Istvàn Csàkàny

Born 1978 in Sfântu Gheorghe/Romania, István Csákány currently lives in Düsseldorf/Germany and Isaszeg (Hungary) and works as an artist in the fields of sculpture and installation art. Graduated from the University of Fine Art in Budapest, his works have been shown amongst others at the OFF-Biennale Budapest, at Marres – House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, The Netherlands (2015), at ARTIUM Basque Museum – Centre of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2014) at LIAF 2013 Lofoten Art Festival in Lofoten, Norway (2013), at dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel/Germany (2012), in Ludwig Múzeum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest (2010) and at Prague Biennale (2007). In 2010 István Csákány was awarded the Hungarian AICA Award for the best piece of art, and in 2008 he won the FKSE Award as best young artist. His works are part of the collections of Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest, the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, and the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM) in Luxembourg. He received various fellowships e.g. at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany in 2014, and at ATELIERFRANKFURT, Frankfurt am Main/Germany in 2010.