Past exhibitions
Francois Marie Banier: Photographies and Paintings 15. February, 2001 – 18. March
“I paint on the perimeter of death. As if I were driven by some other force. A pressure, a squeezing. I am unable to handle or control this urgency. As soon as the idea, the reflection presents itself, the picture is complete”, says the artist of his own creative process.
Sandro Chia "Passio" – Recent Works 19. December, 2000 – 11. February, 2001
One of the most interesting exhibitions of this rather transitional year is of Sandro Chia at the Ludwig Museum Budapest.
Brassaï Retrospective 7. December, 2000 – 21. January, 2001
He went to Paris that he did not know anything about photographing. He was supported by Tihanyi and Kertész, who had already lived there. They introduced him to other artists, too.
Andy Warhol 20. June, 2000 – 23. July
The Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. PA has organised an exhibition of the artist's works for a tour of 12 countries in eastern & southern Europe during 2000 and 2001.
After the Wall. Art and Culture in the Postcommunist Europe. 15. June, 2000 – 27. August
In autumn 1999 it was ten years since the demolition of the Berlin Wall. In recognition of this momentous event Moderna Museet Stockholm planned an exhibition with an extensive catalogue under the title of After the Wall.
Painting Prize of Magyar Aszfalt 2000 2. March, 2000–19.
PAINTING PRIZE OF HUNGARIAN ASPHALT LTD, 2000
Exhibition of works by the prize-winners
Museum of Contemporary Art / Ludwig Museum Budapest
March 2-19, 2000 (1st floor, Danube side)
Photographs by Cecil Beaton 13. January, 2000 – 13. February
Amongst the most seductive of Beaton's photographs are those in which his sense of high styte dramatises and gives a magical aura to an elegant woman dressed in the high fashion of the day, and posed in a grandiose but authentic interior.
Emese Benczúr 14. December, 1999 – 23. January, 2000
In the works of Emese Benczúr, the creating process is based on repetition. Usually, her technique is the embroidery, which is conceived as a traditional female occupation. Although embroidery is a way of avoiding boredom, in her case it is the way of artistic creation.
CH Contemporary Swiss Art 9. December, 1999 – 16. January, 2000
The Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum Budapest presents the work of 15 Swiss artists under the title CH - Contemporary Swiss Art.
Tót Endre: Who is Afraid of Nothing? Absent Pictures 21. October, 1999 – 5. December
Endre Tót, who was born in Sümeg, Hungary, and lived the first 40 years of his life behind the "Iron Curtain", considers it an omen to have been baptised in the "Sistine Chapel of the Rococo", surrounded by Franz Anton Maulbertsch's magnificent frescoes (1757-58).
The Second. Time-based Art from The Netherlands 16. September, 1999 – 17. October
Budapest is probably the last scene of this monumental travelling exhibition, organised by MonteVideo/TBA - Netherlands Media Art Institute.
Dimensions Variable - Recent British Art 8. July, 1999 – 22. August
This major exhibition of 23 young British Artists is drawn mainly from the celebrated "Goldsmiths generation", whose fusion of minimal and conceptual art with the everyday brought them to the attention of the art world in the early 1990's.
Miriam Bäckström: Photos 22. June, 1999 – 25. July
Museum of Contemporary Art – Ludwig Museum Budapest
Project Room
Miriam Bäckström (Stockholm)
22 June – 25 July 1999
Opening: Tuesday, 22 June 1999, 6 p.m.
Bel Tempo / Fine Weather (Artists from Northern Italy) 27. May, 1999 – 27. June
The exhibition shows the works of thirty Italian artists, and it is the result of collaboration between the Museum and the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as Trieste Contemporanea, an organisation supported by the city of Trieste.