Hopp-Halász Károly: Monolit struktúrák
Károly Hopp-Halász: Monolithic Structures
acb Plus
Opening: 10 September, 2026, 6 pm
On view: 11 September - 30 October, 2026
Schedule
The third installment of the exhibition series re-examining the work of Károly Hopp-Halász (1946–2016) from the 1980s and 1990s opens two months before the tenth anniversary of the artist's death. Titled Monolithic Structures, it focuses on the body of work and the broader creative period associated with this series.
The works created in this spirit—including paintings, works on paper, and unstretched canvases—were composed from modules, a method characteristic of the artist's practice. They consist of continuous monochrome surfaces complemented by a repertoire of motifs familiar from the neo-geo works and a distinctive post-geometric visual language, most notably fields of dots. Hopp-Halász further developed the conceptual implications of these compositions through installations based on his characteristic principle of open-ended structures capable of extending infinitely in every direction.
At the center of the exhibition are the large-scale installation originally presented under the title Szekszárd Installation (Municipal Gallery, Szekszárd, 1989) and the sculptural ensemble Monolithic Structure/Untitled (1987-1989). Within these rigorously constructed compositions, dots applied at the intersections of the folds—using the canvas as a modernist grid—interact with monochrome "beams" that project the continuous fields of color into space, as well as with elements of the artist's everyday material environment, including baskets, demijohns, Danube oars, and chairs.
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.
