The Next 30 20–25 October, 2026
In 2026, the Ludwig Museum celebrates the 30th anniversary of its re-establishment. Originally founded in 1989, the institution reopened on 14 December 1996 as the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Exhibitions: 2026
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IN THE END THERE WILL BE NO END. Neo-Avant-Garde and Contemporary Artists from Art Fond Collection, Bratislava 24 April – 20 September, 2026
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.
Black Mirror. The Long Shadow of the Future Thematic Selection from the Ludwig Museum’s Collection 8 April – 11 October, 2026
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