Group exhibition: The Dark Side of the Sun
The Dark Side of the Sun is a group exhibition that explores the ambiguity of our times in the artistic practice of young artists from the Central Eastern European region.
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The works selected revolve around the notions of knowledge and extinction, social dystopia and imagination, stability in metamorphosis, body as foreign land of the mind, reality and virtual longing, post-human science-fiction, mysticism and climate change.
With a clearly outlining degree of irony, eeriness and dark humour, the works translate into a disillusioned, bitter lecture of our hopeless, doomed times. They also express a state of apprehension regarding summertime; once considered as an easy, light and unclouded season, summer turned into a menacing period of unpredictable, extreme weather.
Exhibiting artists are Szilvia Bolla, Borsos Lőrinc, András Cséfalvay, Megan Dominescu, Sári Ember, Andrea Éva Győri, Klaudia Januško, Selma Selman, Rita Süveges and Mónika Üveges.
acb Gallery
Founded in Budapest in 2003, acb Gallery has consistently grown in the past two decades establishing itself as one of the leading actors in the Hungarian and Eastern European art market. Initially, the gallery’s focus was on Hungarian and international emerging and mid-generation neo-conceptual artists, who became active after the political changes in the former Eastern Bloc in 1990. Since then, the gallery has expanded its focus, and now represents numerous Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists who have left their mark on art history since the 1960s and 1970s, as well as members of the youngest generations beside the already established ones.
Since the autumn of 2022, acb runs three exhibition spaces: the main gallery space, acb Attachment, which serves as a project space, and acb Plus, dedicated to large-scale solo and group presentations.
acb’s research and publishing department, acb ResearchLab was founded in 2015. This platform within the gallery aims to fill the gaps in the reception and publication of Hungarian neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde oeuvres by studying bodies of works and art phenomena previously treated as peripheral.
The gallery holds significant importance within the global art market, actively promoting its artists nationally as well as internationally and engaging in art fairs, such as the Art Basel in Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, the Frieze Masters London or the ARCO Madrid.
