Anna Pakosz (b.1991, Budapest) lives and works in London. Rooted in a post-communist Eastern European context, her practice investigates material transformation and emotional memory through painting. Working with unstretched fabric, bleach, rust and dye, she creates layered works that record gesture, time and environmental exposure.
Curriculum Vitae
Anna Pakosz
b.1991, Budapest
living and working in London
Rooted in a post-communist Eastern European context, my practice is a form of reclamation. I’m interested in how materials carry emotion and resist fixed meaning.
My work begins with an urge to touch, move, and transform. I work with large, unstretched fabrics that circulate between domestic, outdoor, and studio spaces. Traditional techniques are disrupted and reimagined through porous surfaces, bleach, and rust. An ever-expanding relationship with tools and techniques helps me maintain a “beginner’s mind,” where ego yields to practicality and expression.
My gestures are kinetic: direct, urgent responses to what the surface demands. My whole body is involved. Charged with different rhythms, each painting records multiple encounters, physical discharges of energy layered over time. This flux between slow and fast, alchemical and painterly, accidental and intentional, is what keeps the practice alive, a cycle of control and surrender.
By shifting perspectives often, I notice my assumptions about the work, about art, about the world. Questioning what holds value opens space for greater inclusion and new possibilities. In this way, the paintings keep teaching me how to listen.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
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Crossing into Darkness, Group Exhibition, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
2025
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Long Takes, Solo exhibition, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
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Fluid Memories, Duo exhibtion with Isabella Amram, Haricot Gallery, London, UK
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Not a House but a Memory, Group exhibition, Rosenfeld Gallery, London, UK
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Summer Exhibtion, Royal Academy, London, UK
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Telling Stories, Group exhibition, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
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Keepsakers, Group exhibition, Panrucker Gallery, London, UK
2024
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Garden of Venus, Group exhibition, Apollo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
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T.E.A.R.S. Final Show, Group exhibition, TKE Studios, Margate, UK
2023
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Small is Beautiful, Group exhibition, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
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T.E.A.R.S. Interim Show, Group exhibition, TKE Studios, Margate, UK
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Summer Show, Group exhibition, Eispach Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary
2021
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Freewoman, Solo exhibition, Hihekaté, Káptalantóti, Hungary
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Limpia, Hybridart Space, Duo exhibition, Budapest, Hungary
PRIZES
- 2025 - Artist Collecting Society Studio Prize x City and Guilds London Art School Prize Winner
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2024 - Artist of the Year, Prize Nomination, Glamour, Hungary
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2023 - Young Talent of the Year, Prize Nomination, Elle Awards, Hungary
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2022 - Highlights of Hungary, Prize for Best Creative Project of 2021
EDUCATION
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MA Fine Art, City and Guilds London Art School
2024 - 2025 -
Tracey Emin Artist Residency
2023 - 2024