Máté Bartha (1987), is a Budapest-based visual artist. He graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in 2011 with a Master’s degree in photography, and in 2016 from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, majoring in Documentary Filmmaking. Máté Bartha’s artistic practice is driven by a mission to reenchant the world through world-building and impersonation. His work constructs new narratives by blending symbolic and subjective interpretations of the metropolis, treating urban spaces as arenas for imaginative transformation. Through playful acts of theory-fiction, Bartha adopts personas such as a Renaissance-inspired scientist, an urban oracle, or an interpreter of overlooked patterns, using the city as a backdrop to reveal hidden possibilities and forgotten connections. In 2014, he self-published his first book of photographs, Common Nature. His series Kontakt was awarded the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles International Photo Festival in 2019. With his project Anima Mundi, he has won the main jury prize at Les Boutographies, Montpellier, 2024. He is currently a doctoral student of photography at MOME.
