Gabor Stark

Gabor Stark is an urbanist, artist, and educator. After studying architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Glasgow School of Art he co-founded the Berlin-based practice tx – Büro für Programmatische Stadtentwicklung in 2000. The practice focuses on temporal and programmatic aspects of urban transformation processes, has successfully participated in international design competitions, and conducted research and realisation projects commissioned by the Senate for Urban Development in Berlin, the German Federal Ministry of Traffic, Building and Urban Development, and the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning.

From 2000 to 2005 Gabor taught architecture and urban design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and the TU Berlin. He joined the University for the Creative Arts in 2007. Gabor initiated and led the MA Urban Design from 2013 to 2019, and now convenes the Master of Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) at UCA Canterbury School of Architecture and Design. He is a member of UCA’s research career field and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

In his research and art practice, Gabor explores the liminal space between architecture, art, and sound. He has realised public art projects, published, exhibited, and lectured about his work in England, Lithuania, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, and Russia.

In 2013 Gabor won the first prize in the international design competition ‘Worlds of El Lissitzky’ in Novosibirsk, Siberia with his portable monument to the Russian architect and artist El Lissitzky and the German art historian Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. He realised a temporary art & architecture installation for the Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture programme in Cyrus. In collaboration with the East Kent Railway Trust, he completed a permanent WW1 commemorative sculpture project in Shepherdswell and Eythorne in 2017. Gabor orchestrated an artist walk for the Chalkup 21 Art & Architecture Coastal Trail in 2018. In the same year, he held an artist residency at Kearsney Abbey, Dover. 

Since 2020 Gabor has expanded his practice into the sonic realm. In 2021 he exhibited two sound installations at the Larnaca Biennale in Cyprus and at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy. In 2023 he participated in the Arnis Art Experience in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and was selected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. As part of the EFE – 6th Annual Installation Festival in Cyprus, Gabor will realise an urban sound installation in Pafos in September 2023.