ABOUT

Krisztián Tejfel is a Hungarian painter who currently lives and works in Hungary.

Nationality: Hungarian

Date of birth: 1979

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Private collections in ​France, Taiwan, Switzerland, South Korea, USA, Germany, China, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Monaco, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, Indonesia, Australia​, Sweden

 

 

STATEMENT

Krisztián Tejfel’s painting explores the experience of attention and time through changing relationships with nature and the accelerating rhythm of everyday life.

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For Tejfel, nature is not primarily a subject, but the setting for a slower kind of time in which one has the possibility simply to be present.

This experience is also connected to the way his access to the outside world has changed over the years. He grew up in late-socialist Hungary, where access to the outside world was more limited. Following the political transition, this access gradually expanded, until constant access to the outside world became the norm.

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The starting points of his works may be personal memories and impressions, images retained in fragments, feelings, moods, or painterly precedents. When a reference is present, it does not simply transfer onto the canvas: in the process of painting, its original relationships are broken apart and its elements are rearranged. The paintings develop through the accumulation of translucent layers, shifting brushwork, repetition, concealment, and overpainting. Each new intervention responds to what is already present on the surface; earlier states become part of what follows, and the painting gradually establishes its own internal order.

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The resulting pictorial world is not a representation of reality, but a parallel version of it: it begins from the same experiential world, yet operates under different conditions and rhythms. Melancholy and boredom are not depicted subjects, but desired states that allow for a slower, less directed form of attention.

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FEATURED / Offline-Online

​WeAr magazine 2024

Centurion Magazine Cover/ Centurion Card 2022 Summer

Juxtapoz Magazine (online)

The Ritz-Carlton

New And Abstract Interview

Booooooom

The Huffington Post

Elle France

L'Officiel Australia

Photoshop

Gentlemen's Choice Magazine 2020/1

Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Tejfel Krisztian X Dorko Capsule Collection

Wacom (Interviews, Films, Tutorials, Collaborations)

Glamour Hungary (Cover & Interview) 09/2016

TrendlandIgnant

Exposé 2017 (Master Award)

Lovewatts

Imaginefx Magazine Issue 134

2Dartist Magazin Issue096

Deezer

Designcollector Network

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Fubiz

Wear (Cover & Article) 3/2017

Imaginefx Magazine Issue 134

In Parentheses Magazine Spring 2014

Iartistas Magazine #10

Le Cool Magazine

Art, Craft & Architecture

Bleaq

Illustration Age

Berlin Artparasites

Colectivo Bicicleta

Layerpaint

Cgsociety

It’s Art

Talenthouse

Swag Magazine #02

Premium Magazin

 

EXHIBITIONS

2019 /  107 (Redfern Street) - Sydney, Australia

2019  / LCI Melbourne - Melbourne, Australia

2019  / GALERIE JOSEPH TURENNE - Paris, France

2018 / Arch Enemy Arts - Philadelphia, USA

2016 / NO VACANCY GALLERY - Melbourne, Australia

2016 / CHINA HEIGHTS GALLERY - Sydney, Australia​

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Talks & Lectures

2025 – Invited Speaker, KreaCon – Creative Conference, Budapest, Hungary