Lot 1 - Botond Keresztesi - The Origin of Light 1

Watercolour pencil and airbrush on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Digital COA
Curated by Rosie Penny

About

Botond Keresztesi is a contemporary painter whose work esplores the perception of the internet influenced contemporary visual culture mixed with pop cultural or art historical references, reflecting on history and culture in general. He mainly focusing on painting and classical materials like oil ,mixed with acrylic or less traditional ones like airbrush or spraypaint

Education

2007-2012
Diploma in Painting
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2012-2014
Diploma in Art Teaching
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Sleeping Muse After Several Snoozes,X Museum Beijing, China

2024
NPC (No-one Paints Chrysopoeia), Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
Velvet Dreams, Longtermhandstand, Budapest
Dungeon Keepers (with Stach Szumszki) , Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic
2022
Machines With Love, Longtermhandstand, Budapest
Brother Moon, Sister Sun (with Adám Horváth), Future Gallery, Berlin
The Hole, New York City, The opium smoker’s dream
2021
Kosice Kunsthalle, Kosice, Slovakia
litost, Prague, Czech Republic,N.W.A .(Nothing Works Anymore)
2020
P.C.P. (Professional Camouage Painters), WT.Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine

Group Exhibitions

2023
Frontal Sphinx, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo
Voracity Loop, Platform, Stockholm
2022
New Mediations/ Új Közvetítések, MODEM, Debrecen
Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Newtro
2021
34th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Hole New York, East Hampton Hole:Phase two
2021
Seventeen gallery London, Memeplex
2020
PM/AM, London, UK
LIMBO, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Neopangean Nest, Budapest, Hungary

Awards

2018
Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen Residency, Vijfhuizen, Netherlands
Derkovits Scholarship
2017
Derkovits Scholarship
2016
Derkovits Scholarship
2015
Visegrad Fund AIR Program, Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia
2014
Budapest Gallery AIR Program, Stuttgart, Germany

Gallery Representations

Longtermhandstand( Budapest, Hungary )
Future Gallery (Berlin, Germany)

Public Collections

X Museum ( Beijing, China)
Hungarian National Gallery ( Budapest, Hungary)

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

I chose the light bulb as a main motive as a metaphor of artificial light like the international symbol of heureka. The symbol of lost innocence and lost the paradise for all human beings.