Vivien Kabar expresses herself first of all through her paintings but she is also at home in the worlds of poetry and music. She paints, writes poems, and composes — just like an artist of the Renaissance. Her fertile creativity is represented, by hundreds of paintings, international exhibitions, four published books, and countless musical compositions.

Vivien Kabar was born in Hungary in 1981. Her exceptional talents soon showed: even as a young child she drew and painted promisingly, she has been writing poems since the age of twelve. Her mother is Hungarian, her father is Arab. She has imbibed two cultures but feels and professes herself a cosmopolite.

She was driven by the desire at a very early age to get acquainted with as many different countries as possible, with the diverse customs and culture of their inhabitants. She had been born in lucky times. The borders in Europe were just about to disappear and she was free to move around. Today the wide world is her spiritual home.

Kabar spent considerable time in Germany and in a few years absorbed German culture. Other countries and continents have also made ineradicable imprints on her mind. Like a child, she is time and again enchanted by the many hues of people. Her pictures expressively testify to this range of thought and emotions.

Her distinguished teachers were Dr. Ilia de Riska, stage- and costume-designer; Gábor Rádóczy Gyarmathy, painter; and the world renown authoress, Mária Szepes. Vivien Kabar has learned a lot from them, though she puts more faith in destiny than in formal education. She paints listening to an inner voice; in her pictures the gates of a mysterious and miraculous word open. And behind them emerge the artist’s colourful, intellectual and clear confessions of life, connections, love and passing away.

Vivien Kabar is sponsored by the Horváth & Fia Kft. Company.

Publications

Suhanó magány [Flitting Loneliness] (versek [poems], 2003)

Kígyóbőrben [In Snake Skin] (versek [poems], 2004)

Sors-ok [ Fate’s causes] (versek [poems], 2007)

Kabar Tarot – kártya & könyv [Kabar Tarot – Cards & Book] (filozófia [philosophy], 2007)

 

Solo exhibitions

2007. Art-Szem Galéria [Art-Szem Gallery], Budapest

2008. Opera Galéria [Opera Gallery], Budapest

Major collective exhibitions

2002.   Mönchengladbach Galerie, Germany

2008.   “Válogatott Magyar Kortársfestők Kiállítása”

[Exhibition of Selected Hungarian Contemporary Painters], Opera

            Galéria [Opera Gallery], Budapest

2009.  “Európai Alkotók Csoportos Kortársművészeti Kiállítása” [Collective                          Exhibition of     Contemporary European Artists], Opera Galéria [Opera Gallery],      Budapest 

2009.  “Hungarian Spirit”, J-Trip Art Gallery, Tokyo

2009.  “Anne Frank a művészek szemével” [Anne Frank in the artists’ eyes], Peter Wilhelm    Art Project, Budapest

2009.  “Homo Europaeus viewed by young artists”, Brussels

2010. "International Contemporary Masters Exhibition"

at the Southern Nevada  Museum of Fine Art, Las Vegas, USA

2010. Exhibition at the Art District Gallery- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
 

Movie

2010. Her paintings were featured in a Hungarian movie, called: „Igazából Apa”.

 

Prizes

“Artis Laudabilis” diploma and prize, 2008. – Awarded by the Európa Authentica Kulturális Egyesület [Europa Authentica Cultural Organization].