Kahan Art Space Buda & Pest

"The works I paint are rather pictures made up of memories, which are rooted in the lived reality as well as in the knowledge of previous eras. The figures in my pictures praise the simple life and are looking for islands of wildness. "

The Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation is pleased to present the exhibition PERCEPTION by the artists Éva Krajcsovics and Erzsébet Vojnich.

Vertical Silence, the solo exhibition of András Mohácsi, presents a selection from over three decades of the artist’s practice, with particular emphasis on the timeless presence of his monumental stone sculptures.

"I love the mist, for it is silent, like a foreign land whose inhabitant is solitude and whose king is dream." /István Fekete/

The Dr. Eva Kahan Foundation is pleased to present an exhibition by the Hungarian punk artist Eszter Ágnes Szabó.

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” – Blaise Pascal

The Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation is pleased to announce the exhibition Dániel Nagy - THE CURVATURE OF PERCEPTION, which opens on 8 June at the Kahán Art Space Budapest.

The Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation cordially invites you to the commemorative exhibition of the 90th anniversary of the birth of writer György Konrád.

In 2012, András Mohácsi created a series of drawings with a personal touch in memory of people killed in the Holocaust.

Postseason series of paintings deals with gentrification of my hometown Split, Croatia as a consequence of post-conflict privatization crimes after break-up of Yugoslavia, following a complete reliance on tertiary sector of economy – tourism.

The Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation is pleased to present at Kahán Art Space Budapest

The My Explosions project has a very tragic social colour and personal connotation.

"It is important for me that my ideas are inspired by personal readings of my own experiences or phenomena."

The Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation is pleased to present an exhibition by the Polish-Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Kahán Art Space Vienna & Budapest.

The Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation is pleased to present the solo exhibition called “The Carousal of Memory” by the Hungarian visual artist Csenge Lantos at Kahán Art Space Budapest.

The Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation is pleased to present an exhibition by the Hungarian intermedia artist Judit Kis at Kahán Art Space Vienna & Budapest.

Attila József: Consciousness (detail), 1934

Like a pile of hewn timber
the world lies heaped up on itself,
one thing presses and squeezes and
interlocks with the other,
so each is determined.
Only what is not has a bush,
only what will be is a flower,
what is crumbles into fragments.
(Translated by Michael Beevor)

What happens when a French-Hungarian and a Japanese-Hungarian young, talented artist join forces?

A street, a house, a car. Rural buildings, homes, their surroundings and what they tell us about society and social differences. This is the subject of the exhibited pictures.

Florek is a 100% urban plein-air painter, his idealism motivates him to reinterpret plein-air painting and adapt it to the current post-industrial landscape.

For almost a decade, the artist has been dealing with the 21st-century issue of accumulation, gathering stuff and the resulting clutter.

It’s been a while that the artist’s interested in Anthropocene as a geological borderline, the disappearance and series of catastrophes, powers that are liberated by destructive human activity and that are placing everyone and everything on a crossroad.

Márta Balla and Kata H. Jancsó spent a month in January 2020 at the Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation’s Artists in Residence Program in Tuscany, Italy.

Zoltán Kovács wants to show and express two important moments of his sculptural work. On the one hand, he wants to present Constructive Creation Methodology, which is well thought out and is key for each step (from the first structure sketch to the bronze sculpture). On the other hand, he wants to demonstrate how a form can be modified by diverse, different materials.

Pallavi Majumder is a painter and installation artist from Kolkata, India. She likes to experiment, often breaking out of the limitations of two-dimensional paintings and occupying space as well.

Csilla Horváth graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts with a degree in painting, though she has focused already on spatial solutions in her works before graduation.

The exhibition entitled Osztálykülönbségek "Class Differences" consists of the art works of second- and third-year painters at Attila Szabó's department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. The focus of the exhibition is on the presentation of diversity and the question of how the works of young, beginning painters fit into certain tendencies of contemporary art.

To the artist, “Everything will be fine” serves a blunt, mantra-like purpose, something we all say to ourselves in order to make us feel that everything will turn out okay, even though we know deep down that that’s not going to happen.

The exhibition has nine stops, summaries, moments.
Special raw materials, the search for perfection, demonstrative, almost indecent pieces according to the standards of the profession prone to strictness, as they contain undervalued, slightly despised raw materials with artificial sockets.

Twelve years ago, two couples decided to organize a creative camp for mostly young artists. Since then, a lot has happened to painters and sculptors. Their vision has changed, their technique has evolved, they have developed their own style, they have reached new themes, there are those who are in the meantime a constant actor of foreign art-fairies, and there are also those who are not working. In this exhibition, we are looking for answers to questions like what are twelve years in art enough for?