REMNANTS
Artists: Áron Baráth, Veronika Csonka, Dániel Fazekas, Erik Tollas
Curated by Tiffany Farkas
12 December 2025 – 14 February 2026
Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
The group exhibition REMNANTS explores how the memories of the past and the traces of nostalgia can evolve into a narrative mythology and a distinctive visual language within an artistic practice—one that relate to the present, engages with contemporary questions and concerns, and reflects the artist’s ongoing search for self-understanding. The exhibiting artists draw from the world of their childhoods, revisiting personal symbols, characters, and moments that form the foundation of their visual vocabulary and authenticity. At the center of the exhibition is the transformative process through which remembrance, nostalgia, and the search for identity take on a visual and linguistic form — offering new ways to understand or reframe the experiences of the present.
In Áron Baráth’s paintings, the gesture takes center stage—the quasi-origin point of an art piece, the moment of creation itself, marked by an unrepeatable and irrevocable movement. His uniquely blended acrylics preserve these gestures on the uppermost layer of the canvas. The brushstroke, as the essential protagonist, embodies both the act of inscription and trace. It carries within it the echoes of familial artistic lineage—shaped by the sensibilities of his graphic-artist father and artist godfather—while simultaneously forging a distinctly personal painterly language. The creative environment that permeated Baráth’s childhood becomes a kind of primordial matter: a foundational substrate from which his gestural practice emerges. At the same time, his work persistently reconsiders the universal questions of painting within a contemporary context.
Veronika Csonka works with recycled PLA to create her 3D pen–drawn objects, which evoke her immediate surroundings, the wildlife of Lake Balaton, and the flowers and plants of her childhood. She often renders these botanical forms in an abstracted manner, merging organic structures with a mechanical, machine-like aesthetic. Alongside the sensibilities of nostalgia and homely comfort, her works also address critically urgent issues such as climate change and the impact of human activity on natural ecosystems. Csonka’s objects function not only as remnants of her personal narrative but also as glimpses into a distant world in which technology has fully overtaken the world—leaving us to look back on these plant species as preserved replicas of what once thrived.
Dániel Fazekas is a pioneering and leading Hungarian figure of the airbrush technique—an approach that in recent years has played a defining role in the international painting discourse. His large-scale, 3D-render–based works, closely aligned with post-digital tendencies, are marked by a narrative symbolism: he evokes shapes, events, and symbols from his childhood to examine the questions and dilemmas of contemporary adult life. His practice is profoundly introspective—complex emotions, inner landscapes, and the working of the psyche stand at its core. Mental states, behavioral patterns, and psychological schemas often surface in his paintings, becoming visual imprints of personal memory and self-understanding.
In Erik Tollas’s practice, the central focus lies in the dialogue between different materials, forms, and colors. His works incorporate remnants, rejects, and recycled materials—leather, wood, plastic, and textiles—through which he constructs a richly textured new world. In his most recent series, he engages with totemic systems and their magical significations, where traditional animal motifs emerge subtly only through sinuous movement. Childhood experiences immersed in nature continue to resonate in these works: vine-like plant motifs, organic structures, and the atmospheres of riversides and forests evoke processes of memory and transformation.
