Árpád Forgó is a Budapest-based artist. After his studies, he soon started to focus on geometric abstraction and made paintings with tactile feature. He has always been interested in the periphery of painting and sculpture. Since 2015, he creates shaped canvas works and modular compositions. He has exhibited widely, including solos shows at Anya Tish Gallery in Houston; Schlieder Contemporary in Frankfurt; Viltin Gallery, Budapest and Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History in Győr, Hungary. He has participated in group shows, including Ludwig Museum and Vasarely Museum in Budapest, Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch, Germany. Artist residency programs play an important role in the artist’s career, he was invited to Norway, Australia, Spain, China and several times to the United States. In 2019-2020, he was a grantee of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Árpád Forgó works with basic geometric forms and through isometric transformations; he builds shaped canvas compositions, visualising structures, shapes, measurements and rhythm, as well as planar and spatial relationships. He developed shaped canvas modules in order to build block-like or hollow, symmetrical or asymmetrical compositions. In the recent years, he experiments intensively with different compound painting processes in order to challenge the viewer’s perception not only by the structure but also by the material.

EXHIBITIONS /// ARTIST RESIDENCIES /// REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS

Born 1972. Living and working in Budapest, Hungary.

SOLO / TWO-PERSON* EXHIBITIONS

2023
Formula, Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
Boundaries of Infinity, Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Dialogue - Shaped Colours, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany*
Dreaming of Spaces, Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany*
2022
Suspended Time, Hybridart Space, Budapest, Hungary*
Reflexive Surfaces, Paks Art Gallery, Paks, Hungary
2021
Cherry on Top, ENA Viewing Space, Budapest, Hungary
Attached, Saturation Point, London, UK
2020
Colliding Parallels, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
2019
Summer is not over yet, Milano Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2018
PHASE, Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
Beyond the Frame, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017
Tales from the first floor, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Second Round, Milano Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2016
Colour Kitchen - with Edith Lundebrekke [NO], BABEL Art Space, Trondheim, Norway*
Transitions - with Alicja Gaskon [PL], Platán Gallery, Budapest, Hungary*
2015
Looking Round a Different Corner, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
2014
Meeting of Parallel Thoughts, with Jerzy Grochocky [PL], Hungarian Cultural Institute, Warsaw, Poland*
INNER SPACE, Gallery Milano, Warsaw, Poland
2013
Polarity - with Riki Mijling [NL] & Susan Andrews [AUS], SNO Gallery, Sydney, Australia*
2011
Warsaw Variations, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Warsaw, Poland
2010
Blind Date, Hungarian Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
Forgometry, Gallery Suez, The Hague, The Netherlands
2009
Hommage a Octagon, Galerija Laterna, Crnomelj, Slovenia
2008
Bimanal, The Geshwin Hotel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007
Squares and views, NTK Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Ramifications, Merlin, Budapest, Hungary
Almassy Square Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
2005
Dice, Retorta Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Csokonai Theatre, Debrecen, Hungary
Desire for the one, Trafik Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2004
MOM Park, Budapest, Hungary
2003
Bales, Iletisim Kitabevi Gallery, Izmir, Turkey
2002
Offroad, Budapest, Hungary
1998
Kossuth Klub Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1996
IPK Gallery, Debrecen, Hungary
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
The New Accelerator, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK
focus: hungary, Nonsofia Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2021
Sculptural.Painting., Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
Contraction & Release, AiS Gallery, Shibukawa, Japan
Rinko-Kaku Tea House Project 2021, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
2020
Rinko-kaku Project, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Iced Ice, Proto Gomez Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Monochromos, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
Paint vs. Colour, Five Walls, Melbourne, Australia
2019
The Hungarian Scene, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
Bauhaus100. Programme For The Now, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Jubilee 30, Milano Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Bauhaus100, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Mark Rothko Art Symposium Exhibition, National Centre of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2018
ten, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
International Symposium „Mark Rothko 2018”, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
Abstract, Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
2017
Geometric Generations, FUGA Centre of Architecture, Budapest
Light Positions, Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
Das Esszimmer - space for art+, Weltraum Pop-up, Basel, Switzerland
Made in Paint, Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY, USA
Forms of Everydayness, Latarka Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016
Planar and Spatial Reflections, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
x play, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
XXI. Győr AIR, Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
2015
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Budapest Project Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Spazi Aperti XIIIa Edizione 2015, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy
2014
In Glorious Colour by Saatchi Art, Griffin Gallery, London, UK
2013
Grand Opening of Modern Art Project – The Blue Mountain, Sydney, Australia
2010
EuropART, Drongengoedhoeve, Knesselare, Belgium
2nd International Biennial of Painters and Sculptors, Milesi Palace, Split, Croatia
2009
10th Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI, USA
Hun Gallery International 2009, Hun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Paintpresent, LAL at Loudoun House, Lexington, KY, USA
2008
Grand Small Works Show, The FUEL House, Philadelphia, PA, USA
WHITE/BOX/GROUP/SHOW2, West Tampa Center for the Arts, Tampa, FL, USA
Premio Profilo d’Arte 2008, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
Stars in the sky, Galerija Laterna, Crnomelj, Slovenia
2007
Mantras of nature, 100King Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005
Tuzraktar, Budapest, Hungary
Oase Festival, Vienna, Austria
Godor - Trafik Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2003
Leonardo Da Vinci Contemporary Art Biennale, Rome, Italy
Csiga Gallery, Park Millenaris, Budapest, Hungary
Multimedia House Occupation - Trafik Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1997
Kispreposti Palace Gallery, Eger, Hungary
1996
National Aquarel Biennale, Eger, Hungary
1994
Metro Club, Budapest, Hungary
National Aquarel Biennale, Eger, Hungary
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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMS

2023
Jardin Rouge, Montresso★ Art Foundation, Marrakesh, Morocco
2019
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, USA
2018
Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
2017
Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
2016
The Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY, USA
Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway
2015
Hungarian Academy in Rome, Italy
Vermont Studio Center, VT, USA
2013
Druskininkai Artists' Residence, Druskininkai, Lithuania
Sydney Non Objective Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
2011
Visegrad Artist Residency Program, Heppen Transfer Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2008
Can Serrat International Art Center, El Bruc, Spain
Gershwin Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY, USA

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AWARD / GRANT

2019 - 2020
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2003
Leonardo da Vinci Contemporary Art Biennale - 3rd Prize, Rome, Italy
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TEXTS      [external links]

[ENG]
• Contemporary Lynx | Patrycja Rup: Perfect shape for the concept, 2016
Platán Gallery, Budapest | Alicja Gaskon & Árpád Forgó: Transitions

• Das Platforms | Brian Mahoney: Love of materials - from Hungary to Holland, 2013
SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney | SNO 92 - 'Polarity'

• The Art Life | Isobel Johnston: Foreign Exchange, 2013
SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney | SNO 92 - 'Polarity'

[HU]
• ArtKartell | Mészáros Zsolt: Gregorián geometria és funky absztrakt, 2019
Rómer Flóris Művészeti és Történeti Múzeum | Forgó Árpád: Fázis | Nádler István: Soha nem szűnő - grafikai retrospektív

• Új Művészet | Sinkó István: Térbe lépő képek, 2018
Rómer Flóris Művészeti és Történeti Múzeum | Forgó Árpád: Fázis

• ÉS | Sinkó István: Derűs konkrétok, 2016
Platán Galéria, Budapest | Alicja Gaskon & Árpád Forgó: Transitions

• ARTPORTAL | Somosi Rita: Hümmögések és objektumok, 2011
Stopper - Gozsdu Udvar | Kores és Forgó Árpád kiállítása