Süveges Rita: Nyolc perc, amíg ideér a napfény
Rita Süveges: Eight Minutes Until Sunlight Arrives
acb Plus
September 5 – October 22, 2025
Opening: Thursday, September 4, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Schedule
At her first solo exhibition at acb, Rita Süveges (1986) debuts with her new series of velvet paintings and a monumental metal sculpture connected to this cycle. In addition to exploring retrofuturism—visions of the future which were projected from the past—the starting point of her velvet works is light itself. On the nearly monochromatic surfaces of her paintings, Süveges composes gradually unfolding images from the interplay of light and shadow, brightness and darkness. The exhibition’s title refers to the fact that sunlight—the primary force shaping life on Earth—takes approximately 8 minutes to reach our planet, which span of time hasn’t changed in our solar system for millions of years. Süveges previously explored speculative interiors of spaceships and space stations in her 2023 painting series entitled Infrastructure, which won the Esterházy Audience Award. In her newest works, these techno-scientific environments open onto dense forest panoramas, which are projected back into the Carboniferous era.
The debut of Süveges at acb follows her solo exhibition Weather Spectre. From Magic to Geoengineering at the Hungarian National Gallery, which won the TÓTalJOY Prize in 2023. Süveges was awarded the Smohay Award in 2020, and was a recipient of the Derkovits Scholarship, she also has been nominated multiple times for both the Esterházy and Strabag Awards. This year, the artist has participated in several international group exhibitions at Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, Display in Prague, nGbK in Berlin, Paris-B gallery in Paris, and Budapest Gallery. Her works are held in several public collections, such as the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, the Municipal Picture Gallery – Kiscell Museum, Budapest and the King St. Stephen Museum in Székesfehérvár. Süveges has also taken part in numerous international artist residency programs, including Cité des Arts in Paris, ISCP in New York, MeetFactory in Prague, and MQ AIR in Vienna.
acb Gallery
Founded in Budapest in 2003, acb Gallery has consistently grown in the past two decades establishing itself as one of the leading actors in the Hungarian and Eastern European art market. Initially, the gallery’s focus was on Hungarian and international emerging and mid-generation neo-conceptual artists, who became active after the political changes in the former Eastern Bloc in 1990. Since then, the gallery has expanded its focus, and now represents numerous Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists who have left their mark on art history since the 1960s and 1970s, as well as members of the youngest generations beside the already established ones.
Since the autumn of 2022, acb runs three exhibition spaces: the main gallery space, acb Attachment, which serves as a project space, and acb Plus, dedicated to large-scale solo and group presentations.
acb’s research and publishing department, acb ResearchLab was founded in 2015. This platform within the gallery aims to fill the gaps in the reception and publication of Hungarian neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde oeuvres by studying bodies of works and art phenomena previously treated as peripheral.
The gallery holds significant importance within the global art market, actively promoting its artists nationally as well as internationally and engaging in art fairs, such as the Art Basel in Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, the Frieze Masters London or the ARCO Madrid.