Bálint SZOMBATHY

1950, Pacsér, SRB – 2024, Budapest

Kassák and Munkácsy Award-winning poet, critic, visual artist, arts writer, performance artist He worked as the art editor for magazines published in Vojvodina from the 1970s. He was one of the founders of the Subotica-based Bosch+Bosch art group, an editor of the Novi Sad-based Új Symposion magazine, a co-founder of the Experimental Art Publisher, and one of the creators of the international alternative art publication Wow. He began exhibiting his works in the 1970s and started organising performances in the 1980s. He lived in Hungary from 2000 and worked under the artist name Art Lover. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2018. His works can be found in several international contemporary collections.