Benjamin Nagy

Benjamin Nagy Béni

Selected works 2021-2025

"AM & PM"

AM & PM are two lightboxes that capture sunlight streaming through a window at different times of a day. Tracing the contours of light and shadow, these panels freeze a moment even after it has passed. Confronted with both at once, the viewer is caught in a state of temporal asynchronicity, suspended between two moments happening at the same time.

(2025, aluminium, plexiglas, led lights)

"Home, Sweet Home"

A children’s play rug, recreated as a mandala made entirely of coloured sand. The tension between its familiar appearance and its fragile materiality challenges permanence: Does it cease to exist when disturbed, or does its essence persist even as scattered grains of sand?

(2025, sand, pigments)

"Mirror, Mirror"

Two mirrors engraved with the exact same pattern. Individually, each mirror convincingly mimics broken glass, but the repetition of an inherently unique break creates an uncanny dissonance.

(2025, laser engraved mirrors)

"Something You need to Know"

A series of oil paintings recalling the imagery of family photos through fragments, offering glimpses into everyday gestures and meaningful occasions. Faces and identifying details are removed, the images become anonymous, allowing viewers to project their own memories and fill in what’s missing.

(2025)

Exhibition Spaces

Mayfly Functional Collages, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, 2021

Basecamp Wien, Exhibition Space with performance stage, 2022

Biography

Benjamin Nagy Béni (*1997 Budapest) is a visual artist whose work engages with memory, traces, and the quiet persistence of absence. Drawing from observations of the built environment and shared everyday experiences, he reflects on how we perceive what has been lost or overlooked. In his practice, absence becomes a focal point. Often more powerful than presence, it is guiding attention, shaping memory, and revealing what once was through its very disappearance.

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