Péter Nádas
05.09.2025 - 18.10.2025
Lichtgeschichte / Neue Lichter
Galerie-Peter-Sillem
Péter Nádas' "Light History" (1999-2003) and its more recent sequel "New Lights" explore the possibilities and limits of color photography: The subject is solely light as it becomes visible in air and space. Péter Nádas is not interested in the dazzling splendor of the blazing light, but rather the ray in the darkness that illuminates details.
"If God exists, then you can possibly find him in the smallest amount of light and a compositional principle reduced to the utmost." Péter Nádas
Péter Nádas, born in Budapest in 1942, is a writer and photographer. After training as a photographer, he worked as a photojournalist for various magazines. With novels such as Book of Memory (1991), Parallel Stories (2012) and Horror Stories (2022) , he has made his mark on world literature. Péter Nádas has been a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 2006; the Péter Nádas Archive has been managed by the Academy since 2018. Péter Nádas has been awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1991), the Kossuth Prize (1992), the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding (1995) and the Franz Kafka Literature Prize (2003), among others, for his literary work. In 2014, he was awarded the Würth Prize for European Literature. His photographs have been shown in numerous Exhibitions , including in 2000 and 2003 at the Mano May Gallery (House of Hungarian Photographers), Budapest, 2004 at the Museum of Photography The Hague, 2005 at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, 2012 and 2018 at the Kunsthaus Zug, and 2022 at the Collegium Hungaricum Vienna. Péter Nádas lives in Gombosszeg, Hungary.
"The photographic gaze, from which his prose works live, makes it clear that Péter Nádas is an eminent double talent." (NZZ)
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