About

drMáriás (1966) is a painter and visual artist, novelist and musician, frontman of the Tudósok band.

Studied at the University of Art in Belgrade. In 1991 moved to Hungary from Yugoslavia where he resides since. His multi-disciplinal art can be featured as having strong and critical attitude that deals with existential questions deriving from East-European identity, historic and political context. His artistic language implements elements of avantgarde, dadaism, pop art, soc art and surrealist attitude. He defines his artistic activity as social surgery. Leader, singer, saxophone and trumpet player of the Tudósok band (The Scientists) that gave more hundreds of concerts from Russia through Europe to the United States. Had solo exhibitions in Budapest, London, Belgrade, Vienna, Ljubljana, Peking, Prague and New York. His prose has been connected to the beat generation and the Russian avantgarde. His books have been published in Hungary and China.

Selected exhibitions:

Pictures of Inner Emigration, Godot Gallery, Budapest, 2024
Painting Theater, County Hall Museum, Szekszárd, 2024
The monkeys don’t want to be humans, Szerkesztőség, Budapest, 2024
Improving Hungarian-American Relations is a National Strategic and Contemporary Art Priority, Open Gallery, CEU, Budapest, 2023
The victory of Dadaism is inevitable!, Béla Kondor Community House, Budapest, 2023
The liberators are coming!, Godot Gallery, Budapest, 2023
Contemporary Art Degrades Hungarian People’s Sense of Security, Godot Gallery, Budapest, 2022
New Hungarian Anti-Democratic Art, 89 Gallery, Covent Garden, London, 2022
Nonstop carnival! Ispita, Győr, 2021-2022
Art Consultation, album presentation exhibition, A38 Ship, 2021
Anarchy in the E.U., Godot Gallery, Budapest, 2020
George Soros and Viktor Orbán make peace, Esernyős Gallery, Budapest, 2020
Cecília defeats the virus!, Fisherman’s Castle, Kápolnásnyék, 2020
Where is my Capital?, ArtKit, Maribor, 2020
Self-Portrait with Trianon, Kieselbach Gallery – Brody Studios, Budapest, 2019 with Peter Weiler
Flowers of Dynamite, Supamolly, Berlin, 2019
Tavasz-Tündér-Találkozó/Spring-Fairy Meeting, Godot Galéria, Budapest, 2019
Magyar Nemzeti Festészet/Hungarian National Painting, A38 Hajó, Budapest, 2018
Где мой Капитал?/Where Is My Kapital?/Hová lett a Tőkém?, Pig Snout Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, 2018
The Sun Shines!, Rómer Flóris Múzeum, Győr, 2018
The Most Modern and Most Ancient Hungarian, Cultiris Galéria, Budapest, 2018
Longing and Belongig, 10 Thousand Steps Gallery, New York, 2017
Love Never Fails!, Godot Gallery, Budapest, 2017
Be Peace with You! – Museum of Modern Art MODEM, Debrecen, 2017
Paperlace Universe, Balassi Institute, Peking, 2016
Karel Gott Brings Peace to the EU-summit, Balassi Institute, Prague, 2016
Flower all Flowers! A38 Ship, Budapest, 2016
Get Well! – M21 Galéria, Zsolnay negyed, Pécs, 2016
Blue Danube Waltz, A38 Ship, Budapest, 2015
Utopia.Revolution, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2014-2015
Hollywood Behind the Iron Curtain, Suez Gallery, Den Haag, 2014
A Secret Political Meeting in the Swamp, Godot Gallery, Budapest, 2013
Change of glasses, Raiffeisen Galéria, Budapest, 2013
Beautiful Pictures from the World of Love, A38, Budapest, 2013
What’s Hungarian? Palace of Art, Budapest, 2012
My Horrible Idols, A38 Ship, 2011
The East-European Beatles, Old Police Station, London, 2011
Bukowski in Split – Galleria Numero 2, Koper, 2011
Celebrities vs. Artists, K. Petrys Ház, Budapest, 2010
Bukowski in Split – Ghetto Galéria, Split, 2009
Elect! – K. Petrys Ház, Budapest, 2009
DadaBloomsDay, Ivy House, London, 2008
TérErő, Palace of Art, Budapest, 2008
Self-portraits of a Suicide Car-mechanic, Klinker Gallery, London, 2005
I Live Science, Gogol Club, Moscow, 2005
Charcoal, Donauraum Galerie, Vienna, 2004
Cut Cat Kit, Anthology Film Archives, Courthouse Gallery, New York, 2003
Mehko lice, Metelkova Galerija, Ljubljana, 2002
Drawing a New Face, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, 2000
Everyday Science, Francia Intézet/Institut Français, Budapest, 1999