These days we speak of the human body with increasing opennes; the veil has been lifted off eroticism and sexuality in the media. Magazines of all kinds show the body-builder’s physique, fitness, and health as a prerequisite of success in society.
Promising to become this summer’s sensation, the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art in cooperation with the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, Bonn, is presenting CHINaRT, an exhibition selected by Walter Smerling, acting director of the Duisburg Küppersmühle and Fan Di’ An, vice-pre
Florin Tudor and Mona Vatamanu are acknowledged as the most important representatives of young media artists working in Bucharest, and alongside their activity as artists they also curate the Coop Media Festival of Bucharest.
The starting point of the project is ‘Moszkva tér’ [Moscow Square], a space taken in the metaphorical sense, yet it is a real square in the centre of Budapest. It blends different controversial aspects of a typical urban place.
The exhibition of Zoran Naskovski is realised as part of the international residency programme entitled Platforms for Desire: The Urban Scene and Its Discontents in the project room.
In this work Katarzyna Kozyra processes Vaclav Nijinsky’s choreography of Igor Stravinky’s music using the tools of film and digital media. The subject of the Ballet is the sacrifice of a virgin to the God of Spring by the elders and wise men of the tribe.
73 entries were submitted for the seventh Painting Prize of STRABAG. The Jury found the submissions of a satisfactory quality, and was pleased to observe that the painters participating represented the artistic aims of the generation born in the seventies.
The Ludwig Museum Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art shows seventy-one photographic works and paintings from the Austrian Essl Collection, a group of works by nineteen internationally renowned artists in their first show in Hungary.
This year the Museum launches an international residency programme entitled “Platforms for Desire: The Urban Scene and Its Discontents” in the project room.
Tillmann Roth was born in 1975 and graduated from the Kunsthochschule für Medien of Cologne to win the Nam Jun Paik International Prize for media art of the State of North Rhine Westphalia in the young artist category.
An exhibition of Eduardo Arroyo’s work at the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art opens on January 16, 2003, under the auspices of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Society of International Cultural Activities (SEACEX).
László L. Révész is an outstanding representative of the generation of Hungarian artists in their 30s-40s. After graduating from the Painting Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, Révész also took a diploma in animation film making from the College of Applied Arts.
The View From Here: Recent Pictures From Central Europe and the American Midwest is a collection of 84 photographic works by 22 contemporary artists who live and work in Central Europe and the American Midwest.
Sebestyén Kodolányi and Csaba Uglár’s project violates the toposes of confraternity and the noble-spirited sentiments of men’s brotherhood. The „documentary film”, an experiment, documents a fraud.
An exhibition under the title “Work in Progress” by Balázs Kicsiny, who lives in London since 1995, and produced in co-operation with the Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs is on show at the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art from 24 October through to 1 December 2002.
A master of rearranging and realigning consumer goods and cult objects of the 20th century, and playfully reinterpreting our era’s body of visual knowledge, artist Daniel Spoerri connects culturally unrelated objects, alienating them from their functionality, and placing familiar symbols into new
Between the 17th of September and 20th of October 2002, the project.room of the Ludwig Museum Budapest presents a work by the Dutch twins, produced – in a similar fashion to their other sensational acts and projects – in Budapest for their exhibition at the Museum.
The exhibition Budapest Box is based on the concept of the artist as curator.
András Ravasz’s current exhibition in the Project Room at The Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art is entitled Transylvanian Transfer. It comprises of five light box-photographs and a video work called 200% dB (2001).
Ágnes Deli presents her latest installation, produced expressly for this exhibition. The new composition integrates organically into the oeuvre of the artist until now, as this work continues to explore the meeting, the juxtaposition of soft and hard materials.
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)