Verebics Ágnes: Wunderkammer

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Megnyitó: 2025. november 20-án 18 óra

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Opening: 2025; on 20 November at 18 o'clock.

Opening: Moskovics Judit, 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 I. Ferdinánd 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: Witch, oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm 2025.

This exhibition is both an extended self‑portrait and a collection space. For more than twenty years Verebics has been a passionate flea‑market collector, amassing oddities and tiny, forgotten objects that are then transformed – gaining new life as paintings, sculptures, strands and rusted artefacts. Every piece is a fragment: a body fragment, a memory fragment, an abandoned detail, where personal and collective mythologies intertwine.

Agnesc Verebics: Csipke gallér – oil on canvas 90 × 90 cm 2025

In the images and objects the human’s demonic, beastly side vibrates, yet never directly, rather beneath the surface. Here horror does not appear, but becomes felt: as melancholy, anxiety, the slow pulsing of trembling. These works therefore awaken in us not terror but a kind of familiar restlessness – a feeling like encountering our own inner eccentricities.

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, Béla Bartók Street 11-13

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