Botond Gagyi

Botond Gagyi's paintings draw from visible reality but are charged with hidden stories and layered, evolving structures. His canvases often hum with an eerie stillness, where magic blends with realism, and solitary figures seem to await something unknown-yet they often become the very apparitions they anticipate. Textured paint surfaces initially attract the viewer, only to guide them toward deeper, elusive meanings. These figures and spaces aren't grounded in ordinary life but emerge from spontaneous, almost dreamlike visions shaped during the act of painting. Illusion and material intertwine, forming a living abstraction where paint becomes presence.

 

Gagyi's recent works reveal a surreal world in formation-vivid, luminous, and unresolved. They don't depict a finished scene but one unfolding in real time, inviting the viewer not just to look, but to enter and continue the vision themselves.

 

Botond Gagyi obtained his BFA and MFA from the Painting Department, University of Art and Design in Romania in 2015 and 2017 respectively. He is currently a PHD candidate where his research is focused on figurative representation under the sign of distortion. Gagyi's work has been awarded in multiple art competitions in Romania and Poland and it is held in private collections in Hungary, Romania, UK, Germany, Sweden, France,  Panama, and the USA. 

 

Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Mixed Light', Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein, Köln (2025); "The Procreation of Light, Biju Gallery, Cluj Napoca, Romania (2025); The Cluj Collective', JD Malat Gallery, London (2025); Abstract Mood, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (2021); Solo show during Kulturtage Ehrenbreitstein, Theater am E'stein, Cologne, Germany (2020); The Night Watch, Museum of Arts Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania (2019); Alchemic Body, Fire Air Water Earth, THE LINE Contemporary Art Space, London (2019); Start Point Prize 2017, Prague National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.