Having just closed on 28 June 2026, Interwoven was presented across HAB’s ground and upper floors, setting historic carpets and textiles on loan from the MYTHOS Collection against paintings by eighteen contemporary artists of Hungarian, African and Middle Eastern background. Curated by Katica Kocsis, with the help of resident Simon Ferenc Tóth, the exhibition proposed that recording what matters is a human constant, and that carpets and paintings are two different technologies for doing that job across very different timescales. Across four galleries, Interwoven asserted this kinship across centuries.
Simon Ferenc Toth assisted in the exhibition curation and lent the majority of the textile exhibits
The opening gallery presents visitors with a Precolumbian tunic circa 800 CE,19th century Persian Bijar and 21th century painting
Four rooms, four arguments
On the ground floor, the Light Space traced a life arc from birth to death, shaped by the tensions of human relationships: harmony and conflict, cooperation and hostility. Upstairs, one section focused on materiality, treating paint, pigment, wear and dye as records of touch and time; another paired paintings and carpets through visual rhyme, using density, layering, rhythm and geometry to connect media. The Cabin explored order: the carpet’s fragmented motifs resolving into an overall structure, set against paintings whose overlapping forms deliberately refused resolution.
