Strategic Stillness exhibition of Hungarian artists Tamás Ábel and Judit Kis, curated by Veronika Molnár reimagine the recently renovated American Hungarian Library in New York as an inclusive space for rest, reading, and contemplation in 2022. The two artists fill the empty building with sculptural works, site-specific installations, and assemblages of books while actively playing with and occasionally defying its architectural structure. Their tongue-in-cheek references to brick walls and glass ceilings aim to question the existing heteropatriarchal systems of knowledge, power, and representation that dominate the cultural institutions of their motherland.

Tamás Ábel is a visual artist based in Budapest, creating sculptures, paintings, performances with the medium of glass and mirror. He received an MA from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest in 2015. His artworks connected with tolerance, equality, diversity and illusions. His artworks can be found in public museum collections from Corning (New York, USA) to Ningbo (China).