Menyus Szabó

Menyus Szabó is a Budapest-based sculptor whose practice examines the relativity of classical sculptural traditions and the fluidity of sculpture as a conceptual category. Born in Budapest in 1992, he studied sculpture at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts between 2012 and 2018, and spent a semester at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2015. He received the Hungarian Presidential Scholarship and the Peter und Irene Ludwig Foundation Scholarship. For years, his work has explored how the discipline, methods, and materials of traditional sculpture can be reimagined in response to the radical visual transformations of the 21st century. His recent projects investigate the increasingly blurred boundaries between the real and virtual worlds, and the ways digital platforms permit identity to become flexible, distorted, or endlessly edited. Through sculpture, he reflects on the problems of filtered self-representation and the construction of adaptive, unstable self-images in contemporary visual culture.

Szabó’s works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest and CerModern in Ankara. His sculptures and installations have appeared in films (Poor Things, 2023; The Billion Dollar Code, Netflix, 2021). His works are held in major private and public collections. He currently lives and works in Budapest, continuing to develop sculptural forms that question the relationship between authenticity, materiality, and mediated visual realities.