Agnes Szikra

I am a freelance artist born in 1975 in Budapest, Hungary. Recently I have been living and working in Budapest.

The creative process itself is of high importance for me; the state of concentration is kind of a meditative state when I'm open, awaken, sensitive and intuitive. I'd like to create a world where objects are not borders for vision, they don't just reflect the rays of human vision but let them inside. I like "to look behind things" - I guess this is why I'm interested in painting the rainy glasses and the view behind them and also the ethereal moving figures, trying to show something of the invisible, too. Many ancient books and beliefs say that this material world is just an illusion. The soul is the only stable and eternal entity, everything else in this world is moving and acting. The picture on the canvas is another created illusion pointing at the world as an illusion.
I get inspired by life events as well as photographs. I don't transfer the image of the photograph directly to the canvas, my aim is to share my inner vision, the atmosphere and the feelings awakened by the image. I give simple titles to my works as I want to leave it open for the viewer without providing a verbal guidance to think, imagine and feel a...

Solo exhibitions

2020 – Standby, Budapest
2017 – Montazs Art Café, Buapest
2016 – iF, Budapest
2015 – iF, Budapest
2013 – iF, Budapest
2013 – OTP Bank Gallery, Budapest
2011 – Óbudai Társaskör, Budapest
2007-2008 – Shine. Műveleti Terület, Budapest
2004 – FrAgIlE. Van Gallery, Budapest
2004 – Torso. Residence Izabella, Budapest

Selected group exhibitions

2024 –Sleepless. Ziggurat Gallery of the National Theatre, Budapest
2023 – MissionArt Gallery, Budapest
2023 – I see you. Standby, Budapest
2022 – The way out. Pinter Gallery, Budapest
2021 – Standby, Budapest
2021 – 360°, Alsoors, Hungary
2020 – Standby, Budapest
2015 – The Selfie Show. Museum of New Art, Detroit (USA)
2014 – Deventer Art Fair. Deventer (NL)
2014 – Magyar Kiallitas. Galerie Jaap Sleper, Utrecht (NL)
2013 – Running wild. Bolyki Fine Art Gallery, Toronto (CAN)
2013 – Budapest Art Expo Fresh. MűvészetMalom (ArtMill), Szentendre
2012 – Künstler Salon Murid Bosh. Kunsthalle M3, Berlin (GER)
2010 – Neosakral–Saalkrone. Berber 1, Berlin (GER)
2006 – Photoexhibition in darkness. Boulevard és Brezsnyev Gallery, Budapest
2006 – Dorottya Open Show. Dorottya Gallery of Ernst Museum, Budapest
2004 – Connecting the EU / Art Festival. Ráday street, Budapest
2002 – Parall...