Ági Vedres
Budapest, Hungary (b. 1965) based in Budapest
Ági is a real time-traveler. Her motivation is to explore, curate, and save the essence of ideas from the past, which has relevance for the present and future. Her photos are also memoirs of a flashbulb. These foggy memories that are exposed to her art are rather frames of reality thus they are vague and blurred showing how time passes over the past moments. These almost lost moments, the happy and carefree childhood, the golden age of youth all appear in the form of the unknown natural landscapes, and the freedom of the body.
Artsy
Studies
Workshop With Sylvia Plachy, "Where The Thread Leads", Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, 2015
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Film Studies, MA, Budapest, 2011-2013
Janus Pannonius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, MA, Pécs, 2003-2005
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology, BA, Budapest, 2000-2003
Awards/Grants
First Prize "Everything But The City" National Photography Competition, Hungarian House of Photography/Mai Manó House, FotóFalu Foundation, Budapest, 2009
Scholarship of Budapest Gallery, Salzburg Landesregierung, Salzburg, Austria, 2009
Special Prize of Directorate of Museums of Pest County, Kossuth Museum, Cegléd, 2008
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Les Amis Des Femmes, Karinthy Szalon, Budapest, 2021
Idon'tknowhereI'mgoing, North-South-East-West, LIGET Gallery, Budapest, 2015
Mme BonBON presents, Historia Femina, TELEP Gallery, Budapest, 2014
INSTAMAKARMA, Castro Bistro, Budapest, 2013
"hey, BOYS", Hungarian House of Photography - Mai Manó House, Budapest, 2010
guten Morgen Schnee, Künstlerhaus, Landesatelier, Salzburg, Austria, 2009
NIGHT, Újlipótváros Klub Gallery, Budapest, 2008
"twincurtains", Lamar Tea Club, Budapest, 2008
Immortal GREATS - first series, Színhely Gallery, Budapest, 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions
Garten Balaton, My sweet, my bitter, Capazine Let's Eat, Felsőörs Photo Courtyard, 2022
Capazine, Let's Eat, Robert Capa Photography Center, Budapest, 2021
Images of Light I 2nd National Salon of Photography 2021, Kunsthalle, Budapest, 2021
Deep Flows / Contemporary Hungarian Photography vs Classics, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, 2019-2020
NEW ERA, LAVOR Collective Art Salon, BudapestPerspectives / Contemporary Hungarian Landscape, Budapest History Museum, Kiscell Museum, Budapest, 2019
Reclaim Photography Festival, Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, United Kingdom (UK), 2018
Photometria, NEW EHM Exhibition Space, Ioannina, Greece (GR), 2017
Reclaim Photography Festival, Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom (UK), 2017
Transfer Series, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Paris, France (F), 2016
Teleportation, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai, China, (PRC), 2016
Pictures And Pixels I Photographic Art and Beyond I National Salon 2016, Kunsthalle, Budapest, 2016
Young Kertész & Young Hungarians, Accademia D'Ungheria in Roma, Istituto Balassi, Rome, Italy, (I), 2015
Rétrospective des Tenties, La Maison Pelgrims, Bruxelles, Belgium, (BE), 2014
Oh, Snap! Carnegie Museum of Art Forum Gallery, Pittsburgh, United States of America, (US), 2013
Portas Abertas, Open Doors, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal, (P), 2013
ForteForever, Kayabacho, Tokyo, Japan, (JP), 2007
Women Light Up The Night, Video and Slide Festival, Tacheles Berlin Mitte, Berlin, Germany, (D), 1994
Works in Public and Private Collections
MODEM, Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét, Hungary
Carnegie Museum of Art Forum Gallery, Pittsburgh (US)
LAVOR Collective, Budapest, Hungary
Museum of Kossuth Museum, Cegléd, Hungary
Equilor Investment Ltd., Budapest
Madame Bonbon, 2014 Polaroid Giclée print mounted onto dibond (Hahnemühle matte photo paper) IMPOSSIBLE Color 600 Round Gold Frame Edition polaroid film 19 7/10 × 16 1/10 in | 50 × 41 cm
New Art Nouveau greenhouse girl with fluffy plant, 2020 Digital photography Giclée print, Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin Paper mounted on dibond 4/5 × 39 2/5 × 39 2/5 in | 2 × 100 × 100 cm
Secret Lovers, 2005 Digital photography Giclée print on matte photo paper mounted onto dibond 19 7/10 × 27 3/5 in | 50 × 70 cm
Poppies III., 2014 Analogue photography Giclée print, baryte paper mounted on dibond 39 2/5 × 39 2/5 in | 100 × 100 cm
Past Lives - Saltsjö-Boo, Sweden, 2014 Camera Obscura Giclée print, photo paper mounted onto dibond 19 7/10 × 19 7/10 in | 50 × 50 cm
Gignentia II., 2017 Polaroid Giclée print mounted onto GATORFOAM (Hahnemühle Photo Luster 260 gr. photo paper) IMPOSSIBLE Color 600 Round Gold Frame Edition polaroid film 19 1/10 × 15 9/10 in | 48.5 × 40.3 cm
A young unknown person with earrings, 2021 Digital photography Giclée print, Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin Paper 27 3/5 × 19 7/10 in | 70 × 50 cm
I See the Sea II., 2009 Camera Obscura Giclée print, matte photo paper mounted onto dibond 14 3/5 × 15 7/10 in | 37 × 40 cm
Arboretum II., 2017 Analogue photography Giclée print, Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper mounted onto dibond KODAK 100 TMX 26 2/5 × 39 2/5 in | 67 × 100 cm
Minimum - maximum (self-portrait), 1986 Analogue photography Giclée print, photo paper mounted onto foam board 11 4/5 × 17 7/10 in | 30 × 45 cm
Obscure Happiness VI., 2015 Analogue photography Giclée print, baryte paper mounted onto dibond FORTE negative film (1969) 15 7/10 × 23 3/5 in | 40 × 60 cm
Obscure Happiness VII., 2015 Analogue photography Giclée print, baryte paper mounted onto dibond FORTE negative film (1969) 15 7/10 × 23 3/5 in | 40 × 60 cm
Greenhous girl with apple of life, 2020 Digital photography Giclée print, Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin Paper mounted on dibond 31 1/2 × 31 1/2 in | 80 × 80 cm
Inner Landscape II., 2013 Camera Obscura Giclée print, photo paper mounted onto dibond 19 7/10 × 19 7/10 in | 50 × 50 cm
Poppies IV., 2014 Analogue photography Giclée print, baryte paper mounted on dibond 39 2/5 × 39 2/5 in | 100 × 100 cm
Preparing for the Unrepeatable, 2015 Polaroid Digitized photography Giclée print on baryte paper 11 4/5 × 8 3/10 in | 30 × 21 cm
City and village / Twin function Series, 2008 Digital photography Giclée print on matte photo paper 11 4/5 × 31 9/10 in | 30 × 81 cm
Spanish girl with white lace mantilla, 2021 Digital photography Giclée print (Hahnemühle Photo Luster 260 gr. photo paper) 19 7/10 × 15 7/10 in | 50 × 40 cm
I See the Sea I., 2009 Camera Obscura Giclée print, matte photo paper mounted onto dibond 14 3/5 × 15 7/10 in | 37 × 40 cm
Arboretum I., 2017 Analogue photography Giclée print, Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper mounted onto dibond KODAK 100 TMX 26 2/5 × 39 2/5 in | 67 × 100 cm
Boys in the river, 1985 Analogue photography Giclée print on photo paper 7 9/10 × 12 in | 20 × 30.5 cm
Girl in Love (Self-Portrait), 1983 Analogue photography Giclée print, baryte paper mounted onto dibond FORTE negative film 23 3/5 × 35 2/5 in | 60 × 90 cm
Obscure Happiness II., 2015 Analogue photography Giclée print, baryte paper mounted onto dibond FORTE negative film (1969) 15 7/10 × 23 3/5 in | 40 × 60 cm
Obscure Happiness I., 2015 Analogue photography Giclée print, baryte paper mounted onto dibond FORTE negative film (1969) 15 7/10 × 23 3/5 in | 40 × 60 cm