kissmiklos (Miklós Kiss /miklɔːʃ kiʃ/, born 19 September 1981) is a Hungarian designer and visual artist known for incorporating elements of graphic design, design,

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwor ...

and

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in his work. His art is characterized by a strong conceptual approach and an outstandingly aesthetic quality. In his branding and graphic designs, he has developed his unmistakably clean and distinctive style.

Life and education

Kiss was born in Dunaújváros, Hungary on September 19, 1981. He received his degree from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied graphics, painting and teaching art from 2000 to 2006. During his studies he exhibited in the Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, in

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, and in the Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros. After university, Kiss was invited to the Essl Award Exhibition, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, where he received a special award.

Commercial work

Since 2008 Kiss has established himself as a visual artist and graphic designer integrating graphics, design and interior design in his projects. In 2009 he completed the overall graphic design of the signage for the Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport. In 2011 the Museum of Applied Arts purchased his furniture collection made of recycled tires. Collaborating with Heineken from 2012 to 2014, Kiss created limited edition bottle designs and two large installations. Over time Miklós Kiss has developed a comprehensive design practice. These design projects encompass all facets of design from graphic and web design to packaging and interior design. His unique and recognizable style in

typography Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), ...

and

logo design A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name it represents as in a wordm ...

reveal his fascination for ligatures and playing with letters. From 2013 to 2018, he designed the identity and packaging for the first Hungarian perfume line, Viktoria Minya. In 2018, Kiss was commissioned by Budapest Central European Fashion Week to create a new identity and rebranding the Retail Design Blog. From 2016 to 2019, Kiss was invited to work on an overall branding project for the City of

Kaposvár Kaposvár (; also known by other alternative names) is a city with county rights in the southwestern part of Hungary, south of Lake Balaton. It is one of the leading cities of Transdanubia, the capital of Somogy County, and the seat of the Kapo ...

. In 2019, Kiss was commissioned with design projects for

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 milli ...

( New York), Four Seasons (Budapest) and had rebranding concepts for the

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and Foundation, the Daily Mail and the New York Magazine. In collaboration with the architect studio, Archikon, Kiss designed a very imposing interior for the Restaurant in House of Millennium in 2019. He created exaggerated large-scale knick-knacks, plates and vases based on the eosin technique of

Zsolnay Zsolnay, or formally Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt (Zsolnay Porcelain Manufactory Private Limited) is a Hungarian manufacturer of porcelain, tiles, and stoneware. The company introduced the eosin glazing process and pyrogranite ceramics. Hist ...

porcelain manufactory. Kiss’ designs, typographic works and

interior design Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordi ...

s are featured on countless international design blogs, in design books and publications.

Artistic work

Most of the artworks of Miklós Kiss explore the borders and transitions between art and design and feature immersive viewer interaction. Since 2011, Miklós Kiss has been performing his guerrilla art Goldenroach smuggling 14-carat gold-plated bronze cockroaches into museums and galleries, making them part of the display:

Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It ...

Tate Britain Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, Saatschi Gallery, MUMOK,

Hamburger Bahnhof Hamburger Bahnhof is the former terminus of the Berlin–Hamburg Railway in Berlin, Germany, on Invalidenstrasse in the Moabit district opposite the Charité hospital. Today it serves as a contemporary art museum, the , part of the Berlin Nati ...

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

, MAXXI,

Vatican Museums The Vatican Museums ( it, Musei Vaticani; la, Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of ...

, MOMA and the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

. In the first legal exhibition Goldenroach Unlimited in Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest, 2014 Kiss installed 12,000 golden roaches along with one 14-carat gold roach hidden among the plastic insects. The Goldenroach guerilla art and installation investigated the definition of art from the aspect of location and way of display. Kiss has engaged in several public art installations, including Ball.Room, Design Terminal, Elisabeth Park, 2016 and Just Decoration Tag Cloud in Mom Park, 2017, Budapest. In 2019 Kiss exhibited his rethought Ball.Room. installation with his in Gwangju Design Biennale Main Pavilion. In 2020, his first international solo exhibition opened in the Lottery Gallery Incheon, South Korea.

Personal life

Since 2018, Miklós Kiss has been married to photographer Eszter Sara Cseh. The extraordinary proposal, that was a disguised a guerilla art action in 2018 in MOMA, was followed by an exceptional wedding ceremony. The wedding identity design was based on manipulating some famous classical oil paintings. The faces on these iconic paintings were exchanged with the portraits of the bride and the bridegroom. The paintings were printed on canvas in the original size and the wedding started with a real exhibition opening. The wedding identity included invitation cards similar to exhibition invites, museum shop-like postcards, a photobook and a special wine label edition.

Selected exhibitions

* (2020) Emograms with Love, solo exhibition, Incheon, South Korea *(2019) Ball.Room. installation, Gwangju Design Biennale Main Pavilion, South Korea * (2017) Just Decoration Tag Cloud, installation, Mom Park Shopping Centre, Budapest * (2016) Myself, interactive exhibition, Budapest * (2016) Ball.Room, installation, Design Terminal, Budapest * (2014) Goldenroach Unlimited, exhibition, Mücsarnok / Kunthalle Budapest

Books/Magazines

* BranD Magazine, Issue 47 – Look Forward *Novum, World of Graphic Design (04/19), Stiebner Verlag GmbH, D-80636 München * Flora&Fauna, Viction:workshop Ltd., Hong Kong * Los Logos 8, Gestalten, Berlin * Branding & Spaces Design, Instituto Monsa de Ediciones, Barcelona * Bon Appétit / Complete Branding for Restaurants, Cafés and Bakeries / Sendpoints Publishing Co., Ltd. Guangzhou, China * Eat and Stay, Sandu Publishing Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China * BOB / International Magazine of Space Design / 132 / A&C Publishing Co., Ltd., Seoul * BOB / International Magazine of Space Design / 127 / A&C Publishing Co., Ltd., Seoul * AIT / Architektur, Innenarchitektur, Technisher Ausbau / 3.2015 / Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen * Los Logos 7, Gestalten, Berlin * Computer Arts, Issue #221 (December 2013), Future Publishing Ltd., Bath * How to use type, Laurence King Publishing Ltd., London * Novum – World of Graphic Design (01/13), Stiebner Verlag GmbH, D-80636 München * Computer Arts Collection Volume 1 Part 4: Branding by Franklin Till, Future Publishing Ltd., Bath, UK * Los Logos 6, Gestalten, Berlin * Communication Arts, Volume 54, Number 3, Coyne & Blanchard, Inc., California * Introducing: Visual Identities for Small Business, Gestalten, Berlin

External links

kissmiklos homepageGoldenroach movementkissmiklos on Behancekissmiklos instagramkissmiklos twitter
*https://www.designboom.com/art/kissmiklos-ball-room-emograms-gwangju-design-biennale-south-korea-09-11-2019 *https://www.designboom.com/architecture/kissmiklos-cat-bar-and-dance-club-budapest-10-09-2019 *https://www.designandpaper.com/just-decoration-tag-cloud-installation-kissmiklos *https://mindsparklemag.com/design/house-of-millenium *https://theinspirationgrid.com/emograms-with-love-art-exhibition-by-miklos-kiss *https://www.typeroom.eu/kissmiklos-presents-emograms-with-love-the-art-exhibition {{DEFAULTSORT:Kiss, Miklos Hungarian designers Artists from Budapest Living people Hungarian University of Fine Arts alumni 1981 births