Elek Jakab

Collective exhibitions:

1994: "Tibor Erno"Gallery, Oradea.
1995: National Fine Arts Exhibition, Piatra Neamt
1995: "U.A.P." Gallery, Oradea
1996: "Varadinum", Christian University from the region of Partium, Oradea.
1997: International Student Festival, Fine Arts Museum, Timisoara.
1997: "Lucian Blaga" University Library, Cluj Napoca.
1997: "Student Art", Culture Palace, Targu Mures (Neumarkt).
1998: Transit House, Synagogue, Cluj Napoca.
1998: "Wass Albert" Commemorative exhibition, Public Theatre, Targu Mures.
1999: "Students" House, Cluj Napoca.
1999: "Faktor", K.L. Gallery, Cluj Napoca.
1999: "Commemorative Exhibition of the Romanian Revolution from 1989", Timisoara.
2000: "Students" House, Cluj Napoca.
2000: "Artistic and Caricature Festival", Budapest, Hungary.
2000: "Interethnic Dialogue", Union of Arts Gallery, Cluj Napoca.
2001: "Varadinum", Posticum, Oradea.
2002: "Art-Flexum", Museum of Hansag, Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary.
2003: "The Day of Hungarian Culture", Baroque Palace, Museum, Oradea.
2003: "Ady Endre", Tibor Erno Gallery, Oradea.
2003: "Ady Endre", Baroque Palace, Museum, Oradea.
2004: Winter Exhibition, "Tibor Erno" Gallery, Oradea.
2005: Caritative exhibition for the victims of tsunami,"Tibor Erno" Gallery, Oradea.
2005: His works took part in the V-th edition of the International Biennale of Contemporary Art from Florence, where He was offered a posthumous Lorenzo al Magnifico award.

Individual exhibitions:

1996: "Situations", "The 4th Hungarian Presbyterian Global Meeting", Oradea.
1998: "Myself", Mathias (Corvin) House, Cluj Napoca.
2000: "The Human Comedy", The Hungarian State Opera and Theatre, Cluj Napoca.
2001: "Recognition", "Bernady Gyorgy" Cultural Foundation, Targu Mures.
2001: "Initio", The Cultural Centre of the Hungarian Republic, Bucuresti.
2004: "Touches", "Tibor Erno" Gallery, Oradea.

Oil on canvas
Oil on wood
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on paper
Mixed tehnic on paper
Digital print

2005: His works took part in the V-th edition of the International Biennale of Contemporary Art from Florence, where He was offered a posthumous Lorenzo al Magnifico award.

" The theme of my art deals with the questions of human existence, and its existential status, which I try to depict stylistically with the synthesis of spontaneity of the expressive figurativeness and with the intellectualism of the conceptual approach. " J.Elek

" Műveszetem témája az emberi lét kérdései, egzisztenciális állapotai, amit stilárisan az expressziv figurativitás ösztönösségének és a konceptualista megközelités intelektualizmusának szintézisével próbálok ábrázolni." J.Elek

Elek Jakab, visual artist,
( January the 1st 1973 Oradea, Romania – 25th November 2005 Oradea )

Artistic studies:
1992-1995:"Francisc Hubic" School of Fine Arts, painting department, Oradea.
1995-2000: "Ioan Andreescu" Academy of Visual Arts, painting department, Cluj Napoca.
He exhibited paintings starting from 1994.

His paintings appeared in public collections in Romania and Hungary, but also in private collections in Germany, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Romania and Hungary.