Jenő Lévay was born in Budapest on 5th March, 1954. He graduated from the Teachers' Training College of Eger in 1978. Jenő Lévay is a member of the Union of Hungarian Creative Artists, the Federation of Hungarian Art-and Craftsmen, the Sculptors', Graphic-Artists', Symposion-and Process Companies. He founded the XERTOX-group together with Róbert Swierkiewitz and Imre Regős in 1982. Jenő Lévay is an honorary member of the Studio of Young Artists. From 1981 he regularly appears with individual exhibitions, takes part in significant national and international collective exhibitions, biennals, triennals /in Miskolc, Győr, Maastrich, Cracow/. The XERTOX-group appeared with their series of performance entitled ”Worky Meditations” more than 100 times until the beginning of the 1990s in Hungary and in Paris, Brussels, Bergamo. Their works were present at several exhibitions from Tokyo to New York. His works are exhibited in several public collections ( Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Historic Museum, Ministry of Education and Culture, Miskolc Gallery, Hermann Otto Museum, Xantus Janos Museum, Library of County Békés, Studio of Young Artists, Graphic Workshop of Vác, Missionart Gallery) and on public squares in Csepel ( ”Vampire-trap”, together with Lajos Hartvig) and in Baj ( ”Tune-fence”) . Since 1981 he has been working on the different possibilities of employing office and industrial photo-copy equipments in fine art. In Jenő Lévay's art individual drawing and reproductive processes are equally emphasised. What is typical of both of the trends is the producing of planned situations, processes and the extension of the piece of graphic art into space and time. He initiated the establishment of Transfer Point Fund in 1994. Its aim is to make an artistic use of the remained building of Danube Ropeway Loading Dock that functioned between 1927 and 1963. The building is standing isolated and aimlessly in the bed of the river Danube has been transubstantiated into an imaginary Palace of Culturral Stock Exchange by Jenő Lévay. He started a series of programmes for subscribing Thought-Stock shares during which he appeared forty times on twenty-seven different scenes within one year. ( 1994-95)

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