17/08/2026
𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗟𝗔 𝗕𝗔𝗚𝗜 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗞𝗨𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘, 𝗞𝗢Š𝗜𝗖𝗘. 🚬
Looking back at Still Life, Still Smoking, Attila Bagi’s first institutional solo exhibition in Slovakia, recently presented at The Kunsthalle c/o VUNU.
The exhibition put Bagi’s cigarette still lifes at center stage, culminating in a gigantic new painting bringing together all the things that keep returning in his universe: art history, football, cinema, internet folklore, personal memories, everyday objects, and the strange visual debris of contemporary life.
Bagi takes one of painting’s oldest genres and lets it misbehave. Objects become protagonists, references collide, scale shifts, and the still life becomes anything but still.
There is humor, nostalgia, obsession, and a little smoke in the air.
Following The Still is Life at MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts in Debrecen, Still Life, Still Smoking marked another exciting chapter in Bagi’s continuously expanding practice.
the kunsthalle c/o VUNU
Courtesy of the artist and Longtermhandstand, Budapest.