Inner Spaces: Three Painters on Absence and Threshold at Gallery Rechnitzer

Gallery Rechnitzer in Budapest presents "Inner Spaces," a group exhibition curated by Flóra Gadó featuring painters Emma Kling, Júlia Csapó, and Eszter Kálóczy. The show explores the liminal interval of the changing room—a structure between shelter and enclosure—and what remains once the body moves on. Kling's central installation reconstructs the snail-shaped changing cabin of Lake Balaton's shores as a bare wooden skeleton, hung with small arched panels titled "Threshold Objects." Her wall works on exposed brick use slats and window-cross divisions to evoke surveillance and the weight of negative space. Csapó approaches from landscape and the body's permeability to the non-human, with large oil canvases of translucent outlines in dense foliage. Kálóczy works from within Surrealist cavities, with ink-and-wash drawings of figures nested in cavities and oil paintings like "Interconnected Spaces" (2026). The gallery's two spaces—a light-filled white room and a raw brick room with exposed pipes—mirror the thematic tension between interiority and visibility. The exhibition arrives amid renewed attention to invisible labor and the psychological shadow, but avoids didacticism, leaving the distance between the three positions to give the show its room.