The Franco-Hungarian artist Vera Molnar was born in 1924 in Budapest
Living in Paris since 1947, she passed away in 2023
She has been exhibiting since 1995 at the Oniris gallery
As a pioneer in the use of computers in artistic creation, Vera Molnar turned to geometric abstraction, working on form, its transformation and its movement as early as the 1950s. As a true visual artist, she explores lines, squares, white, black, grey, blue and red and brings out the unexpected and imaginary freedom through a series of transformations of forms worthy of scientific experimentation.
The pictorial work is above all sensitive, it is addressed to the eye. It is for the human eye that I want to make images. The art of painting begins on the retina, first that of the painter, then that of the spectator? Art must be human, that is to say, it must conform to human nature.
She therefore presents herself as a French and abstract painter, of the tendency that belongs to constructive art, in its most consequent and radical sense: that of systematic art, in which she has been engaged since 1950.
She participated in all the debates that led to the birth of kinetic art and enabled the creation of La Nouvelle Tendance and, from 1968 onwards, became one of the pioneers of the use of computers in artistic creation.
The representation of nature has never interested her, and when she tries to explain the real reasons for her choice to work on these forms alone, it is, she says, that "the simplicity of these forms still moves her". Her art, conducted in an experimental way, is about the form, its transformation, its displacement, its perception. Her work is accompanied by an intense theoretical reflection on the means of creation and the mechanisms of vision. It has its origins in Mondrian, Malevich and the Zurich Concretes and finds numerous correspondences in all the work carried out in connection with the exact sciences and mathematics in particular.
The work, which for others could be systematic or even "machinic", in reality aims to bring out the unexpected, freedom, the imaginary. The lines, for example, become "extravagant", as the titles of some paintings tell us.
2024 : Centre Pompidou Paris, "Parler à l'Oeil"
+ "Signature VM" 13th solo show at the Galerie Oniris
2022 : Solo-show at The Armory Show New-York, Galerie Oniris booth
+ The Milk of Dreams, group show, 159th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Art, Venezia, It
+ Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine USA
2021 : “Pas froid aux yeux”, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes + Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, Fr
+ "La ligne n'a pas de fin" solo show, Galerie Oniris
2020 : “Disorder in order”, Kiscell Museum, Budapest, Hu
+ Degree Zero, Drawing at Midcentury, group show, MOMA, New-York
+ “Vera Molnar, Promenades en carré”, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, De
2019 : Vera Molnar, solo exhibition, MuDA, Zurich, Switzerland
+ "Alchemy of lines" at the Oniris gallery
2018 : Solo-Show at Volta New-York, Oniris Gallery Stand
+ "One line", Museum of Fine Arts, Caen (Fr)
2017 : Thinking Machines: Art & Design in the computer age, group show, MOMA, New-York
2016 : Lines or grindstones? at the Oniris gallery
2015: Museum Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland + Louis Moret Foundation, Martigny, Switzerland
2013: Museum der Wahrnehmung, Gratz, Austria
2012: A retrospective (1942-2012), Museum of Rouen
Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville Contemporary Art Centre
2011 : On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, group show, MOMA, New-York
2010: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2009: Frac Lorraine, Metz
2008: Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2007: Museum of Fine Arts, Rouen
2006: Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Brest
2004: retrospective exhibition, Wilhem-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Fondation Salomon pour l'Art Contemporain, Annecy (with Knifer)
2002 : One-Man-Show at the FIAC Paris, Oniris stand
1999: first major monographic exhibition, Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine
1995: exhibition [211], Oniris gallery, Rennes (with Morellet and Knifer)
1976: first solo exhibition, École Polytechnique Gallery, London
1968: first work on computers
1967: co-founder of the Art and Computer Science group, Institute of Aesthetics and Art Sciences, Paris
1960: Co-founder of the C.R.A.V.
1946 : first abstract painting
1942-47: studies at the Budapest School of Fine Arts
Vera Molnar, solo show à The Armory Show New-York - stand Oniris 2022
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Vera MOLNARAcrylique sur toileCroix en ligne, 2023Ensemble de 3 toiles de 80 x 80 cmMore -
Vera MOLNARdessin ordinateur au plotterMinimolnart, 198029.5 x 42 cmMore
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Vera MOLNARAcrylique sur toileOméga, presque - R2, 201250 x 50 cmMore
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Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk screen printing on paper800 rectangles à valeur variable, 1981Ensemble de 5 feuilles de 50 x 32.5 cm
Set of 5 prints of 19 3/4 x 12 3/4 inn°10/20MoreVera MOLNAR, 800 rectangles à valeur variable, 1981€ 2,900.00 -
Vera MOLNARPlaque d'acier pliée et peinteEn oblique,, 200650 x 50 cmExemplaire n° 05/21MoreVera MOLNAR, En oblique,, 2006€ 2,000.00
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Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur porcelaine en édition limitée à 100 exemplaires
Silkscreen on porcelain in a limited edition of 100 copiesLes Noces de Figaro, 2015Coffret 34 x 11.5 x 34
Presentation box 13 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 13 3/8 inEdition of 100More -
Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk-screen printing on paperCoupé en 8 / B, 201560 x 60 cm
23 1/2 x 23 1/2 inn° 16/18MoreVera MOLNAR, Coupé en 8 / B, 2015€ 800.00 -
Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk-screen printing on paperTrapèze R, 201555 x 30 cm
21 3/4 x 11 3/4 inn° 05/21MoreVera MOLNAR, Trapèze R, 2015€ 800.00 -
Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk-screen printing on paperCarrés en 2 positions n°2, 201350 x 50 cm
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Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk-screen printing on paperCarrés en 2 positions n°3, 201350 x 50 cm
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 inn° 11/21MoreVera MOLNAR, Carrés en 2 positions n°3, 2013€ 800.00 -
Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk-screen printing on paperCarrés en 2 positions n°4, 201350 x 50 cm
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Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk screen printing on paperLettre de ma mère, 199032 x 42 cm
12 1/2 x 16 1/2 inExemplaire d'Artiste - EAMoreVera MOLNAR, Lettre de ma mère, 1990€ 800.00 -
Vera MOLNARSérigraphie originaleSans titre, 197465 x 50 cm
25 1/2 x 19 3/4 inExemplaire d'Artiste - EAMoreVera MOLNAR, Sans titre, 1974€ 800.00 -
Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk-screen printing on paperM en désordre (Gris), 201635 x 33 cm
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Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk-screen printing on paperN en désordre (Gris), 201635 x 33 cm
13 3/4 x 13 inn° 04/24MoreVera MOLNAR, N en désordre (Gris), 2016€ 600.00 -
Vera MOLNARDessin ordinateur impression laser
Mention 2/23 pliages, 3 façons - B, 200930 x 30 cmMore -
Vera MOLNARSérigraphie sur papier
Silk-screen printing on paper4 triangles et leur ombre, 200849 x 48 cm
19 1/4 x 18 7/8 inn° 16/21MoreVera MOLNAR, 4 triangles et leur ombre, 2008€ 500.00 -
Vera MOLNARAcrylique sur toileCroix et ombre, 2023Ensemble de 4 toiles 50 x 50 cmMore
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Vera MOLNARAcrylique sur toilePolyèdre de Dürer / P, 202280 x 80 cmMore
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Vera MOLNARAcrylique sur toileCarrés coupés en 2 (C2), 202150 x 100 cmMore
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Vera MOLNARAcrylique sur toileStructure à partir de la lettre M, 202019.5 x 120 cmMore
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Vera MOLNARAcrylique sur toileInterstices - B, 201180 x 80 cmMore
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Vera MOLNARCollage sur papier cartonné42 rectangles, ref. C, 197780 x 80 cmMore
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Vera MOLNARdessin ordinateur au plotter
LIPA, du cycle lignes parallèles, 197750 x 50 cmMore -
Vera MOLNARAcrylique sur toile7 syllabes - A, 201650 x 50 cmMore
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Oniris in renovation projects
during summer 2024 15 June 2024From mid-June, Oniris will be completely renovating its main (and historic) gallery at 38 rue d'Antrain. The summer 2024 renovation of the Oniris gallery covers...Read more -
Vera Molnar, talking to the eye
Centre Pompidou Paris 27 April 2024On the occasion of her centenary, the Centre Pompidou in Paris is paying tribute to the female artist Vera Molnar with a solo exhibition featuring most of the artist's works in the museum's collections. Located on the 5th floor, the exhibition showcases Vera Molnar's various artistic practices in the collections: painting, historical and recent hand-drawings, generative works with the old computer and NFT, wall installations, sculpture and photos.Read more -
The other Museum
Frac Bretagne - Rennes 13 October 2023In 2023, the Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain celebrates its 40th anniversary! Founded in 1981, the Frac Bretagne has been building up a nationally and internationally recognized collection of contemporary art for four decades. Often overlooked by the general public, the collection includes over 5,500 works by more than 1,500 artists of over 125 nationalities.Read more -
La répétition
Centre Pompidou in Metz 4 February 2023The exhibition "La Répétition" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz aims to show how, for many artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, creation is born of repetition, through multiplication, accumulation, repetition or restart. It challenges the simplistic idea that modernity would be characterized only by invention and exception. She makes visible the permanence in the heart of our time of a very old way of creating images and objects, often utilitarian or decorative, of which testifies here a Gallo-Roman stele which presents three almost identical female figures. Forming a loop without beginning or end, the exhibition, composed of works essentially from the collections of the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou, invites visitors to wander freely through the multiple phenomena of repetition.Read more -
Interview with Vera Molnar
with Vincent Baby 13 October 2022Vera Molnar a été lauréate du prix d'Honneur AWARE en 2018. Ce prix symbolise la nécessaire reconnaissance de grandes artistes femmes dont l'œuvre et la carrière ont trop souvent été méconnues ou redécouvertes tardivement dans le cadre de rétrospectives partielles. Ce prix s'accompagne de la publication d'un long entretien qui est l'occasion d'entrer dans les détails de leur vie, de leur parcours et leurs rencontres.Read more -
Paris et Nulle Part Ailleurs
Porte Dorée - Paris 12e 22 September 2022Vera Molnar takes part in the exhibition PARIS AND NOWHERE ELSE | 24 FOREIGN ARTISTS IN PARIS. 1945-1972 at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris. The exhibition Paris and Nowhere Else plunges the public into the years of post-war effervescence which, from 1945 to 1972, saw the emergence of new artistic visions, whether in the field of abstraction, figuration or kinetic art.Read more -
Preserving works on paper
some recommendations 1 September 2022WORKS ON PAPER(*) DESERVE SPECIAL ATTENTION IN TERMS OF CONSERVATION. HERE ARE A FEW BASIC RULES: 1. AVOID EXPOSURE TO UV Sunlight is enemy number...Read more -
Vera Molnar awarded at Siggraph 2022
Vancouver - Canada 22 July 2022Vera Molnar has received throughout her artistic career. She has received the "Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art" from the ACM SIGGRAPH 2022.Read more -
Véra Molnar, Unterbrechungen Lücken
Düren - Germany 9 June 2022The exhibition of the French-Hungarian artist Vera Molnar at the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren, Germany, focuses on individual groups of works and motifs: her early constructivist gouaches, the structures of squares and rectangles, the "U" series, the "Interruptions", works that deal with writing, such as the "Homage to Dürer" or the "Letters from my mother".Read more -
Interview Vera Molnar
émission Tracks / Arte.tv 29 April 2022The television channel Arte in its program Tracks has devoted a special feature to Vera Molnar in its program broadcast on April 29, 2022. The interview was filmed in January 2022 and the visit to the exhibitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and the Oniris gallery in December 2021.Read more -
Vera Molnar at the Venice Biennale
with the support of the Oniris gallery 3 February 2022Read moreVera Molnar participates in the Venice Biennale of Art until November 27, 2022, with the support of the gallery Oniris
During the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, Vera Molnar participates in the exhibition entitled The Milk of Dreams, organized by Cecilia Alemani.
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Vera Molnar - Random Promenades
Espace Apollonia - Strasbourg (67) 20 November 2021Read moreVera Molnar is exhibiting in Strasbourg from November 27, 2021 to January 23, 2022 at the European art exchange space Apollonia, in partnership with the gallery Oniris.
This new solo exhibition entitled Promenades Aléatoires focuses on unseen works of Vera Molnar in homage to Dürer, but also those of cycles such as Sainte-Victoire or Java des carrés.
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Vera Molnar - Pas froid aux yeux
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (35) 8 October 2021Read moreFrom October 9, 2021 to January 2, 2022 Vera Molnar presents another major exhibition entitled " Not cold to the eyes " at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes.
This solo exhibition follows the one presented at the Espace de l'Art Concret de Mouans-Sartoux presented throughout the summer of 2021 of which the Oniris gallery was a privileged partner.
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they make abstraction
Centre pompidou, Paris (75) + Guggenheim Bilbao (Esp) 5 May 2021cette exposition au centre pompidou Paris et au Guggenheim de Bilbao ambitionne de mettre en lumière les apports d’une centaine d’artistes femmes à l’abstraction jusqu’aux années 1980, avec quelques incursions inédites dans le XIXe siècle. Vera Molnar, Geneviève Asse et Aurelie Nemours seront exposées dans ces expositions ainsi qu'à la galerie Oniris à Rennes.Read more -
femmes années 50. Au fil de l'abstraction peinture et sculpture
Musée Soulage de Rodez (12) 14 December 2019Exposition des grandes dames de l'abstraction au musée Soulage de Rodez. Avec Aurelie Nemours et Geneviève Asse, deux peintres exposées à la galerie Oniris à Rennes.Read more -
Vera Molnar, One line...
Musée des Beaux Art - Caen (14) 26 May 2018Dans le vocabulaire minimal qu’emploie Vera Molnar, la ligne tient une place majeure. Elle épouse toutes les directions possibles, courant sur le papier, la toile ou le mur. Elle peut être souple, tremblée ou rectiligne, courte ou longue, ténue ou épaisse, elle peut être dessinée avec un crayon, un pinceau trempé de gouache ou de peinture, elle peut être aussi générée par un ordinateur.Read more
