Marianne Csaky

Marianne Csaky lives in Brussels, Belgium. She spent several years in Asia, taught at the Yunnan Art Institute in China, and participated in residency programs in the USA, France, Sweden, Finland, South Korea and Germany, among others. In 2024, she was awarded a six-month residency grant at the WIELS Contemporary Art Center in Brussels. https://www.wiels.org/en/residencies/marianne-csaky

Her work has been shown internationally including an exhibition in the Ludwig Museum Budapest (2025), a solo appearance at Paris Photo (2019) and at the Volta New York (2013), as well as shows in the US, Europe and Asia. 

Christoph Wiesner, the director of Paris Photo, spoke on French public television (France.TV/Télématin Antiquités) about her works exhibited in the Prismes section of the Paris Photo, which received the Curator's Choice award. https://vimeo.com/1045413236  

Marianne earned a doctoral degree from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, and an MA in Literature and Cultural Anthropology.

She has created an independent exhibition space in her studio in Brussels, the Streetview Anderlecht, where she invites young artists to showcase their work. https://vimeo.com/1073552328; https://www.instagram.com/streetviewanderlecht/

An English language artist monograph is available on Marianne Csaky's work. Erzsébet Tatai, Marianne Csaky. 2014, Libratallér Bt. Budapest, 272 p. ISBN 978-963-12-0816-0

Community and personal memory, history, sexuality and environmental changes are at the centre of her visual exploration. She is interested in how people's desires and beliefs, their personal stories, relate to the canonized narratives. 

She often uses archive footage and photos in her work. A recurring source of inspiration for her is a collection of glass negatives taken by her grandfather around the mid-20th century.

Selection from my recent exhibitions

2026         Uncropped – Fragile Photographic Realities, Museum of Ethnography

2025         Golden Repair, Ludwig Museum Budapest

2025         MALH – Media Loft Halle, Germany

2025   Fontain, Albatros Studio, Paris

2024 Les Liaisons Désireuses, Kasteel d’Ursel, Belgium

2024 Technocool – New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

2024 A Tale of a City, Budapest Gallery, Solo show

2023 Something Beautiful nr4, Festival of visual arts and poetry LaVallée, Brussels

2023 Liberty, Equality, Sorority, Sensuality. Robert Capa International Photography Centre Budapest.

2022 The Other Planet. Inda Gallery, Budapest. Solo show 

2022 Manifesta 14. with Secondary Archive, Prishtina, Kosovo 

2021Niemandiseeneiland. Stichting Ijsberg, Damme, Belgium

2021 Savoir Retenir et Fixer ce qui est Sublime. Black Swan gallery, Bruges 

2019 Photo London, with Inda gallery, London

2019 ParisPhoto, Prismes with Inda gallery, Paris. Solo show 

2018 Approche Paris – Le Molière, Paris. Solo show

2018 Art Paris ArtFair with Inda gallery, Paris 

2018 Art Dubai, Dubai

2017 Mia Photo Fair, Milano,Italy

2012 VOLTA NewYork with Inda gallery, NewYork. Solo show

Residencies – a selection 

2024   WIELS Studio Residency Programme, Brussels, Belgium 

2014  Kulturakademien i Mariannelund - Kaim, Mariannelund, Sweden 

2014  Raumars Art Space, Rauma, Finnland 

2011  Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China 

2010  Island6, Shanghai, China 

2009-10  943Studio, Kunming, China 

2008  IASK Changdong National Art Studio, Seoul, Korea