Narne: Piroska É.Kiss , Dr. habil, DLA Date and place of birth: March 17, 1953, Budapest Phone: +36 70 369 0730 E-mail:piroskaekiss@gmail.com
EDUCATION: 2012: habilitation, Hungarian University of Fine Arts 2006-2008: DLA, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest 1976: diploma in Architecture, prepared at the Department of Drawing 1971-1976: Faculty of Architecture, Technological University, Budapest 1967-1971: free school of painting led by Lajos Bíró 1959-1971: primary and secondary schools, Debrecen
EMPLOYMENT: 2004-: stage designer, professor, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Department of Scenography Doctoral School 1991-: free-lance scenery designer, costume designer, and graphic designer, designing for the theatres of Debrecen, Nyíregyháza, Esztergom, Székesfehérvár, Szeged, Sopron, Siklós, Kaposvár, Békéscsaba, Tatabánya, Pécs, Komárom, Eger, Marosvásárhely, Gyula, Szentendre, Veszprém, Kecskemét, and for various theatres of Budapest, amongthem Szkéné, Budapesti Kamaraszínház, Karinthy Theatre, Thália Theatre, Magyar Theatre, Várszínház, Ódry Theatre,Radnóti Theatre, Vígszinház, Merlin, National Theatre, and the Operahouse ofBudapest and Yuveskula / Finland 1986-1990: scenery designer, Miklós Radnóti Theatre, Budapest 1976-1985: scenist and senery designer at Csiky Gergely Theatre of Kaposvár
Directors P. É Kiss worked with: Zsolt Anger, Tamás Ascher, János Ács, Árpád Árkosi, László Babarczy, András Bálint, István Bálint, Gábor Berényi, Attila Béres, Péter Cseke, Gyula Gazdag, Péter Gothár, Mária Harangi, Csaba Horváth, Tamás Jordán, Márton Karinthy, Kati Kővári, László Kövesdi, Éva Magyar, Gábor Máté, András Márton, János Mohácsi, Réka Pelsőczy, Judit Pogány, István Pincés, Ádám Rajhona, Gergely Romváry, Máté Szabó, Dorotty Szalma, Kriszta Székely, Gábor Szilágyi, István Szőke, Miklós Szurdi, Gábor Zsámbéki
FESTIVALS: Prague Quadriennal of performance design and space, 2004, 2007, 2011 National Theater Festival, Pécs, on several occassions Festival of Country Theatres, Budapest, on several occassions Deszka Festival, Debrecen, 2007 Caragiale Festival, Bucharest, 2002 Mittelfest, Cividale del Friuli, 1991 International Theater Festival, Kairo, 1990 International Theater Festival, Lissabon, 1989 Festival Mondial du Theatre, Nancy, 1983 International Theater Festival, B.IT.E.F., Belgrade, 1982
Magyar Színpad-kép-írók, OSZMI, 1995 (Hungarian Stage Design )
EXHIBITIONS
Memory of the Haitian Revolution, 6th Ghetto Biennale, Port au Prince, 2019 Even Technical Drawing can be Art, Fuga, Budapest Don Juan, World Stage Design Exhibition, Taipei, 2017 Refugees’ tower, Babel project, Outsider Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilon, New York, 2016 Ossuary, Facial Reconstruction, Sopron, Szombathely, Székesfehérvár, 2012, Budapest, 2011 Ghetto Déjá Vu, 2nd Ghetto Biannale, Port au Prince, Haiti, 2011 Missing, National Exhibition, Prague Quadriennale, Prague, 2011 Scenery, Costume, Olaf Palme Exhibition Hall, Budapest, 2010 Déjá Vu (site-specific installation), HCC, London, 2009 Koffer Puzzle, KofferArt, Budapest, 2009 Shanghai Supergun, KofferArt, Budapest, 2009 All the World's a Stage (9 stage designers’ exhibition), IDC Gallery, Budapest, 2004 Cube, National Exhibition, Prague Quadriennale, Prague 2003, Millenáris Exhibition Hall, Budapest 2003 Stage design, Triennale, Novi Sad, 2001 Instead of Stage-setting, stage designers' fine art works Pataky Cultural Centre, Budapest, 1999 Hungarian Scenography, Várszínház, Budapest 1995, Centre of Hungarian Culture, Prague, 1995 Donáth, É.Kiss, Szegő (stage designers of the Theatre of Kaposvár), Fényes Adolf Hall, Budapest, 1984 Hungarian Scenography, Műcsarnok, Budapest,1983 Hungarian Scenography, Cult Center, Debrecen,1982
Hungarian Students’ Exhibitions, Prague Quadriennale, Prague, 2015, 2007, 2003 Hungarian Students’ Exhibitions, Beijing International Biennale, Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, 2018, 2016, 2011 Hungarian Students’ Exhibitions, ISDSWE, National Theatre, Beijing, 2012 Ghetto Déjá Vu, 2nd Ghetto Biannale, Port au Prince, Haiti, 2011 Déjá Vu (site-specific installation), HCC, London, 2009 Donáth, É.Kiss, Szegő (stage designers of the Theatre of Kaposvár), Fényes Adolf Hall, Budapest, 1984 Exhibition of the Theatre of Kaposvár, Hungarian Scenography, Műcsarnok, Budapest,1983 Exhibition of the Theatre of Kaposvár, Hungarian Scenography, Cultural Centre of Debrecen, 1982 PUBLICATIONS: 2011: Facial Reconstruction / Ossuary Semmelweis Kiadó
2001: Kvasz cola után Teleki László Alapítvány
2000: From America with Love. Memoirs of an American immigrant in the Soviet Union. East-European Monographs Series of Columbia University Press.