Ferenc Gróf

A founding member of Société Réaliste, a designer and artist whose work explores the intersection of art and design.

His work examines ideological footprints at the intersection of graphic design and spatial experiences. He is a founding member of the Parisian co-operative Société Réaliste – founded in 2004 – focusing on questions of contemporary political representation, ideological design, and text-based interventions. Since 2015 Société Réaliste has been on hiatus, and Ferenc Gróf continues his work as an individual artist.

Ferenc Gróf is a graduate of the Hungarian University of the Arts, Budapest, and has since 2012 taught at the École Nationale Supérieur d’Art (ENSA) in Bourges (FR). Gróf lives and works in Paris.

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Société Réaliste, “UN Camouflage”, installation view, FIAC Hors-les-murs, Passerelle Senghor, Paris, 2013 (photo: Illés Sarkantyu) None Ferenc Gróf, “Flag alphabet”, 2015 (courtesy of the artist and acb gallery, Budapest) Ferenc Gróf, The real character / Zero alphabet, 2015 (courtesy of the artist and acb gallery, Budapest) Société Réaliste, “MA: Culture States”, installation view, 11th Istanbul Biennial: What Keeps Mankind Alive?, Istanbul, 2009 Société Réaliste, “Windroad”, orientation structure with the direction signs of 50 states that have emerged and disappeared during the 20th century in Europe, 2011