AFTER THE FALL OF THE WALL

Part 3
Hungarian Painting in the Late 80s and Early 90s

17.5. - 29.7.2023

The artworks selected for the third part of our exhibition (WALL FALL) reflect the new formal and aesthetic visions of the era as well as its diversity and richness in Hungary, an unusual development in a country of the former Eastern Bloc. The artists gradually became part of the international scene during the 1980s, and more and more opportunities opened up to show their works in foreign institutions.

In the 1980s, aesthetic pluralism grew in Hungarian painting. Instead of different artistic trends, the individual path of life is expressed - in which so much is now suddenly possible. In parallel, in the second half of the 1980s and in the early 1990s, the striving for simultaneity with Western developments in art became important.

Hungarian success on the international contemporary art scene in the second half of the 80ies dates back to the Venice Biennale in 1986, when works by Imre Bak, Ákos Birkás, Károly Kelemen and István Nádler in the Hungarian pavilion demonstrated the freshness and topicality of Hungarian contemporary art in the still socialist country.

The turning point of 1989 did not, of course, have an immediate impact on art - no one had foreseen this end of socialism, no one and no Institution was prepared for it. An observable change in art production came mainly from the younger generation in the course of the 1990s.

The exhibition shows works by the following artists:

Imre Bak
József Bartl
László Fehér
László Mulasics
Károly Halász
András Wahorn

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday 14 - 18 h
Saturday 13 - 15 h