Attila Konnyu

Attila Konnyu is a Palm Beach based American-Hungarian artist, who was born in Budapest, Hungary. Konnyu studied architecture at Ybl Miklos University, Budapest. He was very interested in television and film making, He started his film career in the 1980’s. He worked with Hungarian Television (MTV) as executive producer and Mafilm Hungarian Film Studios Budapest (MAFILM) as artistic director. He had built numerous real estate development projects. He directed and produced the Radiomax party in Amnesia Ibiza (the Best Global Club around the world) on the island of Ibiza, Spain.

His experiences during meditation guided him towards Expressionism. This fascination with the art of Abstract Expressionists brought him to the Miklos Grandpierre Kolozsvari School of Art. Upon his meeting with the Tachisme artists whom he held in high regard, Konnyu departed on his journey of new gestural painting with a sometimes calligraphic aspect as a way of his self-expression. He met with the two genius abstract expressionist artists, Karel Appel and Emil Schumacher, in Tuscany and on the island of Ibiza.

“Create your paintings with strong, wild gestures and do it with a pure heart! If you please, shout with the power of wild colors, but create your paintings with the honesty of the sleeping child in you!” These were the words of Karel Appel to Konnyu when they saw each other at the end of 1990’s in Europe.
He presented his expressionist paintings at various events and galleries in California, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland and Hungary. Konnyu has traveled all over the world. He visited the continent of Australia and many countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North and South America and the Pacific Islands. He lived in the magnificent Mediterranean countries, (Italy and Spain) for three years.

In 2013 Konnyu moved to the city of Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. Inspired by Florida nature, he began creating a new series of paintings in his art studio. His artworks have been exhibited in US at prestigious venues, galleries and Art Fairs at Miami Art Basel Weeks and Art Palm Beach.

Konnyu’s American experiences and inspirations reinvigorated his great love for movie-making and with his American and European partners he started working with as a producer, director and writer from 2016 in the field of the modern movie and entertainment art business in the United States and in the countries of European Union.

From 2018, Konnyu represents his art in Asia. He exhibited in the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing, and in the major museums and art venues of the cities, like Beijing, Chongqing, Chengdu, Jiangkou, Singapore, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Zhaotong. Two hundred million people around the world watched Konnyu’s documentary movie, which was broadcasted on the Chinese International Television Channel (CCTV4) on September 22. 2019.In 2020, Attila Konnyu became a citizen of the United States, he is currently living and working in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.