The exhibition at the Ludwig Museum presents an overview of artistic developments on the island – and, indirectly, of the experiences and dilemmas that shape Taiwan’s past, present, and future.
The Big Bang compilation shows the evolution of the museum’s collection, starting from the timeline of acquisitions. This chronologically unfolding plane is intersected by the logic of the thematic perspective: the exhibition is presented in its own chronological order, divided into separate sections, and presents a unique cross-section of the continuously growing collection.
The exhibition Golden Repair is a continuation of a long-term curatorial venture that began in 2023 with the exhibition Handle with Care. It explores the themes of healing and repair in a broad sense, including social, natural, ecological, physical and psychological processes.
The exhibition, which can be considered the first stage of a longer and more comprehensive research project, draws primarily on the Ludwig Museum’s collection, in addition to a few invited artists, and through this, it maps the dystopian artistic assumptions and thought experiments of the Hungarian art scene over the past decades
The exhbition consideres neo-avant-garde not as a closed art historical phenomenon, but as a state of mind that continues to inform conceptual, intermedia, feminist, ecological, and activist positions in contemporary art. Building on dialogues across artist generations, the exhibition focuses on issues in common rather than linear chronology: memory, the body, leaving traces, and the possibilities of inner freedom in conditions of external constraint.
The exhibition examines walking as an art form, a narrative tool, and a critical practice through works, projects, and actions that use the everyday activity of walking as a means of discovery, exploration, resistance, and political action.