Through women's eyes 24 April – 2 June, 2023
A selection from the video collection of the Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art
Past exhibitions
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Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell. Art after the Shoah 31 March – 30 July, 2023
The exhibition Art after the Shoah brings together two artists who understood each other on both an artistic and human level in their efforts not to forget the injustice and crimes against the Jews.
... Everything Is up in the Clouds ... The exhibition of András Lengyel 3 February – 28 May, 2023
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.
After Dreams: I Dare to Defy the Damage Exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale of Fine Arts, Hungarian Pavilion 16. December, 2022 – 5. March, 2023
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 22. September, 2022 – 8. January, 2023
Touch Nature – One theme, two locations, 18 artists
Emplotment 13 May – 28 August, 2022
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: After Dreams: I Dare to Defy the Damage 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Giardini 23 April – 27 November, 2022
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.
Extended Present – TRANSIENT REALITIES 8 April – 4 September, 2022
“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 – New Acquisitions 4 March – 24 April, 2022
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.
{script:abstract} – Herr Frey frei 21 January – 20 March, 2022
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.
Othernity – Reconditioning Our Modern Heritage 10. December, 2021 – 16. January, 2022
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.
Esterházy Art Award Short List 2021 1. December, 2021 – 13. February, 2022
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.
OktoLudium by Bálint Baráth 5 October – 7 November, 2021
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.
Metaphysical Passage Through A Zebra – Stories About Hunting and Nature 23 September – 21 November, 2021
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.
Slow Life. Radical Practices Of The Everyday 22 September – 29 October, 2021
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.
Wide Angle – 120 Years of Hungarian Cinema 23 July – 14 November, 2021
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.
Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday 14 July – 5 September, 2021
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.
Othernity. Reconditioning Our Modern Heritage 22 May – 21 November, 2021
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.
BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns – Tha Language of Network Thinking (ZKM) 1. May, 2021 – 3. April, 2022
The exhibition »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns« introduces the work of the physicist and network scientist Albert-László Barabási and his research laboratory.
Spatial Affairs 29 April – 27 June, 2021
The exhibition Spatial Affairs aims to investigate the relation and interdependence of physical and digital presence via Modern, Conceptual and Contemporary works of art and manifestos.
VERS L’INFINI. TAMÁS KONOK’S OEUVRE EXHIBITION (1930–2020) 10. December, 2020 – 11. April, 2021
The Ludwig Museum planned to celebrate painter Tamás Konok’s 90th birthday with a large-scale oeuvre exhibition.
THE BOSCH+BOSCH GROUP 19. November, 2020 – 28. February, 2021
The Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels presents to its public the artistic aspirations of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde of the sixties and seventies through the works of the Vojvodina based Bosch + Bosch group. The exhibition, which opens online on November 19, will be followed by a number of discussions, performances, a series of lectures and screenings related to the topic.