Ladik Katalin: Három csipke játszik
Katalin Ladik: Three Laces Playing
acb Bak Imre Space
Opening: 10 September, 2026, 6 pm
On view: 11 September - 30 October, 2026
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The exhibition Three Laces Playing initiates a dialogue between two works of Katalin Ladik; the eponymous textile composition with its accompanying sound piece (2008) and the series of photos documenting her Performance in Baltimore (1980). In both of them, textile and more precisely lace, play a pivotal role, and although they differ in medium, both works explore the hiding and revealing potentials of a garment in close connection to the female body. In the title giving collage, she symbolically exposes the hidden contents of lace by interpreting its patterns as a musical score. In the anti-striptease entitled Performance, Baltimore, another version of her iconic Blackshave Poem, the artist plays a witty trick to the public as under the laced undergarments she wears on top of black clothes that cover her entire body, there is “nothing to see”. Textile is at the core of Ladik’s practice; she has been using it as an autonomous material in her textile collages, as a symbol of women’s silent work and social expectations strictly framing their life, as a reference through her sewing pattern collages, but also as a prop in her performances, always in a playful and softly critical, feminist way.
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.
