Studio: Gábor Szűcs
Gábor Szűcs is a multidisciplinary artist and a teacher. He studied at the Secondary School of Scenic Design in Bratislava, specializing in computer-generated and hand-drawn animation. He later earned a degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, in the studio of Professor Ivan Csudai.
He lives and works in Slovakia where he has his studios. Since 2021, he has been the founder and organizer of the Sérum Light Festival in Šamorín, which aims to promote new media art through exhibitions, public light projections, interactive light installations, and audiovisual performances.
Szűcs has participated in and received awards at numerous light festivals, from Russia to the United States. In 2016, he placed third at the Signal Light Festival in Prague and was a finalist at the Art Vision Festival in Moscow. He achieved third place at the Live Performers Meeting live projection mapping competitions in Amsterdam (2017) and Rome (2022).
In 2023, he was among the featured artists at the Inota International Audiovisual Festival, held on the grounds of the decommissioned Inota power plant as part of the Veszprém–Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture program.
Between October 11–15, 2023, Szűcs represented Slovakia at the Punto y Raya Festival in Lisbon with his animation Hall. The festival showcases leading figures in abstract film, animation, and new media art from 33 countries. In December 2023, he will also present his projection mapping piece Revenant at the Winter Lights Festival in Dublin.
One of the classrooms in the abandoned school building in Bogyarét serves as Szűcs’s painting studio—the location for our documentary. His animations are created in a separate space, though he often experiments with crossing genre boundaries and combining various media.
