This solo exhibition presents the work of Ákos Ezer (Hungary, 1989), an international artist whose practice is rooted in the contemporary European context. Conceived through the concept of the expanded artist’s studio, the exhibition invites us to rethink the studio not as a delimited physical place, but as a practice in transit open, overflowing beyond the original space of creation. Not merely a fixed point of origin, but an open route in which the pictorial work continues to mutate as it inhabits new spaces.The clumsy, elongated, unbalanced figures that populate his canvases seem to stretch beyond the limits of painting. They do not seek stability, but movement. As if the gesture never fully settles, these forms become the X-rays of the painting the skeleton that keeps the creative practice
alive fleeting sketches that evolve into dynamic, contradictory, and humorous compositions. Within this continuous flow, other media such as sculpture and digital work intertwine, expanding the pictorial field and straining the boundaries of the body and the image.

Törött pohár, “the glass is broken” in Hungarian, evokes a persistent fragility. “I keep filling it” suggests a will to continue even when the
container no longer fully holds. This metaphor runs through his work: the insistence on creating within an unstable world, amid noise, the domestic, and constant transit. For Ezer, the studio is that cracked glass: a place that no longer contains, but spills over into every new space. Here, the exhibition is not an endpoint, but a new form of the studio: an open territory where the work is activated through contact with the viewer.

 

From the perspective of the non-place where artistic practices move beyond the white cube into transitional and ambiguous terrains the studio
undergoes a migration. It becomes a condition in which the work continues its path beyond the moment of its conception. The artist’s
studio is no longer merely a closed space where the work is born, but a condition in motion, an extension of the artistic practice that moves,
transforms, and blends into everyday life. It becomes work, it becomes painting, drawing, sculpture, animation and above all, a device within the space that activates itself with a steady voice.

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“I don’t aim to completely control every movement of the process.

If the material behaves differently or the outcome diverges from the initial plan, I try to recognize the possibilities in those ‘mistakes’ or deviations.”
Akos Ezer

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“My work is a kind of primary form of expression—a reaction to everything and a way of communicating about everything. It’s a kind of coded language that even I can only decipher and interpret once it’s finished.”
Akos Ezer

 

What becomes porous: the studio or the world?

To reconfigure a space is to assume that the work does not enter it as a closed, finished object, but as an expanding process. At this final point in the exhibition, the pieces no longer merely engage in dialogue with the environment: they pass through it, alter it, and absorb it. The blending of techniques and materials suggests a more direct connection to the organic, the human, and the vital. The studio becomes a porous territory, where body, nature, and gesture intertwine. In this way, the work and the space transform one another revealing a practice that continues to grow, even beyond the frame.

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“Nature and the natural environment were an important part of my early works, so in a way, this is a return. Often, the environment is shaped by painterly intentions—what kind of brushstrokes or gestures are needed to create a particular mood or atmosphere. Currently, the natural, plant-filled environment comes from a slower, more meditative and contemplative mindset, and is meant to symbolize that state.”

Akos Ezer

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What do you hope audiences will take from your work?

AE: I hope the exhibition creates a kind of harmony, a sense of shared experience and understanding. Not everyone will resonate with the same detail or image, but if each person finds just one moment that makes them smile or reminds them of some awkward or painful moment in their own life if they identify with a character or recognize someone, then a network of connection is formed, something that can function as a shared experience. What interests me most is when people from different backgrounds, nationalities, and ages interpret the artworks through themselves, regardless of their differences when they expand on the stories seen in the compositions, or even challenge them.

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