Alexander Tinei

Alexander Tinei is an artist who in a painterly way works with found media images. His interest in the relation between body and time translates in vein-like, stained blurs and anatomical precise details. This in paintings, collages, drawings, installations and repainted photographs. The bodies, removed from their original context, get a gloomy, dream-like presence.

Fascinated by the phenomenon of instant global visibility of people’s formerly private moments on the Internet, Tinei has created a series that balances the unnerving space between reality and fiction. Their skin is almost ethereal, a private and public facade of disguise.

Alexander Tinei (1967) is a Moldovan artist, who lives and works in Hungary. He had solo exhibitions in New York City, Vienna, and Budapest and has been included in group exhibitions in Antwerpen, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Basel, Prague, and Athens. In 2010, Ana Cristea Gallery presented Tinei’s work at VOLTA NY. In 2009, he was one of twelve Romanian and Hungarian painters included in a curated exhibition at the Prague Biennale.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Alexander Tinei, Art Center, Aranya, China
2022
Funny Games, DOX Museum, Prague
2020
Partly sunny, mostly cloudy, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Roots, DCS Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Shown by the Roadside, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy
2017
Solo, Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Soul on fire, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015
The soul once we loaded (with Johan Tahon), Erika DeakGallery,

Budapest, Hungary
2014
Blue Bird, Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Solo, Gallery Dukan, Paris, France
2012
TINEI – SZÜCS, Hussenot Gallery, Paris, (with Attila Szűcs), France
Strange Light, Tajan, Paris (with Attila Szűcs), France
New works, Frissiras Museum, Athen, Greece
2011
Portraits of ambiguity, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, USA
Studiovisit (with Bazil Dusilkovic), Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010
All about me, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, USA
2009
I collect all my tears, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Where have you been?, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005
Lost in the Forest, Kultur Kontakt, ArtPoint Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Free Post Cards, K.Petrys Ház Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2003
Spring Fields, Martino Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian Parliament and Lathe, Aorta Gallery, Chisinau, Moldova

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Becoming. The Force of Existence, HAB, Art Center, Budapest
2022
Angels and outcasts. NQ Gallery, Antwerpen
2020
Darkness – Best of, Selected Artists, Berlin, Germany
2019
Arcana, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
High Five! 5 Years, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy
Floral Centerpiece, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Just beneath reality, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018
Skin, DSC Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Me, Myself and I. The Portrait In Contemporary European Art, Galerie Artdocks, Bremen, Germany
Trauma-Distress-Ecstasy-Emptiness-Formulas of Pathos 1900-2018, Zapadoceska Galerie (zpc-galerie), Plzen, Czech Republic
Preparing for Darkness, Vol. 2: Breaking God’s Heart, Galerie Selected Artists at Külhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Preparing for Darkness, Vol. 1, Galerie Selected Artists at Külhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017
YIA #11, Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
Disruptive Imagination, Művészetmalom, Szentendre, Hungary
Behold the man, Kunstmusezm Magdeburg, Germany
2016
Metania (with Johan Tahon), Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany
2015
Violent Unknown Event, Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
The fantasy of representation, Beers Contemporary, London, U.K.
Gute Kunst? Wollen!, Auf AEG, Nurnberg, Germany
The Nude in the XX&XXI Century, S2, London, U.K.
2014
S2 Gallery, London, U.K.
On Paper, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2013
On Paper, Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition, Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany
Portrait, Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
2012
Twilight, Modem, Debrecen, Hungary
2011
After the fall, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA
Prague Biennal, Prague, Czech Republic
Human, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen, Denmark
Spinart , Ana Cristea Gallery, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
East Ex East , Brand new Gallery, Milan, Itay
2010
After the Fall, HVCCA, New York, USA
Strichtly painting, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Revolutionary Decadence, Kiscell Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2009
Prague Biennal, Prague, Czech Repiblic
Show Me a Hero, Calvert 22, London, U.K.
2008
The new force of painting, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
2007
Eclectic affinities among European artists, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Visual Immortality , Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland
2006
Art is Always Somewhere Else, Bucharest, Romania
Fresh Ground, Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens, Greece
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Shumen, Bulgaria
2004
Documenta, Regensburg, Germany
2003
The Last European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Aorta in Amisetae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Museum Collections and Foundations

Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

The Saatchi Collection, London

SØR Rusche Collection, Berli