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Staying Close

Staying Close is a subjective selection by the team of Apollo Gallery, bringing together artists who have been connected to the gallery’s programme in different ways over the past period.

The exhibition brings together works that, despite their different artistic languages, forms and materials, share a similar sensitivity towards the deeper layers of human existence. The selected works explore vulnerability, doubt, memory, perception and the courage of personal expression.

For Apollo Gallery, contemporary art becomes meaningful when it creates a genuine connection between the artist and the viewer — between one person and another. Staying Close reflects this approach: staying close to the works, the artists, the viewer, and the human experiences that make art meaningful.

Exhibiting Artists:
József Baksai, Edit Cservenka, Márton Gresa, Tiarna Herczeg, Dániel Kristófy, Laura Medcalf, Anna Nemes, Júlia Néma, Bálint Sándor Palágyi, Anita Papp, Botond Részegh

Selected by:
Nóra Élő, Eszter Hannya, Judit Király, Boglárka Kmety, Krisztina Kovács, Nikolett Colette Nagy, Csilla Szimon, Daniella Tóth and Tatjána Tóth

On view: 13 August – 4 September 2026

The Witching Way

TAW Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, The Witching Way, gestures toward a countercurrent to the rationalism and secularization that have shaped modern Western thought. Since the Enlightenment, knowledge has often been legitimized through what can be measured, classified, and controlled. The Witching Way, however, turns toward forms of understanding long relegated to the margins: intuition, dreams, embodied memory, sensual engagement with matter, ritual, and more reciprocal relationships with the natural world.

Rather than proposing a rejection of reason, the exhibition inhabits a threshold where other modes of perception begin to emerge. It evokes a space in which meaning is not fully disclosed through explanation alone; where something stirs beneath the visible, and where the limits of language give way to sensation, atmosphere, and intuition.

Exhibiting Artists: Judit Bodrogi, Barbara Koltai, Amanda Lutiere, Anita Papp
Curator: Katica Kocsis
Opening: 2026. 06. 10. 6pm

You Are Here

“You Are Here” evokes the familiar marking on maps: the point where the viewer recognizes their own position within a system—and where it becomes clear that the observer is also part of it.

We look—and in the meantime, we are being looked at; we shape, while we ourselves are being shaped. The body, identity, and social roles do not emerge from a closed inner core, but are formed through relationships. Thus, the modern human becomes a peculiar exhibited being: both observer and observed. The question is not who we are, but rather what form we take in the gaze of the other.
The works presented in the exhibition examine how the body becomes an intersection of norms, expectations, taboos, and fantasies.
Who determines the appropriate point of view? Who decides what counts as normal, and what falls beyond the boundaries?
The viewer does not remain outside: here, the gaze is not passive reception but a formative force. The one who looks is also part of the construction.
Ultimately, the question is not whether we become visible, but at what cost.

Exhibiting Artists: Edit Cservenka, Anita Kroó, Anna Nemes, Anita Papp
Curator: Nikolett Colette Nagy
Curatorial Assistant: Eszter Hannya
Opening by: Anikó Illés

Shifting Boundaries

As the closing event of the 2024/25 Budapest Art Mentor Program, the group exhibition Explorers 7.0 – Shifting Boundaries brings together 14 emerging visual artists who take on the challenge of examining the concept of boundaries as a fundamental pattern of human experience and a defining aspect of artistic thinking. Their works explore, among other things, questions of internal and external limits, the constraints of the body, the experience of stepping beyond one’s comfort zone, the thresholds of memory and forgetting, and the points at which the transcendental and the corporeal worlds intersect. The exhibition also raises questions about the boundaries between artistic genres, as well as the possibilities of exchange between the artwork, the viewer, and the artist

Exhibiting artists:
Júlia Csapó, Györgyi Cséffai, Edit Cservenka, Melinda Dovák, Éva Jámbor, Attila Máté, Eszter Palik, Anita Papp, Viktória Pál, Mária Schuller, Viktória Szabolcsi, Gabriella Szalkai, Beáta Székely, Krisztina Vladár

Barlang/Grotta XIII. - LEVITATION

I'm happy to share that I will be participating in the group exhibition Barlang/Grotta XIII. – Levitation, held at the Ottoman entrance of the Kuny Domonkos Museum. The opening will take place on 9 August 2025 at 5 PM. The exhibition will be opened by József Michl, Mayor of Tata, and Mónika Kövesdi, art historian.

The curatorial concept revolves around the theme of "levitation", explored through various media and artistic approaches.

Everyone is warmly welcome to the opening!

group exhibition invitation
group exhibition invitation
The Collective II.

Visionary Projects Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of their new concept gallery space at 124 Forsyth St in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a year and a half of leading pop up exhibitions and collaborations, this is their very first official home-base in NYC. The opening reception and official launch party for the new space will be featuring their signature salon show, “The Collective II”. This exhibition brings together 58 artists from across the globe to share their intimate stories and inner worlds. Celebrating our nuances and variations of expression, this show is meant to explore the essence of individuality and dynamic representation of the human experience. We seek to inspire an alternative wave of new cultural connections while creating a more equitable and accessible space.

Papp Anita exhibition, festőművész
Papp Anita exhibition, festőművész
Anita Papp artist
Anita Papp artist
Winner of the Balance Art Fashion Contest

I was honored to be selected as the winner of the painting competition organized by Fashion Street Gallery and ArtHungry, with the theme "Balance. Harmony. Unity." The jury praised the originality, professional execution, and distinctive artistic approach of my work. Described as introspective and visually poetic, the piece explores themes of nostalgia and alienation while maintaining a balance between beauty and grotesqueness. I am excited to share that my artworks will be showcased in an exhibition at the Deák Palace, opening on June 13.

Papp Anita exhibition opening
Papp Anita exhibition opening
The Great Escape

Group exhibition at the Werk Academia.
In a world that changes faster than ever, stability feels elusive. Where do we find our footing amidst the chaos? Disorientation invites you to step into the artists' self-created realms—worlds beyond reality where they define their own points of reference. Explore spaces of safety, freedom, and self-discovery in this captivating exhibition that challenges how we navigate an ever-shifting existence.

Anita Papp painter
Anita Papp painter
Toolip Art Contest 2023

In 2023, the prestigious Toolip Art Contest in Barcelona recognized outstanding talent by selecting 30 finalists from hundreds of artists worldwide. I was honored to be among those chosen, showcasing my unique approach to contemporary art on this esteemed international platform.

III. Charcoal Triennial

The third Charcoal Drawing Triennale, organized by the Contemporary Gallery in Tatabánya, showcased 67 out of 314 submitted works at the Vértes Agora. The exhibition was opened by László Kammerlohr-Kováts and art critic János Cs. Tóth, who highlighted Tatabánya's coal mining heritage and the often overlooked art form of charcoal drawing.

Anita Papp art
Anita Papp art

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