KAMIAR’S MONTHLY REPORT
NOVEMBER 2020 | BUDAPEST EDITION
Art Market Budapest
Nicholas Campbell immersing at Inda Gallery’s exhibition USA DIARY, featuring artist Gábor Koós
Exhibition “In the Shadow of Homotirannus” with artworks by Levente Baranyai at Erika Deák Galéria
Art Market Budapest
Judit Jerk of Léna and Roselli Gallery and Kamiar Maleki at Art Market Budapest
Bernáth Dániel, Mountain Mama no.47, 2020, at Ani Molnár Gallery
Installation of works by artist Sándor Pinczehelyi at acb gallery
Visitors at WhiteConcepts Gallery’s booth at Art Market Budapest
Hungary is a magical country and Budapest, for me, is such an under-appreciated capital. It was great to be back in this beautiful city thanks to the great hospitality of Atilla Ledényi and his fabulous team at Art Market Budapest who were brave enough to host an in real life art fair with an online panel program in the midst of this pandemic.
Art Market Budapest at MILLENARIS cultural and convention center, photo by Fanni Hermán
For me it is always interesting to see how Fair Directors and owners handle the situation we are in and manage to sail through a fair operationally. I went together with my friend and art advisor Nicholas Campbell of Narcissus Arts, who visited Budapest for the first time.
The Hungarian art scene is fascinating. A great history of fabulous underrepresented art has recently been getting a lot of attention with large museums purchasing some of the older masters. I am also interested in the very vibrant gallery scene with great galleries such as Erika Deák Galéria, Ani Molnár Gallery, acb gallery, INDA Gallery, Léna and Roselli Gallery and many more.
Art Market Budapest is held every year in an amazing building, Budapest’s convention center, and even though very locally attended had a great atmosphere on the opening night. You walk in to do a temperature check, and as it was a fairly local audience it did seem very socially distant. Except for a few of the major booths where a lot of people were huddling around.
Nicholas Campbell immersing at Inda Gallery’s exhibition USA DIARY, featuring artist Gábor Koós
Bernáth Dániel, Mountain Mama no.47, 2020, at Ani Molnár Gallery
The top 5 galleries – Erika Deák Galéria, Ani Molnár Gallery, acb gallery, and INDA Gallery – of the city as mentioned above exhibited together to support the fair by getting a collaborative booth where each gallery presented one painting.
Down the aisle, Bellechasse55 were showing Niloufar Banisadr, an Iranian born artist. The fabulous Léna and Roselli Gallery had an incredibly large booth showing Hungarian artists Mòzes Incze, Dàniel Tarcsi, Gàbor Nagy and Ròza El-Hassan painters and Boldi sculptor. They also collaborated with the Croatian artist Zoran Simunovic on a separate booth.
Photon Gallery had two booths, one representing their Vienna Based gallery and one their Slovenian based one. Horizont Galéria, one of my more favourite younger galleries in Budapest, showed a group show including Dia Pintér, Ádám Horváth, József Tasnádi, Emil Halmos, Márk Fridvalszki, and Liz Nielsen.
Galerie Koppelmann was as active as ever showcasing works of the collection Hoffmann, as well as artist of Laszlo Bornemisza and more.
Exhibition “In the Shadow of Homotirannus” with artworks by Levente Baranyai at Erika Deák Galéria
Installation of works by artist Sándor Pinczehelyi at acb gallery
Judit Jerk of Léna and Roselli Gallery and Kamiar Maleki at Art Market Budapest
The following day Nicholas and I went gallery hopping. We started off at acb gallery in Buda’s city center, who had a great show by multimedia artist Sándor Pinczehelyi.
Ani Molnár Gallery showed a great young Hungarian artist Dániel Bernáth, whose main interest is the image itself, as an object and an idea, a historical and abstract formation.
Erika Deák Galéria presented the latest painting series by Levente Baranyai. He deals with the dialectical relationship between untouched landscapes and traces of human civilization.
INDA Gallery showed a fabulous artist Gábor Koós who created an incredible installation in all the gallery rooms, showcasing memory prints of his recent road trip through the West Coast in the US, capturing the dimensions of the American continent.
Text and images: Kamiar Maleki
Art Market Budapest 2020, photo by Olivér Sin
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