László RAJK (1949-2019)
EDUCATION
2005 "Doctor of Liberal Arts - DLA", Budapest University of Technology
1978-81 Postgraduate studies, Budapest University of Technology
1975-1978 McGill University, School of Architecture, Montreal, Canada
1967-1972 Budapest University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2019 Rajk Design: Film sculptures and political frottages, FUGA, Budapest
2019 Sketches, Trapéz, Budapest
2016 Imre Nagy, The Missing Hero, Gödör Klub, Budapest
2015 Tilos az Á, Gödör Klub, Budapest
2012 Missing Fate- The walls of Auschwitz, 2B Gallery, Budapest
2006 Memory Deconstructed, House of Art, Veszprém
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2018 The fun never sets, Trapéz, Budapest
2017 Unruly Constructions, Trapéz, Budapest
2013 Interspaces - OSAS exhibition, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
2011 Missing Paragraph, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2008 Corvin-Mirror: Centuries of a Cult, Budapest Historical Museum
2005 Waldsee 1944, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
2000 Radical eclectics, Goethe Institut, Budapest
1996 Jenseit von Kunst, Neue Galerie, Graz
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2016: Art Directors Guild honors - excellence in production design (Ridley Scott: The Martian)
2009: Kossuth-Prize
2009: Hungarian Film Critics Awards, Best Production Design (The Man from London, directed
by Bela Tarr)
2007: Pro Urbe Budapest Prize
2005: Commander Cross (Poland)
2005: Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civilian) - returned in protest in 2015
1986: Scholarship, Columbia University (New York, USA)
MEMBERSHIPS
2016- Szechenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, Budapest
2002-2014 Royal Institute of British Architects
2002-2004 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
2003-2004 Legal cultural adviser to the European Union
1981- Chamber and Association of Hungarian Architects (founding member)
1971-75: "Kovács István" performance group (leader:László Najmányi)
As an architect, he became the member of the Hungarian avantgarde movement. Since 1976 he has been working as an architect and production designer for several projects and companies. In 1981 he co-founded an independent, underground publishing house, and ran an illegal bookstore from his apartment called "Samizdat Boutique". His artistic portfolio is full of striking and unconventional built architectural projects and more than 100 stage design and film sets as production designer or art director. He was the production designer of the Oscar, Golden Globe and Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul (director: László Nemes) and the last two movies of Béla Tarr (Man from London, The Turin Horse). Worked as partner of Costa Gavras, John Irwin, Miklós Jancsó, Tony Gatlif, Fatih Akin and he was one of the art directors of a Ridley Scott movie, The Martian.Rajk is also a university professor, teaching film architecture at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, giving masterclasses and lectures worldwide at famous universities and art schools, in Europe and in the US.
Tamás Király, László Rajk Unruly Constructions
László Rajk László Rajk
László Rajk, Andi Schmied, Dominika Trapp The Fun Never Sets
László Rajk Sketches