Klára Némethy

Klára Némethy (b. 1966, Hungary) is a Berlin-based artist and curator.

Her artistic practice draws upon the rich formal and symbolic repertoire of the natural world. Translating organic structures and natural processes into a distinctive visual language, she explores human emotions, existential experiences, and broader societal developments.

Growth, transience, resilience, and renewal become metaphors for human experience and social transformation. For Némethy, nature is not merely a subject of representation but, above all, a visual vocabulary through which she examines the complexities of human existence.

Working across painting, drawing, watercolor, and installation, her practice unfolds through a continuous process of zooming in and out—a shifting perspective between proximity and distance that reveals otherwise concealed relationships. Through abstract forms, layered compositions, and luminous color, she gives visual expression to human vulnerability, interconnectedness, and transformation.

Némethy studied International Marketing and Linguistics and completed further studies in Curating at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Since 2016, she has also developed curatorial projects that bring contemporary art into public landscapes and unconventional exhibition spaces.

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Exhibitions, Art Projects, Berlin (Selection)

2026
ARTMUC, Art Fair, Munich

2026
Botanical Art, Group Exhibition, Contemporary Art Space, Turin, Italy

2025
Paper Positions, Galerie Grolman

2025
The Seen, the Unseen & the Uncanny, group exhibition, Kearney Berlin

2024
Human Nature, pop-up solo exhibition, Haus Leopold

2020
Art of Sustainability, international group exhibition, Gallery GG3

2019
The GARDEN, solo exhibition, Gallery Kunst40

2019
Tree of Consumption, open-air art installation in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Gallery GG3

2018
Transformatio Terrae, publication, Shifting Seasons, art project

2018
Art trail in Botanic Garden Berlin, art project

2018
The Water Was Pure & Clean, Gallery GG3

2018
Preparing for Darkness, international group exhibition, Kühlhaus Berlin

2016
Open-Air Lakeside Exhibition, Berlin, solo exhibition in public space,
Schlachtensee & Krumme Lanke

Curatorial Work, Berlin, Budapest (Selection)

2026
The Raft of the Medusa, Raimund Schucht, 720°+ MMAE, Berlin

2025
The Seen, the Unseen & the Uncanny, group exhibition, Kearney Berlin

2024
Metamorphosis of Reality, photo exhibition, Dieter Matthes, Berlin

2020
Mise-en-Scène, photo exhibition, Markus Lehr & Grant Simon Rogers, Atelier André Kirchner, Berlin

2017
Myself, Just Decoration Tag Cloud, Kiss Miklós, Budapest