Klaudia Januško | Too Hot to Handle
Klaudia Januško’s solo exhibition, Too Hot to Handle at acb Attachment. Opening: March 6, 2025 (Thursday) 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Schedule
acb Attachment
March 6 – April 25, 2025
Opening: March 6, 2025 (Thursday) 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Klaudia Januško’s solo exhibition, Too Hot to Handle (acb Attachment), confronts the dominant representations of women in contemporary video games with possible cyberfeminist critiques, juxtaposing them against visual worlds inspired by the landscape painting traditions of the Romantic era.
The large-scale oil-on-canvas paintings featured in the exhibition are thematically rooted in two key sources: first, the artist’s experiences and visual documentation collected during her artist residency in Iceland last autumn, and second, the core themes explored in her previous solo and group exhibitions. These themes revolve around the hypersexualized body politics surrounding female video game protagonists—designed for the masculine gaze—and their broader pop-cultural counterparts, such as the cyber-femme fatale and the final girl.
Klaudia Januško: Too Hot to Handle II. (‘As a dutiful maid should.’), 2025, oil on canvas, 140 x 215.5 cm, detail
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.
