Sammlung Szabo

Jenny Holzer, One-Liner 2012 Truism

THE SZABO COLLECTION –

The Szabo Collection is a privately built collection of contemporary art developed over many years outside institutional frameworks. It brings together works across different media, with a focus on editions, multiples, and conceptual position.

HUMAN(e) by Prof. Gábor Ébli

The exhibition "HUMAN(e)" features selected pieces
from the Szabo Collection in cooperation with
Joachim Baldauf.

Curated by Professor Gábor Ébli (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest), the selection explores how contemporary artists use the photographic medium as a foundation for innovative development.

from top to bottom
from left to right
David Studwell, Mickey Rourke II 2016
Renée van Trier, Tête fumé 2016
Tobin Keller, The Family Question series 2008
Günther Uecker, Drachen 1967
Rosemarie Trockel, ABER MENSCHLICH BIN ICH NIE DARÜBER HINWEGGEKOMMEN 1989
Douglas Gordon, if when why what 2022
Maurizio Cattelan, Toilet Paper Vinyl - I Always Remember a Face, Especially When I’ve Sat on It 2014
Damien Hirst, X-Ray Selfportrait 2008
Stefanie Schneider, Bubble Bursting Dream (Cyndi Lauper) 2009

“Following this exhibition and its credo “art for all”, I am now delighted to present limited-edition fine art prints specially priced for smaller budgets. They are available online only, exclusively to my website visitors. Each piece from this series is a signed, 24 x 30 cm fine art print on premium Hahnemühle paper, available in a limited edition of 33 +1 AP.“ JOACHIM BALDAUF

coming soon

DING therefore DONG

Boxo, Pola OS 2020 Piero Manzoni, Merda d'Artista 1961, 2013 David Shrigley, Ding-Dong 2007

^{Barbara Kruger , I SHOP THEREFORE I AM 1990}

Elmgreen & Dragset, The End Is Always Nearer 2012

D_Face, American Depress 2008
Rotganzen, Gangrein consumptus fantasmaticus 2010

Michi Schneider, Tiger 2012
Thomas Bayrle, Feuer im weizen 1970

Meret Oppenheim, The Mirrors of the Mind 1975
Roser Vinardell. no title 1970
Gary Hume, Hermaphrodite Polar Bear 2005

A significant part of the collection consists of editions and multiples.

This format allows works to circulate beyond singular ownership and fixed institutional contexts.

Victor Vasarely, AFA 1973 Roland Mittelstaedt, Meerkat 2018

The collection is not organized around a fixed narrative or curatorial statement.

It follows an open logic of selection shaped over time and through context.

Gilbert & George, Shit Faith & Thirst 1982 Anne Beil, 2015

Roser Vinardell. no title 1970
Gary Hume, Hermaphrodite Polar Bear 2005

Anna Beil, Sleeping Beauties 2015 Damien Hirst, Hope 2012

Jenny Holzer, Protect me from what I want 1990 Meret Oppenheim, Love of Hephaistos 1975

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Selected positions include, among others:

Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Ai Weiwei, Maurizio Cattelan, Gilbert & George, Jonathan Meese, Rosemarie Trockel, Thomas Bayrle, Ed Ruscha, Wolfgang Tillmans, Banksy,
David Shrigley, D*Face, Elmgreen & Dragset, Douglas Gordon, Tracey Emin, Meret Oppenheim, Piero Manzoni, Günther Uecker, Imi Knoebel.

D_Face, American Depress 2008 Rotganzen, Gangrein consumptus fantasmaticus 2010

The Szabo Collection is an ongoing, open project.

It is guided not by market logic but by curatorial choice, critical engagement, and the ability to activate discourse.

Tracey Emin , Singing Bird 2007

Core conviction:
Art can be both mirror and catalyst – for society, for ourselves, and for the questions we choose to ask.

The collection is currently being opened to external perspectives in order to explore how it can be read in different contexts.