Conceived by Róna Kopeczky, curator of the Hungarian pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2024), this group show plunges visitors into the heart of the contemporary Hungarian art scene.

Bringing together artists who have made their mark on the international scene some of them winners of the prestigious Esterházy Prize, others who have exhibited at previous editions of the Venice Biennale – the project aims to promote dialogue between artistic territories and sensibilities. Painting, sculpture, installation, video… these are just some of the mediums explored to grasp the aesthetic and conceptual issues that run through young Hungarian creation.

The exhibition features the selected works of 18 emerging and mid-career artists from Hungary working indivdually or in duo. They use a great variety of media and deal in a personal, sensitive, eerie or poetic manner with environmental, existential topics,notions of cultural history, identity and hybridity, or actual societal phenomena. Experimenting with bold combinations of materials or evolving within the boundaries of traditional art forms, the artists voice eco-critical approaches of nature representation, question the relation between individual and society, mankind and its environment, or explore concepts of collective memory, remembrance and bodily experience.

The exhibition conveys an unsettling and ambivalent atmosphere that balances between lush and deadly rot, sensuality and virtuality, figuration and abstraction, analogue and digital, real and surreal, archaic and contemporary.

Artists:
Ádám ALBERT, Róbert BATYKÓ, Dániel BERNÁTH, Veronika CSONKA, József CSATÓ, EJTECH (Judit Eszter KÁRPÁTI and Esteban DE LA TORRE), Ákos EZER, Gideon HORVÁTH, Zsófia KERESZTES, Katalin KORTMANN-JÁRAY & Karina MENDRECZKY, Bence MAGYARLAKI, Mira MAKAI, Tamás MELKOVICS, Eszter METZING, Zsolt MOLNÁR, Luca Sára RÓZSA, Rita SÜVEGES and Kata TRANKER.