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Ocztos Istvan

Architect, visual artist, set designer
Born: Budapest, 1962 18. February
Lives and works in Budapest, freelancer


ocztostudio [!at] mail.datanet.hu






Studies


1980–1986 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, BA in architecture




1982–1987 2. musor band
alternative, underground, dance band,
/keyboardist, singer, composer, lyrics/
1992 Festival Nap Nap, recording, of which a music cassette was recorded
Production: Bahia Music, 1992
In the same place, selected songs cassette /2. Musor, Soma, Sex-E-Pil, Agi es a Fiuk/
Production: Bahia Music, 1992




Own exhibitions


1981 “Metro” Exhibition in underground stations, Budapest
1982 Bercsenyi Klub, Budapest,
Jaszbereny (with Zsolt Telek)
1983 Vajda Lajos Art Studio, Szentendre (with Gabor Gerhes and Peter Kirschner)
1988 “ Nyito kiallitas” (“Opening exhibition”), Fekete Lyuk, Budapest
1990 Bercsényi 28–30. Art Gallery, Budapest
http://www.artpool.hu/Bercsenyi/Klub_820420.html
1992 “Sajat ido muveszeti fesztival” (“Own Time Art Festival”), installation (with the photos of Gyorgy Karvazy)
1996 “Installacio” (“Installation”), Bercsenyi 28–30. Art Gallery, Budapest
2005 “Egy vonallal beljebb” (“One line further in”), Feszek Art Gallery, graphics, drawings, Budapest,
opening: Bori Rutkai musician, artist
http://english.artnet.hu/portal/event.archive?p=2
“E tuno rajzolat, sohasem lehet valosag”, paintings, Budapest,
opening: Laszló Sari, researcher of Oriental studies
2006 “Egy szo – Egy rajz” (“A word- A drawing”) drawings, Gallery of Uj Szinhaz,
Budapest
opening: Tibor Varnagy, artist
“Ceruza – papir” (“Pencil-paper”) drawings, Liget Art Gallery, Budapest
http://www.c3.hu/~ligal/314.html
http://www.artportál.hu/aktualis/kiallitasok/ocztos_istvan/ocztos_istvanand_ceruza_papir/
2007 “Vonal – Vaszon” (“Line - Canvas”) paintings, Raday Kepeshaz, Budapest,
opening: Marta Meszaros film director
“Emberlenyek” ceruza- es szenrajzok, Szív35 Art Gallery, Budapest,
opening: Zsuzsa Naszodi painter






Selected group exhibitions


1982 Vajda Lajos Art Studio, exhibitions, Szentendre
1995 “Helyzetkep – State of The Arts”, magyar szobraszat /Hungarian plastic art, Mûcsarnok, Budapest
1996 “Gallery by Night”, Studió Art Gallery, Budapest
/András Gal, Janos Terey, Istvan Kemeny, Attila Bartis, Zsuzsanna Fulop /
“Ottenstein”, Austria
1998 “Alagut-kiallitas” (“Tunnel-exhibition”), Clark Adam square, Budapest
2005 “55 Posztamens”, N&n Galeria, Budapest, “Lakotelep” (“Housing estate”) installation with Panna Ocztos
2006 “Portfolio osszes” Stúdió Art Gallery, Budapest
“Lelek és Elme” (“Soul and Mind”) exhibition, National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Budapest
“Galeria Nyito” (“Gallery Opening”) exhibition, BB Art Gallery Budapest
2007 “Kelj fel, Laci!” (“Stand up, Laci!”) Charity Exhibition and Auction, Mucsarnok, Budapest
“boulevardésbrezsnyev pique – nique a holdudvarban”, Budapest, Margitsziget
“2 in 1 – zeneszkepek”, Millenaris, Budapest exhibiting artists: Laurie Anderson, Miles Davis, Tibor Kiss, Andras Wahorn, Gabor Gerhes, Laszlo fe Lugossy, Istvan ef Zambo, and others
“Negy resz” Tuztate, Budapest
“Te rongyos elet” Apropodium, Budapest

http://istvanocztos.weebly.com

http://www.photoblog.com/bigeyesoczy

http://www.myspace.com/ocztos




Set designs


1985 “Bizottsag Afrikaban”, installation together with Bizottsag band, Hungary,
1987 “Manhatten” performance of Laszlo Rokas dance theater group, Szkene Theatre,
1988 “Harmas Csatorna”, video clips of Balkan FuTourist band, MTV
1990 “30 éves az FMK” Fiatal Muveszek Klubja (Club of Young Hungarian Artists), installation, based on the idea of Tamás Kiraly
1990–1991 “Kiraly Tamas divatbemutatoi” “Fasion shows of Tamás Kiraly”, Graz, Aarhus, director: Mariann Padi
1991 Sade marki elete” “Life of the Marquis of Sade” director: Andras Szirtes
http://szirtesfilm.hu
“Tudatalagut” (“Consciousness-tunnel”), visual effects design,
participants: Janos Gasner, Agnes Bardos Deak, Tamas Kiraly, Mariann Padi
1992 “Neoszarvasbika” director: Laszlo fe Lugossy
“A fele kiralysagom” (“Half of my kingdom”) director: Andras Kisfaludy
“Fekete Doboz” cable programme, studio set design and credits, programme of
Laszlo Pesty
1996 “Red Line” director: Tibor Takacs
1996–2006 Hungarian and international commercials
1997 “Tactical Assault” director: Mark Griffith
“Egy tel az Isten hata mogott”, with Piroska Szabady, director: Can Togay
1998 “Au Pair” director: Mark Griffith
1999 “Kisvilma” (“Little Vilma”) director: Marta Meszaros
2001 “Elore!” (“Forward!”) director: Daniel Erdelyi
2002 “Den of Lions” director: James Bruce
2003 “A temetetlen halott – Nagy Imre naploja” (“The unburried man-diary of Imre Nagy”) director: Marta Meszaros
“Egy bizonyitas korvonalai” (“Contours of verification”), “Proof”, Merlin Theater, director: Laszlo Magacs and Krisztina Goda
2004 “Tortenetek az elveszett birodalombol” (“Stories from the lost empire”) director: Frigyes Godros
2005 “The Moon and The Stars” – art director, set designer, Amedeo Fago, director: Jhon Irvin
2005 “A Nagy Konyv” – The boys of Paul Street director: Ferenc Torok
2007 “Eine Kleine Bachmusik” – dance performance MU Szinhaz, coreography: Kata Juhasz

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643855/





Architectural designs


1987–1988 “Fekete Lyuk”, interior design, Budapest (with Balkan FuTourist band)
1989 “Kinizsi Mozi”, Budapest (based on the mock-up of Gabor Bachman)
1990 “NA-NE Galeria”, Budapest (based on the plans of Gabor Bachman)
1991 “Toldi Mozi” entrance hall of Toldi cinema, Budapest
“Kiraly Sorozo” shop front of “Kiraly pub”, Budapest (with Eszter Kreissl)
“Rigoletto sorozo”, interior design of “Rigoletto pub”, Budapest
1995 “Bedrock diszko”, interior design, Budapest
2003 “Merlin Szinhaz”, Merlin Theatre, reconstruction plans, Budapest




Graphics and graphic designs


1987-1988 “Club MM” poster design and scenery, Almassy teri Szabadidokozpont, Budapest
1988–1989 “Sotet Zenek Haza”, poster design, son et lumiere – projection, Petofi Csarnok, Budapest,
1990 “Beszélo” periodical and poster design (with Gabor Bachman and Sandor Kardos)
1991 “Magyar Narancs”, weekly paper design (with Agnes Eperjesi)
book cover design
1992–1993 “Friz Televizios Iroda”, MTV, animated credits and graphics (Mediamix, IS)
1993 “MTV Gyermek és Ifjusagi Osztalya”,Youth Department of the Hungarian National TV Chanel, graphic designs
2003-2005 “Beszélo” periodical, illustrations
2007 “Elet és Irodalom” illustrations



Casts


1992 “Neoszarvasbika”, director: Laszló fe Lugossy
1994 “A kisbaba reggelije”, director: Andras Szirtes
2005 “A trükk vége”, director: Nora Lakos
2007 “Szerafina”, director: Csilla Hajosi Szabo



Workshops


2006 “Mesefesztival” “Fairy tale Festival”, Colouring with children, Berlin, organized by Beata Nagy
“Alkotohet”, workshop tutor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, with third year students at the Department of Public Building Design
http://www.eszk.bme.hu/kozep/alkotohet/08.html
2007 “Momebazar2” Colouring with children, Budapest




Publications


2007 Magyar Epitomuveszet 2007/1, “Alkotohet 2006”
Magyar Epitomuveszet 2007/2, “Berlin, Friedrichshain, kenyszerhelyzet és elszantsag”
http://www.magyarepitomuveszet.hu/csarnok.php?lapszam=2007-2





Publications - Products


2006 “Wer ist das, Was ist das” malbuch, colouring book, Budapest
“Halak” kepeslap, postcard, five-piece series, Budapest
“Tablakep A B C D E F G H I”, hand made, printed on wooden panel in a limited
number of copies
2007 “Kiaz? Mi az?” “Who’s this? What’s this?” Coluring book
“Ki az? Mi az? Who is this? What is this?” Coluring book, Publisher: Ocztos Studio, Budapest
“Ki az? Mi az? Who is this? What is this?” postcard, Publisher: Ocztos Studio, Budapest
http://www.mininews.hu/
http://www.minimax.hu/
http://www.libri.hu/hu/book/gyermek_es_ifjusagi_konyvek/4_8_eveseknek/kifestok/
ki_az_mi_az_who_is_this_what_is_
http://www.konyvlelo.hu
http://plaza.velvet.hu
http://www.hungarian-books.com
http://egyszervolz.hu/webaruhaz
http://www.fokuszonline.hu





Specialized Literature


1995 Para Kovács Imre, “Ocztos Istvan Narancs Galeria”, Magyar Narancs, 1994. június 24.
1996 “Helyzetkep / State of The Arts” magyar szobrászat /Hungarian Sculpture, Mucsarnok
2000 Kortárs Magyar Muveszeti Lexikon, Enciklopedia Kiado, foszerkeszto, Fitz Peter
2005 Csizmadia Alexa: Elet-rajz
2006 dck, “Vonal - vaszon” Magyar Narancs, Kultura – visszhang, 2007. april.
http://www.mancs.hu/index.php?gcPage=/public/hirek/hir.php&id=14503
Dékei Kriszta, “Erintesek gubanca” Magyar Narancs, Kritika, 2007. majus 3.
http://www.mancs.hu/index.php?gcPage=/public/hirek/hir.php&id=14678
Szombathy Balint, “A jatszma vege?”, Elet es Irodalom, 2007. majus 25.






On Television


2005 “portrefilm” (“profile”) on the occasion of the street exhibition in Vienna, MTV Kulturhaz, editor: Sari Szily
2007 “Barakk Fesztival” Almassy ter, MTV, Feszti Korkep,
editor: Elvira Kubik, director: Maria Takacs, 2007. augusztus 12.
http://www.mtv.hu/videotar/?id=7290
http://www.hirado.hu/cikk.php?id=224579






On the radio



2007 “Egy ferfi, egy no” , Petôfi, Magyar Radio, programme of Janos Nelz, live, 2007. marcius 21.



Member of the Young Hungarian Artists’ Association, and the Hungarian Creatives’ Union

Male, Born on February 18

Favorite Materials

paper, canvas, wood, watercolour, watercolour pencil, ink, pen