Verebics Ágnes

Opening: 20 November 2025 · 18:00

Opened by Judit Moskovics, investigative journalist

Curator: Nagy Nikolett Colette

Verebics Ágnes: Csürdöngölö, oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm 2025

Wunderkammer, or wonder room, is one of humanity’s oldest attempts to summarise the world – a place where order and chaos, nature and imagination meet. The collection of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol in Ambras Castle during the sixteenth century reflected the period’s peculiar worldview: specimens, deformities, tiny monsters fashioned from bone and coral, furry people, bizarre relics, and the imprints of unknown bodies. Ágnes Verebics’s own Wunderkammer is a contemporary mirror of these ideas – an inner, psychological anthology where the terrible and the fragile, the grotesque and the beautiful all find their place.

Verebics Ágnes: Boszorkány, oil on canvas, 70 × 70 cm, 2025.

This exhibition is both an extended self-portrait and a collection room. A passionate flea-market visitor for more than twenty years, Verebics collects oddities and small, forgotten things. They take on a new life in paintings, sculptures, plaited pieces and objects incorporating hair. Each piece is a fragment, a bit of a body, a scrap of memory or a discarded detail in which personal and collective mythology mingle.

Verebics Ágnes: Csipke gallér, oil on canvas, 90 × 90 cm, 2025.

A demonic, bestial side of human nature pulses beneath the surface of the pictures and objects. Horror is felt here as the slow pulse of melancholy, anxiety and brooding. The works stir a familiar unease, like the feeling of coming face to face with our own inner strangeness.

In the world of the “Wunderkammer”, order is born from disorder. Every little thing—a strand of hair, a fragment—serves as a possible memory, a released energy linked to the body, desire and transience. The works of Verebics Ágnes therefore hover at the boundary between collecting and self‑knowledge: a museum of the soul, where every object poses a single question—what do we keep from ourselves, and what do we let go?

The opening Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1340922970835909

The exhibition can be viewed from Tuesday to Friday until December 17 between 10 and 14, and on Saturday between 10 and 13.

Godot Gallery

1114 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 11–13.