PASCAL DOMBIS — AFTER DOOM
Opening: November 6, 2026 | Budapest Art Factory | 7-9 pm
Budapest Art Factory is pleased to present After Doom, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed French visual artist Pascal Dombis, opening on November 6, 2026. Bringing together four algorithmic video and interactive installations, the exhibition explores the shifting boundaries between human creativity and machine intelligence, questioning the future of writing, cinema, art, and visual culture in an age of technological acceleration.
In a world increasingly defined by narratives of endings — the end of writing, the end of art, the end of cinema, and even the end of human authorship — Pascal Dombis approaches the idea of an ending not as a final conclusion, but as a moment of instability, transformation, and possible renewal.
For nearly three decades, Dombis has explored the creative potential of algorithms, repetition, randomness, and excess. His distinctive visual language emerges from pushing rational systems beyond their expected limits, allowing images, words, and information to accumulate, collide, and mutate into unpredictable visual environments.
The exhibition presents four works that investigate different aspects of this artistic approach.
The End of Writing (2026) confronts handwriting and human expression with the rapid expansion of generative artificial intelligence, questioning what may remain distinctly human when machines increasingly produce language.
The End(less) transforms thousands of cinematic endings collected from across film history into a continuously recomposed film that itself never ends, exploring the relationship between collective memory, repetition, and time.
In I AM NOT A ROBOT (2023), thousands of real and AI-generated faces are endlessly combined and hybridized, challenging the increasingly unstable distinction between human identity and artificial representation.
The interactive installation The End Of Art Is Not The End (2024–2026) brings together more than 20,000 images gathered around cultural visions of “the end of art” Using lenticular sheets, visitors reveal individual fragments within the overwhelming visual field, transforming observation into an active and personal experience.
Across these four installations, Dombis explores a contemporary world in which technological systems continuously reshape how images, language, and identities are created and perceived. Rather than predicting an ultimate ending, After Doom suggests that moments of disruption may also open possibilities for new forms of artistic expression.
Pascal Dombis (b. 1965, Metz, France) is an internationally recognized visual artist whose practice investigates the intersections of art, technology, and perception.
Originally trained as an engineer, Dombis has worked with algorithmic processes since the early 1990s, developing a distinctive approach based on repetition, randomness, and visual excess.
His work has been exhibited at major international institutions, including the Grand Palais in Paris, Itaú Cultural in São Paulo, the Block Museum in Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sorocaba, Brazil.
In Budapest, Pascal Dombis exhibited at Artpool in 2007 and was an artist-in-residence at the Budapest Art Factory in 2016. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum) in Budapest.
In conjunction with his exhibition AfterDoom at the Budapest Art Factory, Pascal Dombis will participate in the International Kepes Society’s symposium on light art, taking place from 5 to 7 November 2026 at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest.
Exhibition Information
PASCAL DOMBIS — AFTER DOOM
November 6, 2026 – January 6, 2027
Budapest Art Factory Studios will be open to visitors: Albert-László BARABÁSI, Dániel CZAGA, Gábriel FARKAS, Dóra JUHÁSZ, Barbara KOLTAI, Márta KUCSORA, Bolda SZMRECSÁNYI
Budapest Art Factory, 1116 Budapest, Építész utca 20.
Simultaneous Event — AFTERGLOW Finissage at Kahan Art Space Buda
Coinciding with the opening of After Doom at Budapest Art Factory on November 6, the neighboring Kahan Art Space will host the finissage of AFTERGLOW – Photo-Fluorescent Reverberations, an exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the International Kepes Society.
Curated by Nina Czegledy, Joel Ong, and Márton Orosz, the exhibition brings together international artists exploring light as an artistic medium through analogue and digital technologies, optical phenomena, and experimental practices.
Pascal Dombis is among the exhibiting artists, creating a special connection between the two exhibitions and offering visitors the opportunity to experience both events on the same evening.
AFTERGLOW — Exhibition Finissage / Kahan Art Space Buda
November 6, 2026
Kahan Art Space
1116 Budapest, Gyapot utca 4.
Just a short walk from Budapest Art Factory.
Exhibiting Artists:
Raphael ARAR • László-Albert BARABÁSI • Gáspár BATTHA • László Zsolt BORDOS • András BÖRÖCZ • Shawn BRIXEY • Attila CSÁJI • Éva CSONKA B. • Pascal DOMBIS • FLUXLIAN (Martin FLUGELMAN OLMEDA, Axel ROTHBART, Lisandro GALVÁN) • Jan Daniel FRITZ • Alexander GYENES • Zsolt GYENES • Erzsébet HORVÁTH • Mihály G. HORVÁTH • Dieter JUNG • Antal KELLE Artfomer • Klára KUCHTA • Flóra B. LABORCZ • Willie LA METRA • Joanie LEMERCIER • Renáta LISZI • Adrien Gary LUCCA • Hrysovalanti MAHERAS • Erik MÁTRAI • András MENGYÁN • Antoni MUNTADAS • András NAGY • NAGYMOLNÁR (Csaba MOLNÁR, Krisztián NAGY) • Ákos NEMCSICS • Joel ONG & MSI Lab • Pietro PIRELLI • Ferenc PÓCSY • David ROKEBY • Robert SEIDEL • Bettina SCHUELKE • Robert SOCHACKI • Gábor Csongor SZIGETI • London TSAI • Tamiko THIEL • Gabey TJON A THAM • Vinzenz AUBRY • Elaine WHITTAKER
