Attila Csörgő was born in Budapest in 1965. Between 1988 and 1994, he was a student at the Painting and Intermedia Departments of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. During the year 1993, he studied sculpture at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He received a Smohay Prize in 1998 and a Munkácsy Prize in 2001. In 1994, his work was featured at the São Paulo Biennale and he was one of the artists who represented Hungary at the Venice Biennale (Tackling Techné, curated by János Sturcz) in 1999 and at the Istanbul Biennale in 2003. In 2008, with his work Moebius Space, exhibited at the Sydney Biennale, Csörgő received the Nam June Paik Award, one of the most prestigious media art awards in Europe. His retrospective exhibition, Archimedean Point, opened in Ludwig Museum at the end of 2009 and later travelled to the Secession in Vienna. He participated in the Centre Georges Pompidou’s exhibition Les Promesses du Passé in 2010 and in a joint exhibition by MUDAM (Luxembourg) and Musée des arts et métiers (Paris), entitled Laboratoires de l'art, in 2016. Besides that of the Ludwig Museum, his works can be found in other relevant public collections, such as the MUDAM in Luxembourg and the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.
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