Antal Lakner

Born 1966 in Budapest, Hungary
Lives and works in Budapest


Education, prize, residency :

2002-03 Cité Internatinale des Arts, Paris (F)
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, International Studio Programme, Berlin (D)
D.C.A. – Gammel Dok, Artist in Residence Programme, Copenhagen (DK)

1999-01 Derkovits prize
In and out of touch, Artist in Residence Programme, London (GB)
Scholarship, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague (NL)

1992-95 Post – Graduate in Painting, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)

1998 October, “Solde ” exhibition of objects, Gallery 12+, Belgrade (YU) October, ”Shaman ” and “Reliquaires ”, Gallery of C.C, Nis (YU) February, “Géopeinture II ” paintings, installations and objects, Gallery Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris (F)

1988-92 Degree in Painting, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects:

2002 Art Mobile, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)

2001 INERS – Passive Working Devices, Art Mobile-Human Powered
Biennale Vehicles, Hungarian Pavilion & Giardini di Castello, XLIX. Venice
Biennale, Venice( I)

2000 EUROFARM, Hal Antwerpen, Antwerpen (B)

1999 HER – The Icelandic Army, Zenit Gallery, Budapest
Altered states, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (with Attila Csörgô) (SLO)

1998 INERS – the power, Studio Gallery, Budapest

1997 UGAR, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (with Georg Winter) (D)

1994 Bartók Travel, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
Pope Collection, Gallery ’56, Budapest
Emmental Expedition, Studio Gallery, Budapest (with Georg Winter)


Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects :

2002 Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (D)
Body Power / Power Play, Württembergischer Kunsverein, Stuttgart (D)
September Horse, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)
Borderlife, Rhizom, Graz (A)
Dévoler,Mücsarnok,Budapest

2001 Parti pris, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier (F)
Digitized bodies, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Léger différé, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Séte (F)


2000 Uncontrolled, Gallery North, Copenhagen (DK)
Intuíció, innováció, invenció, Mûcsarnok, Budapest
After the Wall, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (D)
Cooperativ, Stadthaus Ulm (D)
Und ab die Post, Postfuhramt, Berlin (D)

1999 Budapest – Berlin ’99, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (D)
Zeit spiel, IFA Gallery, Berlin (D)
After the Wall, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm (S)
Public district, Usti nad Labem (CZ)
Bloomsday , Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt (D)


1998 Gallery by Night ’98, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Cartographers, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Observatory, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL)
Stöd til stödvar, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
Art Forum Berlin (with Knoll Gallery, Vienna)


1997 SIC., Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
5. International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (TR)
Porn, Liget Gallery, Budapest

1996 Junge Szene Budapest, Galerie 5020. Salzburg (A)
Permutations and Combinations, Ballgame Hall, Prague (CZ)
Millecentenárium, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest


1995 Unversehen, Austria Tabakwerke, Linz (A)
Dialogues of Peace, Palais de Nations, Geneva (CH)
12 Künstler aus Österreich und Ungarn, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest


1994 Tangentiale – die Kulturbrücke Wien – Budapest, Werkstatten und Kulturhaus,
Vienna (A)
12 Künstler aus Österreich und Ungarn, Palais Wittgenstein, Vienna –
Schloss Eszterházy, Eisenstadt - Museum Peuerbach, Peuerbach (A)

1992 Kunstpassage, Den Haag (NL)