1950, Budapest
Curriculum Vitae
Selected One-Man Shows and Performances
2002–2009 Danube Exodus video installation (with the Labyrinth Project)
2002 – Getty Museum, Los Angeles;
2003 – Future Cinema; ZKM Karlsruhe;
2003 – CCCB Barcelona;
2005 – Kiasma, Helsinki;
2006 – LUMÚ, Budapest;
2006 – Kunstverein, Ulm;
2007 – Holocaust Museum, Berlin;
2008 – Filmhuis, The Hague;
2009 – The Jewish Museum, New York
2007 - Four Installations: Rembrandt Morphs, The Visit, A Quiet Night In Greenwich Village, Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang (‘The Emperor on a Stroll), Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam.
2003 - Free Fall Oratorio, with Tibor Szemző, Goethe Institute, Munich
2000 - The Visit, video installation, 56 Galéria, Budapest
1997 - Saloon, So What!, installation, Liget Galéria, Budapest
1997 - The H Anger, video installation, Budapest Galéria, Budapest
1995 - Inventory of Dreams, installation, Wittgenstein Inventory, installation, Magyar Totem, installation, Kiscell Museum, Budapest & Postmasters’ Gallery, New York
1993 - Two Nests and One Thing and Another, Institut Français, Budapest & Gallery of the Hungarian Cultural Institute, Prague
1993 - Magyar Totem, video installation, Artists’ Valley, Kapolcs, Hungary
1990 - New Painting – Exhibition of Contemporary Hungarian Art, Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg
1988 - Paintings and photographs, Fotohof Galerie, Salzburg,
1985 - Work Desk, video performance and installation with Tibor Szemző, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1985/1986 - Snapshot from the Island, performance with Tibor Szemző
Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven and The Hague, Frankfurt, Cologne, Vienna
1983 - Dixi and Pixi, performance, Kassák House of Art, Budapest
1983 - Inauguration, performance Young Artists’ Club, Budapest
1979 - Stanley & Livingstone, performance
Young Artists’ Club, Budapest Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 - Mean/Time—Rembrandt Morphs “Rembrandt – Contemporary Hungarian Artists Respond” Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
2004 - Gaze
Aura – Media Arts Exhibition, C3 and Millennial Park, Budapest
2004 - Instructor, installation, “Suppressed Holocaust” Exhibition, Mücsarnok, Budapest
2004 - The Visit, installation “What?” Exhibition, Bruges Cultural Capital of Europe
1999 - Magyar Totem “Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ungarn” Exhibition, Fellbach, Germany
1999 - Magyar Totem & Inventory of Dreams, “Now” Exhibition, Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany
1999 - Magyar Totem, “Fauna” Exhibition, Zachenta Museum, Warsaw
1998 - The H Anger, installation, Observatorium, Ujezdowsky Gallery, Warsaw
1998 - Magyar Totem Inter Actus 5, Accademia Ungheria, Rome
1998 - Inventory of Dreams MuHKA Gallery, Antwerp
1997 - Magyar Totem “Three-Way Dialogue” Exhibition, Cracow
1996 - Magyar Totem, video installation Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
1996 - Magyar Totem 28th Biennale, Sao Paolo
1996 - Magyar Totem Postmasters’ Gallery, New York
1996 - Inventory of Dreams, installation Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz;“Beyond Art” Exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1996 - Pre*Pro*Seca*Tura, video installation, “The Butterfly Effect” Exhibition, Mücsarnok, Budapest
1994 - The Hungarian Video Art of Cooking, installation, World Wide Video Festival, The Hague
1992 - The Case of My Room, installation, Shifting Borders, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
1991 - Thee á El Greco, installation, “Homage á El Greco” Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
1991 - The Hungarian Video Art of Cooking, installation, “Sub Voce” Exhibition, Műcsarnok, Budapest
1989 - Private Excursions, performance with Tibor Szemző.“Töne und Gegentöne” Festival, Vienna
More Substantial Works in Collections
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Modern collection, Budapest
BTM Museum Kiscelli, Modern collection, Budapest
Haus des Dokumentarfilms, Stuttgart
Sammlung Oppenheim, Bonn
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ZKM collection, Karlsruhe
Centre National de la Cinematographie, Paris
Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Netherlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
KIASMA Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki
Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.
MoMA, Film and Video Collection, New York
New York University, Bobst Library, New York
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, Ca.
The Getty Museum, Special Collection, Los Angeles
Yale Film Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI) Cinemedia, Melbourne
Yad Vashem, Visual Center, Jerusalem
Montreal Cinemathèque, Permanent Collection, Montreal
Films and videos
2009 - Hunky Blues – The American Dream (100 min.)
2008 - I am Von Höfler – Werther Variations I-II (2 x 80 min.)
2007 - One’s Own Death – based on the book by Péter Nádas (118 min.)
2007 - A Quiet Night in Greenwich Village (30 min.)
2006 - Miss Universe 1929 – Lisl Goldarbeiter, a Queen in Vienna (70 min.)
2005 - El Perro Negro, Stories About the Spanish Civil War (84 min.)
2004 - Mutual Analysis (12 min)
2002 - The Bishop’s Garden, Private Hungary 14 (57 min.)
1999 - Angelos’ Film (60 min.)
1998 - Danube Exodus (60 min.)
1998 - Sándor Márai’s Book of Herbs (35 min.)
1997 - The Maelstrom – A Family Chronicle (60 min.)
1997 - Kádár’s Kiss – Private Hungary 12 (84 min.)
1997 - Class Lot – Private Hungary 11 (52 min.)
1996 - Free Fall – Private Hungary 10 (75 min.)
1996 - The Land of Nothing – Private Hungary 9 (62 min.)
1995 - Simply Happy (90 and 52 min.)
1994 - A Lady’s Notebook – Private Hungary 8 (49 min.)
1994 - Meanwhile Somewhere… 1940-1943: the Unknown War (52 min.)
1993 - Conversations about Psychoanalysis – 5 documentary films (269 min.)
1992 - Bourgeois Dictionary – Private Hungary 7 (49 min.)
1992 - Wittgenstein Tractatus – 7 video studies (35 min.)
1992 - Arizona Diary, with Poems by György Petri (53 min.)
1992 - Photographed by László Dudás – Private Hungary 6 (35 min)
1991 - D-Film – Private Hungary 5 (35 min.)
1990 - The Diary of Mr N. – Private Hungary 4 (60 min.)
1989 - Either/Or – Private Hungary 3 (43 min.)
1988 - Dusi and Jenő – Private Hungary 2 (45 min.)
1988 - The Bartos Family – Private Hungary 1 (61 min.)
1987 - Episodes from the Life of Mr F. M., Teacher – Portrait of Ferenc Merei (110 min.)
1986 - Portrait of Leopold Szondi (60 min.)
1985 - Golden Age (20 min.)
1985 - Iron Age (50 min.)
1985 - Spinoza Rückwerz (5 min.)
1979 - Children’s Film (25 min.)
1979 - Children’s Theatre (20 min.)
1978 - I See I’m Looking (20 min.)
Awards
2008 - I am Von Höfler – Best Creative Documentary Film, 39th Hungarian Film Review
2008 - One’s Own Death – Experimental Film Grand Prix, 39th Hungarian Film Review
2007 - Artist of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
2007 - Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Netherlands
2007 - Major Cross of the Order of the Republic of Hungary
2006 - El perro negro – Documentary Film Grand Prix, 37th Hungarian Film Review
2005 - El perro negro – Feature-Length Documentary Film Award, Tribeca International Film Festival, N.Y.
2002 - A Bibó Reader – Award for Director of Best Experimental Short, 33rd Hungarian Film Review;
Cannes Film Festival, “Quinzaine des Realisateurs”, Official Selection.
2001 - Angelos’ Film – Special Prize, One-World Human Rights Film Festival, Prague
2000 - Angelos’ Film – Grand Prix, XIth Encotros Internacionalis de Cinema Documental Portugal, Grand Prix
2000 - Angelos’ Film – Golden Gate Award, Golden Spire, San Francisco International Film Festival
1999 - Danubian Exodus – Documentary Film Grand Prix, 30th Hungarian Film Review
1999 - Danubian Exodus – Silver Dragon Award and Fipresci Prize, Cracow Film Festival
1999 - Free Fall – Documentary Film Grand Prix, Jerusalem Film Festival
1998 - Béla Balázs Prize, Hungary
1997 - Free Fall – Hungarian Film and Television Critics’ Prizes for
Best Feature-Length Documentary Film and Best Musical Score
1997 - Free Fall – International Film Critics’ Fipresci Prize, Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival
1997 - Free Fall – Grand Prix Experimental and Short Films, 28th Hungarian Film Review
1997 - Free Fall – Grand Prix and CNC Special Prize, Marseille International Documentary Film Festival
1997 - Free Fall– “Prix Europa” Documentary Films of the Year, Berlin
1996 - Lesser Cross of the Order of the Republic of Hungary “For achievement in video art”
1995 - Meanwhile Somewhere – Lattücht Prize, DokumentART Film Festival, Neubrandenburg
1993 - Wittgenstein Tractatus – Grand Prix, Wroclaw Sound Base Arts Video Festival, PER Film & Video Festival
1993 - Culture Shavings – St. Gervaise Prize, 5th International Video Week, Geneva
1992 - ‘Private Hungary’ series – Hungarian Film and Television Critics’ Prize
1991 - Dusi és Jenő – Grand Prix, 2nd European Documentary-Film Biennale, Marseilles
1990 - The Bartos Family – Grand Prix, World-wide Video Festival, The Hague
Selected Bibliography
2008 - Kristian Feigelson, ‘The Labyrinth: A Strategy of Sensitive Experimentation.
A Film-maker of the Anonymous’: http://www. kinokultura.com.
2008 - Viktória Radics, ‘Az idő puszta misztikuma [The sheer mystery of time],’ Filmvilág, July 2008.
2007- Peter Delpeut, ‘Home movies in oorlogstijd,’ NRC Handelsblad, 11 Sept. 2007.
2007- Nico de Klerk, ‘No more holy innocents,’ in: Cultuur en historisch Bewustzijn - Cultural Memory: Praemium Erasmium Yearbook 2007. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2007- De kunst van Péter Forgács. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Balans, 2007:
2007- Max Sparreboom, ‘Inleiding’ (p. 7);
2007- Albert Wulffers, ‘Het spel der vergissingen’ (p. 19);
* Peter Delpeut, ‘Autopsie van het paradijs. Péter Forgács’ kronieken van het burgerlijk bestaan’ (p. 45);
* Ernst van Alphen, ‘Naar een nieuwe histografie. Péter Forgács en de personlijke tijd. (p. 63);
* Yasco Horsman, ‘Herinnering, Geschiedenis, Fotografie. Over Fotoamator en Angelos’ Film’ (p. 95);
2007- Hans Martin van der Brink, ‘Auteur van andermans leven’.
2007- Péter Forgacs, Erasmus Prize Acknowledgement. Erasmus Prize Ceremony
2006 - André Habib: ‘It’s Just a Waste of Time to Walk and Play Tennis: Interview with Péter Forgács,’ Hors Champ and Rouge, http://www.rouge.com.au/12/forgacs.html.
2006 - Whitney Davis, ‘The World Rewound: Peter Forgács’ Wittgenstein Tractatus:,’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 64/1 (2006, Winter): pp. 199-211.
2005 - Jos Van Der Burg: ‘El perro negro – Regie Péter Forgács: Het verleden aangeraakt.’ Het Parool (Amsterdam), 6 April
2005 - Kristian Feigelson, ‘Péter Forgács “cineaste de la banalité”,’ Cahier Lous-Lumière No. 4. (June 2005): p. 126.
2004 - Michael Renov, ‘Historical Discourses of the Unimaginable: Peter Forgács’s The Maelstrom’ Victor (magazine), Malmo, 2004/ 9
2004 - Ernst van Alphen, ‘Towards a New Historiography: Peter Forgács and the Aesthetics of Temporality,’ Lecture at the University of Leyden.
2004 - Malin Wahlberg, ‘Forgács filmer gör det förflutna mer gripbart,’ Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm) 1 Feb. 2004 (Kultur).
2004 - Kim Skotte, ’Mit private Ungarn,’ Politiken (Copenhagen), 1 February 2004.
2004 - Robert Lacombe, ‘Péter Forgács: Budapest privée, le cinema entre histoires personelles et tragédies nationales,’ in: Budapest en mouvement. Editions Autrement,108 pages.
2004 - Scott MacDonald: ‘Péter Forgács,’ in A Critical Cinema 4: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. University of California Press, p. 289.
2003 - Bill Nichols, ‘The Memory of Loss: Péter Forgács’s Saga of Family Life and Social Hell (Bill Nichols in Dialogue with Péter Forgács),’ Film Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Summer 2003): pp. 2–12.
2003 - Michael Rush, Video Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, 143 pages.
2003 - Jessica Kedward, ‘The Psychoanalysis of History,’ in: Getty Research Institute Final Draft, 2003/1.
2003 - Private Europe – Il cinema di Péter Forgács, Film-maker, Catalogue. Milan, November 2003, 72 pages,.
2003 - Oliver Kohn, ‘Pages arrachées u livre du temps. Introduction sommaire au travail de Péter Forgács,’ Positif No. 505, March 2003.
2003 - Roger Odin, ‘La Famille Bartos de Péter Forgács, ou comment rendre l’histoire sensibile,’ in: Théorème, Cinéma Hongroise – Le temps et histoire, sous la direction de Kristian Feigelson avec Jarmo Valkolah. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2003.
2003 - Catherine Bangonnet, ‘Free Fall,’ in: The World’s Best 50 Documentaries, Dox/6, 2003. December.
2003 - Fiona Trigg: ‘Bourgeois Dictionaries/Meanwhile Somewhere…1940–1943,’ in: Remembrance + The Moving Image, Australian Center for the Moving Image, 2003.
2003 - Marsha Kinder and Zaia Alexander, ‘The Danube Exodus.’ in: Future Cinema, eds. J. Shaw and P. Weibel, ZKM, p. 359.
2002 - Leah Ollman, ‘As History and Memory Ebb and Flow’ (Review), Los Angeles Times, 1 September 2002.
2002 - Michael Renov, ‘Historische Diskurse des Unvorstellbaren: Peter Forgacs’ “The Maelstrom”.’ montage/AV, 11/1 (2002): pp 26–41.
2002 - Joseph Hanania, ‘World War II Refugees who Shared Little but Pain,’ NY Times, 25 September 2002.
2002 - János Weiss, J.A. Tillmann and Tamás Fehérvári, ‘Bibó breviárium [A Bibó Reader],’ Filmvilág, June 2002.
2002 - Suzanne Muchnic, ‘On a River of Memory,’ Los Angeles Times, 11 August 2002.
2002 - Patrice Carré, ‘Bibó Breviarum de P. F.,’ Le film Francais, 22 May 2002.
2002 - Sven Spieker, ‘A Conversation with Péter Forgács at the Center of Mitteleuropa 2002,’ ArtMargins,
2001 - Deirdre Boyle, ‘Meanwhile Somewhere… A discussion with Péter Forgács,’ Millenium Film Journal, Fall 2001
2000 - Michael Renov, ‘The Maelstrom – A Family Chronicle,’ in: Catalogue, Boston Jewish Film Festival, 2-12 November,
2000 - Steve Seid, ‘Péter Forgács Turns Home Movies into Private Epiphanies,’ Release Print (San Francisco), July/August
2000 - Marnix Beekman, ‘Turbulente periodeb in Griekse geschiedenis door gat in blik gefilmd (Angelos’ Film),’ Trouw
1999 - Michael Rush, ‘Private Hungary: The Bartos Family,’ in: New Media in Late 20th-Century Art (World of Art), London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 106-108.
1999 - László F. Földényi, ‘Történelmi terápia filmen [History Therapy on Film],’ Metropolis, Summer 1999.
1999 - Andrew J. Horton, ‘Forgacs Shows...,’ Central Europe Review, 1999, No. 12.
1999 - András Forgách, ‘Zárt kertek pusztulása [The Disintegration of Closed Gardens],’ Metropolis, Summer 1999.
1999 - Erzsébet Bori, ‘Waching the River Flow,’ Hungarian Quarterly, 40, No. 154 (Summer 1999).
1999 - László F. Földényi, ‘Analitikus terek – Forgács Péter installációi [Analytical spaces: the installations of Péter Forgács],’ Magyar Lettre, no. 29.
1997- Balázs Vasák Benedek, ‘A történelem melankóliája [The Melancholy of History],’ Múlt és Jövő (Budapest), 1997/2.
1996 - Néray Katalin: ‘Between Actualities and Utopias in Central Europe,’ in: Shiseido Exhibition Catalogue (Tokyo), 1996.
1995 - Miklós Peternák, ‘Installation Shavings,’ in: Exhibition Catalogue, Kiscell Museum (Budapest).
1994 - István Hajdu, ‘Exhibíció Isten közönyében [God in His indifference],’ Balkon (Budapest), 1994/10.
1991 - Miklós Peternák, ‘Private Hungary,’ Belvedere (Budapest) 1991/1.