Dora Stork

„I show the details instead of the whole, sort of inviting the viewer to embrace and understand their surroundings”

Dora Stork was selected artist in the London Art Biennale in 2023, an award-winning Hungarian painter whose art has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in the UK, Hungary, and Romania. Her work can also be found in many private collections in the United States, the European Union, and Japan.
Dora is an abstract realistic encaustic artist: abstract in the world of color, realistic in the world of form, and symbolist in meaning. As a politically minded painter, she is interested in public life as well as social and economic processes. She presents her particular vision in these works. The dreamlike compositions are her intuitive reflections on public issues. At the same time, seemingly astonishing, strange circumstances and inappropriate details on a rational sphere might evoke questions in the viewer.
She mainly uses pure wax and pigments to make her paintings. Over the years, she has developed a medium that does not contain oil or any non-waxy additives. When she occasionally paints with acrylic, the characteristics of her figurative style transform into an imaginary interpretation of nature.

Dora is an active, a...

Member of the Following Organizations:

Fine Arts Capital Art Society, Joined 2023.
Society of Scottish Artists, Joined 2021.
OKIT (Országos Képző- és Iparművészeti Társaság - National Society for Fine and Applied Arts) Joined 2010.
ÚMT (Újpesti Művészek Társasága - Újpest Artist Society) in 2009

Selected Exhibitions:

2023 - London Art Biennale, (group exhibition) London, UK
2023 - Secret Gallery (Titok Galéria), (solo exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2022 " Winter exhibition", Újpest Gallery, (group exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2022 - „Innovart’22”, Jancsó Art Gallery, (group exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2022 – Borders Art Fair, Kelso, Scotland
2021 - " Winter exhibition", Újpest Gallery, (group exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2021 - „Quarantine Competition”, Secret Gallery, (group exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2020 - „Quarantine Competition”, Jancsó Art Gallery, (group exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2020 - „Stay Home”, Újpest Gallery, (group exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2019 - „Pro-Patria”, Mór Jókai Library, (group exhibition) Pápa, Hungary
2018 - „Golden Pictures”, Mór Jókai Library, (group exhibition) Pápa, Hungary
2017 - „Suburb in the city center”, K11 Gallery, (group exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2016 - „Colors and Moods", Újpest Gallery, (group exhibition) Budapest, Hungary
2015 - Cultural Centre, (group exhibition) Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary
2014 - „Art without borders”, Teleki Hungarian Cultural Centre, (group exhibition) Nagybánya, Romania
2014 - Cultural Centre, (group exhibition) Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary
2013 - ...