Since the mid-90s Szilárd Cseke has been making mobile objects, which are models for macro political and economic mechanisms functioning beyond the borders of everyday life. These mobile-s are minimal systems assembled from found objects and ephemeral materials referring to an industrial ambient determining our civilization. On the other hand by their structure and the combination of moving and static elements they form a certain world model with a rather ambiguous character: the installations are illusions of dynamic systems and at the same time they are bound to be motionless. His mobile objects often reflect on the theme of migration and identity changes. Szilárd Cseke has been experimenting with the expression of the process of migration in painting as well, and as a result he developed a new technique, which is a mixture of painting and printing.
Szilárd Cseke was born in 1967 and lives and works in Budapest. He obtained his master’s degree at the University of Pécs in
1995. He received the Munkácsy Prize, the most significant Hungarian prize for artists in 2014. In 1997 he was awarded the Art Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy in Rome and the Derkovits State Fine Art Scholarship.
In 2015 his work entitled 'Sustainable Identities' was representing Hungary at the 56th Venice Biennale.
