{"id":50879,"date":"2026-10-07T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modemart.hu\/?post_type=product&p=50879"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:30:05","slug":"maria-berhidi-remembering-the-present","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/modemart.hu\/en\/modem-shop\/maria-berhidi-remembering-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e1ria Berhidi: Remembering the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

M\u00e1ria Berhidi\u2019s retrospective exhibition, opening in MODEM\u2019s second-floor exhibition space, seeks to offer a comprehensive view of the artist\u2019s somewhat elusive sculptural oeuvre, at once sensitive and sensual, conceptual and minimalist. Berhidi, who passed away last year, is also remembered through her personal and professional collaborations with fellow artists Mariann Imre, Ilona Lovas, Kamilla Sz\u00edj, and Erzs\u00e9bet Vojnich, as well as her influential work as an organiser of artistic life. To honour this latter aspect of her practice, we have invited thirteen artists associated with her curatorial tenure at the \u00d3budai T\u00e1rsask\u00f6r Gallery to participate in the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her early period, Berhidi primarily created female torsos that expressed female sensibility, corporeality, and sexuality in a distinctive voice and on their own terms. These erotic works invite touch, transforming stone into a skin-like surface. They are typically precariously balanced, often movable, and always retain something of the stone\u2019s rough surface, indicating the natural origins of both material and inspiration. Later, the torsos gave way to quasi-geometric compositions articulated in a minimalist formal language. In these works, Berhidi deliberately used discarded outer sections of stone from stone-processing workshops, pushing the material to the limits of its physical endurance. Her sculptures are \u201cdangerous\u201d and fragile, maintaining their balance in extreme ways. Around the turn of the millennium, her practice shifted towards spatial installations, and her range of materials expanded. Alongside stone, she incorporated wood, textiles, metal, and found objects into these monumental, often room-sized works, in which a personal dimension\u2014also present in her early sculptures\u2014re-emerged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2007, Berhidi led the \u00d3budai T\u00e1rsask\u00f6r Gallery as an artist-curator for fifteen years. Her curatorial programme shared several priorities with MODEM\u2019s mission. She supported opportunities for the youngest generation of artists and brought rarely exhibited bodies of work to public attention. She also provided a platform for distinctive voices in installation art and, in particular, contemporary sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition Remembering the Present<\/em> offers an overview of M\u00e1ria Berhidi\u2019s unique artistic practice, while also presenting fellow artists of her generation and exploring connections shaped by her curatorial vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibiting artist:<\/strong>
M\u00e1ria Berhidi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributing artists:<\/strong>
Andr\u00e1s Cs\u00e9falvay, \u00c1gnes Deli, Bal\u00e1zs Faa, Mariann Imre, Margit Koller, Endre Koronczi, \u00c1ron K\u00fatv\u00f6lgyi-Szab\u00f3, Ilona Lovas, Csilla Nagy, S\u00e1ra Richter, G\u00e1bor Rosk\u00f3, \u00c1d\u00e1m Szab\u00f3, Borb\u00e1la Szanyi, Kamilla Sz\u00edj, P\u00e9ter T\u00fcrk, Ott\u00f3 Vincze, Erzs\u00e9bet Vojnich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curators:<\/strong>
Szabolcs S\u00fcli-Zakar and G\u00e1bor Andr\u00e1si<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The catalogue can be ordered by emailing jegypenztar@modemart.hu<\/a>. Please include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n