colours I Know in This World – Paris Photo – Carte Blanche Award / Paris
– Three Colours I Know in This World – BredaPhoto Festival – selected artist for 2020 International Talent Program / Breda
– Blurring the Lines 2020 – shortlisted
– Photography Scholarship of the Association of Hungarian Photographers
2019
– Budapest Photo Festival, Kunsthalle Budapest – Grand Prize
Selected PRESS
2021
– Hogyan kerül a Ceaușescu-házaspár a nappaliba?, Árpád Kulcsár / Transindex
– Bede Kincső mesélt munkásságáról, Ildikó Bús / Székely Hírmondó
– DIE NACHT Magazine / DNCHT
– FRESH EYES – Gup Magazine / GUP
– MUSÉE Magazine #24 IDENTITY / MUSÉE
2020
– CARTE BLANCHE STUDENTS 2020 / PICTO FRANCE
– CARTE BLANCHE STUDENTS 2020 / Paris Photo
– BLURRING THE LINES 2020, shortlisted portfolio / URBANAUTICA
– BREDAPHOTO / de Volkskrant
– “Az elofjtásokról szól minden” – interjú, Cserna Endre / PUNKT
– A Jövő Fénye hallgatói felhívás díjazottjai / MOME
– 2020 kedvencei, Spengler Katalin / CAPA BLOG
2019
– David Lynch rémálmokat inspirált / HVG kult
available artworks
THREE COLOURS I KNOW IN THIS WORLD
Archival pigment ink prints from digital photography
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Untitled I | 67 x 50 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled II | 50 x 75 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled III | 105 x 70 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled IV | 70 x 50 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled V | 53 x 40 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled VI | 37 x 28 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled VIII | 54 x 41 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled IX | 60 x 40 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled X | 48 x 60 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled XI | 80 x 64 cm | 2AP
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Untitled XII | 45 x 30 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled XIII | 30 x 24 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled XIV | 57,5 x 40 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP
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Untitled XV | 50 x 75 cm | Ed. of 3+2AP