DÁVID KORONCZI
“SOMETIMES I TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD; MORE OFTEN, THE WORLD CHANGES ME”
Curated by Zsolt Miklósvölgyi
Opening on 20 February, 2026 / 7 PM
21.2. - 22.3. 2026
VUNU Bratislava
Material processes lie at the heart of Dávid Koronczi’s solo exhibition at VUNU Gallery in Bratislava. Image-making unfolds through techniques that recall photographic development and printing, expanded into sculptural and installation-based forms. Compressed wood chips, sawdust, shavings, and granulates – often drawn from household labor and the ongoing construction of the artist’s family home – become supports, surfaces, and image-producing agents.
These materials sit alongside laser-carved graphics, pigment- and salt-modified substrates, and photographic studies of Eat Art residues. Rather
than aiming at fixed images, Koronczi emphasizes process, where manual work and technical systems, chance and control, and human and non-human
actors meet.
Dávid Koronczi, A QUIEN MADRUGA, DIOS LE AYUDA,
MDF board, laser drawing, neon pencil, metal jointery
1060 x 1070 mm Dávid Koronczi
(*1990) is an interdisciplinary artist and assistant to Martin Piaček at Studio vvv, Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In both his artistic practice and doctoral research, he explores the intersections of growing, cooking, and eating with artistic strategies, including the creation of objects, audiovisual works, and storytelling. Koronczi is the founder and artistic director of the project BRUCHOVRAVY, a series of contextual dining experiences.
His works and performances have been presented at Taipei Biennale, Oerol Festival (Terschelling), Kunsthalle Košice, LONGTERMHANDSTAND (Budapest), Hellerau (Dresden), among others. In 2025, he completed artist residencies at MeetFactory (Prague) and PLATO (Ostrava).
He lives and works in South Slovakia, between the city of Lučenec and the village of Ratka, with his partner, project manager and aspiring vegetable grower Martina Szabóová, and their daughter.
Dávid Koronczi
FŐZÉSKOR RÁD GONDOLOK
I THINK ABOUT YOU, WHILE COOKING,
MDF board, color paper
700 x 900 mm Dávid Koronczi , APPLES ARE DIAMONDS
MDF board, salt, ink drawing on color paper, laser cut
700 x 900 mm 
Questions of circulation, value, and standardization surface through a distinctly glocal visual language. References to graphic design, urban visual culture, graffiti, and hip hop are filtered through post-digital sensibilities and folded back into a place-bound material practice made from natural materials, found objects, and everyday residues. Strategies associated with pop art – irony, repetition, over-identification – are used to expose the mechanisms through which desire, consumption, and visibility circulate.
Dávid Koronczi
NÉHA FÉLEK, EGY FÉL EVŐKANÁLNYI ÉLESZTŐPOR A LÉLEK /
SOMETIMES I AM AFFRAID, LIFE IS HALF A TABLESPOON OF YEAST
Sawdust, acrylic paint, glue, edition, 1 of 10
340 x 480 mm Dávid Koronczi, UFFF…
MDF board, salt, acrylic paint, framed
1410 x 940mm Dávid Koronczi, DISZNÓHIÉNA HOGHYENA
acrylic paint, MDF board, pencil, salt, grass
600 x 850 x 1950 mm 
Dávid Koronczi
RESIDUE STUDIES #1 - #8 (from the series More Than Painting)
Limited edition Hahnemühle Fine Art Print x Handwritten
Certificate of Authenticity, edition, 1 of 10
340 x 480 mm Dávid Koronczi
NÉHA FÉLEK, EGY FÉL EVŐKANÁLNYI ÉLESZTŐPOR A LÉLEK /
SOMETIMES I AM AFFRAID, LIFE IS HALF A TABLESPOON OF YEAST
Sawdust, acrylic paint, glue
edition, 2 of 10
340x480mm Dávid Koronczi, MERCI PIERRE! THANK YOU PIERRE!
dried Fomes fomentarius, laser cut
340 x 480 mmDávid Koronczi, No Title
Sawdust, cement, grass
300 x 450 mm
A recurring element is the plastic vegetable crate, a standardized and modular object that evokes seriality, efficiency, and modernist universality. These logics reappear in grid structures across the exhibition, where hand-drawn processes align with digital tools and global systems of circulation, resonating with Keller Easterling’s analysis of planetary infrastructure space in Extrastatecraft.
Dávid Koronczi, A GROUP PORTRAIT
steel, sawdust, acrylic paint, MDF board, salt
940 x 1200 mm
Language enters the exhibition as something spatial and alive. Text appears in visual registers associated with graffiti, graphic design, and urban vernaculars, carrying expressions such as Ufff..., prepač, or fuck you.
These phrases read less as messages than as gestures, in the spirit of the late Wittgenstein’s
philosophy of language, which later served as a foundation for John L. Austin’s Speech Act Theory and, in art-historical terms, finds its context in Horst Bredekamp’s concept of Bildakt, or Image Act Theory. In Koronczi’s art, these words often function as logos, or as brief visual and linguistic acts that interrupt, assert presence, and register affect.
Dávid Koronczi, SOME FEARS TM
MDF board, laser drawing, sawdust, acrylic paint
1180 x 1180 mm Dávid Koronczi, SOMETIMES I TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD; MORE OFTEN, THE WORLD CHANGES ME
MDF board, salt, ink, acrylic paint
31410 x 940 mm 
Dávid Koronczi
AHOGY KÖZELEDEM NÉZEM A CSEMPÉT A MOZDULATLAN CSENDJÉT A KÁDBAN LÁTLAK ÉS NÉZEM A LÁBAID MAGÁHOZ HÚZÓ MEDRÉT / AS I DRAW CLOSER I WATCH THE TILES THEIR MOTIONLESS SILENCE I SEE YOU IN THE BATHTUB AND WATCH THE BASIN YOUR LEGS PULL TOWARD THEMSELVES
Sawdust, acrylic paint, glue
340x 480mm
From left - Dávid Koronczi and Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, the curator of Koronczi's solo exhibitionInquire about available works