The Rechnitzer Gallery’s summer exhibition focuses on works that draw heavily on the era of antiquity as a primary source of inspiration. Given that the connection to Greek and Roman antiquity has been a recurring artistic practice since the Renaissance, and considering the works of contemporary artists, one might ask in what ways this connection remains relevant or exciting today. For which themes can this return be inspiring, and which perspectives and artistic practices are worth rethinking from a contemporary viewpoint? To what extent do artists approach this period critically or rather nostalgically? How can these topos, often deeply ingrained in European culture, be reframed? The works on view in this group exhibition draw inspiration from ancient culture in the broadest sense: architecture, archaeology, and ruins, as well as mythology and its interpretations, become recurring themes across a variety of paintings, sculptures, and installations.
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.