New Contemporary Showroom – Summer Edition
Five female artists. Five distinct perspectives. One shared space.
Starting in 2025, Bodó Gallery launches a new contemporary art initiative. Part of the gallery’s existing exhibition space will transform into a showroom, where fresh works by contemporary artists will be showcased on a monthly basis. These curated mini-exhibitions will present 5–10 selected artworks each month, introducing visitors to emerging and established names from the Hungarian contemporary art scene. From abstraction to figuration, pop art to conceptualism, the Bodó Gallery Showroom will enrich the gallery’s core program with a dynamic and ever-changing selection.
The summer edition of the New Contemporary Showroom brings together a vibrant selection of works by five female artists representing some of the most exciting new voices in Hungarian contemporary painting. While their mediums and visual strategies differ, they are united by a refined sense of form, and a shared interest in balancing personal and conceptual approaches. This edition explores not only the confrontation of individual perspectives and the repositioning of visual language, but also summer as a sensory experience and metaphor.
Curated by: Zsófia Nóra Nagy
Exhibited Artists:
Bereczki Kata
Her paintings evoke the collective memory of summer: lakeside gatherings, picnics, female communities, floating and calmness. Characterized by stylized, minimal forms, her works merge figures and objects into unified visual elements. For Bereczki, summer is not just a season but a sensory structure – warm, nostalgic yet critically contemporary. The female body is naturally yet strongly present in her compositions, reflecting both the communal and physical dimensions of femininity.
Szőke Lili
Her exhibited piece explores the relationship between optical space and the female body – formally precise yet rich in associative layers. In Bennem (“Within Me”), the body appears in a heightened visual field, becoming a portal between inner and outer worlds. Her works often engage with the dynamics of female identity: self-reflection, the external gaze, desire, and the boundaries of selfhood. Here, summer is not a literal setting but an internal landscape – charged and hypnotic.
Bodolóczki Linda
Color and structure form the core of her painting practice. Her works intersect geometry with painterly gesture: meticulously composed yet intuitively constructed. The pictorial space pulses with layered intensity, where visual and emotional densities intertwine. Her contribution to the Summer Edition reflects the season’s sensory excess – vibration, heat, brightness – through abstract visual language. Femininity here is not narrative or figurative but encoded emotionally and corporeally, through rhythm, material, and color.
Pál Dóra
Pál’s work transforms intimate spaces, female figures, and everyday gestures into meditative visual structures. In her exhibited painting, a woman sits by the pool – a moment of quietude that also holds tension. Working with subtle hues and understated composition, her paintings reflect deeply on self-representation and the social and private readings of the female body. In her work, summer becomes a sensuous medium: light, warmth, silence – and a body that contemplates itself within it.
Struguraș-Fazakas Krisztina
Pál’s work transforms intimate spaces, female figures, and everyday gestures into meditative visual structures. In her exhibited painting, a woman sits by the pool – a moment of quietude that also holds tension. Working with subtle hues and understated composition, her paintings reflect deeply on self-representation and the social and private readings of the female body. In her work, summer becomes a sensuous medium: light, warmth, silence – and a body that contemplates itself within it.