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Workshop
In Alma Vetlényi’s workshop, participants are invited into an immersive space where live classical music becomes a catalyst for painting.
Working with sound as a starting point, we will explore how rhythm, intensity, and silence can be translated into gesture, color, and composition. The focus is not on representation, but on response—on allowing what is heard to take form through the language of painting.
The process moves between collective and individual creation. Participants will paint together on shared surfaces, building a visual dialogue shaped by a common musical experience, while also developing individual works that reflect personal perception and inner landscapes.
Through guided yet open-ended sessions, the workshop unfolds as a continuous practice throughout the course. It offers a space for experimentation, attentiveness, and reflection—where painting becomes a way of listening, and listening becomes a way of seeing.
No prior experience in painting is required. The workshop welcomes all who are open to engage with music, material, and the act of creation in an intuitive and present way.
Biography
Alma Vetlényi, Budapest (Hungary). She graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Textile Design (2018) and is currently based in Budapest, working as a fashion designer and visual artist.
After her studies she founded her sustainable fashion brand ALMA, which soon gained international recognition and led to her selection for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019. From the beginning, she approached garments as wearable artworks—objects that embody narratives and open dialogues between the wearer and the world. This distinctive perspective established her international visibility and provided the foundation for her transition into contemporary art, where painting and textile became the two central pillars of her practice.
Her work explores the reconstruction of memory through a multilayered, interdisciplinary language that merges oil painting, hand-painted textiles, photography, text, and installation. By weaving together personal narratives and collective reflection, she creates artworks that can be experienced individually and as part of larger narrative environments, where intimacy and universality coexist.
Her first solo exhibition, Turn the Page (Liget Gallery, Budapest, 2025), presented oil paintings, hand-painted textiles within an interactive installation, photographs, and handwritten texts. The exhibition marked a turning point in her artistic path, establishing her presence in the fine art field.
Her methodology is guided by attentiveness, sensitivity, and slowness. Rooted in the textile traditions of Central Europe and informed by the oil painting legacy of her family, her works consistently invite reflection on resilience, care, and belonging.
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