Márton Nemes (b. 1986, Székesfehérvár, Hungary) is a multimedia artist based in New York and Budapest, creating paintings, sculptures, installations and sounds. He received an MFA from Chelsea College of Arts, London in 2018. Initially inspired by the architecture of Budapest, a city that he has spent the majority of his life residing in, Nemes’s practice is rooted in the colourful abstraction of buildings. Since this early work, and after moving to London, Nemes has been heavily influenced by techno subcultures, continuing to create abstracted colourful works whilst attempting to duplicate the atmosphere and experience of rave culture, creating a disintegration and rearrangement of the pictorial state. Made using a range of materials, Nemes’s artworks are eager to expand and bend, referencing the escapist counter cultures associated with rave scenes, creating multisensory, diverse experiences.
studio@nemesmarton.com
@martonnemes
EDUCATION
2017-18
MFA, Chelsea College of Arts, University of Arts London
2008-13
2005-08
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Painting, Budapest
Budapest Technical University, Industrial Design, Budapest
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2020
The Beauty That You See in Me Is a Reflection of You, Einspach & Czapolai Fine Arts, Budapest – HU
Metropolitan Baroque, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf – DE
Law of Attraction, Marc Straus Gallery, New York – US
Your Thoughts Become Your Words, Your Words Become Your Thoughts, Wilde Gallery, Geneva – CH
Synchronicity, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich – DE
Márton Nemes: Techno Zen + early and recent works, Ludwig Museum, Budapest – HU
I Am the Energy I Desire to Attract, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong – HK
Techno Zen, Hungarian Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia – IT
Solo presentation with acb Gallery, The Armory Show, New York – US
Amplifier, Elijah Wheat Showroom, New York – US
Look into the Sun with your Eyes Closed, acb Gallery, Budapest – HU
City in the Sky, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong – CN
The Better Self, Fold Gallery, London – UK
Solo presentation with Annka Kultys Gallery, Salón ACME, Mexico City – MX
2019
2018
2017
Ghosting Love, Annka Kultys Gallery, London – UK
Falling Out the Rhythm with Małgorzata Szykankiewicz, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest – HU
Tomorrow, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár – HU
New Positions, solo project with Erika Deák Gallery, Art Cologne, Cologne – DE
Solo presentation with Erika Deák Gallery, Art Market Budapest, Budapest – HU
Shaping Realities with Tamás Hencze, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest – HU
2016
Under Covered, Kunstklang in collaboration with Erika Deák Temporary Gallery, Munich – DE
2015
Overcoloured, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest – HU
Everyone Has Right with Gergő Szinyova, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest – HU
EAST Meets WEST, Westport Arts Center, Westport – US
2014
Painted Paint, Paksi Képtár, Paks – HU
Out of Order, Contemporary Architecture Center Project Gallery, Budapest – HU
2013
Temporarily Closed, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest – HU
When Time Speaks, Chimera Project Gallery, Budapest – HU
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
Surface, Ruzy Gallery, Istanbul – TR
Dynamic Structures – The MNB’s donation to the fine art collections of regional museums, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen – HU
Connect, Walter Storms Galerie Munich – DE
Reconnect, Walter Storms Galerie, Berlin – DE
Colour and Momentum, Liszt Institute, Brussels – BE
Back to Back to Back, Reiter Gallery, Leipzig – DE
Back to Back to Back, Reiter Gallery, Berlin – DE
Y-Profile. Young Artists From the Central Bank of Hungary’s Contemporary Art Collection, Ludwig Museum, Budapest – HU
Echoes, COMMA Gallery, Bratislava – SK
Abstract Narratives, Fridman Gallery, New York City – US
Movement – Gesture – Sign. A Selection from the Collection of the Central Bank of Hungary, Palazzo Mora, Venice – IT
Code+Canvas. Post-Digital Artworks from the Collection of the Hungarian National Bank, CHB – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin – DE
Abstraction is Freedom, 193 Gallery, Paris – FR
New Mediations, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen – HU
Youhu, Kieselbach Gallery and Auction House, Budapest – HU
From “Abstraction” to Abstraction, Stefana Gierowskiego Foundation, Warsaw – PL
Place Value – New Acquisitions, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest – HU
2020
Solid Fiction, Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten – DE
Ghosting Love, Esterhazy Castle, Eisenstadt – AT
2019
Esterházy Art Award 2019, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest – HU
Expo Chicago, duo with Stine Deja, with Annka Kultys Gallery, Chicago – US
BuBu 02, duo with Zsolt Bodoni, Eleven Twenty Project, Buffalo – US
Carry On, Fold Gallery, London – UK
2018
CACOPTOPIA 03, Annka Kultys Gallery, London – UK
2017
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz – AT
2015
You don’t bring me flowers, 68 Projects, Berlin – DE
2014
Abstract Variations, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest – HU
Haunting Monumentality, MSU Zagreb, Zagreb – HR
2013
Eszterházy Prize 2013, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest – HU
X-Ray Texture Pack, Ulrike Hrobsky Gallery, Vienna – AT
2012
Loop, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest – HU
2011
Wir Waren Leipziger, Labor Gallery, Budapest – HU
Budapest Flow, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest – HU
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
CATALOGUES
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2019
2015
Márton Nemes: Metropolitan Baroque. Edited by Wilko Austermann and Hanna Claris. Berlin and Otterndorf: DCV and Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, 2026. Exhibition catalogue.
Márton Nemes: Polysemy. Edited by Hanna Claris. Budapest: Pauker Holding Kft., 2025.
Márton Nemes: Techno Zen: 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Hungarian Pavilion. Edited by Róna Kopeczky. Budapest: Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, 2024. Exhibition catalogue.
Zoom – Code+Canvas: Post-digital Works from the Collection of the Central Bank of Hungary, 32–35. Edited by Kinga Hamvai and Zsuzska Petró. Budapest: MNB-Ingatlan Kft., 2023.
Fehér, Dávid. “Márton Nemes.” In Youhu – The New Generation of Contemporary Art, 236–43. Budapest: Kieselbach Gallery, 2022.
Abstract Hungary. Edited by Sandro Droschl. Graz: Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien and Sternberg Press, 2019.
Fehér, Dávid. “Lines of rupture: Márton Nemes’s painting beyond abstraction” [Törésvonalak: Nemes Márton festészete az absztrakción túl]. In Márton Nemes: Megfestett festék / Painted Paint, 5–29. Paks: Paksi Képtár, 2015.
PRINT PERIODICALS & ONLINE PRESS
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Akers, Torey. “Untitled Art Fair Displays New Dimensions on Miami’s South Beach.” The Art Newspaper, 4 December 2025.
Brunnmeier, Quirin. “Eigentümlich ungreifbar – Márton Nemes im Ludwig Múzeum.” Gallerytalk, 21 January 2025. https://www.gallerytalk.net/marton-nemes-museum-ludwig-techno-zen/.
Kocsis, Katica. “After the Venice Biennale, Márton Nemes is blowing up the Ludwig with visual techno” [Nemes Márton a velencei biennálé után vizuális technóval robbant a Ludwigban]. Kultura.hu, 5 February 2025. https://kultura.hu/nemes-marton-techno-zen/.
Nagy, Zsófia. “You Don't Have to Understand Techno – We Visited Márton Nemes's Exhibition” [A technót nem érteni kell – Nemes Márton kiállításán jártunk]. We Love Budapest, 7 January 2025. https://welovebudapest.com/cikk/2025/01/07/latnivalok-es-kultura-nemes-marton-techno-zen-kiallitas-ludwig-muzeum/.
Winkler, Nóra. “Anxiety is inevitable, but if you give it space, it will let you go: An interview with Márton Nemes” [A szorongás nem elkerülhető, de ha teret kap, elenged: Interjú Nemes Mártonnal]. Glamour+, 20 August 2025. https://www.glamour.hu/kultura/nemes-marton-szorongas-interju-kepzomuveszet/srt9c4e.
“Hungarian Pavilion ‘Already the Star’ of the Venice Biennale.” Hungary Today, 19 April 2024. https://hungarytoday.hu/hungarian-pavilion-already-the-star-of-the-venice-biennale/.
“Hungary Pavilion Highlights the 2024 Venice Biennale.” CGTN, 8 May 2024. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-05-08/Hungary-pavilion-highlights-the-2024-Venice-Biennale-1tr1aUzeZzi/p.html.
Csibra-Kaizler, Tamara. “Márton Nemes: I've come to love being Hungarian” [Nemes Márton: Megszerettem, hogy magyar vagyok]. Glamour, 21 October 2024. https://www.glamour.hu/kultura/nemes-marton-biennale-velence-interju/7nfehyb.
El Masri, Sara. “8 Pavilion Highlights from Venice Biennale 2024.” Parametric Architecture, 6 May 2024. https://parametric-architecture.com/8-pavilion-highlights-venice-biennale-2024/.
Howe, Holly. “The Most Instagrammable Pavilions at This Year’s Venice Biennale.” Complex, 9 May 2024. https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/holly-howe/venice-biennale-2024.
Katsikopoulou, Myrto. “Designboom’s Ultimate Guide to the Venice Art Biennale.” Designboom, 17 April 2024. https://www.designboom.com/art/designbooms-ultimate-guide-venice-art-biennale-2024/.
Konieczny, Antoni. “Guide to the Most Interesting Events in Biennale Arte 2024.” Contemporary Lynx, 22 April 2024. https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/guide-to-the-most-interesting-events-in-venice-2024.
Lakó, Zsigmond. “Techno Zen at the Hungarian House in Venice: An Interview with Márton Nemes and Róna Kopeczky” [Techno Zen a velencei Magyar Házban: Interjú Nemes Mártonnal és Kopeczky Rónával]. Kulter.hu, June 2024. https://www.kulter.hu/2024/06/nemes-marton-kopeczky-rona-interju/.
“Márton Nemes on Representing Hungary at the 60th Venice Biennale.” ArtReview, 8 March 2024. https://artreview.com/marton-nemes-on-representing-hungary-at-the-60th-venice-biennale.
“Márton Nemes Represents Hungary at the 60th Venice Biennale.” culture.hu, 21 April 2024. https://culture.hu/us/new-york/articles/marton-nemes-represents-hungary-at-the-60th-venice-biennale.
“Márton Nemes: Techno Zen.” e-flux, April 3, 2024. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/580812/mrton-nemestechno-zen/.
Nagy, Zsófia. “Inside the Studio – This Is Where Márton Nemes Prepared for the Venice Biennale” [Benéztünk a műterembe – Itt készült Nemes Márton a Velencei Biennáléra]. We Love Budapest, 17 April 2024. https://welovebudapest.com/cikk/2024/04/17/latnivalok-es-kultura-nemes-marton-kepzomuvesz-muterem-kortars-muveszet-velencei-biennale/.
“Márton Nemes – one of the most innovative artists of the younger generation of painters” [Nemes Márton—a fiatal festőgeneráció egyik leginnovatívabb alkotója]. Cultvisit, 25 January 2024. https://cultvisit.blog.hu/2024/01/25/nemes_marton_a_fiatal_festogeneracio_egyik_leginnovativabb_alkotoja.
“Márton Nemes's exhibition at the Ludwig Museum” [Nemes Márton kiállítása a Ludwig Múzeumban]. PRAE, 20 December 2024. https://www.prae.hu/news/45740-nemes-marton-kiallitasa-a-ludwig-muzeumban/.
“Nemes Márton: Techno Zen.” Országút, 15 May 2024. https://orszagut.com/kepzomuveszet/nemes-marton-techno-zen-6025.
P. Szabó, Dénes. “Sensuality embedded in neon colours” [Neonszínekbe ágyazott érzékiség]. Népszava Online, 20 December 2024. https://nepszava.hu/3262242_neonszinekbe-agyazott-erzekiseg.
“Techno Zen – Márton Nemes’s exhibition has opened at the Ludwig Museum” [Techno Zen—Megnyílt Nemes Márton tárlata a Ludwig Múzeumban]. Art Is Business, 20 December 2024. https://www.artisbusiness.hu/hu/hireink/techno-zen-2798/.
“The Most Colourful Exhibitions at Venice Biennale 2024 – Foreigners Everywhere.” Craft and Travel, 25 April 2024. https://craftandtravel.com/foreigners-everywhere/.
“Venice Biennale Attracts Thousands of Visitors from around the Globe.” TVP World, 18 April 2024. https://tvpworld.com/77062832/the-60th-art-biennale-in-the-venetian-gardens.
Kocsis, Katica. “Studio visit with artist Márton Nemes” [Műteremlátogatás Nemes Márton képzőművésznél]. Kultura.hu, 2023.
Szolga, Hajnal. “Art as energy transmission: Interview with artist Márton Nemes” [A művészet mint energiaátadás – Interjú Nemes Márton képzőművésszel]. Artportal.hu, 2023.
Takács, Fábián. “Techno Zen: In 2024, Márton Nemes will exhibit at the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale” [Techno Zen: 2024-ben Nemes Márton állít ki a magyar pavilonban a Velencei Biennálén]. ÚjMűvészet, March 20, 2023. https://ujmuveszet.hu/szelesvaszon/techno-zen/.
Kocsis, Katica. “Enjoying art is an infinite techno party: Márton Nemes at acb” [A műélvezet végeláthatatlan technoparti – Nemes Márton az acb-ben]. Kultura.hu, 2022.
Biró, Attila. “Márton Nemes left two universities to become a recognised painter: His works are already worth millions” [Két egyetemet otthagyva lett elismert festő Nemes Márton: a képei már milliókat érnek]. Pénzcentrum, 2021.
“Contemporary art and patronage: Márton Nemes and Katalin Spengler” [Kortárs művészet és mecenatúra – Nemes Márton és Spengler Katalin]. Növekedés.hu, 2020.
Szilágyi, Róza Tekla. “I juxtapose already existing things so that something else results from it: Interview with Márton Nemes” [Eleve meglévő dolgokat helyezek egymás mellé úgy, hogy abból valami más lesz: Interjú Nemes Mártonnal]. Artmagazin.hu, 2019.
P. Szabó, Dénes. “Techno and Geometry” [Techno és geometria]. Népszava Online, 5 April 2024. https://nepszava.hu/3230790_techno-es-geometria.
Caune, Helmuts, and Sergej Timofejev. “Art Cologne 2018: A Sea of Art on Three Levels.” Arterritory.com, 2018.
Hering, András. “The creator of the week: Márton Nemes” [A hét kreatívja: Nemes Márton]. Phenom.hu, 2018.
Rieder, Gábor. “About Techno: Interview with Márton Nemes” [About Techno: Interjú Nemes Mártonnal]. Artkartell.hu, 2018.
“In 2018, Erika Deák Gallery’s exhibition of Márton Nemes is the most beautiful booth” [2018-ban a Deák Erika Galéria Nemes Márton-kiállítása a legszebb stand]. Artmagazin.hu, 2018.
Sipos, Tünde. “Generational dialogues in painting: Or what form does the master-pupil relationship take today?” [Generációs párbeszédek a festészetben: Avagy mivé válik napjainkban a mester-tanítvány viszony?]. PRAE, 2017.
Kegyes, Júlia. “I do not want to be afraid; the rest comes by itself: Interview with Márton Nemes” [Nem akarok félni: A többi meg jön magától – Interjú Nemes Mártonnal]. Artportal.hu, 2016.
Boros, Phyllis A. S. “‘EAST Meets WESTport’ Translates Artist’s Vision.” Westport News, 2015.
Joó, Julianna. “‘…They’ll grow up and instinctively understand what really matters’: An Interview with Márton Nemes” [“…Ők felnőnek és ösztönösen fogják érteni, hogy mi a lényeg” Interjú Nemes Mártonnal]. Artmagazin.hu, February 18, 2015. https://www.artmagazin.hu/articles/szinter/415073b6c74c4404db158b29d64afbd6.
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2019
Esterházy Art Award, Budapest – HU
BuBu Artist Resident Exchange Program, Buffalo – US
2015
Residency at Westport Art Center, Westport – US
2014
Residency Salzburg, Land Salzburg – AT
2012
2011
Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung Prize, Budapest – HU
Erasmus, Leipzig – DE