ISTANBUL.- Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum has announced another exhibition that brings art enthusiasts together. Titled In Search of Vera Molnár (À la recherche de Vera Molnár), the exhibition is a tribute to one of the greatest names in algorithmic and computer art, Vera Molnár. It showcases works by 15 contemporary artists inspired by Molnár and her groundbreaking contributions to the arts, alongside Vera Molnar's works. Developed in collaboration with Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. and Broich Digital Art Foundation, In Search of Vera Molnár will welcome visitors until January 26, 2025.

Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum opened an exhibition titled Calculations and Coincidences: Algorithmic Art from the Central Bank of Hungary Collection in September, featuring works by three pioneers of algorithmic art: Dóra Maurer, Vera Molnár, and Gizella Rákóczy. In addition, the museum has opened another exciting show for the season. Focusing on the practice of Vera Molnár, one of the leading figures in computer art, the museum hosts a new exhibition titled In Search of Vera Molnár. The exhibition brings together works by 15 contemporary artists inspired by Molnár and her groundbreaking contributions to the art.

The comprehensive exhibition features works by artists such as Antoine Schmitt, Refik Anadol, Erwin Steller, Mark Wilson, and Casey Reas, who have worked in video and augmented reality using algorithms, either by employing Molnár’s working methods or by referencing her visual world, alongside Vera Molnar's works. Additionally, the exhibition showcases works by artists such as Arno Beck, Aurèce Vettier, Iskra Velitchkova, Mario Klingemann, Nake Frieder, Patrick Lichty, Samuel Yan, Snow Yunxue Fu, Tamiko Thiel, and U2P050.

An Iconic Pioneer of Digital Art: Vera Molnár

In the 1960s, Vera Molnár experimented with simple algorithms, making systematic series of drawings, and later became one of the first artists to produce digital works through her work at the Sorbonne University's computer center. From the 1970s onwards, she made plotter drawings on perforated paper, and together with her partner, she developed the “Molnárt system”, a unique system written in the Fortran programming language that allowed for “1% disorder” in the algorithm. Molnár applied this system to her plotter drawings and later to her series of graphics and paintings. Molnár's Hommage series, inspired by the work of selected masters, includes Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire, variations on the magic squares from Dürer's Melancolia I, and reinterpretations of works by Klee, Monet, Mondrian and Malevich.