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visual artist

LeventeAlbert

about the artist

The basic tone of his art, expressing drama, anxiety, the feeling toward life suggesting threatenedness are latently present in all his works, often accompanied by the means of denouement doomed to failure, irony, bitter humour from the start. His artistic attitude is properly expressed by the author of the article from the chronicle of our joint exhibition in Veszprém: " ... His works exhibited in Veszprém have been created on metal foil and slowly blackening photographic paper, with rough and dramatic gestures, with a consciously assumed harshness and force. He works with the colours of mourning, night and blood. Congested, greyish-violet and deep black forms revealing the world of destruction, flesh-red glowing among shades and monolith-heavy image spots, white flashes of sharp lines, cicatricose ditches strain on his images."
(Pál Koncz: Journal from Veszprém, 1994)


Levente Albert's main profession is photography, he chooses from its repertoire one technique of his image creating method: the spots resulting from the interaction between the light-sensitive, large-sized photographic paper and the reactants: the developer, the fixer, shape the surface either with a decoratively map-like, or with an expressive discursiveness. This "groundwork" is enriched, according to the artist's ideas, with collage, monotype, black-and-white and coloured imprint, manual impression. Or with the imprints of the corroding metal on his latest experiments in his present exhibition entitled Rust Troop. The rust spots of various intensity, appearing in geometrical figures of exact forms, shape the surface sometimes in blocks, in pyramids, sometimes dispersedly, excellently balancing the totally closed, gloomy black-and-white image planes.

curriculum vitae

01
Professional Profile

Born: May 14, 1959, Cârța, Romania

Lives and works in: Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania

Since 1986, I have been regularly participating in national and international exhibitions with mixed-media graphics, paintings, and installations.
I currently work as a press photographer for Háromszék newspaper, published in Sfântu Gheorghe.
I have been a member of the Romanian Artists’ Union since 1996, of the Soleil de l’Est Association (France) since 2012, and of the Barabás Miklós Guild since 2017.

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Solo Exhibitions

2024 – Encode–Decode, Fond Gallery, Sfântu Gheorghe

2022 – Metaforms, Székely National Museum, Sfântu Gheorghe

2018 – Embrio, Forrás Gallery, Budapest

2017 – Ostinato (with Mihály Vargha)

2015 – Ruin Clip, Park, Sfântu Gheorghe

2011 – Rust Army, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Sfântu Gheorghe

2010 – Stable Gallery, Arcus (with Alpár Péter)

1994 – Castle Gallery, Veszprém, Hungary (with Mihály Vargha)

1992 – Art Gallery, Sfântu Gheorghe

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Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2025 – Soleil de l’Est, Brâncuși Gallery, Bucharest

2023 – Petőfi, Cluj-Napoca

2021 – National Theatre, Bucharest

2019 – Barabás Miklós Guild Exhibition, Cluj-Napoca

2018 – Prime Numbers, Sfântu Gheorghe

2018 – Espace Christiane Peugeot, Paris

2016 – Retrospective Soleil de l’Est, ARCUB, Bucharest

2015 – Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), Paris

2014 – Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), Brussels

2014 – Graphic Art Biennale of Szeklerland, Sfântu Gheorghe

2013 – Château de Trousse-Barrière, Briare, France

2011–2014 – Graphic Art from Romania, House of Art, Bucharest

2010 – International Exhibition and Symposium, Arjäng, Sweden

2008 – International Exhibition and Symposium, Kaarja, Turku, Finland

2005 – Roots, Exhibition and Symposium, Balatonalmádi

2004 – Pilikán Gallery, Székesfehérvár

2001 – National Salon, Bucharest

1998 – Artexpo, Műcsarnok, Budapest

1996 – Sculpture, Delta Gallery, Arad

1996 – Corpus, Vasarely Museum, Budapest

1995 – Art Addiction, Stockholm, Sweden

1994 – Osaka Triennale, Print Section, MyDome Osaka, Japan

1991 – Oriens 1, Eastern European Cultural Exchange, Békéscsaba, Hungary

1991 – AnnArt, Performance Festival, St. Anne Lake

1991 – Medium 2, International Exhibition, Sfântu Gheorghe

1988–1989 – Drawing – Colour – Form, Contemporary Gallery, Sfântu Gheorghe

1986 – The Bird, Contemporary Gallery, Sfântu Gheorghe

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Public Collections

Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Forrás Gallery, Budapest

Transylvanian Art Centre, Sfântu Gheorghe

Association Soleil de l’Est, France

Contact

PRESS

Encode, decode – Albert Levente
10/11/2025
The creations of visual artist Levente Albert raise ontological questions: what is it that we really see? Is it a collage, a painting, a print, or something beyond?...
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Wrinkles, rust army, revolution
05/08/2025
We talked with Levente Albert about parental strictness, refusing to recite lessons, the impulses received from Imre Baász, and a wasted revolution.....
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Levente Albert's meta-universe
7/25/2022
An exhibition titled Metaforms opened on Thursday, featuring the works of visual artist and photojournalist Levente Albert, at an external location of the Székely National Museum, the Cellar Gallery...
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Exhibition by Levente Albert and Mihály Varga
4/28/2017
In the ground-floor exhibition space of the Transylvanian Art Center, an exhibition by Levente Albert and Mihály Vargha will open on Friday, April 28th, starting at 5:00 PM. ...
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Levente Albert – Rust Army (interview)
10/05/2011
I think many people will be surprised by the material of Rust Army. By its complexity, the ruthlessness of the works, and their impact.”...
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Metaforms – Levente Albert’s exhibition at the Lábas House
08/08/2022
In Sfântu Gheorghe, at the Lábas House, the exhibition of visual artist Levente Albert opened on July 21, 2022. As visitors walk through the rooms of the exhibition, they encounter a dialogue of restless forms on the walls and extending into the space...
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Levente Albert’s exhibition
07/07/2018
At the opening event of the exhibition, György Molnár, director of the National Strategy Research Institute, said that while viewing the works, numerous associations came to mind. In his speech, he elaborated on one of them: the embryo, the fetus, the protection of life, and the importance of raising our children to be good Christians and good Hungarians in particular...
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Ostinato – Joint Exhibition of Levente Albert and Mihály Vargha
05/30/2017
Ostinato is a term borrowed more from music; applied to the language of visual arts, we could say: continuously and stubbornly repeating forms...
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The guest performance of Miszla Art in Transylvania
08/16/2022
In July, the Miszla Art@Csernáton art camp took place in Transylvania with the participation of Hungarian and Székely artists. The works created there have already been presented on site, and the collection will be on display in the fall at the exhibition venue of the Székely National Museum...
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