Edit Hermkens

My painting starts its journey primarily from the direct representation of everyday life, seeking release in a peculiar world of the barren Hungarian fallow, where nature regains its paradisiacal beauty and becomes lyrical reality on canvas. My dream world is at once sweetly familiar and seductively unfamiliar. Motivated by an insatiable hunger to paint, my work is a quest to portray my desires, fears and feelings through my art.

The themes of my works are inspired by the toposes of urban and rural life. I explore the role of man and animal, individual and group in society and nature. The deliberately random arrangement of images and the plastic distorted forms draw from a toolbox of anxiety, humour and chaos. I juxtapose the impersonality, excitement and chaos of urban life with the solitude, tranquillity and picturesqueness of rural life.

My works aspire to a world that draws on real life, but also contains idealistic notions of youth and carefreeness, while not without a critical tone. In my paintings, I speak of reality, but I allow an infinite range of shades, shapes and characters into this reality. I'm interested in the quality of material and colour, my canvases are rich in colourism and seek the plasticity of paint. An...

Hungary, Szeged University of Science Department of Drawing-Art History Department of Painting

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Solo exhibitions/ Önálló kiállítások


2023 Kiskunfélegyháza/ Petőfi Sándor Városi Könyvtár, Érzések és érzetek
2020 Brody House, Budapest (postponed)
2019 Step by Step/ Lépten Nyomon, Ady25 Galéria, Budapest
2019 Physis, Móra Múzeum, Kiskunfélegyháza
2019 Physis, Tokácsli Galéria, Szentes
2019 “Artist of the Month”/ “A hónap művésze,” Hírös Agóra, Kecskemét
2019 Flow/ Áramlás,Szoboszlai Galéria, Szolnok
2018 Autumn Exhibition/ Őszi Tárlat, Hódmezővásárhely
2018 The afternoon of Flora and Fauna, Hattyúház, Public Library, Kiskunfélegyháza
2017 Animal cattle and more/ Állati marhaságok és egyebek, Tiszavirág Hotel, Szeged
2016 “God knows where…?” /Ki tudja merre…?” Somogyi Library/ József Sófi Foundation for Talents, Szeged




Public appearances as a collective/ Csoportos kiállítások


2023 Budapest/ Ady25 Gallery, Adyktív
2022 Artotek/ FineArt Balaton, Visitor Center of Shipping History of Balaton, Balatonföldvár (HU)
2021 Szolnok/ Part/ Szolnok Zsinagóga
2021 Female identity/ Budapest Zikkurat, Női vonal- A női identitás
2021 T-Art exhibitions Budapest San Marco Gallery
2021 National Weeks-Kölcsey group, Arad Muzeum of Clio/ Nemzetközi hét, Kölcsei Egyesület, Aradi Múzeum Klio
2021 36. Spring Show/ 36. Tavaszi Tárla...