NICE TO SEE YOU
February 4, 2023 – 5:00 PM | Contemporary Group Exhibition in Budapest, Hungary
The atmosphere of the simple black-lettered NICE TO SEE YOU stickers instantly evokes the early 2000s. Their black-framed typography on white backgrounds recalls the cheerful slogans, comic-style speech bubbles, and rounded television aesthetics of the era. At the same time, they can also be interpreted as friendly public-space interventions resisting the monotony of turn-of-the-millennium urban life.
Yet what feels simultaneously familiar and strangely alien is not the graphic design itself, but the directness, simplicity, and optimism of the message—the atmosphere these works create.
Art writer Zsolt Miklósvölgyi connects the exhibition concept to Endre Tót’s Joys series from the 1970s, works that reflected the oppressive conditions of their time through an “absurd euphoria of joy.” In distant kinship with Tót’s visual language, the NICE TO SEE YOU statements can also be seen as reflections of a fading era—one increasingly obscured by the conditions of dystopian realism and illiberal everyday life.
Rather than responding with nostalgia, however, the artworks presented here attempt to reactivate the simple, positive, and universally accessible spirit embodied by the black-and-white stickers.
A collective exhibition exploring memory, optimism, urban culture, and contemporary visual language through the works of emerging and established independent artists in Budapest, Hungary.
Participating Artists
Péter Andráskó
Tibor Árki
Soma Balázs
Tamás Blaha
Márton Dés
Ilka Fedor
Dániel Ferencz
Márk Fridvalszki
Tamás Füredi
Tibor Horváth
Roland Horváth
Dani Jancsó
Simon Kaci
Anna Kasnyik
Botond Keresztesi
Adél Koleszár
Lehel Kovács
János Kummer
Balázs Lobot
Dani Lődőr
Gábor Magolcsay Nagy
Sophia Mohamed
Richárd Orosz
Theodora Pásztor
Krisztián Peer
Attila Stark
Szárnyas Doboz
Gergő Szinyova
Mihály Szuharevszki
Diána Tamási
Lázár Todoroff
Sára Hanna Topor
Dominika Trapp
Krisztián Vörös Piros