Adam Ulbert
Born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1984, lives and works between Amsterdam and Budapest.

On Screening: Alexander and the Toad
HD Video, 10'49'' - 2015

"Alexander and the Toad" is part of an ongoing video series called "The Originator". The video is an introduction for further series in which the main character ­ supplemented with further figures ­ will participate in a mutual carnivalesque procedure to meet what they call the Originator. "Alexander and the Toad" is based on a 17th century alchemical text (which fragmentally shows up in the video). This cryptic text - "The Vision of Sir George Ripley by Eirenaeus Philalethes" - tells the story of the basic alchemical trans­substantional procedure using the image of a Toad to explain the correct way of the alchemical operations for the alchemist.

EDUCATION

2012-2014 Sandberg Instituut (Masters of Fine Art), Amsterdam / 2007-2010 BA, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest / 2005 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam / 2003-2007 Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest Filmtheory Aesthetics and Cultural Anthropology

RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2014 Spiritus Bestiae Faber, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest, HU / The Cave of the Hermaphrodite & I Knew Such Lovely Pictures - duo graduation show with Matthew Shannon at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam as a part of A Festival of Choices, Master of Fine Arts Graduation Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam / Paleotempestological Inference, Zönotéka, Berlin, DE / The Peeping Metals Experience, The Lombard Method, Birmingham, UK 2013 Dialogical Co-dissolution, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest, HU 2012 The Planet as The Festival, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, duo exhibition with Mate Feles, Berlin, DE

RECENT (SELECTED) GROUP SHOWS

2015 On Paper II. Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, HU / The Dys-Picture Generation Art Plus Text Gallery, Budapest, HU 2014 Crosstalk Video Art Festival Budapest, HU / The One Minutes on Tour – Shanghai selected to Best of One Minutes screening at Power Station of Art, Shanghai, CN / 2014 Haunting monumentality Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb Zagreb, HR / Haunting monumentality II. Club Electroputere, Craiova, RO / Art Rotterdam - with Trapéz Gallery, Rotterdam, NL / Winter Art Fair, Ikon - with The Lombard Method, Birmingham, UK / Viennafair - with Trapéz Gallery, Vienna, AT

WEB
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