Selected WorksBiography
 
Société Réaliste
Biography
 
 
About:

Société Réaliste is a Parisian cooperative created in June 2004 by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy

 
 

Selected Solo Shows

 
2012

“Empire, State, Building”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU (upcoming)

 
 
2011

Archiscriptons, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH

 

“Empire, State, Building”, Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR (cat.)

 

“The city amidst the buildings”, Akbank Sanat Art Center, Istanbul, TU

 
 
2010

One-way World, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SL

 
Cosmopolites de tous les pays encore un effort (public monument), Tivoli Park MGLC/ Aksioma, Ljubljana, SL
 

LISTE 15 - The Young Art Fair (with Kisterem Gallery), Basel, CH

 
The Fountainhead and other artworks, Platform 3, Munich, DE
 

Xenolalia, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest, HU

 
 
2009
Transitioners: London View, ugbar, Berlin, DE
 
Transitioners: London View, Hold & Freight, London, UK
 

Pligatures, galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, FR

 

Over the counter, galerie Buy-Selff Art Club, Marseille, FR

 
 
2008
Transitioners: Le Producteur, your-space / Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
 

MA: Culture States - Exposition des Arts et Techniques appliqués à la vie moderne, Labor Galéria, Budapest, HU

 
 
2007
Transitioners: Le Producteur, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, FR
 
Transitioners: Bastille Days collection, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, FR
 

Transitioners, Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon, PT

 

Transitioners, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, AT

 
 
2006

MA: Deuxième contact, Bureau d’hypothèses Michel Journiac, Paris, FR

 

Transitioners, TRAFO Gallery, Budapest, HU

 
 
2005

IGM #3 : APPENDIX, Espace En Cours, Paris, FR

 

IGM #2 : DISTAL, Usine des Taillandiers, Paris, FR

 

IGM #1 : MDCCLXX IX, Karton Gallery, Budapest, HU

 
 
 

Group Projects
 
2011

Drachma Conjuration, Tompazis Mansion, Hydra, GR

 

Artist Pension Trust, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris, FR

 
 
2006

Manifesta 6.1: M6 D3 Abschlussball, Berlin, DE


Selected Group Shows

 
2011

Horizons de classe, Internationale Surplace, Hamburg, DE

 

Where do we migrate to?, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

 

For love not money, 15th Tallinn Print Triennial, Kumu, Tallinn, EE

 
 
2010

Zum ersten mal, K4 Gallery, Munich, DE

 

Pre-specifics: Access X! - Phase II, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL

 
Flagpole, Plateforme, Paris, FR
 
Hyper Real, MUMOK, Vienna, AT
 

Wealth of Nations, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

 
Aviva Award, Mucsarnok, Budapest, HU
 

Politique Zéro, Espace Niemayer, Paris, FR

 

Hostipitality: Receiving Strangers, Muzeum Sztuki, Losz, PO

 

Cooperation, not Corporations, ITS Z1, Belgrade, RS

 

Pre-specifics: Access X! - Phase I, Onomatopee & Röda Sten Kulturförening, Göteborg, SE

 

Transient Spaces - The Tourist Syndrom, NGBK & Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE

 

All-lover, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, FR

 

Practicing Memory, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT

 

Over the counter, Mucsarnok, Budapest, HU

 

Reasonable Force, Room Gallery, Auckland - Aotearoa, NZ

 

2nd Rennes Biennial: Ce qui vient, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes, FR

 
Celebration!, uqbar, Berlin, DE
 

Geography of Trans-territories, Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI, San Francisco, USA

 

Hypothèses / Vérifications, Laboratoria Art&Science Space, Moscow, RU

 

Vous êtes ici, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, FR

 
 
2009

ID: Ideology of Design, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, RS

 

Typopass - Critical design and conceptual typography, Dorottya Galéria, Budapest, HU

 

10th Lyon Biennial: The spectacle of the everyday, Lyon, FR

 

11th Istanbul Biennial: What Keeps Mankind Alive?, Istanbul, TU

 

28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Gallery Jakopic, Ljubljana, SL

 
Splav Meduze, Likovni salon, Celje, SL
 

Rites de Passage, Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL

 

Bertha von Suttner Revisited, Schüttkasten, Harmannsdorf, AU

 

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?, 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, GR

 

"Wouldn't be easier for the government to dissolve the people and elect another" (Bertolt Brecht), Gallery Nova, Zagreb, CR

 

The man behind the curtain, Mission 17, San Francisco, USA

 

Katowice Biennial, Upper Silesian Centre of Culture, Katowice, PO

 

The Inescapable Experience of Transition, Le Magasin, Grenoble, FR

 

Living Together, Marco Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, ES

 

Princess Frog, Galerie Catherine Jozsa, Brussels, BE

 

Les frontières invisibles, Tri Postal, Lille, FR

 

Living Together, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES

 
 
2008

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Mucsarnok, Budapest, HU

 

Pancevo Republic!, 13th Biennale of Pancevo, Pancevo, RS

 

The Aesthetic Center, 6th Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Gyumri, AM

 

Positive Critical Imagination, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK

 

The Mechanics of the Canvas, Ernst Museum, Budapest, HU

 

Pro Eto, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, RU

 

Be A Happy Worker: Work-to-Rule!, g-mk, Zagreb, CR

 
Na mi van?, Mucsarnok, Budapest, HU
 
L'Argent, Le Plateau, Paris, FR
 

World-ex-position, Open Space, Vienna, AU

 
MOBY Hosting, Museums of Bat-Yam, IL
 

Utopia Transfer, Kiscelli Muzeum, Budapest, HU

 

Economie 0, La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, FR

 

Transmediale 08: Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

 
 
2007

Emerging Wor(l)ds, Grey Zone, Prague, CZ

 

Living Magazine, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

 

‘Exposition composite’, Galerie du petit château du C.A.U.E., Sceaux, FR

 

The Other City, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, USA

 

AtL(e)As(T.) CoMpleX, Studio Gallery, Budapest, HU

 

Un_Space / Paraflows, MAK, Vienna, AU

 

Virtual Residency, Zentrum für Kunst und Industriekultur, Völklingen, DE

 
Démocratie? Faites-la vous-même!, Mains d'Oeuvres, Paris, FR
 
The Embassy / Apocalypse Now,  , Paris, FR
 
Between white and black / Bunker Design, MKTTK, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, RU
 
 
2006

The Other City, TRAFO Gallery, Budapest, HU

 

Article Biennale, Sølvberget Kulturhus, Stavanger, NO

 

Intrusion / Apocalypse Now,  , Paris, FR

 

Transitory Operations, UMA, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia

 

How to do things? In the middle of (no)where..., Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE

 

How to do things? In the middle of (no)where..., Kunsthallen NIKOLAJ, Copenhagen, DK

 

How to do things? In the middle of (no)where..., CIAC, Bucharest, RO

 

How to do things? In the middle of (no)where..., Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, UA

 

How to do things? In the middle of (no)where..., TRAFO Gallery, Budapest, HU

 

NFO XPO, Version 06 : Parallel Cities, Version Kunsthalle Iron Studios, Chicago, USA

 
 
Catalogue:
 

Exhibition Catalogue “Empire, State, Building”, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2011

Bibliography:

SKY REHBERG Vivian, Société Réaliste - Jeu de Paume, Paris, in Frieze Magazine n°141, London, 2011.

LEBOVICI Elisabeth, Boue et censures au pays du "youngest curator ever", Le Beau Vice, 1 June, 2010.

UNWIN Richard, Bucharest Biennale 4 Review, in Frieze Magazine n°132, London, 2010.

TUCKER Daniel, BB4: Getting Real, in Kunsthart, Antwerpen, 2010.

HAUFFEN Michael, Transitioners - London View, in Springerin 1/10, Vienna, 2010.

LUCCHETTI Matteo, Random curating - interview with Société Réaliste, in undo.net, Milan, 2009.

SIM ESMEN Yasemin, Drawing lines to do away with them, in Hürriyet, Istanbul, 2009.

VAN TOMME Niels, Siding with the Barbarians, in Foreign Policy in Focus, Washington D.C., 2009.

LEBOVICI Elisabeth, Un projet de société, in Multitudes n°35, Paris, 2009.

LASSIGNARDIE Isabelle, Une démonstration critique par l’absurde, in Inter Actes If n°20, Paris, 2008.

STEPANOVIC Tijana, Culturated States, in Muerto, 11 / 5, Budapest, 2008.

CSERBA Júlia, Triangular paranoia, in Balkon, 2008 / 3, Budapest, 2008.

VINCENT Cédric, Conspiratory Truths, in Conspire: Transmediale 08, catalogue, Revolver Publishing, Frankfurt/Main, 2008.

TREMEAU Tristan, Nouveaux Entrants, in Art21, No 15, Paris, 2007.

BRUNEL Raphaël, Transitioners. Bastille Days Collection, in parisART, Paris, 2007.

SOMOGYI Hajnalka, Chirurgie de l'illusion, in Art21, No 12, Paris, 2007.

WEITZEL Antje, Some points about the Ponzi's project, in How to do things? In the middle of (no)where…, catalogue