This autumn, Rechnitzer Gallery presents two separate exhibitions by Czech artists Jakub Janovský and Luca Pataki, exploring memory, identity, transformation, and belonging through painting and installation. In Ground, Janovský’s haunting paintings of abandoned chairs reflect on personal and collective memory from a distinctly post-socialist perspective. In Can’t See the Forest for the Trees, Pataki creates a site-specific installation exploring roots, home, transformation, and the tension between inner and outer worlds.
Exhibitiing artists: Ádám DALLOS, Gideon HORVÁT, Vanda HUMINILOWICZ, Zsófia JAUERNIK, Rebeka RÁCZ, Anna TÁNCOS
Rechnitzer Gallery's next exhibition brings together the works of three young artists in dialogue with each other – alongside Eszter KÁLÓCZY, who has already exhibited at the gallery, the works of Júlia CSAPÓ and Emma KLING will be on display for the first time.
For Vanda Huminilowicz, the act of entering the image – treating the image as an event and encountering it – is of primary importance.The artist’s first visual experience was seeing a black Madonna icon in Częstochowa, Poland, which she felt spoke to her, addressed her, and invited her to connect with it.
Ádám Ulbert's first solo exhibition at Rechnitzer Gallery is based on the concept of sharpness. His starting point is the "perfect" form (soft, smooth, round, symmetrical) idealized by art history and its critique from the present perspective. In contrast to easily accessible elements, he draws inspiration from other "forms" of nature that are the exact opposite: prickly, thorny, sharp, and pointed.
At her debut exhibition held at the Rechnitzer Gallery, Kata Geibl presents the material from her photobook There is Nothing New Under the Sun. The exhibition consists of a selection of photographs from the monograph along with related texts, brought together in a version reimagined specifically for this occasion. The series offers a sharp critique of the mechanisms of late capitalist society.
Artists: Boglárka DANKÓ, Emese KÁDÁR, Berta MÁRVÁNY, Rebeka RÁCZ and Anna TÁNCOS. Curator: Vanda SÁRAI
The joint exhibition of Eszter Kálóczy (1994) and Kata Tranker (1989) guides us through real and imagined situations, emotional and bodily narratives, and dimensions that feel both familiar and unknown. It takes us far and deep—to spaces enclosed by walls, to archaic figures, fragmented memories, frozen faces—perhaps the former characters of our lives. We find ourselves both participants and mere observers of our own present and the coexistence of our existence in a parallel past.
“So she ran to the arms of America
And she kissed the powers that be
And someone told me (someone told me)
That the gods believe in nothing
So with empty hands I pray
And I tell myself one day
They just might see me
They just might see me”
The first solo exhibition of Kira Kovács (1998) at Rechnitzer Gallery presents a selection of her recent works and paintings from her university years.