Past exhibitions

One of the most interesting exhibitions of this rather transitional year is of Sandro Chia at the Ludwig Museum Budapest.

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.

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.

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 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)

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.

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.

The Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum Budapest presents the work of 15 Swiss artists under the title CH - Contemporary Swiss Art.

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).

Budapest is probably the last scene of this monumental travelling exhibition, organised by MonteVideo/TBA - Netherlands Media Art Institute.

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.

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.

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.

In a sign we try to surpass ourselves while creating an illusion of eternal life, we do not make things abstract through it but we create existence, we die in it while we aim at resurrection.

The second exhibition of the Project Room in the Ludwig Museum Budapest/Museum of Contemporary Art presents the works of Éva Bodnár. Éva Bodnár studied painting in the early 70's at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest.

After his photography exhibit Danaides in 1995 (Ernst Museum), Ferenc Grunwalsky (b.