New Contemporary Showroom
Starting in 2025, Bodó Gallery is launching a new contemporary art project. Part of the familiar exhibition space will be transformed into a showroom, showcasing fresh works by contemporary artists on a monthly rotating basis. These mini-exhibitions will feature 5-10 artworks each month, created by artists from the Hungarian contemporary art scene. Ranging from abstraction to figuration, pop art to conceptualism, the newly established Bodó Gallery Showroom will complement the gallery’s permanent collection with a diverse selection of artists and works.
The first selection for the New Contemporary Showroom features five distinctive artists, each with a unique style and artistic vision. All the showcased works were created either last year or in early 2025.
The artworks can be viewed and purchased on our webshop or in our gallery.
Cserbik Rita: The Fruits of Decay, 2024
Cserbik Rita is a young painter who studied painting at the University of Szeged. She later spent an extended period in the United States, where she gravitated towards abstract expressionism and action painting. She has set up her studio in a unique environment—a gallery space within a coffee roastery. In 2023, she held a solo exhibition at a prominent Budapest gallery.
Her “The Fruits of Decay” series is inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection The Flowers of Evil. Baudelaire’s verses explore the contradictions between beauty and decay, the tension between depths and heights, casting new light on the nature of emotions and thoughts.
Kis Endre: Farewell, 2024
Transylvanian-based visual artist Kis Endre was featured in Bodó Gallery’s Utopia and Dystopia exhibition, co-hosted with the Collectors’ Club last year. His work was also included in the gallery’s winter auction.
In his montage-like compositions, he juxtaposes classical painting elements with digital aesthetics, creating an alternative reality. His “Journey into the White Noise” series stems from the desire to escape this dystopian world. The series portrays the development of a stereotypical mythological hero through visual references to ancient friezes, classical painting techniques, video games, internet browsing, and the experience of doomscrolling.
Soós Nóra: Kierkegaard’s Clown, 2024
Soós Nóra is one of the most outstanding and popular painters of today’s middle generation in Hungary. She has participated in numerous large-scale solo exhibitions and has a distinctive voice in contemporary painting.
“Kierkegaard’s Clown” speaks seriously, tells no jokes, yet the audience applauds. The situation is truly hopeless. According to the original story, no matter how the clown warns the crowd that the theater is on fire, they only applaud. This continues until the clown perishes along with the theater and the audience. Perhaps we are approaching the end—our societal structures are outdated, yet we fail to realize it.
Patrick Murakami: Squeak, 2025
A young painter with an instinctive, expressive approach, Patrick Murakami brings a fresh perspective to even the most iconic artworks in art history. His style leans towards pop art, and he frequently references animated characters in his works.
His piece “Squeak” was inspired by the annoying squeaking sound of sneakers. This multilayered artwork revives the imagery of a well-known cereal box, linking it to the trials of silencing a squeaky shoe through various hacks.
Szőke Lili: Out of the Box 5, 2024
Szőke Lili earned her degree in visual representation from Budapest Metropolitan University in 2018, studying under renowned artists such as Márton Barabás, Sándor Rácmolnár, and József Baksai, with Ákos Wächter as her supervisor. Her current style, forms, and visual atmosphere began to take shape during her university years, earning her the Best of Metu Diploma award.
Her “Out of the Box” series is filled with visual illusions that create a sense of wonder. The constant interplay of grids and stripes forms a dynamic, vibrating environment, yet the focal figure—an anonymous, faceless silhouette—dominates the space.
This is just the beginning of the New Contemporary Showroom at Bodó Gallery—stay tuned for fresh monthly selections of remarkable contemporary art.