Past exhibitions

Things are Drawing to a Crisis
Luis Buñuel, Walker Evans, Theo Frey, the Workers' photography from the Netherlands, Kálmán Kata and others

One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Robert Capa was born in Budapest, on October 22, 1913, as Endre Ernő Friedmann. He started to work as a photographer in the 1930s, first as a correspondent of Dephot, a Berlin-based agency.

Anton Corbijn’s retrospective offers an overview of the Dutch photographer's oeuvre, spanning thirty years from the early video clips to the recent portraits. Corbijn has experimented in wide-ranging areas of modern visual culture.

The Ludwig Museum possesses a relatively small yet internationally significant collection of over 400 contemporary artworks. As the museum’s permanent exhibition is only able to show a small portion of the collection, we make an effort to present a fresh selection from time to time.

Arctic Hysteria
New Art from Finland

Jointly organized by FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, and the Artists’ Association of Finland, this exhibition was first presented at the MoMA – P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center between June 1 and September 15, 2008.

Since the 1970s, Dóra Maurer has been one of the dominant figures of Hungarian art. In addition to her creative work, she has been a major influence on her peers as an active and energetic organizer and, since 2003, a teacher.

With its next exhibition, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art presents another oeuvre of international significance.

The STRABAG Épitő Zrt. [STRABAG Construction Zrt.], (formerly, Magyar Aszfalt Kft. [Hungarian Asphalt Kft.]) first announced its competition showcasing young Hungarian painters under 40 years of age in 1997. Each year 80-100 entries are received for judging.

Keith Haring, having died of AIDS at the age of 31, would be 50 years old in 2008. His anniversary is going to be celebrated with several exhibitions and events all over the world.

Sarajevo-born French artist Braco Dimitrijević came to international attention in the 1970s with his Casual Passer-by works, which presented enlarged portrait photographs of unknown people in public places – building frontages or advertising hoardings.

Simon Starling (b.1967) is one of the most interesting figures in the contemporary international art scene, known throughout the world for his site-specific projects. His works are always preceded by thorough research in which he transforms and reinterprets existing objects.

Fluxus is well-known as an (anti-)artistic, international network with centres in the USA, Western Europe and Japan. But what about this “intermedia” art ‒ art encompassing music, actions, poetry, objects and events ‒ beyond the “Iron Curtain”?

In the middle of the 1960s, István Nádler was among the first Hungarian representatives of the neo-avant-garde movement.

Hans van der Meer: European Fields ‒ The Landscape of Lower League Football Bertien van Manen: Give me your image

The last in the series of exhibitions featuring the museum’s collection, "All That Cinema" presents the best of the motion picture works held in the Museum.

This is the first time since the initial exhibitions of the Ludwig Museum in 1991 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1996 that the Museum’s own collection has been put in full focus: some three hundred of the five hundred items it holds will be on display on the three floors of the Museum.

This is the first time since the initial exhibitions of the Ludwig Museum in 1991 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1996 that the Museum’s own collection has been put in full focus: some three hundred of the five hundred items it holds will be on display on the three floors of the Museum.

This is the first time since the initial exhibitions of the Ludwig Museum in 1991 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1996 that the Museum’s own collection has been put in full focus.

For this unique concert, we have also extended an invitation to young people. We asked young artists, some of who are still studying this beautiful profession, to paint their own Pictures at an Exhibition.

This exhibition is a true rarity, an installation of memoranda, marginal notes, invitations and promotional material of the famous American art critic and curator, former chairman of one of UNESCO’s foremost specialist organisations, AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art).

Katarzyna Kozyra is one of the world’s most famous contemporary Polish multi-media artists. The travelling exhibition now coming to the Ludwig Museum started out in 2003, and documents a project in two venues, Warsaw and Berlin, using the visual tools of theatre, film, pop music and opera.

STRABAG Painting Prize 2007
14 September–14 October 2007

László Fehér first came to attention in the late 1970s in the Studio exhibitions, and has been a prominent figure of Hungarian art for the last twenty-five years. After the radical social documentation of his early photorealistic period, he turned to family mythology.

Pécs-born Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) was one of the Modernist architects and furniture designers of the greatest influence in the 20th century.