As a cultural phenomenon, science-fiction is a final chord or epitaph equally describing the accomplishment and the ideological collapse of modernity; at the same time, it is a precursor of the following, confused, post-period, that continues to this day, and it is the last future-oriented genre.
Three institutions – Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg and Hamburger Kunsthalle – Galerie der Gegenwart – were partners in realizing the first large-scale retrospective exhibition of the outstanding artist Attila Csörgő.
A catalogue of Pál Gerber's complete works so far, with studies by famous art historians, published in connection with the exhibition to provide a deeper understanding of the artist's oeuvre.
The official catalogue of the Ludwig Museum's Collection.
Language: Hungarian
Catalogue of Ludwig Museum's 'The Pleasure of Light: György Kepes and Frank J. Malina' exhibition. Authors of the essays: Nina Czeglédy, Róna Kopeczky, Roger F. Malina, Márton Orosz, Attila Csáji, Fabrice Lapelletrie, Oliver A. I. Botar, Elizabeth Finch, Frank Popper.
A detailed catalogue of the Amerigo Tot – Parallel Constructions exhibition, including: essays in Hungarian by József Mélyi, Edit Sasvári, Károly Tóth, Péter Nemes; descriptions of the works of contemporary artist contributed to the exhibition; a detailed biography of Amerigo Tot (both in English
Accompanying a major exhibition, this book features over sixty paintings, sculptures and previously unpublished new works and includes an interview with the artist and essays which examine Brown`s importance on the international art scene.
A reader with essays, examines the video art of the last twenty years in post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe. The authors of the book are well-established professionals in the region – curators, critics and artists.
An American artist of international renown who was born in Hungary, Agnes Denes has created an oeuvre whose hallmark is the synthesis of the knowledge that is accumulated in the diverse fields of science and the free and critical spirit that distinguishes art.
In the middle of the 1960s, István Nádler was among the first Hungarian representatives of the neo-avant-garde movement.
Since the 1970s, Dóra Maurer has been one of the dominant figures of Hungarian art. In addition to her creative work, she has been a major influence on her peers as an active and energetic organizer and, since 2003, a teacher.
Sarajevo-born French artist Braco Dimitrijević came to international attention in the 1970s with his Casual Passer-by works, which presented enlarged portrait photographs of unknown people in public places – building frontages or advertising hoardings.
Katarzyna Kozyra is one of the world’s most famous contemporary Polish multi-media artists. The travelling exhibition now coming to the Ludwig Museum started out in 2003, and documents a project in two venues, Warsaw and Berlin, using the visual tools of theatre, film, pop music and opera.
László Fehér first came to attention in the late 1970s in the Studio exhibitions, and has been a prominent figure of Hungarian art for the last twenty-five years. After the radical social documentation of his early photorealistic period, he turned to family mythology.
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition '10 Years of the Strabag Painting Prize'.
Ákos Birkás (1941) is one of the emblematic figures of contemporary Hungarian art.
The Danube Exodus immerses the viewer in three historical narratives. One story tells of Eastern European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939, trying to reach a ship on the Black Sea that will carry them to safety in Palestine.
Gábor Bódy would have turned 60 in 2006. One of the most talented film directors of the sixties and seventies, he exercised a significant influence on the mode of visual expression in visual art and photography with his experimental films and theoretical writings.
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Judit Kurtág: Video Works'.
Language: Hungarian, English
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Resonance. Electromagnetic Bodies'. The material for this international exhibition is centred on Nikola Tesla’s path-breaking inventions.
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Gerhard Richter: Survey'.
Language: Hungarian
Supplement for the catalog 'João Penalva' (ISBN 972-739-154-0), contains the hungarian translation of the dialogue between João Fernandes and João Penalva.
Portuguese-born London-based Joao Penalva’s large-scale retrospective is a selection of works reflecting on a great number of his artistic considerations together with the approaches and strategies he applies.
The title of the exhibition (The Enigma of Modernity) refers to an experience visitors quite often face when instead of pre-created patterns they are forced by contemporary artworks to react in a new, inventive, sometimes even exploratory way.
