The STRABAG has announced its application for the eighth time this year. 62 artists applied for the Prize of Painting with high quality works.

Szabó Dorottya's works (born in 1975) that won the main prize are ripe, betray individual formality and consequent visual language. Dramatic stress and intimacy mix in her works. The paintings she sent in for the application are with organic elements where the face motif plays central role. Her thematic include search of self, procession of psychological elements, intimate world.

Four artists received artistic support.

Adorján Attila's (1968) hyperrealist paintings refer to art history: ripe baroque still-lives. His pictures are the reawakening of European painting.

Moizer Zsuzsa's (1979) works are motivated by self-expression. She was interested in topics surrounding women in her former pictures. Her recent portrait series asks general existential questions.

Soós Nóra's (1979) new works are developed with new topics. Besides the banal objects of personal surroundings, human figures also appear. She effectively uses the shrill tone of contemporary youth.

Szabó Dezső's (1967) pictures are the results of technical experiments. Different glazes affect each other by drying, coloring etc. and making individual surfaces. His monochrome works are sensitive, spectacular and aesthetic.

The one-decade history of the STRABAG Painting Prize proved that the initiation was rightful. It motivated the Hungarian art society and the attention of the young generation focused on the genre. The works awarded are regularly shown in the Ludwig Museum of Budapest.

The consistent professional selection of talents, who proved their endowment with their creative work afterwards, helped many of them in their careers. The winners of the STRABAG Painter Prize of the year 2005 represent and prove the quality and variability of contemporary Hungarian painting art.