person

1937 –

Hungary

Born in Budapest. She studied graphics and painting at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1955-1961). She received a scholarship to Vienna in 1967 and till 1996 has been living in Vienna and Budapest, since 1996 only in Budapest. She is a member of Béla Balázs Studio (1973) and starting from the same year she directed several experimental films ('Learned Spontaneaus Movements', 1973; 'Relative Swingings', 1973; 'Timing', 1973/80; 'Proportions', 1979; 'Triolets', 1980/81; 'Kalah', 1980). She teaches art at several free schools and courses since 1975 (Collage for Applied Arts. Budapest, 'Creativity and Visuality', Ganz_Mávag, Budapest). She became a lecturer at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1987) and was a Professor there between 1990 and 2007, currently she is Professor Emeritus there. She received Munkácsy Award (1995) and Kossuth Award (2003). She made a lot of photogram experiments and she published the book: 'Fényelvtan [Light-syntax]. On the photogram' (2001). In December 2008 the Ludwig Museum (Budapest) presented: 'Dóra Maurer - Concise Ouvre', her life-work exhibition. She is a member of Open Structures Art Society (http://www.osas.hu). Her artworks are in public several collections: Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest; Ludwig Museum / Museum of Contemporary Art. Budapest; Grafische Sammlungen, Albertina, Vienna; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Tate Gallery, London. (2011)