Rita Koszorús
Rita Koszorús (born 1989 in Bratislava) is a Slovak artist of Hungarian origin who has transformed traditional painting into a personal series of abstract narratives exploring identity, time and nostalgia. She studied free graphics and then painting in Daniel Fischer's studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, and completed a study stay in Budapest with Imre Buktová.
Her work is based on the search for the ‘space between’ – ambivalent existence, memories, nostalgia and collective identity. Abstract compositions combine elements of painting, collage and site-specific installations to create layered visual 'islands' that resemble organic landscapes or materials such as concrete, wood and cardboard.
Near, but not mine yet
Acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
160 x 140 cm
2025
Evasively honest
Acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
100 x 90 cm
2025
Shrouded in the unseen, I wait for you
Acrylic, oil and oil stick on canvas
100 x 80 cm
2025
Drifting in the void
Acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
120 x 100 cm
2025
I wish I knew the answer
Acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
100 x 90 cm
2024
Swaying
Acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2025
Sparkly arrival, painful departure
Acrylic, oil, oil stick and ink on canvas
100 x 80 cm
2024
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I am waiting for you at the pond
Acrylic, oil, oil stick and ink on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2024
Last sunset
Acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
30 x 25 cm
2024
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Inbetween days
Acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
30 x 25 cm
2025
An afternoon at Tempelhofer Feld
Acrylic and ink on canvas
30 x 25 cm
2024
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Temporary home
Acrylic, oil, oil stick and ink on canvas
200 x 180 cm
2024
Sunrise Then Bloom
acrylic and ink on canvas
30 x 25 cm
2025
Floating Home
acrylic, ink, oil and oil stick on canvas
100 x 80 cm
2025
I Cannot Remember My Last Winter
charcoal, acrylic, embroidery, and collage on canvas
42 x 29,7 cm
2025
Joy At Tempelhofer Field / The Final Summer
ink and collage on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
2025
The Face of The Future
ink and collage on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
2025
Live Indestructible And Light-Hearted Until The Sun Goes Down / Temporary Home Instead Of Home
graphite, ink and collage on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
2025
Last Sunset / Searching The Origin
graphite, pencil, ink, acrylic and collage on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
2025
Falling Down
ink and graphite on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
2024
Live Indestructible And Light-Hearted Until The Sun Goes Down
graphite, pencil, ink and collage on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
2024
Live Indestructible And Light-Hearted Until The Sun Goes Down / Distant Tomorrow
graphite, pencil, ink and collage on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
2024
I Wish You Were Here
acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2023
Melancholy In Balance
oil, ink and acrylic on canvas
130 x 120 cm
2025
Tomorrow's Escape
acrylic, ink and oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2024
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In My Room
acrylic, oil and oil stick on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2024
When Persephone Returns
acrylic, oil and ink on canvas
160 x 140 cm
2025
In her work, Koszorús has launched several significant series and performances, including workshops addressing sharp cracks in identity, and the event 'Monumentus567', for which she collaborated with locals to plant cacti near the Danube, reflecting on themes such as home, migration and adaptation. More intensive thematic explorations of identity came with the Hater Painter89 and Curator Shooting1011 projects, in which visitors or curators shot at her canvases with air guns – a performative act that explores the vulnerability of the image and the role of the artwork.
Collage plays a special role in her artistic approach, representing a system of selection and choice as well as a technique. Her works on paper, canvas, and installations are based on zero-waste principles, layering, and trompe l'œil as an expression of the memory and vision composition process.
She won the prestigious Maľba roka 2021 award for her work schMERZbild FALL. Since then, she has mainly exhibited as part of residencies and exhibitions in Central Europe, for example in Bratislava, Berlin, Paris, Porto and Budapest.
Against this backdrop, she created the book project schMERZbuch, which summarises the collages she created during residencies in Paris, Berlin, Békéscsaba and Selmecbánya.
Rita Koszorús brings a fragmentary, layered approach to the themes of identity, time and collective memory in her paintings and installations. Her work is simultaneously performative, conceptual, visually playful and abstract.
2024
Sometimes I’m happy Vol 2, Backhaus Projects, Berlin /DE/
Sometimes I’m happy, Open studio, Cité internationale des arts, Paris /FR/
A home full of doors, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest /HU/
2023
Stay Forever, with Ján Jánoš – Atelier Hora, Station
Contemporary Art Gallery, Bratislava /SK/
What we built and what was built for us, with Andreas Werner, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest /HU/
I’m thinking of you, Galérie Synagoga, Hranice /CZ/
2022
It’s better with you, Nová vlna, Trenčín /SK/
You make me brave, Instituto, Porto /PT/
Hadal of my aquarium, Danubiana Meulensteen
Art Museum, Bratislava /SK/
Standing on one leg, with Juan Nazar, Ostrava /CZ/
For a minute there I lost my fear, Pradiareň 1900
Cvernovka, Bratislava /SK/
Snow in summer, Hájovňa, Banská Štiavnica /SK/
Overlaps, in collaboration with Ádam Dóra, Hegyvidék Gallery, Budapest /HU/
2021
The search for Mnemosyne, Atelier XIII, Bratislava /SK/
Tapestry collage, collaboration with Kristína Šipulová, Alcova, Milan /IT/
Desire of Yesterday, GUEZ, Nové Zámky /SK/
2020
schMERZraum 2.0, Galeria Cin-Cin, Bratislava /SK/
schMERZrot gelb blau, Rumansky Art centre, Liptovský Mikuláš /SK/
2019
schMERZraum, Galeria Cin-Cin, Bratislava /SK/
2018
HYPNOTIME, Galeria 19, Bratislava /SK/
2017
HATER PAINTER, Dot Contemporary Art Gallery, Bratislava /SK/
2016
VACUUM, FKSE, Budapest /HU/
TUŽIŤ-TÚŽIŤ- TU ŽIŤ, GAG, Zlín /CZ/
INVASION, Flatgallery, Bratislava /SK/
2015
DEFINITION OF FLOW, Nitra gallery, Nitra /SK/
-BANG!, Telep Gallery, Budapest /HU/
2014
DIPTYCH, Freshmen´s Gallery, Bratislava/SK/
DICHOTOMY, Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava /SK/
2022
Absurdity is my favorite feeling, Viltin Gallery, Budapest /HU/
2021
Past tense. Juan Nazar, KSTN, Berlin /DE/ installation intervention
Painting – VUB Foundation Award for Painting for Young Artists, Galéria Nedbalka, Bratislava /SK/
Microtomy, Budapest Gallery, Budapest /HU/
Swaying on the edge https://swaying.online
On the paper…, Galeria 19, Bratislava /SK/
2021 – 2020
Painting – VUB Foundation Award for Painting for Young Artists, Galéria Nedbalka, Bratislava /SK/
2019
On the paper…, Galeria 19, Bratislava /SK/
Digitalis, GAFU, Ostrava, /CZ/
2018
Young Slovak Contemporary, Austellungbrücke, St.Pölten /AT/
Painting Biennale VI.?, Galéria umelcov Spiša /SK/
2017
Painting Biennale VI.?, Mestská galéria Rimavská Sobota /SK/
2016
UP!, Helium contemporary, A38, Budapest /HU/
2015
ANONYMOUS Project, Brody ArtYard/ Art Market Budapest /HU/
Painting – VUB Foundation, Galéria Nedbalka, Bratislava /SK/
THERE MUST BE A WINDOW ABOVE EVERY COUCH!, Hermina gallery, Budapest / HU/
TRIP, Freshmen´s gallery, Bratislava /SK/
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Omnivore gallery, Budapest /HU/