Erik Tollas
Erik Tollas
Born 1981 in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary
Erik Tollas is international guest artist at Villa Romana in September 2023. In cooperation with the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).
Erik Tollas is a visual artist of Roma origin from Hungary, living and working in Budapest. As a former graduate of the University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, his first steps as a painter were taken in the realm of figurative painting. More recently he turned towards experimenting with abstract forms, his works obtaining a more meditative and surreal character. In 2021 he was shortlisted for the Eszterházy Art Award at the Ludwig Museum, Budapest. He regularly exhibits in galleries across Hungary and participates both in solo and group exhibitions, among the latest in the NACO Gallery (Metanoia, 2022) in Budapest.
Education
2007-2013
University of Pécs-Faculty of Visual Art, Painting faculty
Prize, Residence
2023
Villa Romana and ERIAC, Florence
2014
The interest of peace, MAC, Belfast
2012
Fundamenta-Amadeus Arts scholarship
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
I sit on solid ground. My back against a tree., Duna Museum, Esztergom
2017
Reposition ( Zsófia Magdolna Nagy, Benjámin Pelcz), Latarka Gallery, Budapest
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
A house is a house is a home, Villa Romana, Florence
Emerging talents. Spring salon, ERIAC, Berlin
2022
Metanoia, NACO, Budapest
2021
Eszterházy Art Award Short List, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2019
Monostori concrete symposium, MKE Parthenon-fríz hall, Budapest
Observation station, Rugógyár Gallery, Budapest
2018
B3TON, FUGA art centre, Budapest
On the Rocks, Artkartell Collection, ProjectSpace, Budapest Concrete faces 5.0, Nick Gallery, Pécs
2017
Concrete faces 4.0. second season., Nick Gallery Pécs
2016
Pop Up exhibition, Tayler Patrick, Ázbej&Ázbej, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Bzzz, Partizán studio house, Budapest
Concrete faces 3.0., Nick Gallery, Pécs
Gate post- Football in the hungarian contemporary Art , Contemporary Institute-Dunaújváros
2015
Art Market Budapest, Millenáris park, Budapest
Meanwhile, Partizán studio house, Budapest
Art Loves Design, Loffice, Budapest
Air, Partizán studio house, Budapest
Displacements, A.P.A gallery, Budapest
2013
5,17 Diploma exhibition, M21 Gallery, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, Pécs
2012
Events, Relics, Reflections Hungarian Academy of Rome, Rome
2010
Young Art – Sortment, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
Membership
2022
ERIAC - European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
Works in collection
Art Gallery, Paks
Eszterházy private foundation
Villa Romana, Florence
