Dóra Maurer, the Hungarian visual artist associated with conceptual art and geometric abstraction, died on February 14, 2026.
Born in Budapest in 1937, she worked across drawing, printmaking, photography, film, painting, installation, and performance over a career spanning more than five decades. Maurer developed systems-based artworks exploring transformation, seriality, and the perception of movement and time.
She first gained recognition in the 1970s through experimental works linked to the Central and Eastern European neo-avant-garde, and her later practice focused increasingly on geometric painting and rule-based visual systems derived from mathematical structures. She was professor emerita at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and also served as a curator and organizer in Hungary’s experimental art scene.
Dóra Maurer (11 June 1937 – 14 February 2026) was a Hungarian visual artist associated with conceptual art and geometric abstraction whose career spanned more than five decades. Working across drawing, printmaking, photography, film, painting, installation, and performance, Maurer developed systems-based artworks exploring transformation, seriality, and the perception of movement and time.