Past exhibitions

Due to the increasing individualism within both the economic and social sphere during the twentieth century, the individual has been put into a difficult situation.

The Hungarian Asphalt ltd (Magyar Aszfalt Kft.) has announced its painting competition and art price for the third time.
This year the Jury awarded the following young artists from 105 entries:

While thinking about the concept of the exhibition of Ilona Németh and Péter Rónai, I was inspired by the montages of Sergej Mikhailovich Eizenstein – the classic of Russian and world cinematography.

The name of Gyula Gulyás became known through his geometrical statues from the decade of 1970 in the style of Minimal and Conceptual Art.

Through the themes of Identity and Environment, which have concerned many artists and photographers over the past ten or more years, I wanted to show how themes such as these can be approached from both the documentary and conceptual traditions; to show recent work from both established and young

The German private collector, Carl Großhaus, owns over two hundred works by Ernesto Tatafiore. This exhibition displays about one hundred paintings, sculptures, objects, graphics and art-books from the last two decades.

Gia Edzgveradze is a Düsseldorf based Georgian artist who has exhibited with much success in several venues in Western Europe, including the last Venice Biennale.

The Ludwig Museum Budapest–Museum of Contemporary Art presents the work of the New York based Spanish artist, Antoní Muntadas, first time in Hungary. The exhibition material is based on five already existing works in context of the new works specially made for Budapest. Deconstructing the systems

Hajdu István wrotes on Róbert Swierkiewicz, born in 1942: “since the beginning of his carrier, he has been freely ranging across the whole spectrum of the twentieth century style and technique in a totally inhibited way, appropriating all sorts of devices with careless abandon”.

Collages by Jiři Kolář
From the collection of Meda and Jan Mladek
A programme of the Budapest Autumn Festival
October 22 –- November 29, 1998

Come Closer - 90's Art from Scandinavia and its Predecessors
(Curated by Maria Lind and Friedemann Malsch)
September 10 - November 1, 1998

Annie Leibovitz has long been recognised as one of the most prominent photographers of her generation.

The complete series of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills, a landmark body of photographs created from 1977 to 1980, will be shown in Europe for the first time this year at two venues: the Center for Contemporary Art-Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, and the Ludwig Museum Budapest-Museum of Contempora

The Museum of Contemporary Art / Ludwig Museum Budapest presents a group of young artists, around 30, in the framework of the Budapest Spring Festival. Generally speaking this is a painting show by painters but we had no intention to make any restriction concerning genre and techniques.

PAINTING PRIZE OF HUNGARIAN ASPHALT LTD, 1998
Exhibition of works by the prize-winners
Museum of Contemporary Art / Ludwig Museum Budapest
March 5-29, 1998 (1st floor, Danube side)

The material of the exhibition, which includes 54 oil paintings and 21 collages, was selected by Dr. Hans Joachim Neyer, director of the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hannover (museum of caricature and graphics of social criticism) and by Gunnar B.

The exhibition, 'Meret Oppenheim meets Man Ray,’ presents the works of two artists of great influence on 20th century art. Meret Oppenheim (1913 Berlin –1985 Basel) and Man Ray (1890 Philadelphia –1976 Paris) met in 1933 at the centre of art life, in Paris.

ballroom
music–light installation
by Kaija Saariaho, Hilda Kozári and Esa Vesmanen
9–21 December 1997

One ego of Dóra Maurer is playful, witty and womanlike, while her other ego is decisive, exact and well-organized. It is largely owing to her activities that exhibitions of concrete, systematic and serial art were presented in Hungary from the 70s.