Mira Makai (b.1990, Budapest, Hungary) is an artist based in Budapest. Makai works across ceramic, acrylic painting, and oil pastel drawings. Moving away from the world of organic abstraction that previously characterized her works, she found a new home in a world of hybrid-like, magnified comic book miniatures intertwining of mythological and Pop culture influences.

Her works have been presented in several group exhibitions in museums and non-profit exhibition spaces like Hungarian National Museum, Küntslerhaus KM Graz, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre (MODEM) Debrecen. She also exhibited her creatures with art galleries in different cities of the European countries and art fairs, Art+Text Budapest, Susan Boutwell Gallery Münich, and Galerie Droste in Berlin, Viennacontemporary in Vienna. Her works can be seen in Esterhazy Private Collection and the Janus Pannonius Museum’s ceramic collection. An Esterhazy Art Award winner.

Mira Makai (b. 1990, Budapest, Hungary)

Lives and works in Budapest

EDUCATION

2011 – 2016

MA Degree in Printmaking, Hungarian University of fine Arts (HU)

2014 – 2015

Summer Semester. Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (DE)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Chambers of melting sweets. L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (ESP)

2021

Dodgeball. Artkartell Projectspace, Budapest (HU)

2020

Treasure Hunt, Four Rooms Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Keramik und Grafik. Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich (DE)
2018

Unseen creatures, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2016

Glaze and gut, solo with Adam Dallos, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest (HU)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

ARCO 23. L21 Gallery, Madrid (ES)

2022

SWAB 22. L21 GALLERY, Barcelona (ES)

Portraits and monochromes. ARTUAL, Beirut (LBN)

Eating a vegan sandwich on the train while listening to country music. L21 LAB, Palma de Mallorca (ES)

Grand Opening. Galerie Droste, Paris (FR)

2021

Chronicles III. Galerie Droste x KPM, Berlin (DE)
Inseln des Glücks. Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin (DE)

2018

Time of our lives?. MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen (HU)

Diamonds in the rough. Art Mill, Szentendre (HU)
V4 Art Connects: Structures / Illusions / Interactions. Mikve, Budapest (HU)
Leona Tobien and Mira Makai Ceramics. Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich (DE)
2017

Real Hungary, Collegium Hungaricum Wien (AT)
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (AT)
Graphic Triennal Miskolc- XXVII., Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc (HU)
II. National Ceramic Quadriennal, Modern Magyar Képtár, Pécs (HU)

2015

Esterhazy Art Award 2015, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (HU)