Frissen 2026: painters paint themselves

Six Hungarian painters get a room each, all opening on the same day and hung as one show. Walking from room to room, the method and the way of thinking change every time.

About the event

Frissen is in its seventh edition, and this time the Műcsarnok's curators chose painting alone, as they once did with sculpture. The painters are Ákos Bánki, Réka Kaszás, Gábor Király, Kata Könyv, Tamás Menyhárt and Kati Verebics, and the umbrella title is A festő önmagát festi, painters paint themselves. The phrase is a fifteenth century Italian saying about how a work ends up resembling whoever made it, which the writers of the day took to more warmly than the painters did. What hangs runs from figurative to abstract, painterly to drawn, mythological to everyday. None of them is a career retrospective, though each gives a view into a settled body of work. Ticketed.

Dates and times

• 13 November to 17 JanuaryTuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, Thursday 12:00 to 20:00, closed Mondays, last entry at 17:30 and at 19:30 on Thursdays

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