Exhibition: 17 April – 7 May

In response to the outstanding interest surrounding last year’s large-scale retrospective exhibition, Memories of Fleeting Time, the exhibition Reverberations by Bornemisza László will be presented in 2026 as its intellectual continuation. This new selection offers a rare insight into previously unseen layers of the artist’s oeuvre. It brings together works that had not yet come into view during the preparation of the retrospective or the editing of the monograph. While several already known and highlighted pieces reappear, the core of the exhibition is formed by more than forty paintings that have never before been exhibited.

With his distinctive vision, Bornemisza László creates on his canvases a kind of hidden fairytale world waiting to be discovered. Among the strangely shaped, sky-reaching houses bathed in gold, teeming figures evoke at once childlike innocence and a grotesque sense of reality. His ars poetica — to see the world through the naive gaze of a child and thus reveal its grotesque dimensions — once again provides a key to interpreting the works on display. His recurring figure, Lumikki, the curious girl with braided hair, serves almost as a narrator, guiding the viewer through this peculiar universe that is at once playful and unsettling.

The paintings give the impression of a childlike gesture addressing the viewer — a teasing yet affectionate wave. The multitude of figures emerging from the canvases seems to hover on the boundary between reality and imagination, simultaneously celebrants, observers, outsiders, and participants. This duality — the world as both cheerful and unsettling — permeates Bornemisza’s art, reflecting on the historical and psychological experiences of the twentieth century in a deeply personal voice.

Reverberations is not merely an addition to the known body of work but a rediscovery of it — a continuation in which familiar motifs gain new emphasis and previously hidden connections come to light.

The exhibition will be on view at Bodó Gallery from April 17 to May 7, where visitors are once again invited to enter Bornemisza László’s unique world, suspended between fairytale and reality.