DÉNES FARKAS

Dénes Farkas is a contemporary artist born in Budapest in 1974, currently residing in Estonia for seventeen years. He studied Graphic Arts at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts in 2001, and subsequently completed his training with a Master's degree in Media Art and Photography in 2003. His artistic work has been widely recognized and exhibited both in Estonia and in internationally renowned exhibitions, highlighting his participation in the Moscow Photography Biennale in 2014 and the Berlin Photography Biennale in 2016. Dénes Farkas's work is characterized by its exploration of the complex relationships between image, language and visual perception. His works are composed of photographs, videos and collages that merge elements of reality with more abstract ones, thus creating compositions that question the limits of visual representation and the subjectivity of the gaze. In addition to his work as an artist, Dénes Farkas has also worked as an Associate Professor at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts, and as a project manager at the Hungarian Institute headquarters in Tallinn, Estonia. In short, Dénes Farkas is a contemporary artist whose work has been widely recognized and exhibited nationally and internationally, and who stands out for his ability to question the limits of visual representation and the subjectivity of the gaze in his works.