The focus of painter Nikolett Kováts’s artistic research is the relationship between the body, color, and the perception of space. Her layered paintings straddle the boundary between complete abstraction and associative figuration, where the painterly process is revealed not as a finished composition but as a constantly evolving system of relationships.
In her creative thinking, painting emerges as a bodily, sensory process. Her works explore the material presence, layering, and temporality of the painting; the image is interpreted not as a static surface but as a system that activates the viewer’s perception and bodily awareness.