From 1959 to 1965, Endre Tót (b. 1937, lives and works in Berlin) studied mural art at the University of Applied Arts in Budapest.
His early work was characterised by lyrical and calligraphic paintings closely linked to Informal Art, while in the late 1960s his practice was largely informed by Pop Art. In 1971, he gave up painting. Under the influence of Conceptual Art, telegrams, postcards, posters, graffiti, banners, actions, films and artist’s books made their appearance in his oeuvre, in which he devoted himself to the study of three key concepts: Nothing/Zero, Rain and Gladness. In 1978, he was awarded a DAAD scholarship in Berlin, which enabled him to leave Hungary; a year later, he moved to Cologne. At the end of the 1980s, he returned to painting, working with conceptual ideas he had developed in the 1970s. His work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions over the last few decades, including at MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern in London. It has been the subject of retrospective exhibitions at Museum Ludwig in Cologne (1999), Museum Fridericianum in Kassel (2006) and MODEM in Debrecen, Hungary (2012).
Endre Tót is represented by galleries acb, Budapest, and Salle Principale, Paris.