Eszter Metzing

Eszter Metzing’s art transmits the suggestions of an unknown universe. It is the call of an utterly unknown world, dark extremities insiduously slipping into ruptured and rent minds.We have no choice: it is not enough to merely „watch” – nonhuman structures invite us to symbiosis. The borderline between body and world, rationality and unfathomability, slowly fade away. A new, common form of life is being born, in the abysses of the intangible. If we surrender to this transformation, we realize that we were the alien universe all along. We were the tentacles of madness, the webworks weaved in lightless chasms, inscrutable dreams of matter. Dead but dreaming, fabulating the heterogeneity of matter, the vibrant transluscence is dreaming us.

/ Márió Z. Nemes poet, critic, aesthete /

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Upcoming

Roundtable Discussion: What Does It Take to Make a Living from One’s Art? - Karakter Birthday Mini-Festival at Trafó, organized by Telex, 07.11.2026.
YOUNIQUE ² Art Auction, 09.11. 2026.
Solo exhibition at the Liszt Institute Warsaw, curated by Gáspár Keresztes, 12.11. 2026. - 15.02.2027.
Current /
Lymph / solo project at Cairo Contemporary until the end of November, Budapest, HU

Memberships

2024 – Secondary Archive / Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe
2022 – Studio of Young Artists’ Association (FKSE)
2022 – Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists
2021 – Represented by Inda Gallery
Studio at Art Quarter Budapest

Educations

2025 –27 – Professional Training Programme in Glass Art and Craft / Kisképző” School of Fine and Applied Arts
2012 – 2018 – HUFA — Graphic Artist (MA)

Scholarships / Residencies / Awards

2026 – BGSW - The Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Arts / AiR – 2 Month, Slupsk/Ustka, PL
2026 – Kair Artist in Residence – 3 Month, Kosice, SK
2025 – Artist in residence programme, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2025 – Styrian artist in residence programme, Graz
2021 – Budapest Art Mentor Scholarship
2018 – Tamás Lossonczy prize
2017 – Junior - Art prize

Solo shows

2026 – Archive of Contact / w. Asztrid Csatlós, Liget Gallery, Budapest, HU
2026 – I surfaced from a deep swampy sleep / w. Stella Koleszár, LajosVajda Studio, Szentendre, HU
2026 – Rituals and rhythms / w. Olivera Parlic, Bel Art Gallery, Novi Sad, RS
2025 –We are the essence of it.We construct it.It falls apart. / w. Zita Borbély, FKSE, Budapest, HU
2024 – The skin sees when the eyes touch / Bőrlátás, Inda Gallery, Budapest, HU
2023 – We are the unthinkable dreams of matter / Bánkitó festival, Bánk, HU
2022 – Born of slime and decay / w. Stella Koleszár / ISBN+Gallery, Budapest, HU
2021 – Fabric of childhood / curated by Zsolt Kozma / Inda Gallery, Budapest, HU
2020 – I’m letting it to... / Dorottya Kanizsai Museum, Mohács, HU
2020 – Please come in, Hybridart Space Gallery, Budapest, HU

Selected group shows

2026 – International Exhibitionof Leather Forms / curated by Tomek Pawlowski - Jarmolajev, Romuald Demidenko, BGSW, Slupsk/ Ustka, PL
2026 – At The Threshold Latent Desire / curated by Rena Furui, Matt Ford Studio, London, UK
2026 – Interrogated Land , Tér-Kép Gallery, Budapest, HU
2025 – Texture, Streetviewanderlecht, Brussels, BE
2025 – Access is off the beaten track, Hungarian Art&Business, Budapest, HU
2025 – Carnivores, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, SK
2025 – After Laughter, Schaumbad Atelier, Graz, AT
2025 – Intertwined, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, HU
2025 – Constellations: Contemporary Positions from Hungary, Paris, FR
2025 – Only Friends, AQB Project Space, Budapest, HU
2025 – Monstrous, Keil Gallery, Graz, AT
2024 – Parallel Worlds , Inda Gallery, Budapest, HU
2024 – Beyond the paper , Deák 17 Gallery, Budapest, HU
2024 – Dissilutionem Panompticon / Margaret Island, Budapest, HU
2024 – Everyone was a child , Kastner Kommunity, Budapest, HU
2024 – Kamalect: Kőbánya S1 Inverse / Dreher Antal Brewery, Budapest, HU
2024 – Lament , Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest HU
2024 – The dormant, the wandering, the amnesiac ,Tokaj Art Wine Gallery, Bp
2023 – Spooky action at a distance , Zsolnay Quarter, Pécs, HU
2023 – Through the ages , HAB art centre, Budapest, HU
2023 – First half ‘23 , Inda Gallery, Budapest, HU
2023 – Partial shade / Zsófi Faur Gallery , Budapest HU