> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Archive of Contact - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/asztrid-csatlos-and-eszter-metzing-liget-gallery/ - Published: 2026-04-28T09:36:50.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-28T09:36:50.000Z - Description: Liget Gallery presents Asztrid Csatlós and Eszter Metzing in Budapest. Trace-making as relational act, not residue, but ongoing negotiation between body, material, and absence. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition **Archive of Contact — Liget Gallery** **Artists:** Asztrid Csatlós, Eszter Metzing **Exhibition:** Archive of Contact **Venue:** Liget Gallery **City:** Budapest, Hungary **Dates:** March 19, 2026 — April 30, 2026 **Address:** H-1146 Budapest, Ajtósi Dürer sor 5. **Curator:** Bettina Bence **Text:** Bettina Bence **Photography:** Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy Liget Gallery ## **Liget Gallery Presents Archive of Contact in Budapest** ### **Archive of Contact by Bettina Bence** The exhibition investigates the trace-making processes of human presence, with particular attention to the material, sensory, and spatial relationships in which presence emerges not as a fixed imprint but as an ongoing, relational phenomenon. In this context, the “trace” is not a residue or evidence but rather an event: a dynamic interplay between bodies, materials, environmental systems, and temporal layers. ![Csatlós Asztrid Time Consumes All That It Has Created ink acrylic on paper Liget Gallery Budapest 2026 Archive of Contac](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/Csatl--s-Asztrid.webp) ****Csatlós Asztrid**, Time Consumes All That It Has Created, 2026, Ink, acrylic on paper, 150 x 100 cm. Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery. ![Metzing Eszter Fragile Remains Beneath the Skin textile latex glass artwork Liget Gallery Budapest 2025 Archive of Contact](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/archive-of-contact-liget-gallery-budapest-metzing-eszter-fragile-remains-beneath-the-skin.webp) Metzing Eszter, Fragile Remains Beneath the Skin, 2025, Borosilicate glass, latex, cotton canvas, transparent thread, pen, acrylic, varnish, cotton wool, 110 x 38 x 32 cm. Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery. The concept shifts away from narratives of representation and anthropocentric control, reinterpreting trace-making through the lenses of vulnerability, attention, and care. Human presence appears not as a dominating intervention but as an interaction that both shapes and is shaped by its environment. The trace is not a closed state but an ongoing process, in which presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, are in constant negotiation. The exhibition features [**Csatlós Asztrid**](https://www.instagram.com/asztrid%5Fcsatlos/?ref=catapult-platform.art) and Metzing Eszter, who approach the subject from unique yet complementary perspectives. Both practices are material-centered and research-driven, treating materials not as mere carrier but as active agent in meaning-making. Their works question the relational structures between materials and media, as well as conventional notions of formal stability and closure. ![Csatlós Asztrid Light and Illumination ink acrylic on paper Liget Gallery Budapest 2025 Archive of Contact](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/archive-of-contact-liget-gallery-budapest-csatlos-asztrid-light-and-illumination.webp) ****Csatlós Asztrid**, Light and Illumination, 2025, Ink, acrylic on paper, 150 x 100 cm. Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery ![Metzing Eszter Ingrained Contact borosilicate glass latex textile installation Liget Gallery Budapest 2026 Archive of Contact](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/archive-of-contact-liget-gallery-budapest-metzing-eszter-ingrained-contact.webp) Metzing Eszter, Ingrained Contact, 2026, Borosilicate glass, latex, cotton canvas, transparent thread, pen, acrylic, varnish, cotton wool, 52 x 80 x 15 cm. Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery ![Metzing Eszter Internal Rooting textile glass installation Liget Gallery Budapest 2026 Archive of Contact](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/archive-of-contact-liget-gallery-budapest-metzing-eszter-internal-rooting.webp) Metzing Eszter, Internal Rooting, 2026, Borosilicate glass, cotton canvas, transparent thread, cotton wool, variable dimensions. Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery. Csatlós Asztrid’s installations function as visual and spatial systems that explore questions of autonomy, transformation, and temporality. Integrating painterly elements, layered object formations, and audio-visual components, she creates complex environments situated at the threshold of fiction, speculative thought, and physical experience. Her use of materials, particularly biodegradable and recycled elements, is incorporated structurally rather than illustratively, emphasizing the mutual processes of transformation between humans and their environment. ![Csatlós Asztrid Labyrinth of Transformation installation muslin sand salt Liget Gallery Budapest 2026 Archive of Contact](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/liget-gallery-budapest-metzing-eszter-drop-catcher.webp) Csatlós Asztrid, Labyrinth of Transformation, 2026, Muslin, lost and found pieces, sand, salt, variable dimensions. Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery. ![Archive of Contact installation view window Liget Gallery Budapest 2026 exhibition Csatlós Asztrid Metzing Eszter](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/liget-gallery-budapest-csatlos-asztrid-labyrinth-of-transformation.webp) Installation view, Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Works by Csatlós Asztrid and Metzing Eszter. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery. ![Archive of Contact installation view exhibition space Liget Gallery Budapest 2026 Csatlós Asztrid Metzing Eszter](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/liget-gallery-budapest-installation-view-exhibition-space-.webp) Installation view, Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Works by Csatlós Asztrid and Metzing Eszter. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery. [**Metzing Eszter’s**](https://www.esztermetzing.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) work examines perception, memory, and corporeality through intimate and sensitive material relations. Employing textiles, latex, and glass, she constructs fragile, layered structures that become sites for exploring psychological states, bodily experience, and the instability of identity. Her practice places strong emphasis on tradition of craft and generational memory, not as nostalgic reference but as ongoing reconfigurations of remembrance and selfhood. The spatial dramaturgy of the exhibition is structured around a dialogue between the two artistic approaches. Csatlós’s systemic, speculative thinking is juxtaposed with Metzing’s intimate, embodied, and fragmented perspective. This juxtaposition does not aim for synthesis but generates a productive tension in which the concept of the trace can be experienced across multiple scales and sensory registers. ![Metzing Eszter detail textile latex structure Archive of Contact Liget Gallery Budapest 2026](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/liget-gallery-budapest-metzing-eszter-detail-textile-structure.webp) Detail view, work by ****Metzing Eszter**, Archive of Contact, Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2026\. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery. ![Archive of Contact installation view exhibition space Liget Gallery Budapest 2026 Csatlós Asztrid Metzing Eszter interior](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/liget-gallery-budapest-installation-view-exhibition-space--1.webp) Installation view, Archive of Contact, ****Liget Gallery**, Budapest, 2026\. Works by Csatlós Asztrid and Metzing Eszter. Photo by Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss. Courtesy of the Gallery. The exhibition creates a space of encounter in which trace-making is reinterpreted not as a gesture of domination or control but as an ethical and material responsibility. The focus is not on narrative closure but on processes, transitions, and resonances, offering viewers the opportunity to experience presence as a continuously evolving relational condition. *Bettina Bence* --- [**Instagram Liget Gallery**](https://www.instagram.com/ligetgallery/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Asztrid Csatlos on Instagram** ](https://www.instagram.com/asztrid%5Fcsatlos/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Eszter Metzing on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/esztermetzing/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult** This is a exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. 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