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.
Tiger embrace
In the meantime, here’s a small preview of Beatrix Tóth’s surreal and emotionally charged contemporary artworks:
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Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Start Gallery Budapest and this special contemporary art exhibition.
— Angelika Analóg