STATEMENT
I observe the visual situations that surround me, which are created by human activity or by nature and which contain some kind of aesthetic quality or problem. I look at these as marks which tell stories of their own formation. They preserve something unknown and hidden which is beyond its own existence.
The way lights and shadows activate a wall as a painterly surface, the way water finds its form as the pavement is drying, or the surface of a billboard as it is destroyed by the weather is what serves as a starting point in my work. These everyday visual phenomena remind me of the process of making art.
My aim is to capture, preserve and recreate these found situations. I materialise them in different media based on the character of the subject. I leave marks on the diverse surfaces by printing, pouring, gesture painting, building and destroying collage-layers, sculpting and by taking photographs.
Through my artistic practices, I look for art in reality and reality in art, which leads to the intersection of art and the aesthetic reflection on everyday visual happenings. The examined spectacle and the depiction becomes interchangeable. With this intermediary approach, my art continuously shifts between art and life..
LOCATION
Born 1985 in Szolnok, Hungary
Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary
AWARDS & GRANTS
2015 Jenő Barcsay Prize
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
Hungarian National Bank Contemporary Art Collection
EDUCATION
2021 - Hungarian University of Fine Arts,
DLA student
2020 - 2021 Budapest Art Mentor Program
2008 - 2014 Hungarian University of Fine Arts,
Master of Fine Arts in Painting
2004 - 2009 SZTE - Teacher Training College,
Art-English Teacher
EXHIBITIONS/ SHOWS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Silver Lining, Printa Edition, Budapest (H)
2025 Form\less, Kastner Kommunity, Budapest (H)
2024 Leaving Mark, Várfok Project Room, Budapest (H)
2024 Darker Dreams, Hegyvidék Gallery, Budapest (H)
2022 Patterns In Piles, Resident Art Gallery, Budapest (H)
2022 No Palm Tree Grows Under Smooth Sea, (Duo Show
with Bence Kala) MKE-Profil Gallery, Budapest (H)
2019 Laundries, Art9 Gallery, Budapest (H)
2016 Flow, L-Art Open Studios, Budapest (H)
2014 Törés, Leányfalu-Community Hall, Leányfalu (H)
2011 Nora_skype, Körönd Gallery, Budapest (H)
2010 Scottish lanscapes, Ervin Szabó Library, Budapest (H)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Phantom Thread III. In the Footsteps of Artists’ Wives:
Olga Fialka, Ferenczy Museum Centre, Szentendre (H)
2024 HOUSE OF MINE- ECHOES WITHIN, Virág Benedek Ház, Budapest (H)
HOUSE OF MINE- ECHOES WITHIN, East Slovak Gallery, Kosice (SK)
MAGIC OF VISION, Liszt Institute, Brussels (BE)
2023 ALMAMATER 20/40, SZTE-JGYPK, Department of Art and
Art History, Szeged (H)
ESSENTIALS, Mansarda Gallery, Timisoara (RO)
MI, TI, ŐK, Esernyős Gallery, Budapest (H)
MONDVA CSINÁLT DOLGOK, Glassyard Gallery,
Budapest (H)
A FUTÁS IRÁNYA, MKE-DLA, Feszty-ház, Budapest (H)
WITH FRESH EYES, Galerija Flu, Belgrade (RS)
OUTLINES, Resident Art Gallery, Budapest (H)
LIQUID SLICES OF TIME- Female artists from the MNB
contemporary collection, Dubniczay Palace, Veszprém (H)
2022 My Obvious Presence, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest (H)
2021 Explorers 4.0, Exhibition of Budapest Art Mentor,
Képező, Budapest (H)
2017 Dislocations, University of Fine Arts, Budapest (H)
2016 A könnyű nap tegnap volt, zim-zum group, Márai
Centre, Eger (H)
2016 Duma domb, zim-zum group, Gallery of Artist's
Colony, Szolnok (H)
2016 Jeno Barcsay Prize - Winner's exhibition, Ferenczy
Museum Centre, Szentendre (H)
2015 ZoomIn - ZoomOut, zim-zum group, Vármező
Gallery, Budapest (H)
2014 RUM, Rum Hotel - pop up, Budapest (H)
2014 Zim-zum vol.3, zim-zum group, University of
Debrecen - department of Science, Debrecen (H)
2013 Zim-zum vol.2, zim-zum group, Martfű,Community
Hall, Martfű (H)
2012 Zim-zum, zim-zum group, Balassi Hungarian
Institute, Prague, (CZ)
PRESS / ARTICLES in Hungarian
Kiss-Ványa Zsófia, Totemoszlop az absztrakció mintáinak, Prae, 2022
Kocsis Katica, Anyának lenni jó, anyának lenni nehéz, Országút Magazine, 2022
Sárai Vanda, AZ ANYASÁG NEM ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL, Artmagazin, 2022
Szabó Annamária, Ready?-Kala Bence és Tóth Anna Eszter pop up kiállításáról, Artportal, 2022
Tayler Patrick Nicholas, Minták halmokban,Tóth Anna Eszter műveiről Országút Magazine, 2020
Kultúrpart A szennyes ruhák titokzatos világa, 2019
Kultúra.hu, Ruhakupacok mint szobrok?, 2019
Artnews LAUNDRIES – Tóth Anna Eszter Barcsay Jenő-díjas festőművész kiállítása, 2019
Art Consious/ Online Gallery, Interview with Anna Eszter Toth 2019
Batka Annamária, Hantai és Kusama találkozása a szennyestartóban, Kortárs Képző, 2019
Heckler Krisztina,Tudatosan létrehozni a véletlenszerűt, Nyitott műtermek, 2017