GÁBOR PINTÉR “BLUE MARBLE”
Curated by Peter Bencze
Opening: 28 January, 6 PM
29.01. - 20.02. 2026
VUNU Košice
Blue Marble, the title of Gábor Pintér’s exhibition, is inspired by a yet-to-be-realized installation. The concept centers around a dishwasher filled with unwashed plates, evoking and extending the scenes depicted in his paintings. On top of the imagined dishwasher sits a slab of blue marble, not a real material, but a fictional design element which lends a strangely elegant and comforting presence to the domestic setting. According to the original plan, the paintings in this exhibition were to encircle this installation, creating a visual and conceptual loop between the sculptural and the pictorial.
Gábor Pintér, Blue Marbe I. - Ewerybody wants to know
2025, oil on canvas / 210 x 190 cmGábor Pintér
(b. 1983, Budapest) living and working in Budapest, is a contemporary Hungarian painter known for his vivid, collage-like compositions that blur the lines between realism, abstraction, and cultural symbolism. He studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where he developed a distinctive visual language that combines gestural oil painting with conceptual precision and a sharp sense of visual paradox. His works often resemble psychological maps or fragmented narratives, populated by surreal juxtapositions, architectural elements, comic motifs, and visual glitches.
In recent years, he has expanded his practice to include large-scale chalk murals, created directly on gallery walls in dialogue with his oil on canvas works. This evolving approach deepens his investigation into surface, temporality, and spatial experience, transforming exhibitions into immersive environments that shift between drawing, painting, and installation.
Gábor Pintér, Dusty Roads, 2025
oil on canvas / 130 x 150 cm
Gábor Pintér, How?, 2025
oil on canvas / 150 x 130 cm
Gábor Pintér’s works look like painterly collages, united by a dominant two-colour accent. In his oil paintings, the artist moves naturally from realistic to expressive and stylised representations, building traditional painterly compositions that combine his own imagination, found images or quotations from art history.
The pictorial fragments seem to have been plucked from dreams and come together in non-linear narratives that activate the viewer’s imagination and play with his attention. In emotionally scattered situations, he combines humour and irony, but also social criticism or moments of melted transience in irrational juxtapositions.
Text: Michal Stolárik
Gábor Pintér, Blue Marble IV. - Melancholia, 2025
oil on canvas in artist frame / 140 x 250 cm
Gábor Pintér, Blue Marlboro, 2025
oil on canvas / 40 x 130 cm
Gábor Pintér, Mine, 2026
color pencil on paper / 20 x 28 cm,
(Framed: 30 x 40 cm)
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