Géza Perneczky (1936)

Artist, art historian, critic. From 1957-62, he studies art history and Hungarian at the Humanities Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (ELTE) in Budapest, then he emigrates to Germany in 1970. Through his networking activity, he builds up important relationships between the Hungarian and international art world, and takes an active role in the international mail-art movement. At the beginning of his artistic career, between 1970 and 1975, he produces his most famous works, conceptual artworks (e.g. Concepts like commentary, 1971), and photos, which now can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan and the MoMA in New York, and in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others. As a theoretician, he regularly writes and publishes essays in periodicals and other issues, and he even publishes his own artworks and writings under the name Softgeometry.