„My sculptures are made of high-purity optical glass. I use cold shaping methods (cutting, grinding, polishing, gluing) and state -of- the -art materials with a precision of one hundredth of a milimeter. The size of my sculptures are limited as I use very special materials and an extremely precise technology.
My goal is to let the spectators see hitherto mostly unknown aspects and also to let them have unique visual experience.
Transparency and opacity, multiple inner mirroring and the net of lines created thereof, the colours appearing in full depth or only superficially, the interior spaces of the sculptures which move outside spaces: these are all important features of my sculptures.
My art is influenced by classical hungarian and international geometric, abstract art, complemented by minimal art and contemporary art trends, for example MADI. I made homage sculptures about the works of Leonardo Fibonacci, Lajos Kassák, Kazimir Malevich, and Victor Vasarely. Out of contemporary fine arts I feel close to Anish Kapoor’s and Olafur Eliasson’s space concepts and their use of materials and colours.
Recently I have been immersed in the relationship of directed light and sculptures, using the sculptures as systems of lenses, manifesting movement and change, filling up great spaces visually. All these themes are linked to the art of László Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes and Nicholas Schöffer.”

EDUCATION

Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Hungarian Artists Association

Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists

Society of Hungarian Glass Artists

AHFAA Sculptors Department

2018. Hungarian Electrographic Art Association (MET) Prize, 2018. Jointly with Art Former Antal Kelle 

2015. Ferenczy Noémi Award

2014. SOFA Chicago, selected ‘Spherecross’ sculpture

2011. Museum of Applied Arts, Zsolnay Jewellery Competition, Special Award

2005. Hungarian Handicrafts, Special Award in the Applied Arts category

2005. 1st International Silicate Art Triennial, Kecskemét, Hungary, Special Jury Award and Audience Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2004

2024 BOTOS, BA’ART Gallery, Budapest

2024 NUBU X 3DIMENSION, with Sára Sebestyén and Péter Botos, NUBU ZEN Store, Budapest

2024 Transparency bathed in light - Glass sculptures with a photographer's eye, Nick Gallery, Pécs

2023 Variations on Geometry – Glass sculptures and paintings, with Tamás Hencze and Tamás

Konok, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest

2022 Lighttraps, with Ján Zoricák, Zsdrál Art Pop-Up Gallery, Budapest

2021 Habatat Galleries, West Palm Beach, FL, USA

2021 The Geometry of Light, Zsdrál Gallery, Balatonfüred, Hungary

2020 Lantos Ferenc and Péter Botos, Zsdrál Gallery, Pécs, Hungary

2020 Light Spaces, Ybl Budai Kreatív Ház, Budapest

2017 Rómer Flóris Museum of Arts, Győr, Hungary

2016 Geometric Baroque, with Ágnes Szél, Józsefvárosi Gallery, Budapest

2015 Shining, Gestalt Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy

2011 Transparency in 2 and 3 Dimensions, with István Haász, Broft Gallery, Leerdam, Netherlands

2004 Square Deal, Glass Pyramid Gallery, Budapest

GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2008

2024 Art Miami, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami, USA

2024 Art Market, BA’Art Gallery, Millenáris, Budapest

2024 Small works of great masters, Budapest Contemporary, MoMű, Bálna, Budapest

2024 Budapest Contemporary, Zsdrál Gallery, Bálna, Budapest

2024 Yesterday of Tomorrow – Cubes of the World, Abigail Gallery, Budapest

2024 Art and Antique, Molnár Ani Gallery, Bálna, Budapest

2023 Glass Art NOW!, l'Aula Magna dell’Ateneo Veneto, Venice

2023 Glass 51, Habatat Detroit Fine Art, Royal Oak, MI, USA

2023 Discover Light Revolution, Light Art Museum, Budapest

2023 2023 Blue Sea, Red Moon Contemporary Art Glass Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2023 Legends Exhibition, Habatat Fine Art, Sarasota and St. Petersburg, FL, USA

2022 Glass Art Now!, Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Serbia

2022 PAN Amsterdam, Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, Netherlands

2022 Design without borders, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest

2022 Geometric Environments, Molnár Ani Gallery, Budapest

2022 Glass 50 - Celebrating the Year of Glass, Habatat Detroit Fine Art, Royal Oak, MI, USA

2022 Oasis 2022, Red Moon Contemporary Art Glass Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2022 9th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

2021 Plateaux Gallery, London, UK

2021 Melbourne Design Week, Red Moon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2020 Ungarn 2.0, Glasmuseum, Frauenau, Germany

2019 VA Gallery, Hong Kong

2019 Craft Biennale, Cheongju, South-Korea

2019 Shine Space, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Beijing

2019 Taking Off, Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfeld, Germany

2019 Bauhaus 100, Vasarey Museum, Budapest

2018 Konkrete Leto, European trends in geometry, Galeria Umelka, Bratislava

2016 SOFA, Palette Contemporary, Chicago

2016 Art Palm Beach, Erdész Gallery, Palm Beach, USA

2015 Hungarian Cultural Institute, Brussels

2015 British Glass Biennale, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Stourbridge, UK

2015 Cutting edge, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2014 SOFA, Chicago, USA

2014 Symmetry Festival, 100 years of suprematism, Delft, Netherlands

2012 Hungarian Cultural Centre, London, UK

2012 Roman Academy of Hungarian Arts, Rome

2010 Geomix 2.0, B55 Gallery, Budapest

2008 Geometry, within and beyond, Godot Gallery, Budapest

ARTWORKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Barabás Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Rechnitzer Collection, Győr, Hungary

International Mobile MADI Museum, Vác, Hungary

Konok-Hetey Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Hungarikon Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Rómer Flóris Museum of Arts, Győr, Hungary

Laczkó Dezső Museum, Veszprém, Hungary

Glasmuseum, Lette, Germany

Beijing Hungarian Cultural Institute, China

Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

PUBLIC ARTS

Sentry, Adyváros, Kuopio Park, Győr, Hungary, 2017

Bauhaus 100, Bécsi kapu tér, Győr, Hungary, 2018

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

National Association of Hungarian Artists

Hungarian Federation for Arts and Crafts

Society of Hungarian Glass Artists

Sculptors Department of HFAC

Hungarian Electrographic Art Association

CATALOGUES, BOOKS AND VIDEOS

Catalogue: Square deal. Üvegpiramis Gallery, 2004

Catalogue: Shining, Gestalt Gallery, Pietrasanta, 2015

Catalogue: Geometric baroque, Józsefvárosi Gallery, 2016

Catalogue for ‘A selection from five years of sculptures’ exhibition in Érdi Gallery, 2018

Book: Botos, Rómer Flóris Museum of Arts, Győr, Hungary, 2017

YouTube: Mámor és Rajongás kinetikus installáció (robot-üveg-árnyék) Antal Kelle Artformer and Péter Botos, 2018

Catalogue for Collectors, Habatat Gallery, 2019

Book: Innovation and Art. Balassi Institute of Culture, Beijing, 2019

Zsdrál Gallery. Pécs, Hungary. Péter Botos’s exhibition catalogue, 2020

YouTube.com: Ferenc Lantos-Péter Botos-Zsdrál Gallery, Pécs, Hungary, 2020

Book: Botos, Open Structures Art Society(OSAS), 2020. 

MY WORKS HAVE BEEN REFLECTED IN THE FOLLOWING PRINTED AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

János Csákvári and György Wágner: Péter Botos’s ‘Square Deal’ in Üvegpiramis Gallery, MTI (Hungarian News Agency), 2004

Close-up: Interview with the artist, MTV Hungarian National Television, 2004

István Wágner: A square deal made of black glass, in the daily Magyar Hírlap, 2004

István Palotás: Sensual glass cubes, Web page of the National Federation of Interior Decorators, 2004

A square deal? Terasz web page, 2004

Discussion about the ‘Square deal’ exhibition in the cultural news, Duna TV, 2004

Lajos Barabás: Square deal. Péter Botos’s glass sculptures, Magyar Iparművészet (Hungarian Handicrafts) magazine, 2005/1

Vera Varga: Glass between East and West, Magyar Iparművészet, 2005/4

Tibor Wehner: Hungarian glass art, 2006

Péter Botos makes the glass sculpture intended for Gorbachev’s 75th birthday, MTI, 2006

Nóra Szily’s interview with Péter Botos about the sculpture to be given to Gorbachev, Radio Budapest, 2006

Béla Bartók’s ‘glass house’, Elite magazine, 2007

The luxury of light, about the glass sculptor Péter Botos, Klasszikus Kortárs (The Classical Contemporary) (2008/1)

Gyula Rózsa: No sign of a battle in Balaton utca, in the daily Népszabadság, 2011

The discovery of monumentality, The Barabás collection. Szalon magazine (2011/1)

HuGlass 2012, catalogue

Lajos Barabás: “… it would lose its soul, if it were made from any other material“. Szalon (2012/2)

Orsolya Tarnóczy: Fragile luxury, Joker magazine, 2011

György Szepesi: A time travel embedded in glass, Premier, 2012

Biennale Brabant Magazine, Van Loon Galleries, The Netherlands, 2012

Context, Additions - How to be a friend of contemporary visual arts, Lajos Barabás, Karton Publishers, 2012

http://mutermek.com/uvegmuveszet/botos-peter 2013

Only art. Holnap Publishers, 2013

Gyula Rózsa: Various heirs. NOL, 2013

István Sinkó: Building and rationalising. Újlipótvárosi Club Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. MŰÉRTŐ (Expert) magazine, 2013

Art Market Budapest Catalogue, 2013

SOFA 2014 Art-Design, catalogue

Art Market Budapest Catalogue, 2014 HuGlass 2014, catalogue

‘Glassism’, EchoTV, 2014

Péter Emőd: Contemporary Hungarian artists in exhibitions abroad VII and IX, Artportal.hu, 2015

Art Market Budapest 2015, catalogue

Che cosa sta preparando Péter Botos, Corriere della Sera, 2015 

Hungarian contemporary glass I, Erdész Gallery and Design, 2015

Hungarian icons 120 idea. Tamás Kárpáti’s catalogue to present works of art made in commemoration of famous Hungarians, 2015

Péter Emőd: Contemporary Hungarian artists in exhibitions abroad XIX, Artportal.hu, 2016

Be a friend of contemporary arts! Part VI: An interview with the glass artist Péter Botos, Műtárgy.com and Portfolio.hu, 2016, rerun in 2020

RTL II: This is how the Comet Prize is made, 2016

Mobile MADI Museum catalogue, Vác, Hungary, 2016

Extracts from Hungarian arts at the turn of the millennium 1985-2015, catalogue, 2017

The ‘Sentry’ of Adyváros, the first geometric glass sculpture in Hungary, Győr, 2017

HuGlass 2017, catalogue

Vasarely Hungaricons. Catalogue, 2018

Art Market Budapest 2018, catalogue

Hungarian Contemporary Art Exhibition in China. Catalogue, 2018

Ecstasy and devotion (Robot-Glass-Shade) KelleArtformer, YouTube.com

https://www.veszpremtv.hu/tv-musor/uvegnap

ARTrium Cultural and Art Magazine, Péter Botos glass, 2019

New Transdanubia Exhibition, Balatonalmádi, Hungary, catalogue, 2019

Artportal, 100 years of Bauhaus. Vasarely Museum

Art Market Budapest catalogue, 2019

Művészetkövető (Art Followers), The sculptor Péter Botos, 2019

Artportal, The auction season is coming to a close, 2019

Művészetkövető: Special favourites in 2019, runner-up: Péter Botos, 2020

HVG, Lantos Ferenc és Botos Péter, 2020

ÚjMűvészet, Optical minimalism, Szöllősi-Nagy András, 2020

Art Market Budapest : Public art on billboard in collaboration with JDCeaux and Art Market Budapest . 2020

Kossuth Rádió : Kroo Norbert speaks with Botos Péter, Szöllősi Nagy András about art, science and technology connections'. 2020

Mosoly Alapítvány-Virág Judit árverési katalógus. 2020

ONLINE SURDACESWebsite: www.peterbotos.hu / www.peterbotos.com

Facebook: Péter Botos / www.facebook.com/peter.botos.79

Instagram: @peterbotosglass