The Transylvanian Art Center cordially invites you to the exhibition of the artist Márta Jakobovits at Oltului street no. 2, Transylvanian Art Center, 3rd floor on Friday, 21th of May 2021, at 18:00.

The guests will be greeted by Fruzsina Vargha, Deputy Mayor of Sfântu Gheorghe.
The exhibition will be opened by Iréne Kányádi, art historian

The exhibition can be visited between 21 May 2021 and 18 June 2021, from Tuesday to Friday, from 10:00 to 17:00, and on Saturdays between 10:00 and 18:00.

 JAKOBOVITS Márta ceramic artist I Santău/Tasnádszántó, 22th of september 1944

Márta Jakobovits began her secondary school education in Carei/Nagykároly and then transferred to the Arany János Lyceum in Salonta/Nagyszalonta, graduating in 1961. From 1961-64 she was student at the College of Architecture in Oradea/Nagyvárad. From 1965-71 she studied ceramic art under Ana Lupaș and Mircea Spătaru at the Ion Andreescu Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj – Napoca/Kolozsvár. She settled in Oradea/Nagyvárad, where for a time she was a museologist at the Körös Museum. From 1975-77, as a freelance artist, she taught ceramic art at the Art Lyceum in Oradea/Nagyvárad. She took part in the foundation of the Oradea/Nagyvárad Christian Research Centre. Subsequently, from 2003-2006, she ran courses in paper art and color theory at the Faculty of Art of the Partium Christian University (Oradea/ Nagyvárad). In 2006 she earned a doctorate from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. Between 2008 and 2010 she teaches Ceramic Art at the West University of Timișoara. Her writings on art have been published by the following journals: Fáklya (Torch), Korunk (Our Times), and A Hét (The Week). She regularly attends professional conferences and art camps. She has held membership of the Union of Fine Arts in Romania since 1975 and has served as the deputy chairwoman of the Oradea/Nagyvárad branch since 2002. She has also been a member of the Barabás Miklós Guild since its reconstitution in 1944. Since 1977 she has been board member of the European Association of Christian Artists (Rotterdam), and she has held membership of the European Academy if Culture and the Arts since 2002 and the Hungarian Academy of Art since 2005. In 2013 she became a member of the „We are Europe” Association (Düsseldorf). She also holds membership of the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists.

Prizes
1989: Honorable Mention, MINO, Japan , ● 1994: „Szolnay Sándor” Prize ● 2002: „Kőrösi Csoma Sándor” Prize ● 2004: Prize for Excellence, Nagyvárad ● 2004: Prize for Hungarian Culture ● 2007: Prize for Ceramics of the Romanian Fine Artists’ Union , Bucharest ● 2010: Diploma for Excellence of the Romaniani Ministry of Culture ● 2011: „Ferenczy Noémi” Prize ● 2013: Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit

Solo exhibitions (selection):
1991: ARTSI, Centre for Arts and Culture, with Reija Remes, Siilingjarvi, Finland ● 2006: METATERRA, Art Museum, Kolozsvár ● 2008: METATERRA, Calina Gallery, Temesvár, ● 2014: EMLÉKEZÉS/REMEMBRANCE, „Arany János” Memorial Museum’s Grand Gallery, Nagyszalonta ● 2015: Metamorphosis-Mimesis, „Brâncovenești Palaces” Cultural Centre, Mogoșoaia, Bucharest ● 2015: Pellegrinaggio / Pilgrimage, Romanian Academy in Rome, Italy ● 2017: METATERRA, „Balassi” Institute, Bucharest

Group exhibitions (selection):
1978: CERAMICA 7, Hanul cu Tei Gallery, Bucharest ● 2010: Romanian Contemporary Ceramics, Romanian Cultural Center, Paris ● 2010: EUROPEAN CERAMIC CONTEXT, Bornholm, Denmark ● 2011: National Salon of Decorative Arts, Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest ● 2015: Contemporary Art Ruhr 2015 ESSEN, Germany ● 2016: Coated in Pre-Existence, Cob Gallery, Elisabeth Xi Bauer Art-Platform, London ● 2016: Nature Art, Műcsarnok, Budapest ● 2017: GÉM/GAMEkapocs, MODEM (Center for Modern and Contemporary Art), Debrecen

Bibliography:
Encyclopedia Mondiale degli Artisti Contemporenei - Bologna, 1984 ● TIME CAPSULE, A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists - New York, 1995 ● Contemporary Hungarian Art Lexicon/Kortárs Magyar Művészeti Lexikon - Budapest, 2000 ● Susan G. Shapiro: The Curtain Rises - Publishers Jefferson, London ● Hungarian Applied Arts/Magyar Iparművészet - Budapest, 2007/3 ● Ileana Pintilie: Jakobovits Márta - METATERRA, catalog, Calina Gallery, 2008 ● Németh Júlia: Jakobovits Márta – „Pallas-Akadémia” Publishing House, Csíkszereda ● Romanian Contemporary Ceramics / La céramique roumaine aujourdhui ● European Ceramic Context - Bornholms Kunstmuseu, 2010 ● Maria Zintz: JAKOBOVITS MÁRTA – „Muzeul Țării Crișurilor” Publishing, 2012 ● Lucia Neagu: Ceramica: Meșteșug, artă și știință/Ceramics: Craft, art and science, 2020, Bucharest