Eszter Metzing’s art transmits the suggestions of an unknown universe. It is the call of an utterly unknown world, dark extremities insiduously slipping into ruptured and rent minds.We have no choice: it is not enough to merely „watch” – nonhuman structures invite us to symbiosis. The borderline between body and world, rationality and unfathomability, slowly fade away. A new, common form of life is being born, in the abysses of the intangible. If we surrender to this transformation, we realize that we were the alien universe all along. We were the tentacles of madness, the webworks weaved in lightless chasms, inscrutable dreams of matter. Dead but dreaming, fabulating the heterogeneity of matter, the vibrant transluscence is dreaming us.
/ Márió Z. Nemes poet, critic, aesthete /
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Upcoming
Current ->
* Texture, curated by Marianne Csáky, group schow at Streetviewanderlecht until 15.12.2025., Brussels, BE
* Access is off the beaten track, curated by Zsófia Máté and Patrik Steinhauser, international groupschow at HAB (Hungarian Art&Business) until 15.02.2026., Budapest, HU
* PATRON Christmas Art Fair at FKSE ( Studio of Young Artists Accomodation) until 20.12.2025., Budapest HU
* YOUNIQUE art auction, Bátortábor - 01.12.2025., Budapest, HU
2026 //
* duo schow with Asztrid Csatlós, curated by Bence Bettina at Liget Gallery, Budapest, HU
* duo schow with Stella Koleszár curated by Júlia Salamon at Vajda Lajos Stúdió, Szentendre, HU
Memberships
Educations
2012 – 2018 – HUFA — Graphic Artist (MA)
Solo shows
2024 - The skin sees when the eyes touch / Bőrlátás / curated by Annamária Szabó, Zsolt Kozma, Inda Gallery, Budapest
2023 – We are the unthinkable dreams of matter / Bánkitó festival, Bánk
2022 – Born of slime and decay / w. Stella Koleszár / ISBN+Gallery, Budapest
2021 – Fabric of childhood / curated by Zsolt Kozma / Inda Gallery, Budapest
2020 – I’m letting it to... / Dorottya Kanizsai Museum, Mohács
2020 – Please come in / curated by Réka Pócsi & Kata Szeder / Hybridart Space Gallery, Budapest
Selected group shows
2025 – Texture, Streetviewanderlecht, Brussels, BE
2025 – Access is off the beaten track, Hungarian Art&Business, Budapest, HU
2025 – Carnivores, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, SK
2025 – After Laughter, Schaumbad Atelier, Graz, AT
2025 – Intertwined, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, HU
2025 – Constellations: Contemporary Positions from Hungary, Paris, FR
2025 – Only Friends, AQB Project Space, Budapest, HU
2025 – Monstrous, Keil Gallery, Graz, AT
2024 – Parallel Worlds , Inda Gallery, Budapest, HU
2024 – Beyond the paper , Deák 17 Gallery, Budapest, HU
2024 – Dissilutionem Panompticon / Margaret Island, Budapest, HU
2024 – Everyone was a child , Kastner Kommunity, Budapest, HU
2024 – Kamalect: Kőbánya S1 Inverse / Dreher Antal Brewery, Budapest, HU
2024 – Lament , Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest HU
2024 – The dormant, the wandering, the amnesiac ,Tokaj Art Wine Gallery, Bp
2023 – Spooky action at a distance , Zsolnay Quarter, Pécs, HU
2023 – Through the ages , HAB art centre, Budapest, HU
2023 – First half ‘23 , Inda Gallery, Budapest, HU
2023 – DEMO - This is not an organic community / FKSE , Budapest, HU
2023 – Partial shade / Zsófi Faur Gallery , Budapest HU
Selected publications
2025 – Cheerful materialism / About the exhibition by Zita Borbély and Eszter Metzing, ujmuveszet.hu, Tillmann Ármin
2025 – The softness of hungry objects - kontur-art.com, Zsuzsanna Somogyi
2024 – Look closely - Metzing Eszter, orszagut.com, Katica Kocsis
2024 – Forest of Intense - Reflections on the exhibition The skin sees when the eyes touch/ Bőrlátás, prae.hu, Éva Freund
2024 – In Da Studio 4, Artkartell.hu, Katica Kocsis
2024 – The skin sees whn the eyes touch / saliva.live
2023 – Giving flesh to feelings with stitches, nepszava.hu, Dénes P. Szabó
2022 – Born of slime and decay / The constructed reality, Radio Tilos
2022 – Born of slime and decay / Kubaparis / ÚjMűvészet
2022 – The man who stepped in paint / Kubaparis
2021 – I remember not only the beautiful / kultura.hu
2020 – Barnie loves you / ujmuveszet.hu
Awards & scholarships
2025 – Artist in residence programme, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2025 – Styrian artist in residence programme, Graz
2021 – Budapest Art Mentor Scholarship
2018 – Tamás Lossonczy prize
2017 – Junior - Art prize
Selected projects
We are the essence of it.We construct it.It falls apart.
2025
The skin sees when the eyes touch / Bőrlátás
2024
Mayflower
2024
Everyone was a child
2024
We are the unthinkable dreams of matter
2023
Spooky action at a distance
2023
Born of slime and decay
2022
Selected installations
2020-22
Enough to dream lucid
2022
The possibility of growing an inner skin
2022
Fabric of Childhood
2021
Inner Skin /
"Not at all, doctor sir, I can’t get a good nights sleep"
2020
Let's play! series
2018 – 2020
Inner garden / diploma project
2018
