Inhalt


Mátyás Fusz: Thresholds

10.05.2025  to 22.06.2025 

Export this event to your calender

  • Mátyás Fusz: Clash of viewpoints (study), Giclée-Druck, Öl auf Leinwand, 2024; Bild: 3D-Simulationen von Menschen mit gebogenen Schildern um das Gesicht herum in einer Ausstellungssituation, ausschließlich Blautöne

Dates

10 May ‒ 22 June 2025: Exhibition
Tuesday to Saturday 2 - 7 pm, Sunday and public holidays 10 am - 7 pm

9 May, Friday 7 pm: Exhibition opening

  • Greeting: Rainer Schneider, District Vice President
  • Introduction: Julia Hermann, curator of the exhibition, representative of the partner organisation for European art exchange with the Budapest Gallery

Shuttle taxi from Freising railway station: 6.55 pm; return approx. 8.50 pm

3 June, Tuesday 7 pm: meetup+art
Guided tour through the exhibition with Alexandra M. Hoffmann - in German language

21 June, Saturday 3.30 - 5.30 p.m.: Visitor service
Alexandra M. Hoffmann will be on hand to provide individual explanations and interpretations to visitors to the exhibition Thresholds - in German language

The exhibition rooms and the café are accessible without steps.
Admission to the exhibition and the accompanying programmes is free of charge.

About the exhibition

For the most part, the self is defined through our human relationships, our existence as part of a community, in terms of the systems of relations we establish with others. Drawing our own boundaries and reflecting on them is an important step towards establishing a balance in our social ties: their absence often leads to misunderstanding or miscommunication, which can be a breeding ground for conflict.

For years now, Mátyás Fusz has been engaging in formal experiments with the space surrounding the human body. In his latest solo exhibition he renders the boundary of vision as a new, protective human organ – as a shield, which he also identifies with the boundary of personal space and its projection.

Showcasing a variety of materials, with some works also functioning as illustrations, the exhibition tells a comic book-like story, that is heavily based on Homer’s Iliad. One of the most fundamental points of reference in our shared cultural memory is presented through the filter of Fusz' own experiences and stories, highlighting scenes and characters from the epic that can serve as examples of conflict creation, but also conflict resolution and conflict management, even thousands of years later.

By employing the aforementioned formal solution of rendering the boundary of vision, Fusz accentuates the power relations and sociopsychological relationships between the characters. With this collar-like motif, he brings to life unusual, grotesque figures that, even in their stationary stiffness, evoke eventful stories with moments familiar to all of us.

Mátyás Fusz (*1986, Szekszárd) graduated from the University of Pécs, Faculty of Painting, and received his DLA degree from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In his work, Fusz mainly uses sculptures, objects and installations as a medium through which he has been exploring the subjective and objective limits of perception in recent years. Winner of the Leopold Bloom Art Award 2023, he is an assistant professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts’ Anatomy, Drawing and Geometry of Art Department.

The exhibition was supported by the Leopold Bloom Art Foundation and the BHM Budapest Gallery.


(Julia Hermann, curator of the exhibition)