Dóra Maurer

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.

Maurer first gained recognition in the 1970s through experimental works associated with the Central and Eastern European neo-avant-garde. Her later practice increasingly focused 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 worked as a curator and organizer within Hungary’s experimental art scene. A major retrospective of her work was held at Tate Modern in London from 2019 to 2020.