Constellations: Contemporary Positions from Hungary
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CONSTELLATIONS : CONTEMPORARY POSITIONS FROM HUNGARY
Curated by Róna Kopeczky
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.
MAY 15th - JUN 25TH, 2025
PARIS-B is delighted to present Constellations : Contemporary Positions from Hungary, highlighting 18 emerging and established Hungarian artists, showcasing works across a variety of mediums.
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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.
Róna Kopeczky is a French-Hungarian art historian and curator specialised in contemporary art. She worked as curator of international art at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest between 2006 and 2015, then joined the city’s leading contemporary art gallery, acb, as artistic director. In 2024, she curated the Hungarian pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. Her curatorial practice also includes contributions to international projects that enhance the visibility of the Hungarian and Central-Eastern European Contemporary art scene such as the first and second editions of OFF-Biennále Budapest in 2015 and 2017, Manifesta 14 in Pristhina in 2022, and Secondary Archive (2021-ongoing).
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The exhibition features the selected works of 18 emerging and mid-career artists from Hungary working individually 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 boldcombinations 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.
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Constellations : Contemporary Position from Hungary 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.
– Text by Róna Kopeczky
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