Budapest Select – PATTERNS OF BEING – Group show at Secci Milano organized by Creative Hungary / 2026
Curated by Hanna Imre
Architectural Concept by VÜ Architects
Photos by Darkroom Production
Budapest Select – Patterns of Being collective exhibition explores the role of humans in shaping the world through the intersections of design and art – portraying humanity as a being drifting in currents, striving for change, accepting fate, living in cycles, and taking responsibility. The exhibition presents the reflections of contemporary Hungarian creators on the call to action “Be the Project” across five thematic sections, responding sensitively to cultural, social, ecological, and material- and form-related challenges. The selected artists anddesigners offer works that not only hold aesthetic value but also carry intellectual depth: exploring the possibilities of material use, the memory embedded in form, cultural heritage, the reinterpretation of craft and industrial traditions, the relationship between humans and nature, and questions of ethical responsibility. The project’s aim is to provide the audience of Milan Design Week with a diverse yet coherent picture of the current aspirations of the Hungarian creative scene and its representatives – those who, through the transformations of the present, are sketching a delicate map of the future.
Dukai creates these works digitally, blending them with traditional, manual printing techniques and materials. Within a single piece, the artist works with multiple materials, generating contrast and duality. This duality emphasizes the exploration of the boundaries andpoints of encounter between cyberspace and reality, between digital and human connections. The contrast between dark and light colors, enclosed shapes, and dense, disruptive lines dominates the works. These oppositions not only coexist, but their interaction is fundamental to the articulation of a visual language through which the artist expresses calm and agitation, freedom and confinement, life and death.
