Márta Kucsora

Márta Kucsora (Hungary 1979) is a contemporary artist, known primarily for her large-scale abstract paintings. Kucsora had solo shows at Galerie Melbye-Konan (Hamburg, Germany), Postmasters Gallery, the Kalman Maklary Fine Arts, the Kunsthalle in Budapest (Hungary) and the Kepes Institute (Eger, Hungary). She was included in museum shows at 21C Museum Bentonville, Hungarian National Gallery and Ernst Museum. In 2006, she co-founded the Budapest Art Factory and runs an International Artist Residency Program there.

Education Kucsora graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts degree (MFA) from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, and also attended Montclair State University’s MFA program (2005-2006).

Works

Magda Sawon describes Kucsora’s works as heavily influenced by twentieth-century female artists, describing her art as "Resonating across time with Pollock's action, Frankenthaler's fluidity, 1980's Richter's abstract spatiality, and contemporary gestural abstraction's referentiality, Kucsora's update of brushless action paintings invariably reflects the performative process of their making. With a Polke-like penchant for experimentation, Kucsora expands her materialist repertoire of painterly media in her chemical "kitchen."

In 2021, Kucsora presented her ten most significant works at Postmasters Gallery, New York. Her works highlighted the special use of materials, and her so-called continuous technique.

Solo exhibitions (Selection) 2023 - Melody in Abstraction, CoBrA Gallery, Shanghai, China - with Jiahua Qian 2023 - Monumentalis, Galerie Melbye-Konan, Hamburg, Germany 2023 - Questo Caos del Tempo, Postmasters Roma, Rome, Italy - with Sophie Ko 2022 - Budapest Flow, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland 2022 - Stretch, Kepes Institute, Eger, Hungary 2021 - Metaverse, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary 2021 - Inception, Through Shaping Material, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary 2020 - Super Natural, Postmasters Gallery, New York, United States 2019 - An Abstract World, Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany 2018 - all-over, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary 2017 - Viscosity, The Concept Space, London, United Kingdom 2017 - Imprints, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

Group exhibitions (Selection)

2023 - Contemporary Budapest, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary 2023 - Organic - As Time Awakens, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China 2021 - Personal / Fresh, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary 2020 - Blue - Color of Infinity, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary 2020 - Artonomy, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary 2018 - Rendition, The Concept Space, London, United Kingdom 2015 - Blue: Matter, Mood and Melancholy, 21c Museum, Bentonville, Arizona, United States 2015 - Here and Now, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary 2014 - Plantagram, Klettgau Galerie, Klettgau-Griessen, Germany 2014 - Surrealität, Galerie Reichlin, Küssnacht am Rigi, Switzerland

Art Fairs and Biennials (Selection)

2023 - Binálé, Kristály Színtér, Curated by Viola Lukács, Péter Weiler, Julia Neudold, Budapest, Hungary 2023 - Design Miami / Podium x Shanghai, CoBrA Gallery, Shanghai, China 2022 - West Bund Art&Design, CoBrA Gallery, Shanghai, China 2020 - BRAFA Art Fair, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium 2019 - BRAFA Art Fair, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Brussels, Hungary 2019 - Art Karlsruhe, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Germany 2018 - Art Paris Art Fair, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, France 2018 - BRAFA Art Fair, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Brussels 2017 - Masterpiece Fair, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom 2016 - ART Innsbruck, Alludo Room Gallery, Austria 2016 - Affordable Art Fair, Alludo Room Gallery, Milan, Italy 2015 - Viennafair, Budapest Art Factory, Vienna, Austria 2015 - Art Market Budapest, Galerie Martin Mertens, Budapest, Hungary

Publications 2023 - Márta Kucsora, Galerie Melbye-Konan, Hamburg, Germany 2021 - Márta Kucsora, Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary 2021 - Personal, Fresh , Kunsthalle Budapest / Mucsarnok, 2021, Budapest, Hungary 2007 - Direct Pictures , Ernst Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary 2007 - Time of Painting , Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest, Hungary 2007 - Artonomy Mucsarnok, 2007, Budapest

Artworks in private and public collections

Die Mobiliar Art Collection, Switzerland MNB, Hungarian National Bank, Hungary Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China 21C Museum, Louisville, KY, US ERSTE BANK, Hungary Ruhrverband, Essen, Germany Erftverband, Bergheim, Germany Wasserverband Eifel-Rur, Düren, Germany Sammlung Lupa, Germany

Press (Selection)

2023 - Schnabel Kultur-Blog, Michaela Schnabel: Hamburg – „Márta Kucsora“ – ein energetisches Erlebnis in der Galerie Melbye-Konan 2023 - Papageno, Alexandra Ivanoff: A tour of the Budapest Art Factory: a dynamic community 2023 - Streifzug, Galerie Melbye-Konan präsentiert Monumentalis 2023 - The Dreaming Machine, Camilla Boemio: Monumentalis. An aesthetical alchemist: Camilla Boemio interviews Marta Kucsora 2023 - Shoutout LA, Meet Marta Kucsora 2022 - Papageno, Alexandra Ivanoff: Márta Kucsora’s “Stretch” in Eger’s Kepes Intézet 2022 - Hype&Hyper, Éva Tomanicz: Márta Kucsora exhibition opened in Eger 2022 - Népszava, P. Szabó Dénes: Reakcióba lépő anyagok 2021 - Forbes, László Bagi: Menő New York-i galériában volt kiállítása, Amerikában is befuthat a magyar festőművész 2021 - Roadster, Ariel Provaznik: Eljutni arra a pontra, amikor felkerülsz a térképre 2019 - Culture Trip, Alex Mackintosh: Artist Márta Kucsora Talks Hungarian Art and Where To See It in Budapest