Matter, mark, layer

9400 Sopron, Fő tér 6-8.
2026 May. 16. - 2026 dec. 31.
10:00 - 18:00

contemporary art exhibition

With the long-term deposit from the Hungarian National Bank contemporary art collection, the Sopron Museum’s holdings are enriched by 31 works. Spanning from the 1970s to the present, the selection shows how painting becomes a sensitive field for questions of mark-making, memory, and the built environment.

The works connect to key tendencies in both international and Hungarian art history — geometric and lyrical abstraction, the afterlife of conceptual thinking in image-making, and an intensified awareness of material and medium — articulated above all through painting, in outstanding artists such as Tamás Hencze, László Lakner, Kamill Major and Márta Kucsora, alongside contemporary positions strongly shaped by Márton Nemes, Dávid Szentgróti and Gáspár Szőke.

More personal and narrative registers of contemporary painting also come into view through works by Péter Ujházi, Dia Pintér, and Balázs Szabó-Lobot. Here, material is not merely a support: layers of pigment, traces, veils, and object-like elements form a system of superimposed surfaces. The works operate as both images and objects: at times painting exceeds the canvas through disciplined grids, at times through improvisational gestures, and at times through structures familiar from digital visual culture. Moving on the boundary between abstraction and narrativity, the works use layering to create a shared visual language in which contemporary experience — personal and collective — takes form, opening new readings within the context of the Sopron Museum.

Artists on View

Tickets

adult

16-64 years of age

3 000 Ft

50% discount

1 500 Ft

from the age of 6 until the age of 26
between 62 and 70 years of age (or in receipt of a retirement pension)
at least two close relatives accompanying a person under 18 years of age (maximum 2 persons)

Entitlement to the discount must be verified at the time of ticket collection.

Free admission

Free

Minors under the age of 6
Disabled person and accompanying person (up to 1 person)
Person with a professional pass
Member of a professional organisation for public collections
Teacher in public education over 70 years
On the first Sunday of each month, persons under 26 years of age and accompanying family members of persons under 18 years of age (up to 2 persons)
On national holidays in Hungary (15 March, 20 August, 23 October), regardless of nationality

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In case of a written, advance reservation, for a group of at least 10 people, 20% of the ticket price, plus 1 accompanying person free of charge.

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Service fee for services

400 Ft

2 400 Ft

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