
Géza Perneczky
Protagonist of the Hungarian conceptual art
1970–80s
Perneczky is a protagonist of the Hungarian conceptual art, his early conceptual works and also his publications had a catalyst role on the Hungarian neo-avantgarde tendencies. Since 1970 Géza Perneczky lives and works in Cologne and was an important mediator between the Hungarian/Eastern European and the international art scene. On the international scene he became known as one of the founder of the post-fluxus mail art movement, which also defined the character of his conceptual works.
Géza Perneczky’s works can be found in collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Ludwig Museum (Budapest), etc.
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Featured Publication
The Art of Reflection –
Conceptual Photography 1970–75

Featured Exhibition
Mirrors –
Conceptual Photography from the 1970s
Group of ARTWORKS
1970–80s
Exhibitions
Selected Solo- & Group Exhibitions
Photography & Language
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ongoing collection exhibition | Exhibition link
Time Machine
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
–05.01.2025
Paris Foto 2024
with Vintage Galeria (Budapest)
07.11.–10.11.2024
Kunsthalle Praha
Elmgreen & Dragset: READ
16.11.2023 – 22.4.2024
Paris Photo 2023
with Vintage Galeria (Budapest)
11.2023
Artissima 2023
with Gallery Annex14 (Zürich)
11.2023
Perneczky Géza - Korai müvek (1970-1984)
Mission Art Gallery (Budapest)
26.10. – 24.11.2023
ViennaContemporary 2023
with Gallery Annex14 (Zürich)
07. – 10.09.2023
Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Magyar Neo-Avantgarde in den 1960er/1970er Jahren
11.11.2022 – 27.01.2023
Ludwig Museum Budapest
Time Machine
01.09.2020 –31.12.2023
MoMA New York
After the Wall. Collection 1970s–Present
Fall 2019 – 2022
Paris Foto, Paris (Art Fair)
with Vintage Galeria (Budapest)
10.11. – 13.11.2022
Artissima, Turin (Art Fair)
with Gallery Annex14 (Zürich)
04.11. – 06.11.2022
Gallery Annex14, Zürich
Le Saule Contemple à L'envers L'image Du Héron
03.09. – 22.10.2022
Dubniczay Pałace, Veszprem (HU)
The Rorschach Image
29.04. – 19.06.2022
LÁ Art Museum, Iceland
Are you glad if you can ask something? - Networking between East and North
06.04. – 02.09.2022
18th Tallinn Print Triennial, Estland
Warm Checking Temperature In Three Acts
22.01. – 27.03.2022
Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst
Das Wort steht im Raum – Skulpturale Poesie
26.03. – 14.08.2022
Ludwig Museum Budapest
Place Value - New Acquisitions
14.03. – 24.04.2022
Printed Matter - NEWS
Publications, Exhibition Catalogs and other Printed Matter

READ – ELMGREEN & DRAGSET

The Kunsthalle Praha Collection: 50 Highlights

Are you glad if you can ask something? - Networking between East and North

Warm Checking Temperature in Three Acts.

L'image et son double. The unfolded image

Beau Geste Press

Géza Perneczky. The Art of Reflection. 1970–75

Networking the Bloc Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981

Book Marks: Revisiting Hungarian Art of the 1960s and 1970s

Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Cold War Hungary

BOOKMARKS. Neo-Avantgarde und postkonzeptuelle Positionen in der ungarischen Kunst von den 1960ern bis heute.
