György Jovián

...One must paint. Painting is about my own life, and about the compulsion that one must paint. It does not matter what, just to do it. A landscape, for example, like the old ones (the landscapes of the soul...?), becoming a picture out of memory.
Biography
2008
Scholarship of Budapest to Paris, the Cité Internationale des Arts
2002
Scholarship of Lisbon
2001
The award of the The Hungarian Ministry of National Cultural Heritage on the exhibition Experience and Idea
1999
Munkácsy-awardThe award of the Hungarian Painters' Foundation on the exhibition MelancholyThe Portuguese scholarship of the Instituto de Arte Contemporanea of Lisbon
1991, 1995
The scholarship of the Austrian Ministry of Culture (Kulturkontakt)
1991, 1992
The scholarship of Magyar Hitelbank
1986
The scholarship of Madrid of the Ministry of Education
1985
The scholarship of the Hungarian Academy Rome
1984-1986
Derkovits-scholarship
1984
The of the Derkovits-scholarship
1970-75
Institutul de Arte Plastice Nicolae Grigorescu (Academy of Fine Arts), painter major, Bucharest (Romania). Teachers: Florin Mitroi, Corneliu Baba, Constantin Blendea, Marius Cilievici
1966-1970
Liceul de Muzica si Arte Plastice, Oradea
Solo exhibitions
2007
Forest (Blowup), Inda Gallery, BudapestEarth-Images, Társalgó Gallery, Budapest
2006
Plein Art 8, Café Eckermann, BudapestObsession, Xantus János Museum, Győr
2005
Resurrectio Homini, Church Gallery, Eger Tillage, Bartók 32 Gallery, BudapestHungarian Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
2003
Galeria da Cisterna, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, PortugueseDifferent, KAS Gallery, Budapest
2002
One must sail..., Historical Collection, Sicc-villa, LeányfaluKunst aus Ungarn, Haus Dingenthal (with Ilona Lovas), Weil der Stadt, Germany
2001
nah und fern fern und nah?, Haus Ungarn (with Hans Mendler), BerlinDorottya Gallery, BudapestThe attack of gentleness, K. A. S. Gallery, Budapest
2000
Paintings, Wendelinskapelle - Kunstforum, Weil der Stadt, GermanyHungarian pavilion, VIP-saloon, Expo, HannoverThe gallery of the Lamberg Castle (with Hans Mendler), Mór
1999
Schloss Halberg, SaarbrückenBacchus, Bacchus, Kulturinstitut der Republik Ungarn (with Hans Mendler), StuttgartLuz-o-mania, eveArt Gallery, Budapest
1998
Up/Down, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest Csepel Gallery, BudapestOld pictures/New pictures, MOL Gallery, SzolnokLiszt Saloon, Hungarian Institute, Paris
Group exhibitions
2011
Art Market Budapest 2011, Millenáris, Budapest New York, Rio, Tokyo, Inda Gallery, Budapest
2010
Best Before End, Inda Gallery, Budapest
2007
Contemporary Private Collections X - György Bélai, Godot Gallery, BudapestSaint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Municipal Museum, Bratislava, SlovakiaFigurative Cave Paintings, Csók István Gallery, BudapestShadows, Zikkurat Gallery, BudapestVision and Passion, Reök Palace, SzegedNézetek-Nézzetek, Olof Palme House, BudapestBaudelaire, Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, Budapest
2006
Saint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Panstwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne, Warsaw, PolandDante Alighieri in Contemporary Hungarian Art, Italian Institute, SzegedSaint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Museum Slaska Cieszynskiego, Teschen, PolandLa divina commedia illustrata dagli artisti ungheresi, Hungarian Academy, Rome, ItalySaint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Museum Mimara, Zagreb, Croatia Dante Alighieri in Contemporary Hungarian Art, La sala S.Carlo, Arpino, Italy Watching Each Other, exhibition of the Szinyei Society, Bánffy Palace, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaThe Conceptual Abstraction of Individual Petroglyphs', Godot Gallery, BudapestThe Collection of Dr. Böhm, Schloss Lichtenwald, Chemnitz, GermanyThe Road, Kunsthalle, BudapestPlug – Art Fair, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2005
Thirty-three – The Society of Hungarian Painters is Ten Years Old', Hilton Budapest WestEnd, Budapest Saint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Palacio de los Serrano, Avila, Spain Dialogue 2005 – The Photo as Medium, Olof Palme House, Budapest Roots - Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian Art Symposium VI, Bartók 32 Gallery, BudapestRoots - Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian Art Symposium VI, Karinthy Salon, BudapestDante Alighieri in Contemporary Hungarian Art, Italian Institute, BudapestCheckmate, Nádor Gallery, BudapestAugenschmaus, Haus Dingethal, Weil der Stadt, GermanyKogart Salon 2005, Kogart House, Budapest
2004
Saint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Palais Porcia-Jesuiten Foyer, Vienna, AustriaCreator in Creation, Olof Palme House, Budapest Hungarian Collage 1910-2004, Municipal Gallery, GyőrSaint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Austrian Institute, Prague, Czech Republic Idegen Művészetek Múzeuma, Sofia, BulgáriaSaint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Jesuit Church, Klattau, Czech Republic
2003
Budapest coctail, MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest The End of Painting?, Olof Palme House, Budapest Hunten Kunst, Houtkamphal, Doetinchem, NetherlandsSaint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Raffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich, Raffeisenforum, Linz, Austria Saint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Villa Ghellini, Villaverla, ItalyThe Way of the Soul – Variations for the Representation of the Invisible, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest WeibsBilder, Haus Dingethal, Weil der Stadt, Germany
2002
Budapest Printmakers, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, USASaint John of Nepumuk, saint of Central-Europe, Moderner Kunst Museum, Passau, Germany FIAT LUX IV, Erlin Gallery, Budapest Silence and Word – Between God and Man', Erdős Renée House, Budapest The painter's garden, New Colony of Artists, Gödöllő 17th National Statuette Biennial, Pécs
2001
In black and white, Kunsthalle, BudapestOrbis pictus, Laczkó Dezső Museum, VeszprémExperience and Idea, Castlemuseum, GödöllőInner space - New spaces in the perspective of space and time, Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
2000
Dialogue, Kunsthalle, BudapestOn memory, Vigadó Gallery, BudapestSpatial drawing, Nádor Gallery, Budapest
1999
Melancholy, Ernst Museum, BudapestFarewell to the Twentieth Century, Hungarian National Gallery, BudapestMAMŰ-exhibition, Haus Ungarn, Berlin
1998
Inner drawing, Nádor Gallery, Budapest9th National Drawing Biennial, Historical Museum of Nógrád, SalgótarjánIdée Fixe, MAMŰ-exhibition, The Lajos Street exhibition room of Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1997
Oil/Canvas, Kunsthalle, BudapestWhite images, Vigadó Gallery, BudapestBudapest 125, Budapest Gallery, BudapestJahr(hundert)tausend(w)ende, Altes Schloss, Dillingen, Germany