The exhibition entitled Wanderings – Lili Ország in Kiscell is part of the series of exhibitions that start from the collection of the Budapest City Gallery and deal with it. Vállaltan looks at the oeuvre from the perspective of the Kiscell Museum – Budapest Picture Gallery: with one or two exceptions, it presents the works of Lili Ország, some 50 paintings and 70 graphic works from the collection of the Kiscell Museum – Budapest Picture Gallery.
The exhibition aims to convey new scientific findings. The monograph published on the occasion of the exhibition is based on the curator’s doctoral thesis written in 2019 and the ten years of research work that went into it.
A complex relationship with the past: this is the central theme of Lili Ország’s art. In her oeuvre, particular emphasis has been placed on the relationship between history and memory. The rich material of the Budapest Picture Gallery allows for an exploration of the theme of memory, and the exhibition also deals with the complex relationship between power and art, the surreal closure of the Rákosi- and Kádár-era, the difficulties of artistic orientation, the bargains forced by the hunger for information.
Almost all of Lili Ország’s oeuvre was born in the tiny apartment where she lived from the time she left college until early 1978. Her extremely cramped living space was in sharp contrast to the freedom of her thoughts, her vast and rich inner world, the intellectual space in which her works allow us to wander.