About Us

Igor & Ivan Buharov

filmmakers

Artist biography

Dr. Kornél Szilágyi – Igor Buharov

1971

 

Education

2019 – 2014    DLA (Doctor of Liberal Arts) Programme, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest

2004 – 2010    Intermedia Department, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest

1996 – 1999    Master of Visual Communication, ELTE University, Budapest

1992 – 1996    Bachelor of Mathematics and Technics, Teacher Training

College, EKTF Eger

1990 – 1992    Chef, Rózsa Károly Technical School for Catering

Activities

2007 – 2010    Board member of the Studio of Young Artists Association

2003 –                        Member of the Studio of Young Artists Association

2001 –             Member of Curatorium of Premier Plan Foundation

1997 – 2000    Board Member, Hungarian Independent Film and Video Association

Association

1995 – Member of film and performance group “40 Labor”

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

2007 April – Aug. Residency Programm, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin

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: Revolutionparabotany, Zine by Buharovs, 2021, Budapest

 

 

Nándor Hevesi – Ivan Buharov

1974

 

Education

2019 –             DLA (Doctor of Liberal Arts) Programme, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest

2013 – 2015    Master of Visual communication – Drawing, Teacher Training

College, EKTF Eger

1993 – 1997    Bachelor of Visual communication – Drawing, Teacher Training

College, EKTF Eger

Activities

2003 –                        Member of the Studio of Young Artists Association

1997 – 2000    Board Member, Hungarian Independent Film and Video Association

Association

1995 –             Member of film and performance group “40 Labor”

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

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: Revolutionparabotany, Zine by Buharovs, 2021, Budapest

 

We have been working together for more than twenty five years. We have made several experimental films and composed some experimental music under the pseudonym of Igor and Ivan Buharov. We also started the 40 Labor Group in 1995. Other members of the group are Vasile Croat and István Nyolczas. We held surrealistic audiovisual performances where the image, the music and the words became an organic whole after chaos.

We usually use super 8 technique when making our feature films. In the beginning we used expired raw material exploiting the organizing element of the unintentional. We also compose the pieces of experimental music that accompany our films.

We founded the Kaos Camping Group with László Csáki, József Szolnoki and Csaba Vándor in 2000. We use 8- and 16-millimeter projectors to project images while a band or a Dj playing music. So far we have had about 50 shows in several places in Hungary as well as in Europe.

 

You can see our portfolio under this url:

www.buharov.hu/portfolio

 

Selected performances, concerts

1995    – The Iron Worker and the Tuft of Hair – Eger

1996    – The Dream of the TV Repairman – Eger

1996    – The Cold Seed – Ráckeve

1996    – Use Your Own Copy – Győr

1996    – “Lecture On Nothing” – based on the book “Silence” by John Cage – Eger, EKTF

1997    – Why didn’t they tell us? – Budapest

1998    – Holiday in Yugoslavia – Eger, Más Club

1998    – Hesk, the robot – Korlát,

1998    – Obstacle to Sadness – Ljubljana, Metelkova

1999    – Modest Forgiveness – Eger

2000    – Shocking Disease – Budapest

2004    – Szkita Fitness – Budapest, Millenaris Culturquartier

2009    – Matter of Perspective – Budapest, Kunsthalle

2009    – The Conspiracy – Dunaújváros, Institut for Contemporary Art

2010    – Boycott Propaganda – Cologne, Academy of Media Arts Cologne

2012    – Gran Lux / Into the city – Wien, Wien Museum

2013    – The Memories of Commodity – Wien, Mumok

2014    – Inside the outside – Wien, Brut

2016    – Year Zero – Berlin, CHB

2018    – Eternal Intentionfield Tuning – Graz – Steirisher Herbst

2019    – Örök szándékmező hangolás – Budapest – Vasas

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

Mothmilk                                                                   8 min.             2009

Johnny and the goosies                                             5 min.             2010 •••

Rudderless                                                                 30 min.           2011

Sendero Mariposa                                                     7 min.            2013

Meteorit Buddha                                                       11 min.           2016

Idle Jackals                                                                5 min.             2016

Most of the souls that live here                                90 min.           2016

Infectious Courgae                                                    6 min.             2018

Untitled – Moving Skeletons                                      8 min.             2018

Land of warm waters                                                82 min.           2021

 

  • 40 Labor, with Vasile Croat and István Nyolczas
  • • with Hans Blume alias László Csáki
  • •• with Vasile Croat

 

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

“Marci”                                                                      9 min.                       2011

Sound Cage – Portrait of Katalin Ladik                      60 min.           2015

 

  • with Sára Cserhalmi
  • • with Szabolcs Tolnai and József Szolnoki
  • •• with Szabolcs Tolnai

 

Selected exhibitions

Petőfi Cultural House                                                                                   Győr                1998

Künstlerhaus Mousontrum                                                               Frankfurt         1999

Pool Gallery                                                                                      Vienna            2004

Dinamó                                                                                             Budapest         2004

Galerie IG BILDENDE KUNST                                                            Vienna            2004

Kunstpavillion                                                                                   Innsbruck        2005

Millenáris                                                                                         Budapest         2005

Onomato                                                                                           Köln                 2006

Hattyúház                                                                                          Pécs                2006

FKSE Gallery                                                                                      Budapest         2008

Miskolc Gallery                                                                                 Miskolc           2008

Bartók 32 Gallery                                                                             Budapest         2009

Manifesta 8                                                                                      Murcia                        2010

SVIT Gallery                                                                                      Praha              2011

Shedhalle Museum and Gallery                                                       Zurich             2011

Moravian Gallery                                                                             Brno                2011

FKSE Gallery                                                                                      Budapest         2011

Tranzit Workshop       “The decorative use of pain”                        Bratislava       2011

Galerie 207                “Five days of misunderstanding”                  Prague            2012

Studio Gallery             “Radiospective – Nuclear Art”                      Budapest         2012

acb Gallery                 “Patterns of time”                                         Budapest         2012

Arsenal Gallery          “Rudderless”                                                 Bialystok         2012

Csepel                         “Hidden visions”                                            Budapest         2013

Kunsthalle Exnergasse           “Rudderless with live music”            Wien               2013

Brut                            “Smellection automat”                                 Wien               2013

MUMOK                     “Changer d’Image”                                       Wien               2013

2B Gallery                  “REVERIE”                                                     Budapest         2013

MODEM                     “Risk factor”                                                  Debrecen        2013

New Museum             “REPORT ON THE CONSTRUCTION

OF A SPACESHIP MODULE”                                                              New York        2014

Number Nine Gallery “Boom Bang”                                                Northampton 2014

acb Gallery                 “EVERYTHING INCLUDED”                            Budapest         2014

Tranzit.sk                    “Private nacionalism”                                               Bratislava       2015

ADAF2015                   “Public spaces”                                              Athen              2015

The school of Kyiv      “Kyiv Biennal”                                               Kyiv                 2015

Nová Kunsthalle         “Fear. The Origin of the State”                     Zilina               2015

open office of tranzit. hu      “Creativity Exercises

– Spaces of Emancipatory Pedagogies”                                           Budapest         2015

MNAC             “Dark Side Of Nature”                                                          Bucharest       2015

Galerie für Zeitgenössishe Kunst Leipzig      “Politik der Form”      Leipzig 2016

The school of Kyiv      “Department Vienna”                                               Wien               2016

Public Foundation For Modern Art    “Kapufa”                                Dunaújváros   2016

Hungarian Fine Art University           “DLADLA100”                                    Budapest         2017

Zönoteka                    “Infectius Courage”                                       Berlin              2017

Documenta – 14         “documenta 14 – Keimena film programm on Greek TV – Sound Cage – a portrait of Katalin Ladik”                                                            Athen              2017

  1. Sausaler Kunstbiennale Sankt Andrä-Höch, Austria 2017

Art Encounters Biennial                                                                    Timisoara       2017

Steirischer Herbst      “Eternal Intentionfield Tuning”                     Graz                2018

acb Gallery                 “Spiritual Civil Disobedience”                                   Budapest         2019

Browserbased.org      “WannaTry? – IASIS/ HEALING”        Loutraki, Greece        2019

Biennale Warsawa     “Floraphilia – Revolution of Plants”              Warsaw          2019

Temporary Gallery     “Floraphilia – Revolution of Plants”              Köln                 2020

OFF Biennale – ISBN Gallery  “Revolutionparabotany”                    Budapest         2021

 

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

  1. Hungarian Filmweek – Best Experimental Feature, Best Producer 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

Trafó – Péter Halász Award – Experimental Theater Award                                              2020