Exhibition

The exhibition takes its starting point from familiar spaces associated with water, such as swimming pools, public baths and shower rooms. These spaces are both functional and intimate, and are linked to everyday, repetitive rituals. Washing, swimming, diving or simply being in the water are physical experiences which, for me, create peculiar, liminal states.

In these spaces, I am primarily interested in the sterile, minimalist environment, the geometric forms and the repetitive surfaces. The tiles, pools and the artificially regulated environment create an orderly, controlled world in which the presence of water nevertheless generates a constantly changing, elusive quality. After a while, these clean, functional spaces lose their everyday character and begin to function as a more timeless, somewhat alien sphere.

I do not wish to depict specific locations, but rather the atmosphere of these spaces and the feelings they evoke. Physical rituals associated with water, combined with sterile environments emptied of human presence, create a state in which our usual perception of space and time becomes uncertain.

The exhibition explores familiar yet elusive situations in which an everyday environment briefly loses its usual function and begins to operate as a timeless, transitional space.

 

Ágnes HARDI: I was born in Budapest in 1989. I began my art studies on the sculpture course at the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts, before moving on to the sculpture course at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2009, where I graduated in 2014 from the class of Valéria Sass and Ádám Szabó. In 2012, I studied at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul on an Erasmus scholarship. In 2013, I received a special prize in the installation category at the National Student Research Conference. Between 2015 and 2018, I was awarded the Gyula Derkovits Fine Arts Scholarship on three occasions.

In my work, I am primarily concerned with the relationship between the built environment and the experience of space. My sculptures and installations, which are constructed from geometric forms, often feature empty interior spaces, transitional sites and spaces that are at once familiar and alien. People are often present only indirectly, yet it is important to me that their absence, the potential uses of the space and the atmosphere arising from these elements are perceptible.

 

opening: 12 Nov 2026, 6 pm

opened by: Katica KOCSIS

on view: until 23 Jan 2027, 6 pm (from Tuesday to Saturday, 1 pm - 6 pm)

Kahan Art Space Pest (1072 Nagy Diófa street 34)