Robert Gabris: Impossible Home
Robert Gabris (b. 1986) was born in Slovakia and lives and works in Vienna as an independent artist. He received his BA from the Academy of Applied Arts in Bratislava in 2010 and his Mag.art. degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2014. His artistic practice critically examines the fluid and shifting nature of identity through drawing and experimental forms of performance, employing deconstruction and the continuous questioning of boundaries.
His first solo exhibition at acb Gallery will open on the 18th of November, 2026.
Rooted in autobiographical narratives, his practice is driven by an obsessive desire for proportion and symmetry, reflecting the constant tension between self-identity and societal projections. At the heart of his work lies resistance to exclusion and a confrontation with systemic racism, using unease as a tool of resistance. Within patriarchal structures, he explores the fluidity of identity and investigates how the queer body exists across diverse physical and emotional experiences. His works critically examine these intersections, inviting us to rethink, act, or imagine otherwise.
Schedule
Robert Gabris: Impossible Home
acb + acb Attachment
Opening: 19 November, 2026, 6 pm
On view: 19 November - 18 December, 2026
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.
