Frigyes Kőnig: Bathers 13. June, 2002 – 25. August
Frigyes Kőnig has been painting works depicting bathers since 1999. A classic theme, the motif of bathing has long provided a framework for placing nude figures within a landscape setting.
Frigyes Kőnig has been painting works depicting bathers since 1999. A classic theme, the motif of bathing has long provided a framework for placing nude figures within a landscape setting.
Helmut Newton is considered to be one of the greatest photographers of our time. He was born in Berlin in 1920; first he was a student of Yva, the famous fashion photographer, and later they also worked collaboratively.
From 1996–97, Gábor Gerhes’ interest in photography as an artistic medium is emphasised in his oeuvre. He produces primarily black-and-white photo enlargements and colour computer prints from his photographs taken of posed scenes.
The exhibition Breath is a selection of recent Estonian video art from the past three years. Video installations by internationally well-known artists and also by a younger generation of artists are on display in two wings on the second floor of the Museum.
“The image of our surroundings is made up of both reality as it is in itself and that which is a creation of the mind. The world seen and imagined.”
(Imre Lázár Baji)
“To photograph – according to Henri Cartier-Bresson – means placing on the same line of sight your head, your eye and your heart. Photography is a way of life”.
This year, the STRABAG Building Co. (the legal successor of the Hungarian Asphalt Co.) launched the 6th Competition for Young Painters. Unlike in previous years, there was only one prize-winner and four studio grants selected by a jury of three members (Dr.
“The Window Giraffe was a picture book from which we learned to read when we didn’t know how to.
The Project Room of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Ludwig Museum Budapest presents from 22 January 2002 the project entitled Transaction of Lithuanian visual artists Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas.
1950 born in Singen (Germany)
1970–76 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (masters: Peter Brünning, Joseph Beuys)
For the second time, the public can meet with pieces from the distinguished fine art collection of Jan and Meda Mladek , the couple of Czech origin who emigrated to Washington, in the exhibition halls of the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art.
Orshi Drozdik is one of the few Hungarian artists who have achieved international reputation. She began her career in Budapest, after a promising start and success, she rather chose to participate in the international art scene when she moved in 1978 to Amsterdam, and then in 1980 to New York.
"The A-R Group (the name was derived from French words Avance – Retard which are used to describe the fast or slow function of a watch) was formally established in 1989.
At the core of the installation of the Berlin artists is Thomas Mann’s novella entitled Transposed Heads (Die vertauschten Köpfe).
The installation comprises two videos screened simultaneously, six photographic panels and instruments of neurosurgery.
Ludwig Museum Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with C3: Center for Culture & Communication and InterAccess Toronto, within the framework of the Budapest Autumn Festival, presents the exhibition and event series entitled Digitized Bodies – Virtual Spectacles.
Defining Kantor as one of the most eminent Polish artists of the second half of the twentieth century does not amount to much. In Polish art he has been what Joseph Beuys has been in German art, and what Andy Warhol has been in American art.
Tamás Szikora put the fruits of a 17 year process of highly consistent artistic activity on show in four solo exhibitions of 1993 (Institut Hongrois, Paris; Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár; Institut Français, Budapest; Dovin Gallery, Budapest): this was the culmination of a story in ma
Men with Glass Bodies is the last work in a series of still lifes I started working on in 1994. The series uses still life as a metaphor of the split between body and spirit, nature and culture.
Music comes with light, inspired by the environment, the ambition of its listener. The multitudes of one or many worlds open up before us, from Abony to Milan, from the banks of the river Danube to Lake Titicaca. Whether you lock yourself out or enter in – You decide.
”The temporal space of a picture is none other than the world of magic, a world in which everything repeats itself and takes part in a context full of meaning.