Pál Szacsva y (Hu)

Pal Szacsvay graduated in 1993 at Ion Andreescu Art College at Kolozsvar in Romania. He specialised in Printmaking.  From 1993 until 1995 he was pursuing masters studies in Painting at theHungarian University of Fine Arts.  In1996 he completed a postgraduate video course at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts at Marseille.

Int he Academic Year 1999/2000 he was a postgraduate student at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin as he was awarded a DAAD Scholarship. He also did a postgraduate audio-visual course at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerpen between 2001 and 2003 . In 2009 he was awarded doctoral degree in Intermedia Studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. With his video piece (Pericycle) he won a prize at the Projections on Lake Competition which was organised as a public art competition in Pasadena (USA) in 2008.

From the mid 90’s his works are conceptual and combine different media. At the end of the 90’s his media narrows down to photography and video dealing with very fundamental questions of art like depiction, or the relation between representation and medium.  From the early 2000’s he has been making mainly videos and theoretically based works. (For Example: Empire Projekt, Ludwig Múzeum – Museum of Contemporary Art  2004.) Then he started experimenting with collaborative pieces (Artiste Trouvé Project, Ball Game, Joyful Friday, 2005). In 2007 he started a long term online project called Perimedia Lab which consists of 3 main parts so far : Peripublic (2007) Perichronic (2008) and  The news in my home, my home in the news (http://www.perimedialab.hu).