Pécs2010 Management - Artistic Board

Zoltán Pál

Zoltán Pál was born in Páprád in 1954 and went to secondary school in Pécs. Between 1972 and 1978 he studied in the „Pécs Workshop” under the guidance of painter Ferenc Lantos. From 1993 to 1998 he was a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Visual Arts and Music, the University of Pécs. Between 1998 and 2003 he was managing director of the Baranyai Alkotótelepek Kht (Baranya Art Workshops). From 1998 to 2003 he was the publisher of Echo, an artistic and public life journal. Since 2003 he has been president of the BÁZIS Sculptor's Association and since 2006 the member of the Architect's Consulting Board of the European Capital of Culture programme.

He has been the member of the National Association of Visual and Applied artists since 1987 (its county secretary until 2001), the National Association of Hungarian Creative Artists since 1990 and the Hungarian Sculptor's Society since 1993. Since 1992 he has been the member of the presidency of the Lindabrunn Symposium (Austria). Between 1994 and 2006 he worked as an expert for the Cultural Committee of the Local Government of Pécs.

He has had over 15 individual exhibitions (in Hungary, Luxemburg and Denmark) and participated in some 50 national and international joint exhibitions, among other places in Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany. His works can be seen not only in museums and public spaces in European countries but even in Japan and the United States.

He is also regularly invited to various professional conferences and symposiums. He has published several studies on the relationship between culture, community and local development policy in connection with the European Capital of Culture project.

In 1980 he was awarded First Prize in Plastic Art at the National Amateur Visual Arts Exhibition in Miskolc. His works were recognised by a prize awarded by the County Council of Trade Unions in 1984 and by the National Council of Trade Unions in 1985. He won the Artistic Prize awarded by the Local Government of Pécs in 2001 and the Munkácsy Mihály Prize in 2006.