Serban Sabu: emberek, istenek, állatok
Serban Savu: Men, Gods, Animals
acb Gallery
Opening: 10 September, 2026, 6 pm
On view: 11 September - 30 October, 2026
Schedule
acb Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of reknown Romanian painter Serban Savu (1978) in Hungary. Savu presents a new body of work in his Hungarian debut, which he created after he represented Romania in the Venice Biennale in 2024. The new paintings are still landscape-focused, but prior to Savu’s post-socialist vedutas portraying outskirts of cities they are focusing on wild nature and on a new protagonist, the hermit. The new central figure of the escapist phantasy is fleeing civilisation and arrives to the wilderness which is also in decay. In the new paintings of Savu different interpretations of culture, nature, time, history and ruins clash with each other, as the artist is trying to get closer as ever to the real.
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.
