FACE TO FACE

From March 2024, a selection of portraits of the world's rock and pop stars will fill the Foyer and auditoriums of the House of Music. The pop-up exhibition will present a selection of 40 images from the diverse oeuvre of Tibor Bozi, an international phenomena of music photography. The pop-up exhibition, which accompanies the Diva & Icons exhibition, features a number of divas that the photographer caught before they became real divas. Tickets for the Diva & Icons exhibition, opening in May, are available here.

Tibor Bozi, the internationally renowned Munich-based photographer, has become an inescapable music documentarian and portrait photographer of the last forty years. His camera has captured thousands of musicians and bands from a wide range of genres from rock, pop, hip hop and electronic music. His portfolio includes a long list of the biggest stars, from Beyonce, Björk, Nirvana and Daft Punk to Fiona Apple, Aphex Twin and many more. Bozi is known for capturing strong gestures, capturing accidental or planned movements often caught in just a few minutes of work. The photographer is always looking for the personality behind the bright and colourful images. This intention also shines through in the portraits of performers, often captured at the beginning or the upward phase of their careers, that are exhibited, showing us characters who are now treated as global stars all over the world.

Tibor Bozi left Hungary on an adventurous journey in the trunk of a car in 1977. He has worked in Rome, Barcelona, Caracas, Miami and other cities, and has also made a career as a theatre photographer, working with theatre director Peter Brook, among others.

In the early nineties, fashion photography became his new focus, shooting for magazines such as Vogue, Elle and Harper's Bazaar, and while moving to New York, he met and worked with world-renowned music photographer Lynn Goldsmith in Jamaica. His images from the set of Spike Lee's 1991 film Jungle Fever were bought by Lynn Goldsmith's agency, which offered him a permanent contract. Bozi later settled in Munich, from where he moved to London, and worked for record labels and magazines in the United States. He travelled extensively, taking portraits of musicians, artists and TV personalities - including Dr Dre, Beck, Eminem, Marilyn Manson and Donald Trump, who was on TV shows at the time. His photographs have appeared on the covers of magazines around the world and have been published in the New Yorker and Rolling Stone.

His exhibition Face To Face, opening at the House of Music, shows us portraits of stars such as Beyoncé, Björk, Lauryn Hill, Aaliyah, Alice Cooper, or brings us closer to bands such as Nirvana, the Beastie Boys, Daft Punk or one of the most famous divas of the Hungarian theatre and music world, Bori Péterfy.

Curators: Gábor Szilágyi, Dorottya Ligeti