"Ildikó Farkas does not employ overwhelming techniques or dazzling feats. Yet what she presents to us through the lens of her camera—images extracted from the world around us—is breathtaking nonetheless. Through her photographs, the visual experience is reinterpreted and reborn. The fragment of reality she depicts is stripped of all conventionally attached noise—suspended in time and space, bare, simple, open, awaiting the gaze that interprets it: a moment of recognition."
Excerpt from poet Noémi László's exhibition opening speech
Professional CV
EDUCATION
1995.10-2000.06 University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania – Faculty of Photography.
1999.10-1999.12 Study scholarship at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest – Photography Department.
1997.03-1997.04 Study scholarship at École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France.
1991.09-1995.06 Secondary School of Fine Arts, Oradea, Romania – Graphic Design Department.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND MEMBERSHIPS
2020. and 2023. Recipient of Creative Grant from the Photographic Arts Department of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary (NKA).
2019.12- Member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers.
2016.11- Member of ARTÉR Art Association, Budafok, Hungary.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025.04 NATURAL ABSTRACTIONS, Art9 Gallery, Budapest.
2015.08 ESCAPE, Korunk Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
2012.01 LANDSCAPES FROM U.S. NATIONAL PARKS, Duna Television Gallery, Budapest.
BLACK-AND-WHITE AUTONOMOUS-REPORTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY
2000.05 Sindan Finnish Cultural Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
1999.12 Tölgyfa Gallery, Budapest.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025.04 HORROR-VACUI, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok, with ARTÉR Art Association.
2025.04 10th PÉCS PHOTO BIENNALE.
2025.04 TRANSITIONS, Book launch of Zopán Nagy, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok.
2025.04 ARTÉR ART ASSOCIATION PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, Art9 Gallery, Budapest.
2024.09 WOMAN, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok, with ARTÉR Art Association.
2024.03 CONTEMPORARY HUNGARIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, Pécs Gallery.
2024.03 LUMINOSITY, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok, with ARTÉR Art Association.
2023.04 COLLAB, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok, with ARTÉR Art Association.
2022.12 EVERYDAY CELEBRATIONS, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok, with ARTÉR Art Association.
2022.05 PARTIAL CONFORMITY, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok, with ARTÉR Art Association.
2022.03 CLINICAL IMAGE, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok, with ARTÉR Art Association.
2021.06 PATHOLOGY, Magdolna Courtyard, Budafok, with ARTÉR Art Association.
2020.11 4+4 PLUS 1, Bartók 1 Gallery, Budapest.
2019.05 THE SHAPE OF THINGS, PH21 Gallery, Budapest.
2018.09 BUDAFOK CHAMPAGNE AND WINE FESTIVAL, with ARTÉR Art Association, Budafok.
2018.05 FOUND SPACE 2.0, with ARTÉR Art Association, Budafok.
2017.07 MID-SUMMER, Fise Gallery, Budapest.
2017.05 GENERATOR, with ARTÉR Art Association, Budafok.
2016.09 20th ESZTERGOM PHOTO BIENNALE.
2014.08 19th ESZTERGOM PHOTO BIENNALE.