Arpad Pulai
Artistic associate
arpad.pulai@fpu.bg.ac.rs

Artistic field: Textile

Graduated from the Belgrade University of Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts (Textile department) in 2011. In 2014 Pulai founded   the  association  ’’ Čunak’’, with the  aim of reviving  textile techniques, manual  and  machine  knitting. The association works in the field of artistic / textile workshops  such is weaving, fetl wool, hand and machine knitting. Appointed  professors  at  the School of Design ‘’Bogdan Šuput’’ , Novi Sad, for  the course Textile design in 2014. Since 2015. Pulai is a full time  Professional Associate   at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the Depatment of Textile.

Member od ETN (European Textile Network )Titulci, Madrid, 2017.
Member of ULUPUDS(Association of Applied Arts and Designers  of Serbia), 2014.
He was employed like associate-designer, organisation »Etno Network«, 2013.
He is mainly working un the field of textile art, design, tapestry, digital  illustration, pedagogy.

Solo exhibitions:

• Introspection, "Inverted Fable", Gallery of the Cultural Center LazaKostić, Sombor, Serbia, 2020
• Introspection, ’’Surrealism as a Defense Mehanism of Dreamers’’, Gallery  Jovan Popović, Opovo, Serbia, 2019.
• Introspection, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo,Serbia,  2017
• Introspection, Cultural Center Backa Topola, Backa Topola,Serbia, 2017
• Drawing embroidery, Gallery 77, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Niš,Serbia, 2015.
• Solo exhibition, 46th May exhibition, House of King Peter I, Belgrade,Serbia, 2014.
• Honeycomb carpets, cultural, Srbobran,Serbia, 2014.

  Group exhibitions:

• The 9th International Mini Textile Art Exhibition "Scythia", Ivano- Frankivs’k, Ukraina, 2019
• International Micro Textile Art Exhibition, Ivano- Frankivs’k, Ukraina, 2019
• Garden of Eden, Textile Kultur Haslach, Haslach,Austria, 2019
• 23rdBiennal Tapestry exibition,TISO, GalleryCvetaZuzorić, Belgrade,Serbia, 2018
• Faculty of Applied Art, 70 yearsFPU, Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade,Serbia, 2018
• Museum of Contemporary art Vojvodina, ''Contemporary art scene of Vojvodina'',Novi Sad, Serbia, 2017
• 6.Triennial of tapestry, RTV, STUDIO’’М’’,Novi Sad, Serbia, 2017
• Students exibiotion, Textile department,Indastrialknittings, Faculty of applied art, Combank Art hol, Belgrade, Serbia, 2017
• 19. International MinitextileеxhibitionNearby-Faraway, Bratislava, 2017
• Black Box, Žitomlin, Belgrade, Serbia, 2017
• To Experiment .. SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2016.
• Pushing the limits, Hol RTS, Belgrade,Serbia, 2015.
• EGallery, Executive Group, Belgrade, Serbia, 2015.
• To Experiment .. SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2015.
• Ekokult, Progrеs Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2015.
• Pushing the limits, Hol RTS, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014.
• 5th Triennial of tapestry, The Master Centre of Novi Sad Fair, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2014.
• 52nd International Furniture Fair, Fair, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014.
• 21stBiennal Tapestry exibition, House of King Peter I, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014.
• Ekokult, Progrеs Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014.
• Ghost Project Exibition, Mixer House, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014.
• The tenth international biennial, Kherson, Ukraine, 2014.
• Costumes for film, Sword of Vengeance, Red production, Serbia, 2014.
• To experiment, Gallery ''SULUJ'', Belgrade, Serbia, 2013.
• Retrospective of 60 years of ULUPUDS, showroom, Belgrade, Serbia, 2013.
• 45th May exhibition, showroom, Belgrade, Serbia, 2013.
• Designing a recycling VIII, Gallery Singidunum, Belgrade, Serbia, 2013.
• 19th Belgrade Mini-Art scene, Gallery ''Singidunum’’, Belgrade, Serbia, 2012.
• International Exhibition ’’FIBERMAN’’, Kherson, Ukraine, 2012.
• International Exhibition ''Scythia 9'', Kherson, Ukraine, 2012.
• 18th Belgrade Mini-Art Scene, Gallery ’’Singidunum’’, Belgrade, Serbia, 2011.

Prizes and Awards

• Awaded with the’’NagyapátiKukacPéter ’’ award for the exceptional achievement in textile for the 2017.
• The Prize for the Ideal Tapestry Solution for 2017 year, Atelje 61, Petrovaradin, 2017
• Award at international exhibitions for the work "Introspection" in the categories of contemporary tapestries, 6th Triennial of Tapestry, Novi Sad, 2017
• Commendation, award  by  the jury of ULUPUDS (Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia for the work of Introspection, TISO, Belgrade, 2017
• Commendation, award by the jury of ULUPUDS (Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia) in 22nd   Biennial of Tapestry 2016.
• Won the Grand Prix at the 45th May exhibition for textile wall partition made of termic presses, Belgrade, 2013.
• Commendation, award by the jury of ULUPUDS (Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia) in the field of textiles, 2011.
• Awarded with the ’’Iva Vrinjanin’’ award for the exceptional achievement in textile for the 2011.

Current activities

• Member of the artistic council "Atelje 61", Petrovaradin, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2019.
• Member of the jury at the 51st May Exhibition, Exhibition Salon Andrićevvenac, Belgrade, 2019.
• Member of the selection jury, ’’Pushing the limits’’, Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, 2018.
• Jury member at the ’’46th May Exhibition, House of King Peter I’’, Belgrade, Serbia 2014.