vera molnar venice biennale 2098046
Vera Molnár, a 98-year-old pioneer of computer art, is receiving renewed international attention as her work is featured in a dedicated gallery at the Venice Biennale's main exhibition, "The Milk of Dreams." The article profiles Molnár at her Paris home, tracing her journey from childhood experiments with systematic pastel drawings in Hungary to her 1947 move to Paris, where she transitioned from classical training to geometric abstraction and co-founded the influential GRAV collective.
Molnár’s inclusion in the Biennale highlights the historical significance of her early algorithmic works, created using the Fortran programming language and computer plotters in the 1970s and '80s. As contemporary interest in creative coding and digital art surges, her systematic approach—which balances mathematical precision with random disruption—is being recognized as a foundational bridge between traditional minimalism and modern generative art.