Last updated: 28 October 2026
Anna Pakosz is the Budapest-born, London-based artist who makes energetic abstract paintings on unstretched fabric with paint, bleach and rust. Here you will find our take on her work, where to see Anna Pakosz now, how to buy her work, and her two small panels in this year’s War Child auction.
Our take on Anna Pakosz
Pakosz paints with her whole body. She works on large sheets of unstretched fabric that move between home, studio and outdoors, and she attacks them with paint, bleach and rust. The results are layered, fast and slow at once. “Rooted in a post-communist Eastern European context, my practice is a form of reclamation,” she writes on her own site.
Her two War Child lots are acrylic on plywood. 351 has a dark green ground scored with circular ridges, like a record groove, over patches of plum and pink. A column of sprayed red zigzags runs down the middle into a flat band of lavender blue. Xica is busier: dashes of blue paint stripe across a pale grey surface, with smudges of black and a thick red bar near the bottom.
She also sees the work as a way of learning. “By shifting perspectives often, I notice my assumptions about the work, about art, about the world,” she writes in the same statement. Earlier this year, Tracey Emin included her work in Crossing into Darkness in Margate, alongside Edvard Munch and Louise Bourgeois.
Anna Pakosz: the essentials
- Born in Budapest in 1991; lives and works in London, according to her own site.
- Took part in the Tracey Emin Artist Residency (TEAR) in Margate from 2023 to 2024, according to the Tracey Emin Foundation.
- Completed an MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2025. Her degree show won the Artist Collecting Society Studio Prize.
- Was nominated for Young Talent of the Year at the Elle Awards in Hungary in 2023 and for Glamour’s Artist of the Year in Hungary in 2024.
- Showed at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and Flowers Gallery’s Small is Beautiful in 2025.
- Shows with Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, where she had her solo show Long Takes in 2025.
Where to see Anna Pakosz now
- Coming up: Sound & Vision 2026, a War Child charity auction online from 27 October to 12 November 2026, with the works on view at Iconic Images Gallery, London, 6 to 8 November. The pieces are 351 (2026), acrylic on plywood, 15 x 21 cm (5.9 x 8.3 in), lot page, and Xica (2026), acrylic on plywood, 15 x 21 cm (5.9 x 8.3 in), lot page.
- Neither here nor there (group), General Assembly, London, 8 July to 31 August 2026.
- Portals of Transcendence (group, with Helen Frankenthaler), Night Café Gallery, London, 7 to 23 May 2026.
- Crossing into Darkness (group, curated by Tracey Emin), Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, 18 January to 12 April 2026.
- Long Takes (solo), Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, 22 October to 28 November 2025.
How to buy an Anna Pakosz painting or monoprint
There are no Anna Pakosz editions on sale, and no prices are published. Your options are:
- 351, 2026: a small acrylic on plywood in the War Child Sound & Vision auction, bidding from £100 until 12 November 2026 (bid here).
- Xica, 2026: a small acrylic on plywood in the same auction, bidding from £100 until 12 November 2026 (bid here).
- Studio monoprints: unique A5 monoprints on brown sugar paper (2025 to 2026), by enquiry through her own site.
- Paintings: through Erika Deák Gallery or the artist, price on request.
Anna Pakosz FAQs
Where is Anna Pakosz from?
She was born in Budapest in 1991 and now lives and works in London.
What materials does Anna Pakosz use?
Mostly large, unstretched fabrics worked with paint, bleach and rust, plus monoprints on paper. Her War Child pieces are acrylic on plywood.
Did Anna Pakosz do the Tracey Emin residency?
Yes. She was part of the Tracey Emin Artist Residency in Margate from 2023 to 2024.
Can I buy an Anna Pakosz print?
There are no editions, but she sells unique A5 monoprints by enquiry through her website.
Where can I see her work in London?
Her two War Child pieces are on view at Iconic Images Gallery from 6 to 8 November 2026.
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Main image: Anna Pakosz. Courtesy the Tracey Emin Foundation. Cropped and framed by CoolCuration. Exhibition dates, prices, auction results and market figures last checked: 28 October 2026.
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