The Ludwig Museum’s exhibition titled À la recherche de Vera Molnar pays tribute to the artistic legacy of Vera Molnar, who passed away shortly before her 100th birthday.
The Esterházy Privatstiftung is announcing the Esterházy Art Award again in 2023.
The exhibition’s title Handle with Care refers to the vulnerability of those in need of care, the asymmetrical relationship between carer and cared for, the fragility of life and our ecosystem, and the cracks and gaps in the social care system, but most of all, it calls attention to the need for collective responsibility.
The aim of the exhibition is to present and contextualise a current tendency in contemporary art, and especially in painting. The artworks, mainly by artists of the middle-aged generation, are constantly revisiting familiar characters from the cartoons of the 1990s.
The starting point of the exhibition is the contemporary ornamental patterns that cover the metal grid structure of the new Ethnographic Museum’s facade, built as part of the Liget Budapest Project.
A selection from the video collection of the Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art
The exhibition ... Everything Is up in the Clouds ... is an overview of András Lengyel’s rich oeuvre, spanning his entire career, yet it is not a retrospective, as new works are still being created today. Through thematic blocks, it traces the process by which the oeuvre, which grew out of Fluxus and conceptual art, has been developed in postmodernism through action, photo-based reproduced graphics, Mail Art and paintings.
This year, the Hungarian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale will feature a solo exhibition by Zsófia Keresztes, entitled After Dreams: I Dare to Defy the Damage, which could perhaps never be more topical than after the pandemic crisis.
Touch Nature – One theme, two locations, 18 artists
The guiding principle of the exhibition is the adaptation of both material and personal sources of trauma by means of the tools of visual art and a novel analysis of their performative representation.
Zsófia Keresztes puts on display her new, multi-sculpture installation in the Hungarian Pavilion that she created specifically for the Biennale Arte 2022. Her work deals with the stages in one’s search for identity.
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born, in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” (Antonio Gramsci)
Place Value is not the first exhibition dedicated to displaying our new acquisitions. This year’s selection is special in that it mainly includes works that have been acquired – purchased with the help of the NKA colleges, deposited by the Ludwig Stiftung in Aachen, or donated by artists and art collectors – over the last 7–8 years and only those that have not been shown in our permanent and temporary exhibitions before, thus providing the public with a sense of novelty.
Krisztián Frey (1929–1997) is one of the outstanding representatives of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde of the sixties and an early Swiss pioneer of international computer art. With this large-scale oeuvre exhibition, the museum is repaying an old debt.
Responding to the topic raised by the chief curator Hashim Sarkis, ”How Will We Live Together?”, the Hungarian exhibition of the 17th Architecture Biennale seeks solutions by looking back to the past.
Luca Sára Rózsa, Kata Tranker and Ádám Ulbert are the winners of the Esterházy Art Award 2021. The prize is awarded every two years and the exhibition accompanying the award is considered the most valuable survey of the young Hungarian art scene.
The autumn program series of the Transparent Sound New Music Festival 2021 has started. In the three autumn months, performances are organized in cooperation with several Budapest institutions. In October and November installations are presented in several parts of the city, including Bálint Baráth's new eight-channel work OktoLudium, which can be seen and heard at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest.
The exhibition builds a bridge between contemporary art and the artistic tools of 30,000 years. Through a selection from the archeological finds of the Carpathian Basin and from the cultural and historical artefacts representing the rise of citizenship, the show will present the evolution of the role of hunting.
The exhibition highlights the exploitative practices that have led to the current global environmental, economic and social problems. The works displayed present several possible solutions, from waste-free household management through voluntary simplicity to the concept of an economy without growth.
The exhibition invites the viewer to an adventure that highlights the richness of Hungarian film history and the nature of film art that connects time, space and cultures, and through the material presented it seeks to initiate a dialogue.
The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the environmental impacts and exploitative practices that have led to the current global environmental, economic and social problems. Our other main objective is to provide a broader platform for artistic positions thatemphasize sustainability and offer alternative lifestyles.
