SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 - Accademia D'Ungheria a Roma, Rome, Italy
2018 - National Museum of Photography, Brescia, Italy
2018 - Art Market, Budapest, Hungary
2018 - Milan Image Fair, Milan, Italy
2017 - Digitális Erőmű, Ózd, Hungary
2015 - Milan Image Fair, Milan, Italy
2014 - Nest Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2013 - Olvasó, Ózd, Hungary, inauguration of the Istvan Mizerak Hall with permanent exhibition of selected works
2012 - Olvasó, Ózd, Hungary (Hungarian Month of Photography Festival)
2011 - Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1986 - History Museum, Ózd, Hungary
1980 - History Museum, Ózd, Hungary
1975 - Riesa Steel and Tube Industries Exhibition Hall, Riesa , Germany (DDR)
1975 - Binz, Germany (DDR)
1975 - Tokaj Cultural Center, Tokaj, Hungary
1970 - Polish Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
1968 - Franz Liszt Cultural Center, Ózd, Hungary
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1982 - Vítkovice Photosalon International Photo Contest exhibition, Vítkovice, Czechoslovakia
1982 - II. Environmental Photo Contest, Szolnok Hungary
1980 - Aladár Székely Memorial Exhibition, Tokaj, Hungary
1980 - Environmental Hazards, environmental photo contest, Szolnok, Hungary
1970 - Northern Hungarian Photo Exhibition
1970 - Northern Hungarian Photo exhibition
1969 - MUNKA Magazine's Photocontest exhibition
2018 - Accademia D'Ungheria a Roma, Rome, Italy
2018 - National Museum of Photography, Brescia, Italy
2018 - Art Market, Budapest, Hungary
2018 - Milan Image Fair, Milan, Italy
2017 - Digitális Erőmű, Ózd, Hungary
2015 - Milan Image Fair, Milan, Italy
2014 - Nest Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2013 - Olvasó, Ózd, Hungary, inauguration of the Istvan Mizerak Hall with permanent exhibition of selected works
2012 - Olvasó, Ózd, Hungary (Hungarian Month of Photography Festival)
2011 - Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1986 - History Museum, Ózd, Hungary
1980 - History Museum, Ózd, Hungary
1975 - Riesa Steel and Tube Industries Exhibition Hall, Riesa , Germany (DDR)
1975 - Binz, Germany (DDR)
1975 - Tokaj Cultural Center, Tokaj, Hungary
1970 - Polish Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
1968 - Franz Liszt Cultural Center, Ózd, Hungary
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1982 - Vítkovice Photosalon International Photo Contest exhibition, Vítkovice, Czechoslovakia
1982 - II. Environmental Photo Contest, Szolnok Hungary
1980 - Aladár Székely Memorial Exhibition, Tokaj, Hungary
1980 - Environmental Hazards, environmental photo contest, Szolnok, Hungary
1970 - Northern Hungarian Photo Exhibition
1970 - Northern Hungarian Photo exhibition
1969 - MUNKA Magazine's Photocontest exhibition
"THIRST FOR FREEDOM"
ACCADEMIA D'UNGHERIA A ROMA 2018
ACCADEMIA D'UNGHERIA A ROMA 2018
Mizerák's photographs taken between the 1960s and 1970s in his hometown Ózd, the center of Hungarian metallurgical production in the communist era, offer visitors a direct observation of people's lives in the decades after the repression of the revolution against the regime in 1956 in Hungary, during this era of the false promise of progress and prosperity of the 1960s and 1970s behind the Iron Curtain. The exhibition is curated by Zsazsi Chaillet.
ISTVAN MIZERAK
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY BRESCIA 2018
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY BRESCIA 2018
The first Italian exhibition of the Hungarian photojournalist Istvan Mizerak at the National Museum of Photography in Brescia. The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Istvan Mizerak Archive and Foundation and the Hungarian Ministry of Business and Commerce, collects about sixty photographs printed in the darkroom from the original negatives that display the photographer's vast production.
MIA PHOTO FAIR 2018
MIZERAK 75
DIGITÁLIS ERŐMŰ ÓZD 2017
DIGITÁLIS ERŐMŰ ÓZD 2017
The exhibition MIZERAK 75, created to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Istvan Mizerak's birth, presents a selection of 75 black-and-white portraits taken in his hometown, Ózd.
MILAN IMAGE FAIR 2015
NEST GALLERY GENEVA 2014
MELTING POINT
OLVASÓ ÓZD 2012
OLVASÓ ÓZD 2012
The exhibition Melting Point, part of the European Month of Photography international festival, presents the work of István Mizerák (1942-1998), in his hometown in occasion of the 70th anniversary of his birth. Open from 30 October 2012, the selection of more than forty large colour photographs represents the heyday of the local steel plant.
The exhibition explores how a city's "image" is alive in the collective memory. In the photos, taken in the early seventies, the industrial environment and the surrounding nature appear together, the giant industry lying against the soft hills, flowers grow at the base of chimneys belching black smoke, but it is the man, taming the sinuous snake of liquid steel who truly gives depth to the photos. For this subject – the relation between industry and nature, man and steel, heavy physical work and immense machinery, the brutality of industrial areas - a natural choice would be to use black and white images, with an emphasis on human and mechanical strength and the inhuman conditions of heavy physical work, a dramatic representation. This is in fact the general picture that live in people’s head about Ózd and the iron-factory workers. Yet Istvan Mizerak chose the expression of color photos, bridging not only industry and nature's fundamental contradictions, but creating harmony in his images of the working people’s tranquil, yet dominating force in the light of the sun and beaming steel. On his photos appear an image of a city, a steel factory, that these man know too well, and still continue to identify themselves with; even though now (the factory shut down, people unemployed) it is only a fantasy.
The exhibition was inaugurated by film director and cinematographer János Gulyás.
The exhibition explores how a city's "image" is alive in the collective memory. In the photos, taken in the early seventies, the industrial environment and the surrounding nature appear together, the giant industry lying against the soft hills, flowers grow at the base of chimneys belching black smoke, but it is the man, taming the sinuous snake of liquid steel who truly gives depth to the photos. For this subject – the relation between industry and nature, man and steel, heavy physical work and immense machinery, the brutality of industrial areas - a natural choice would be to use black and white images, with an emphasis on human and mechanical strength and the inhuman conditions of heavy physical work, a dramatic representation. This is in fact the general picture that live in people’s head about Ózd and the iron-factory workers. Yet Istvan Mizerak chose the expression of color photos, bridging not only industry and nature's fundamental contradictions, but creating harmony in his images of the working people’s tranquil, yet dominating force in the light of the sun and beaming steel. On his photos appear an image of a city, a steel factory, that these man know too well, and still continue to identify themselves with; even though now (the factory shut down, people unemployed) it is only a fantasy.
The exhibition was inaugurated by film director and cinematographer János Gulyás.
INAUGURATION OF THE ISTVAN MIZERAK HALL & PERMANENT EXHIBITION
OLVASÓ ÓZD 2012
OLVASÓ ÓZD 2012
Inauguration of the Istvan Mizerak Hall at Olvasó Cultural Center with a permanent exhibition of photographs. Opened by Zsolt Szamódy, President of the Hungarian Association of Photographers.
ART | LIFE
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM 2011
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM 2011
The exhibition Art /Life at the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest presented the works of István Mizerák (1942-1998), photoreporter of Hungarian news agency MTI. The selection of more than thirty large black and white photographs represents the more artistic side of his work, other than the well-known pictures from numerous newspapers already familiar to the Hungarian public. The exhibition was inaugurated by Géza Szőcs, Secretary of State for Culture.