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Réka Bohus is a Hungarian artist based in Budapest. Interested in abstract, geometric, and collage art. In her personal works, she usually seeks the connection between the mediums of photography and painting.
“The starting point of her series called What remains is rooted in her private life, first of all, the creative process generating the images is of therapeutic nature. It would impossible to ignore the private aspects of the creative work which is being experienced as a healing process. Especially since in the case of the photographic still life genre the author is always emphatically present, she is the creator and she is the one who has arranged the objects featured in the picture, the most suitable background and lighting, all in all, everything that would facilitate the expression of her vision. In contemporary still life photography, if we may handle such a complicated, complex and intricate phenomenon so liberally, what mostly happens is giving some significance to trivial, insignificant things. Bohus’ Konstruktum series also let us experience this process. However, the What remains series features organized visual metaphors created from meaningful objects with special significance for the author, through which the readability appears in a textual form, in the shape of newspaper pages chosen as background. […]”
© Balázs Zoltán Tóth
IG Réka Bohus
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Academic studies
2015 – University of Kaposvár, Kaposvár / photography BA
2012 – Alternative Economics High School (AKG), Budapest / photography
Solo and duo exhibitions
2022
– Time has no hands nor mouth – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2021
– LET’S PLANT Capazine ’21 in collaboration with Anna Fabricius – CAPA Center 8F Gallery / Budapest
2020
– What remains | Ami maradt – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Üveg, Fém, Fotó – A Bohus-Lugossy művészcsalád kiállítása – Józsefvárosi Galéria / Budapest
2019
– Fényt hozzon…VII – Vízivárosi Galéria / Budapest
Selected group exhibitions
2025
– FCKN LOVE III. – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2024
– JUST TO BE… – Hungarian Cultural Institute / Sofia
2023
– TO BE continued – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– FCKN LOVE I – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2021
– FRESH MEAT – HybridArt Space / Budapest
2020
– Winter Show: The Nightmare Before Xmas – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Coworking, Studio of Young Photographers – SKURC / Budapest
2019
– Deep Flows | Mélyáramok – MODEM / Debrecen
– Resident Art – A.P.A. galéria / Budapest
– Resident Art – Garten Kortárs képzőművészeti bázis / Lovas
2018
– PIÑA curated by TOBE – Pegazus / Szentbékkálla
– Still Life | Csöndesen – Budapest Photo Festival – Kiscelli Museum / Budapest
2016
– 1/1 – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Absence – Gregersen Art Point / Budapest
– Triangle – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2015
– KEF – ArtPlacc / Tihany
– Diploma exhibition – FUGA / Budapest
Presence in Art Fairs
2016
– Art Market Budapest – Vesc Art Management / Budapest
Selected PRESS
2021
– Töredékek, Surányi Mihály / Fotóművészet magazin
2020
– Réka Bohus: What remains / Artmirror
– Kétféle homok, Cséka György / Újművészet
– Körforgásban, Barta Edit / PUNKT
– A rétegek súlya, Tóth Balázs Zoltán / Országút
– Életem története, Takáts Fábián / KULTer
2016
– Az érzet a valóság, Tóth Judit Nikoletta / ArtNews
available artworks
AMI MARADT / WHAT REMAINS
Archival pigment ink prints from digital photography
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Row of memories | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Mosaic draws | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Father and son | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 2/3
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Building blocks | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 2/3
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Another World! | 75 x 100 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Glass marbles | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Plasters | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Wire net | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Read between the lines | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Hopes around the skulls | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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You and the programs | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 3/3
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Sliding frame | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Mirror cross | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Child | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
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Family circle I | 75 x 50 cm | Ed. 1/3
