Valahogy el kell kezdeni!
Today, between 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM, we warmly welcome all visitors to our temporarily opening pop-up gallery and artwork shop before the renovation begins. 🙂
Discover contemporary artworks, emerging independent artists, and the evolving atmosphere of Start Gallery Budapest in an intimate early-stage exhibition space.
Welcome everyone to the website of perhaps the newest gallery in the city — and maybe even the country. 😀
This week, Start Gallery will be open on Wednesday and Thursday between 1:00 PM and 6:00 PM. If you happen to pass by earlier, feel free to knock — I’ll most likely be painting an exciting new work in the back room, currently titled Salon, and I’ll happily let you in to take a look around. 🙂
On Friday, the gallery will be open from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM, and between 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM I’ll be hosting the Random Sketchclub, an open community drawing session where anyone is welcome to join casually and create together.
Participation is free, and I provide all materials — sketchbooks, paints, markers, and more. My only request is that the tools are used with care and attention. I’ll gladly explain how to handle everything properly so the materials can continue to serve many future drawings and contemporary art experiments. 🙂
Next week, the gallery will definitely be open Wednesday and Thursday from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM, as planned throughout the month. If I manage to open on Mondays as well, I’ll always announce it here.
The gallery will most likely remain closed on Tuesdays for the rest of the year.
Weekend visits are possible by prior arrangement. I’m always happy to personally show visitors the gallery’s growing collection of approximately 300–500 contemporary artworks by independent artists.
To arrange a visit, please send an email with your preferred arrival time to:
Thank you,
— Angelika Fekete (Analóg Angelika)
We have finally arrived here too.
We started organizing this exhibition together with Bea Tóth years ago. She was the very first artist whose drawings made me feel that I wanted to create exhibitions. Until now, I thought that moment happened around ten years ago—but it turns out it was probably five or six.
What I deeply love about Bea’s contemporary artworks is that they are surreal, uncomfortable, and yet incredibly delicate and emotionally fragile at the same time. I love how she balances on the edge of harmony and disharmony like a true aerial acrobat.
And I especially love that beauty in her work is never beautiful in an easy or comfortable way.
Through her paintings, she tells stories—sometimes imagined, sometimes lived—and one of her greatest strengths is the way she leaves the viewer unsettled, full of questions, long after the encounter.
As both a painter and now a gallerist, I consume enormous amounts of contemporary art, and I genuinely believe Bea’s works are internationally unique in their impossible, dreamlike visual language.
She is entirely self-taught. For years she sat down to draw every single day, and she still paints and draws regularly—freely, independently, and for herself.
More and more, I feel that there are countless hidden talents creating quietly around us, like underground streams beneath the surface. I sincerely hope I can help them receive the attention they deserve, and connect them with people who can love their works as passionately as I do.
So come and see the paintings.
In the meantime, here’s a small preview of Beatrix Tóth’s surreal and emotionally charged contemporary artworks:
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📍 Facebook Event:
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Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Start Gallery Budapest and this special contemporary art exhibition.
— Angelika Analóg
Visitors are welcome at Start Gallery on Mondays by appointment.
The gallery remains closed on Tuesdays.
You can browse and order contemporary artworks from the gallery online here:
Start Gallery Budapest Webshop
Fortunately, the full collection has grown so large that it will probably never fully fit into the webshop—but new artworks by independent artists are continuously being added. 🙂
From Wednesday to Saturday, visitors are warmly welcome between 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM.
Sunday opening hours during December are still being planned. The intention is there, though balancing family life and the Advent season may require some improvisation. 🙂
Opening of a contemporary art exhibition
An open community drawing session within the independent contemporary art scene of Budapest.
Works by Beatrix Tóth and other artists of the gallery will be presented under UV light during this special late-night contemporary art event.
Extended opening hours for night-owl visitors, collectors, and art lovers. 🙂
The renovation of our community-commercial gallery space was partially made possible through crowdfunding and community support.
You can read more about supporting the gallery here:
Support Start Gallery Budapest
Thank you for the many kind messages and coffees! 🙂
Following the great success of our first exhibition opening, we have finally reached the point where a significant selection of the exhibited contemporary artworks is now available through our online gallery and webshop.
You can explore the available works by Beatrix Tóth here:
Beatrix Tóth – Start Gallery Webshop
Enjoy browsing and discovering new contemporary artwork by independent artists from Budapest, Hungary.
— Angelika Analóg
Due to a private event, the Random Sketchclub scheduled for January 28 will unfortunately be cancelled.
Furniture Painting Workshop by Eredő Creative Studio
Creative community workshop in Budapest, Hungary
Eredő Alkotóműhely invites everyone interested in creative design and hand-painted decoration to a special furniture painting workshop at Start Gallery Budapest.
Using a wooden candle holder as the base object, participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of pattern design, while also receiving guidance on color selection through inspiring and unconventional creative perspectives. All materials required for the workshop will be provided. 🙂
A relaxed and hands-on creative experience connected to the independent contemporary art and maker community in Budapest, Hungary.
👉 Registration and questions:
Workshop Event & Registration
Contemporary Art Space in Budapest, Hungary
Unfortunately, throughout January I have been receiving almost daily news about friends, visitors, and people close to the gallery testing positive for COVID. Because of this, around the middle of the month I decided that, until the situation improves, I would like to welcome only one household / virus community at a time inside the gallery.
For this reason, I kindly ask visitors to arrive by appointment only, preferably with three vaccinations—or at least a recent second dose—and to take a COVID test within two days before the visit (ideally with a negative result 🙂).
In return, I will also test myself before your scheduled visit, regardless of the cost, and while you are here, no one else will enter the gallery. This creates a calm, personal atmosphere where we can truly focus on the artworks, talk, and spend time together in a relaxed environment.
Available booking slots can currently be found from Wednesday to Friday. Mondays and Tuesdays are primarily reserved for creative work and artistic production inside the gallery space.
👉 Appointment booking is available here.
The Random Sketchclub continues relatively steadily every Friday between 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM. The first cancelled session of the year will be January 28.
Participants are welcome under similar conditions as above: vaccination and a recent negative test are kindly requested. However, no registration is required for the drawing circle events.
If I—or someone living in the same household—test positive, updates will first be posted on the gallery’s Facebook page, so please check before arriving:
📍 Start Gallery Budapest Facebook Page
(Visitors with appointments will naturally be contacted personally as well.)
You can continue to purchase contemporary artworks by the gallery’s independent artists through the online gallery platform. My own artworks are also available online.
Start Gallery Budapest was partially renovated through community support and crowdfunding. Further developments of this independent contemporary art space are still ongoing, and every contribution is deeply appreciated.
More information about supporting the gallery is available online.
“Most of the time I think about what and how I should paint. Almost every experience or visual impression immediately makes me wonder what kind of painting it could become. These experiences do not need to be extraordinary at all—the things that inspire me most are my immediate surroundings and everyday situations, the kinds of moments that could happen to any of us at any time. In this sense, the source of my subjects feels endless.”
— Ágnes Tóth
One of the defining strengths of Tóth’s contemporary paintings lies in the warmth and tenderness with which she observes the surrounding world. Her works capture subtle, intimate details of everyday life—moments whose apparent banality unexpectedly create a strong sense of familiarity and emotional closeness for the viewer.
— Angelika Fekete (Analóg Angelika)
The exhibition is opened by Orsolya Páli.
📅 Exhibition dates: April 1 – April 28, 2022
📍 Start Gallery
The exhibition can be visited during opening hours or by appointment.
The exhibited contemporary artworks are available for purchase and can be viewed online.
Contemporary Group Exhibition in Budapest, Hungary
📅 Opening: June 16, 2022 – 6:00 PM
📍 Start Gallery
The exhibition is open until July 15, 2022.
Works by the exhibiting independent artists will become available for purchase through the Start Gallery Budapest webshop starting July 1. Until then, reservation requests may be sent to:
📩 angelika@startgaleria.hu
A curated presentation of emerging contemporary artworks, showcasing fresh voices from the new generation of the Hungarian contemporary art scene.
Lili Lehotay
Boglárka Szabó
Hanna Sáfrány Szabó
Beatrix Zsiros
Masa
Aliz Kovács
Judit Földy
Lili Sulyok
Anna Eszter Setényi
Maja Berczeli
Léna Székely
The Debut Exhibition of the KOMOREBI Group
As part of the exhibition, the works of Brigitta B. Horváth are presented alongside selected contemporary artworks by Start Gallery Budapest artists Gábor Tobak and Angelika Fekete (Analóg Angelika). Through this dialogue between artists, the exhibition explores how the wabi-sabi philosophy represented by Horváth in Hungary inspires creators across related artistic disciplines.
The exhibition creates an intimate encounter between imperfection, fragility, atmosphere, and contemporary visual culture—highlighting how Japanese-inspired aesthetics can resonate within the language of independent contemporary art in Budapest, Hungary.
Founded in December 2021, Start Gallery Budapest is a community-based contemporary commercial gallery and creative space dedicated to promoting artistic practice, supporting emerging independent artists through first solo exhibitions, and reviving a civic art collecting culture through accessible contemporary artwork, sketches, studies, and works by new voices entering the art market.
Brigitta B. Horváth has spent nearly thirty years researching the organic forms of plants and translating these observations into the field of contemporary metal and jewelry art. Working within this artistic philosophy, she creates applied art objects inspired by botanical structures, drawing not only from her own studies of nature, but also from the iconic bud photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and the visual world of Katsushika Hokusai.
Last year, Horváth received an individual artist grant from the Hungarian National Cultural Fund, which enabled the creation of a new jewelry collection inspired by the principles of mokume-gane and the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi. For decades, themes of metamorphosis and transformation have remained central to her practice. Through close observation of natural processes, she explores how life emerges from seemingly lifeless matter, seeking to guide her own works—whether sculptures, jewelry pieces, or handcrafted lamps—through similar formal evolutions.
Her contemporary artworks merge organic sensitivity with functional design, creating objects that carry both poetic and everyday presence.
Gábor Tobak was invited to continue his long-standing artistic exploration of impermanence and the fragile beauty of natural decay. Following the debut group exhibition, new works from the series—highly anticipated by collectors—will be presented at Start Gallery Budapest during the winter season of 2022.
In his untitled series, Tobak frames fragments of aged wooden objects, weathered beams, and worn rural ceiling structures, elevating the textures of decay, erosion, and time into autonomous contemporary artworks. Through these carefully selected materials, he reveals the quiet dignity and visual richness hidden within deterioration itself.
For more than twenty years, Tobak has continuously redefined his relationship with wood as a material, searching for ways to express his deepest respect for the natural world through contemporary artistic practice in Budapest, Hungary.
Angelika Fekete (Analóg Angelika)’s introspective paintings are deeply personal attempts to confront reality with honesty and directness—something rarely achievable within the rhythms of everyday life. Built through repetitive gestures and meditative processes, her contemporary artworks seek to dissolve seemingly fixed situations and interrupt the instinctive “autopilot mode” through which we often navigate daily existence.
Within her artistic philosophy, things possess no inherent value in themselves; value is compulsively projected onto them by consciousness. This tension—between how reality is imagined to be and how it is actually experienced—becomes one of the central sources of suffering. Learning to peacefully inhabit the distance between imagined and lived reality is, for the artist, one of the highest forms of freedom. The perfection of imperfection becomes liberation itself.
Contemporary Art Exhibition in Budapest, Hungary
📍 Start Gallery Budapest
15–17 Margit Boulevard, Budapest, Hungary
📅 Planned opening: September 22, 2022 – 6:00 PM
Opening speech by László Sári, orientalist and researcher of Eastern cultures.
Live performance by Afronauta Handpan Artist.
The exhibition explores the philosophy of Wabi-Sabi—the beauty found within irregularity, imperfection, fragility, and transience. Rooted in Zen Buddhism, Wabi-Sabi has evolved into one of the defining concepts of Japanese aesthetics:
“Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”
Wabi is often associated with rustic simplicity and restrained elegance, applicable both to natural forms and human-made objects. Sabi, meanwhile, refers to the discovery of beauty through aging and imperfection—the quiet poetry formed through the passage of time.
The exhibition reflects on nature’s endless cycles of transformation: the tree growing from a seed, expanding into a vast canopy, eventually falling, being repurposed into homes and objects, then slowly decaying once again. Fragments drift through rivers, weather under sun and rain, and gradually transform into organically sculpted structures of breathtaking irregularity.
This same worldview is embodied in the jewelry pieces created using the ancient Japanese mokume-gane technique, where layered metals fuse together in wood-grain-like patterns through a hidden and highly complex process. These objects carry the spirit of continuously transforming nature—where everything is interconnected, and even the smallest plant reveals deeper truths through its silent language.
Start Gallery is a contemporary community-commercial gallery and creative space dedicated to supporting independent artists, first solo exhibitions, and accessible contemporary artwork for emerging collectors.
🌐 startgaleria.hu
📞 +36 30 913 7772
Brigitta B. Horváth’s Instagram and website are available online.
Angelika Fekete’s Instagram and website are available online.
Gábor Tobak does not use social media; his artistic practice can only be followed through the official platforms of Start Gallery Budapest.