Past exhibitions

This exhibition explores the mutual influence of Hungarian popular music and visual art: iconic artworks, typical positions, important and influential scenes.

Youth culture is known to manifest itself in a variety of ways.

Founded in 1971, the Makó Artists’ Colony is a special site in the history of Hungarian graphic art. Its main profile comprised photo-based silk screen and offset printing.

Had he not passed away unduly young, Zoltán Érmezei would be sixty years old now. His lifework is less known for the wider public, although he was an outstanding member of the alternative artist generation in the 1980’s.

“When we cast a web over the world or set milestones in space and time: that is our concern and not the world’s. Probably this subjective existence also has some impact on the world. Our relation is of constant giving and receiving, throughout which we both change.

The art collection brought together by Peter and Irene Ludwig is the foundation of all Ludwig Museums. Perhaps the most well-known and famous part of this collection is the body of artworks that represents the period of Pop Art.

Neoacademism in Saint Petersburg took flight in the beginning of the 1990’s under the intellectual guidance of Timur Novikov, the non-conformist Russian philosopher, artist and theoretician.

One of the most important endeavours of Peter and Irene Ludwig, founders of Ludwig Museum Budapest, was to undertake the role of mediators between the former East and West through their cultural activity.

A Selection of Works from the Video Collection of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest
Venue: Collegium Hungaricum, Belgrade, Serbia

Create planetary visual language! Join a global art event!

The public installations of iconuu are meant to motivate visitors to communicate with people around the globe, using a visual form of expression and crossing the limits of language.

In the spring of 2015 the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art organises a comprehensive as well as gap filling exhibition of Vilmos Zsigmond’s photographic life-work.

The name //////////fur//// covers two media artists and art critics, gadget artists and game designers, Volker Morawe and Tilmann Reiff.

Acting as a synthesis of the artist’s past conceptual and formal investigations, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic’s new video installation and project Spielraum: The Nation Loves It, presents the first chapter of the project Spielraum, which will be followed by two subsequent chap

Ciprian Mureșan belongs to the generation of the post-Communist regime and is, in a post-conceptual manner, preoccupied with the historical and political fallout for his country, Romania.

LUDWIG 25. The Contemporary Collection
The new permanent exhibition of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art

The exhibition, expanding from the 80’s up to the present time and focusing mainly on East-Central Europe, intends to elaborate on the revolutionary terminology formulated in its title through certain defining positions of contemporary art.

Ernő Tolvaly, an enigmatic figure of Hungarian art life, is primarily known for his artistic activity involving painting. In spite of his quiet personality, he exerted an influence on his colleagues as an artist, an organizer and a teacher, from the 1970s until his death in 2008.

The beginning of the discourse related to the Holocaust – and partly the “historicization” of the event itself – is dated April 1945, when World War II was officially not even over yet.

The artistic development of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini / GAC (1914-1990), Italian art collector and artist, led to the invention of a ‘movement’ by the early 1970s, called autostoricizzazione or ‘self-historicization’.

The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art will present the first major exhibition of Simon Hantai in Hungary.

What is this huge aviary doing here? The fundamental role of an artwork is to pose questions and create situations. This mobile sculpture by Austrian artist Josef Bernhardt (b. 1960) offers us the opportunity to observe the world from a bird’s-eye view.

Painter Judit Reigl was born in 1923 in Kapuvár, and has been living and working in France since 1950. She is one of the rare artists of Hungarian origins who is recognised in the United States, and whose oeuvre uniquely combines the traditions of European and American abstraction.

The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition titled Transition and Transition under the curatorship of the Montenegrin art historian and critic Petar Ćuković.