Past exhibitions

Fabrizio Plessi is one of the most remarkable and most popular Italian contemporary artists, who is foremost known for his large size, spectacular video installations.

Monochrome Clack | Intermedial installations of Éva Köves and Andrea Sztojánovits

This virtual exhibition, curated by Jean-Jacques Lebel, provides detailed insight into the legendary history of the Beat Generation, which, with its early beginnings in 1940s New York and San Francisco, was to later catch like a wildfire appearing in very different forms throughout the world.

The Leopold Bloom Art Award supports progressive contemporary visual artists in Hungary and their presence on the international art scene.

The solo exhibition of Gábor Ősz, living and working in Amsterdam, is part of a series of exhibitions at the Ludwig Museum presenting Hungarian and foreign artists whose life and works are less known in Hungary.

Pieter Hugo’s (b. Johannesburg, 1976) career is quite young, yet his photography is already so comprehensive that we can rightly speak of a consistent oeuvre. Since 2003 Hugo has photographed people and themes exclusively in sub-Saharan Africa.

Some of the works of art may be of a sexually explicit nature, parental guidance is advised.

Exhibition of the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, in cooperation with the Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

Door opening: 28 February 2013. 18:30 pm

Art Mediators in the exhibition space!

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition entitled The Freedom of Sound – John Cage behind the Iron Curtain between 23 November, 2012 and 17 February, 2013.

“THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS UNTOUCHABLE IN ALL OF US. THIS SOMETHING IS UNRELATED TO COUNTRIES, REGIMES AND EVEN TO PEOPLE. IT SPRINGS FROM LIFE ITSELF. FROM THE UNIQUE, INIMITABLE EXPRESSION OF HUMAN EXISTENCE. WE CAN COMPREHEND IT ONLY IN OURSELVES. ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Antal Lakner is one of the Hungarian artists emerging in the 1990s, who have achieved international recognition.

Opening hours: 11.00-18.00

SOME IMAGES MAY BE OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT NATURE, PARENTAL GUIDANCE IS ADVISED.

Opening hours: 25 May 2012 - 30 September 2012, 10.00-20.00

Opening hours: 20 April 2012 - 5 August 2012, 11.00-18.00

Working in a realm that is defined by the overlapping fields of painting, sculpture and architecture, János Megyik (1938, Szolnok) has built an œuvre that concentrates on modelling the structure of the panel painting.

Rita Ackermann left Budapest nearly twenty years ago to move to New York City, where she has lived and worked ever since.

The architect and thinker of Hungarian origin, Yona Friedman is one of the outstanding and exceptionally versatile figures of the urban architectural discourse that developed in the second half of the twentieth century.

Photorealism in painting was just as vivid a trend in Eastern Europe in the 60s and 70s as in the United States or Western Europe, even though realistic depiction had completely different traditions to draw from and political demands to meet, while its everydays were of an entirely different n

The spectacular new museum buildings, the growing number of visitors all over the world, clearly show the fundamental changes that museums went through during the last couple of decades.

Temporary exhibition.

Opening hours
Friday, 10.00-18.00.

László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) is a world-famous figure of twentieth-century avant-garde art. As a most versatile artist he had a radically experimental practice in the field of painting, sculpture, photography and film as well as commercial and industrial design and scenography.