About Us
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:
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
- 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
- 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
