Márton Nemes (b. 1986, Székesfehérvár, Hungary) is a multimedia artist based in New York and Budapest, creating paintings, sculptures, installations and sounds. He received an MFA from Chelsea College of Arts, London in 2018. Initially inspired by the architecture of Budapest, a city that he has spent the majority of his life residing in, Nemes’s practice is rooted in the colourful abstraction of buildings. Since this early work, and after moving to London, Nemes has been heavily influenced by techno subcultures, continuing to create abstracted colourful works whilst attempting to duplicate the atmosphere and experience of rave culture, creating a disintegration and rearrangement of the pictorial state. Made using a range of materials, Nemes’s artworks are eager to expand and bend, referencing the escapist counter cultures associated with rave scenes, creating multisensory, diverse experiences.
EDUCATION
2017-18
MFA, Chelsea College of Arts, University of Arts London
2008-13
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Budapest
2005-08
Budapest Technical University, Industrial Design Department, Budapest
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Solo Show, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
2024
Techno Zen, Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Techno Zen. Hungarian Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
2023
Solo booth with acb Gallery, The Armory Show, New York
Amplifier, Elijah Wheat Showroom, New York
Look into the Sun with your Eyes Closed, acb Gallery, Budapest
City in the Sky, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong
2022
The Better Self, Fold Gallery, London
Solo presentation with Annka Kultys Gallery, Salón ACME, Mexico City
2019
Ghosting Love, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
New Positions, solo project with Erika Deák Gallery at Art Cologne, Cologne
Tomorrow, Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár
2016
Under Covered, Kunstklang in collaboration with Erika Deák Temporary Munich Gallery, Munich
2015
Overcoloured, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
EAST Meets WEST, Westport Arts Center, Westport
2014
Painted Paint, Paksi Képtár, Paks
Out of Order, Contemporary Architecture Center Project Gallery, Budapest
2013
Temporarily Closed, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
When Time Speaks, Chimera Project Gallery, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Code+Canvas. Post-Digital Artworks from the Collection of the Hungarian National Bank, CHB – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin
2023
Abstraction is Freedom, 193 Gallery, Paris
2022
New Mediations, MODEM, Debrecen
Youhu, Kieselbach Gallery and Auction House, Budapest
From “Abstraction” to Abstraction, Stefana Gierowskiego Foundation, Warsaw
Place Value – New Acquisitions, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2020
Solid Fiction, Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten
Ghosting Love, Esterházy Castle, Eisenstadt
2019
Esterházy Art Award 2019, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Expo Chicago, duo with Stine Deja, with Annka Kultys Gallery, Chicago
BuBu 02, duo with Zsolt Bodoni, Eleven Twenty Project, Buffalo
Falling Out the Rhythm, duo with Małgorzata Szymankiewicz (traveling exhibition), Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest – HU, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
Carry On, Fold Gallery, London
2018
CACOPTOPIA 03, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
2017
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Shaping Realities, duo with Tamás Hencze, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
2015
Everyone Has Right, ICA-D, Dunaújváros
You don’t bring me flowers, 68 Projects, Berlin
2014
Abstract Variations, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest
Haunting Monumentality, MSU Zagreb, Zagreb
2013
Eszterházy Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
X-Ray Texture Pack, Ulrike Hrobsky Gallery, Vienna
2012
Loop, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest
2011
Wir Waren Leipziger, Labor Gallery, Budapest
Budapest Flow, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest