Resume
and Portfolio
Igor and Ivan Buharov
Igor
Buharov
(Kornél Szilágyi ) 1971
Education
2011 - 2014 DLA (Doctor of Liberal Arts) Programme, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
2004 – 2010 Intermedia Department, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1990 – 1992 Chef, Rózsa Károly Technical School for Catering
Artistic Cooperation
Since 2000 Member of Kaos Camping performance group
Since 1995 Member of film and performance group “40 Labor”
Since 1994 Member of film and performing artist duo “Igor and Ivan Buharov”
Activities
2007 – 2010 Board Member of Studio of Young Artists Association
1999 – Feature Film Directors Association member, part of the Hungarian Moving Picture Foundation
1997 – 2000 Board Member, Hungarian Independent Film and Video Association
Residencies
2012 Jan. - April Visegradian Found Residency Programm, Prague
2011 June Transit Artist in Residency, MQ Vienna
2009 September Residency Open Space, Mezőszemere, Hungary
2008 July Residency, Artist Colony Miskolc, Hungary
2007 April - Aug. Residency Programm, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin
Ivan Buharov
(Nándor Hevesi)1974
Education
2019 - DLA (Doctor of Liberal Arts) Programme, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1993 – 1997 Teacher of visual culture BA, EKTF Eger
2006 – 2007 Dharma Gate Buddhist University Budapest
2009 – 2010 Teacher of visual culture MA, EKTF Eger
Activities
2001 – Member of the Studio of Young Artists Association
1999 – Feature Film Directors Association member, part of the Hungarian Moving Picture Foundation
1997 – 2000 Board Member, Hungarian Independent Film and Video Association
Artistic Cooperation
Since 1995 Member of film and performance group “40 Labor”
Since 1994 Member of film and performing artist duo “Igor and Ivan Buharov”
Residencies
2012 Jan. - April Visegradian Found Residency Programm, Prague
2011 June Transit Artist in Residency, MQ Vienna
2009 September Residency Open Space, Mezőszemere, Hungary
2008 July Residency, Artist Colony Miskolc, Hungary
It has been more than 19 years that I have been working together, under the pseudonym of Igor and Ivan Buharov. We have been producing and directing several films.
(experimentals, features, shorts, documentaries, animations) We have also been involved in the creation of several music projects and film music. Our works always dancing on the edge of fine art and cinematic art. In 1995, together with Vasile Croat and István Nyolczas, we have formed the 40 Labor “Multiartist” Group which made performances, events, actions, exhibitions, concerts, multimedia works. We held surrealistic audiovisual performances where the image, the music and the words became an organic whole after chaos.
“A generation earlier, the Hungarian underground masters who influenced them were equally overlooked. There is an air of "self-censorship" about the Buharovs; in times of entrepreneurial globe-trotting art, they reflect an era when artists used film with the hope of reaching wide and nourishing the roots of their own culture. “ Vassily Bourikas
“This audiovisual experiment can best be described as getting lost in someone else’s dream. The directors Igor and Ivan Buharov invite us to see the insides of their brains through various amusing and absurd story-lines.” Off-screen film festival Brussel
In the beginning we have started by using used expired raw material exploiting the organising element of the unintentional. For our films, we mainly use super 8 footage, then we blow it up to 35 mm for distribution use. We are also composing music for the soundtrack of our films.
We formed the Pop Ivan band in Budapest in 1998. Our music is characterised by a certain permeability between styles and atmospheres : one can discover in their works archaic Moldvan melodies, Latin rhythms, elements of the modern free-jazz and of contemporary compositions. At our performances we frequently use visual effects : the audience can watch super 8 or/and 16 mm films parallel to listening to the music of Pop Ivan. Our debut album was released in 2001 entitled Hospital Hungary, the second was was Dreamhunting in 2009. Since 2000 we have been giving concerts in Europe, have played in Belgium, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria the Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, and Georgia.
http://www.myspace.com/popivaninfo
Publications:
Igor and Ivan Buharov: Good opinion – Art book 2013, ISBN: 978-963-08-7366-6
Igor and Ivan Buharov: The decorative use of pain, Artzine by Buharovs, 2013, Madrid
Igor and Ivan Buharov: Slow mirror DVD distributed by Re:Voir Paris
SELECTED PROJECTS:
SMELLECTION AUTOMAT
THE ELEGANT ELECTION – SMELLECTION.
You don't know who you TRUST? Smell and elect!
The smell doesn't lie!
We've solved the problems: SMELLECTION!
Vote for SMELLECTION!
The choice by smell is one of our main primordial instincts. It is the most important criteria in the selection of someone’s couple, that we love each other’s smell. Why not to choose our politicians by their smell? This would be much more democratic than to judge after stock phrase promises. The SMELLECTION AUTOMAT gives and opportunity for smelling our politicians „by near” and to decide from our very true conviction at the parliamentary election.
In the distributor machine there are samples of smells from our actual political actors, so the consumer / constituent can smell that he or she is curious.
Let the smell decide!
RUDDERLESS
Participated to Manifesta 8
(detail)
This film, inspired by the poem Rudderless (1971) by Hungarian poet István Domonkos (1940), is a modern epic,
a self-analysis of a person living in minority status in Yugoslavia in the early 1970s.
The film is a journey through the world, passing through different political and economic situations, both collective and private.
Short and Feature Films
Sunday / 5 min. / 1995
Monday / 6 min. / 1996
Metroul
/ 6 min. / 1996
Goodbye Mama! / 5 min. / 1997
Wake Up Mumu! / 6 min. / 1997
The
Programme / 75 min. / 1998
Tales for Cruel People / 7 min. / 1999
Concern of One’s Fellow Man / 6 min. / 1999
The Triumph of Sympathy / 75 min. /
2000
Hotel Tubu /
6 min. / 2002
Is the Killer Going to the
Cemetery? / 8
min. / 2003
Oneheadword Protection / 7 min. / 2006
Slow Mirror / 84 min. / 2007
Stages
of Birth / 7 min. / 2008
Mothmilk / 8 min. / 2009
Johnny and the goosies / 6
min. / 2009
Rudderless / 30 min. / 2010
Sendero Mariposa
/ 7 min. / 2013
Meteorit
Buddha / 11 min. / 2014
Idle Jackals / 5 min. / 2016
Most of the souls that live here /
90 min. / 2016
Infectious Courage / 6 min. / 2018
Untitled - Moving Skeletons / 8
min. / 2018
Land of warm waters / 80 min. /
2020
Trailer of Slow Mirror:
Documentary Films
You aren’t Asking Anyone These
Days / 35 min. / 1999
Ultra-Rational Nomadic Person /40
min. / 2000 **
Music is the Soul of a
Musician /37 min. / 2002
Diary of an Unknown Man / 52
min. / 2004 ***
Modern Romeo / 60 min. / 2006 *
Promenade – Portrait of Ernő Király / 42 min. / 2009
Portrait of Katalin
Ladik / 60 min. / 2015 *
*
Kornél Szilágyi aka
Igor Buharov
** with Sára
Cserhalmi
*** with Szabolcs Tolnai
Selected Exhibitions
Petőfi Cultural House / Győr /
1998
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
/ Frankfurt (D) / 1999
Pool Gallery / Vienna (A) / 2004
Dinamó /
Budapest (H) / 2004
Galerie IG BILDENDE KUNST / Vienna (A) /
2004
Kunstpavillion / Innsbruck
(A) / 2005
Millenáris / Budapest (H)
/2005
Onomato / Köln (D) / 2006
Hattyúház / Pécs (H)
/ 2006
FKSE Gallery / Budapest (H) / 2007
Bethanien Kunstlerhaus
/ Berlin (D) / 2007 / „Infratentativ“
FKSE Gallery / Budapest (H) / 2008
Kis Zsinagóga
Gallery / Eger (H) / 2009
Miskolc Gallery / Miskolc (H) /
2008
Bartók 32 Gallery / Budapest
(H) / 2009
Manifesta 8 / Murcia (E) / 2010 / „Rudderless“
Miskolci Galéria / Miskolc (H) / 2011
SVIT Gallery / Praha (CZ) /2011 / “screening”
Shedhalle Museum and Gallery / Zürich (CH) / 2011 / “Dump Time”
Moravian Gallery / Brno (CZ) / 2011
FKSE Gallery / Budapest (H)/ 2011
Tranzit Workshop / Bratislava (SK)/ 2011 / “The decorative use of pain”
Galerie 207 / Prague / 2012 (CZ)/ “Five days of misunderstanding”
Studio Gallery / Budapest (H)/ 2012 / “Radiospective – Nuclear Art”
acb Gallery / Budapest / 2012 (H)/ “Patterns of time”
Arsenal Gallery / Bialystok (PL) / 2012 / “Rudderless”
Csepel / Budapest (H) / 2013 / “Hidden visions”
Kunsthalle Exnergasse / Wien (A) / 2013 / “Rudderless with live music”
Brut / Wien (A) / 2013 / “Smellection automat”
MUMOK /
Wien (A) / 2013 / “Changer d’Image”
2bGallery /
Budapest (H) / 2013 / “REVERIE”
New Museum / New York (USA) / 2014 / “REPORT ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SPACESHIP MODULE”
Number Nine Gallery / Northampton (UK) / 2014 / “Boom Bang”
acb Gallery / Budapest (H) / 2014 / “EVERYTHING INCLUDED”
Tranzit.sk /
Bratislava (SK)/ 2015 / “Private nacionalism”
ADAF2015 /Athens (GR) / 2015 / “Public spaces”
The school of Kyiv / Kyiv (UA) / 2015 / “Kyiv Biennal”
Nová Kunsthalle / Zilina (SK) /2015 / “Fear. The Origin of the State”
open office of tranzit. Hu / Budapest (H) / 2015 / “Creativity Exercises – Spaces of Emancipatory Pedagogies”
MNAC / Bucharest (RO) / 2015 / “Dark Side Of Nature”
Galerie für Zeitgenössishe Kunst Leipzig / Leipzig (D) / 2016 / “Politik der Form”
The school of Kyiv / Wien (A) / 2016 / “Department Vienna”
Public Foundation For Modern Art / Dunaújváros (H) / 2016 / “Kapufa”
Hungarian Fine Art University / Budapest (H) / 2017 / “DLADLA100”
Zönoteka / Berlin (D) / 2017 / “Infectius Courage”
Documenta – 14 / Athens (GR) / 2017 / “documenta 14 - Keimena film programm on Greek TV – Sound Cage – a portrait of Katalin Ladik”
1. Sausaler Kunstbiennale / Sankt Andrä-Höch (A) / 2017
Art Encounters Biennial / Timisoara (RO) / 2017
Steirischer Herbst / Graz (A) / 2018 / “Eternal Intentionfield Tuning”
acb Gallery / Budapest (H) / 2019 / “Spiritual Civil Disobedience”
Irokéz Collection / Szombathely (H) / 2019 / “Spiritual Civil Disobedience”
Browserbased.org / Loutraki (GR) / 2019 / “WannaTry? – IASIS/ HEALING”
Warsawa Biennale / Warsaw (PL) / 2019 / “Floraphilia”
Selected
performances
2019 - Örök Szándékmezőhangolás
– Budapest, trafo.hu
2019 - Dieta – Berlin, Montag Modus Klimata
2018 - Eternal Intentionfield
Tuning – Graz, Steirischer Herbst
2016 - Year Zero – Berlin, CHB
2014 - Inside the outside – Wien, Brut
2013 - The Memories of Commodity –
Wien, Mumok
2012 - Gran Lux / Into the city – Wien,
Wien Museum
2010 - Boycott Propaganda – Cologne,
Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2009 - The Conspiracy – Dunaújváros, Institut for Contemporary
Art
2009 - Matter of Perspective – Budapest, Kunsthalle
Awards
Budapest Independent Film Festival – Main Award / 1996
Budapest Independent Film Festival – Main Award / 1997
Cinematografico del Uruguay International Film Festival – Special Award / 1998
Budapest Independent Film Festival – Main Award / 1998
Hungarian Independent Film Festival − Special Award / 1998
Open Film Festival – Special Award / 1999
Hungarian Independent Film Festival − Special Award / 2000
Mediawave International Film Festival – Special Award / 2000
Open Film Festival – Special Award / 2002
Hungarian Independent Film Festival − Special Award / 2002
Alter-Native International Film Festival – Special Award / 2002
International Film Festival Novi Sad – Special Award / 2003
Open Film Festival – Special Award / 2004
Busho International Film Festival – Special Award / 2005
Hungarian Independent Film Festival − Special Award / 2006
Hungarian Filmweek – Special Mention, Best Producer Award / 2007
Mediawave Film Festival – Best Experimental Feature Award / 2008
Milano Film Festival - Aprile Award and Special Mention / 2008
Hungarian Critics’ Award - Best Experimental Feature / 2009
Hungarian Independent Film Festival – Main Award / 2009
Budapest Independent Film Festival – Special Mention / 2011
Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid – Main Award / 2011
Palic International Film Festival – Erste Underground Spirit Award / 2013
L’Europe auteur L’Europe – Special Mention / 2016
Mediawave Film Festival – Special Mention / 2016
Hungarian Critics’ Award – Best Experimental Feature / 2017
SELECTED SHORT FILMS ON YOUTUBE:
(click)
GOODBYE MAMA!
CONCERN OF ONE’S FELLOW MAN
TALES FOR CTUEL PEOPLE
SELECTED PAINTINGS OF IVAN BUHAROV
We have also founded the Kaos Camping Group with László Csáki, József Szolnoki and Csaba Vándor seven years ago. We often stage surrealistic audiovisual performances where text, image and sound become an organic environment audiovisual analogue matrix. We use 8- and 16-millimeter projectors to project images while a band or a Dj is playing live music. So far we have had about 50 shows in several places around Hungary as well as Europe. Please check the following urls for examples of Kaos Camping Group:
In 2007 I took part a residency program in the Bethanien Kuenstlerhaus of Berlin and I spent 4 month there, where I made several exhibitions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSbDRb2G_8
https://www.bethanien.de/en/exhibitions/kornel-szilagyi/
https://kunstaspekte.art/event/kornel-szilagyi-2007-06
Selected Projects and Works of Art
Turulkóla (Turul-Coke)
Hungarian nationalists like using the symbol of the ‘turul’ bird (mythical eagle of the ancient Hungarians) when holding a demonstration as well as on their coats of arms and sculptures. Therefore this bird as a symbol has gained a special meaning in the past few years in Hungary. ‘Turulkóla’, which is a fictitious product produced by László Csáki, József Szolnoki and me, is about this phenomenon.
We created a homepage advertising the product, where the descriptions claim that coke has Hungarian origins. We introduced three different kinds of free postcards (30 000 copies approximately) at different times. We are waiting for the investors...
Attack-preventive chess
This is a chessboard and chess-set made of glass illuminated from the bottom with two different colours. These colours determine the colour of the chess-pieces. When a dark chess-piece takes a light pawn for instance it immediately becomes light. The one that attacks loses a piece.
Autonomia State
The Intermedia Department at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts was given the building of a kindergarten a few years ago. In the backyard there are two children’s sand pits, some trees and some grass. In April 2005 Tamás Blaha and I founded a 30-square-metre state called AUTONOMIA. The security video cameras of the department show the backyard as well. We chose the place of the state so that one of the cameras can record the whole of it. We show the picture of this camera in the only public building (i.e. a tent) in the state. Visitors (i.e. tourists) who peep into the building can see themselves peeping into the tent in the state. The smallest observed state.
AU
Currency: auro
You can see the whole process at:
http://193.225.248.68/jview.htm
Searching for a Double
In 2006 I placed a photo advert in Hungary’s most popular magazine: “I am looking for my look a-like. Monthly salary. I only reply to letters with a photo. Please, send send a brief description on how you would substitute me, what you would do, what you think of this job.”
So far four people have replied to the advertisement, two men, a woman and a transvestite.
Some of the applicants:
:
HunD Link Project
is a virtual performance, which is realized at two different places - in Cologne and Győr – but in the same time. In course of the project is shown the vision of the German and Hungarian contemporary artists about the future through their music and the visual arts. The common language of the participant musicians is the improvisation, which, in this case, is not only the „free stream of the spirit”, but the artistic form language of „caring about each other”, and „cultural tolerance”, the means of cooperation based on different cultural roots.
http://mwave.irq.hu/index.php?nyelv=eng&modul=menupontok&kod=544
Yours Faithfully:
Nándor Hevesi (Ivan Buharov)
Ph.:+36-70-7739257
Kornél Szilágyi (Igor Buharov)
