Two Hungarian artists represented Hungary at this year’s Beijing International Biennale, Erika Szentgyörgyi and Péter Botos. Introducing Erika Szentgyörgyi I grew up in Kiskőrös, and as my parents didn't want me to choose art as a career, only after a short detour was I admitted to the evening course at the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts in Budapest at the age of 19. Next to school, I worked as a ceramicist. Later on I spent a year in Eger at the Károly Eszterházy Teacher Training College, majoring in drawing and visual communication. In the following year I was admitted to the painting department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, specifically to József Gaál’s class. During my university years, I was a Socrates-Erasmus Fellow at the painting department of the Accademia Albertina Di Belle Arti in Turin. I graduated in 2002 as a painter and high school teacher majoring in art drawing, art history, and representational geometry. I have been painting and teaching since graduating from university. I regularly exhibit my paintings in domestic and international group and solo exhibitions. In 2003 I received the National Cultural…
