Márton Nemes
Márton Nemes, born in 1986 in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, attended the Budapest Technical University and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts before earning his master’s degree in fine art from Chelsea College of Arts in London in 2018. After spending four years in London and two years in New York, he currently lives and works in Budapest.
Márton Nemes was born just before the fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent regime change in 1989, which greatly influenced his development as an artist. The socialist architectural remnants of his childhood, including abandoned barracks and dilapidated urban areas near his hometown in rural Hungary – recalling an oppressive political landscape – served as both visual inspiration and a blank canvas for his creativity. His first venture into art involved him in the graffiti subculture of the early 2000s, leaving an indelible mark on his colour palette, while spray painting eventually became part of his painterly practice.
Nemes first studied to become an industrial designer, an influence that still guides his design process today, especially in the software preferences and technologies used in his artworks. In 2008, he enrolled in traditional academic training at the painting department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, where he developed an enduring habit of listening to electronic dance music and techno during long studio hours as a backdrop for painting, which evolved into a major stimulus for his artmaking. In 2017, he relocated to London, where the educational and cultural environment – so refreshing by contrast – ultimately helped consolidate his style.
Departing from acrylic-on-canvas compositions, he began adding alien materials to the canvas, expanding more and more into space as a gesture to prolong the rectangular pictorial field beyond its boundaries. Embracing bold neon tones and fluctuating space through the picture plane by means of physical ruptures, he tampers with classical pictorial conventions to prove the prevalence of sensory, emotive and intellectual experiences eventuated by art. His installations and sculptures are multisensory endeavours that supplement his investigation into chromatic fluency with spatial and temporal explorations. Immersed in London’s rave culture, techno communities and club aesthetics, Nemes was stimulated by the cultural counternarratives surrounding him, while continuously referencing great predecessors, such as the Abstract Expressionists, Colour Field painters and representatives of Spatialism.
With an inherent affinity to mindfulness, meditation and spirituality – shaped partly by family influences, partly by a desire to remain in a constant creative flow – Nemes has surpassed the need to only represent the communal, albeit escapist experiences of techno subcultures. Recognising a connection or a pattern between repetitive techno beats and rhythmic breathwork or mental practices in meditation, as well as a quest for intense external and internal experiences, Nemes conceived his project Techno Zen, which represented Hungary at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.
Nemes continues to reinvent this vibrant, dynamic, upsurging style as a space for contemplation about colour, light, form and space. He is in constant search for a state of transcendence – never purely techno nor purely spiritual, rather a blend of both.
Nemes represented Hungary at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024) with his project Techno Zen. The exhibition later travelled to Budapest, where it was showcased as an extended exhibition at the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art (2024), incorporating earlier and more recent works. His recent solo exhibitions include those at Walter Storms Galerie in Munich (2025), Double Q Gallery in Hong Kong (2024, 2022), a solo booth at The Armory Show with acb Gallery (2023), Elijah Wheat Showroom in New York (2022) and acb Gallery in Budapest (2022). He exhibited at Reiter Galleries in Berlin and Leipzig with artists Anselm Reyle and Christian Holze (2025), as well as at COMMA Gallery in Bratislava alongside Juraj Bartusz and Martin Lukač (2025). Additionally, he has participated in various curated group exhibitions and art fairs, including Art Düsseldorf, Expo Chicago and Zona Maco (2025). His works are in the collections of Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, the Ludwig Museum (Budapest), the Hungarian National Bank (Budapest) and MODEM (Debrecen).
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Synchronicity Paintings 14, 2025
P2.5 LED panel, aluminium, laser-cut and powder-coated stainless steel, acrylic, canvas, wood
96 x 64 x 8 cm

Stereo Paintings 04a, 2024
Perforated steel, lasercut steel, carpaint, speakers, plywood, MDF, acrylic, canvas, electronics
121 x 88 x 14 cm

Synchronicity Paintings 15, 2025
P2.5 LED panel, aluminium, laser-cut and powder-coated stainless steel, acrylic, canvas, wood
96 x 64 x 8 cm