Past exhibitions

Y-PROFILE. Young Artists from the Central Bank of Hungary’s Contemporary Art Collection 14. March, 2025 – 27. April

Millennials have played an important role in the large-scale contemporary art collection launched by the Central Bank of Hungary, now in its fifth year of expansion. This exhibition presents a selection of them. Although an institutional collection cannot give a complete picture of an entire generation, it can reveal typical positions. The curatorial selection on display here uses the works of Generation Y young people in the collection to draw a possible profile of the generation: the Y profile.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) methodological exhibition from the Ludwig Museum’s collection to facilitate the reception of contemporary art 14. February, 2025 – 29. June

What does it mean... what can I do if... where does it arrive... how much does it cost... how can I pay... when can I collect it...? We could go on and on with the list of frequently asked questions about the difficulties of daily life.  The exhibition focuses on questions as well as techniques of asking questions related to contemporary art, with particular emphasis on the practice of asking questions as a tool of pedagogy and art education. 

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The Rest is (Art) History. A Selection of the Best-Known Works from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum 14. February, 2025 – 29. June

Parallel to the FAQ museum education methodology exhibition, a selection of the museum’s best-known artworks will be on display in the rear exhibition rooms on the third floor, covering approximately 400 m². Spanning from the 1960s to the 1980s, this collection offers an art historical overview of Peter and Irene Ludwig’s acquisitions. The exhibition features paintings by Pablo Picasso, key figures of American and European Pop Art, prominent representatives of Photo- and Hyperrealism, as well as a selection from the "Neue Wilde" (New Wild) painting and sculpture movement of the 1980s.

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Márton Nemes: Techno Zen Exhibition of the Hungarian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2024 + early and recent works 20. December, 2024 – 2. March, 2025

The present exhibition features the project shown in Venice completed with a selection of works realised by the artist in the last decade, that can be considered as prefigurations, in their topics and technical formulations, of the works hosted this year by the Hungarian Pavilion at the Biennale.

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Reversed Objects 6. September, 2024 – 24. November

The exhibition Reversed Objects raises a number of questions ranging from the status of objects as either mere things or artworks to the functioning of art institutions, while touching on various themes and disciplines. The exhibition Reversed Objects explores the reasons for the presence, and the various meanings, of traditional craft techniques, which have become increasingly prevalent in contemporary art over the last 10–15 years. 

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Handle with care 15. September, 2023 – 14. January, 2024

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.

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The Cuteness Factor 23. June, 2023 – 12. November

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.

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... Everything Is up in the Clouds ... The exhibition of András Lengyel 3. February, 2023 – 28. May

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.

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