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
In 2025 //
February - March / Styrian Artist in Residence, Graz
May / Artist in residence programme, Salzburg
June - September / Group show at the Hungarian National Gallery
June - July / Duo show with Zita Borbély at FKSE , Budapest
October / Trio show with Zsófi Antalka and Andrea Szilák in Bratislava at Medium Gallery
Memberships
Educations
2012 – 2018 – HUFA — Graphic Artist (MA)
Solo shows
2024 - The skin sees when the eyes touch / Bőrlátás / curated by Annamária Szabó, Zsolt Kozma, Inda Gallery, Budapest
2023 – We are the unthinkable dreams of matter / Bánkitó festival, Bánk
2022 – Born of slime and decay / w. Stella Koleszár / ISBN+Gallery, Budapest
2021 – Fabric of childhood / curated by Zsolt Kozma / Inda Gallery, Budapest
2020 – I’m letting it to... / Dorottya Kanizsai Museum, Mohács
2020 – Please come in / curated by Réka Pócsi & Kata Szeder / Hybridart Space Gallery, Budapest
Selected group shows
2024 – Parallel Worlds , Inda Gallery, Budapest
2024 – Beyond the paper , Deák 17 Gallery, Budapest
2024 – Dissilutionem Patompticon / Margaret Island Water Tower, Budapest
2024 – Everyone was a child , Kastner Kommunity, Budapest
2024 – Kamalect: Kőbánya S1 Inverse / Dreher Antal Brewery, Budapest
2024 – Lament , Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest
2024 – The dormant, the wandering, the amnesiac ,Tokaj Art Wine Gallery, Bp
2023 – Spooky action at a distance , Zsolnay Quarter, Pécs
2023 – Through the ages , HAB art centre, Budapest
2023 – First half ‘23 , Inda Gallery, Budapest
2023 – DEMO - This is not an organic community / FKSE , Budapest
2023 – Partial shade / Zsófi Faur Gallery , Budapest
2022 – Patterns / Embroidery in contemporary art , Deák 17 Gallery, Budapest
2022 – meltdown , Nyolc és Fél , Budapest
2020 – ’Not at all, doctor sir, I can’t get a good nights sleep’ , PIM, Budapest
Selected publications
2024 – Look closely - Metzing Eszter, orszagut.com, Katica Kocsis
2024 – Forest of Intense - Reflections on the exhibition The skin sees when the eyes touch/ Bőrlátás, prae.hu, Éva Freund
2024 – In Da Studio 4, Artkartell.hu, Katica Kocsis
2024 – The skin sees whn the eyes touch / saliva.live
2023 – Giving flesh to feelings with stitches, nepszava.hu, Dénes P. Szabó
2022 – Born of slime and decay / The constructed reality, Radio Tilos
2022 – Born of slime and decay / Kubaparis / ÚjMűvészet
2022 – The man who stepped in paint / Kubaparis
2021 – I remember not only the beautiful / kultura.hu
2020 – Barnie loves you / ujmuveszet.hu
Awards & scholarships
2025 – Artist in residence programme, Salzburg
2025 – Styrian artist in residence programme, Graz
2021 – Budapest Art Mentor Scholarship
2018 – Tamás Lossonczy prize
2017 – Junior - Art prize
Selected projects
The skin sees when the eyes touch / Bőrlátás
2024
Everyone was a child
2024
We are the unthinkable dreams of matter
2023
Spooky action at a distance
2023
Born of slime and decay – Exhibition of Stella Koleszár & Eszter Metzing
2022
Born of slime and decay – installation
2022
Enough to dream lucid
2022
The possibility of growing an inner skin – meltdown exhibition
2022
Selected installations
2021 - 2022
Fabric of Childhood - Solo exhibition at Inda Gallery
2021
Inner Skin -
"Not at all, doctor sir, I can’t get a good nights sleep"
2020
Selected installations
2020 – 2021
Let's play! series
2018 – 2020
Inner garden - diploma project
2018
