Past exhibitions

The art award of high distinction as well as significant monetary sum will be awarded for the second time in 2007 to students of the art academies of Central/Eastern Europe.

The exhibition presents concepts and works (videos, installations, and photographic pieces) of young and renowned artists from Eastern Europe, focusing on the question of identity as one of the most urgent topics in a global world.

On the initiative of the French region of Pays de la Loire, within the framework of the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of economic and cultural cooperation with the Hungarian region of Lake Balaton, the Fonds régional d’art contemporain des Pays de la Loire presents a selection from its co

Ákos Birkás, who was born in 1941, is one of the emblematic figures of contemporary Hungarian art. A few years ago, he struck out in a new direction in his oeuvre, putting his earlier work into a quite new perspective.

Gábor Bódy would have turned 60 in 2006. One of the most talented film directors of the sixties and seventies, he exercised a significant influence on the mode of visual expression in visual art and photography with his experimental films and theoretical writings.

STRABAG (formerly Hungarian Asphalt) road construction company is holding its competition for young artists for the tenth time in 2006. A distinguished jury awards the prizes and the winning works will be displayed by the Ludwig Múzeum.

The Pink House is an inflatable house occupying 150 square metres of floor space, standing nine metres tall and fashioned after a Greek temple.

The material for this international exhibition is centred on Nikola Tesla’s path-breaking inventions.

“A group of people pass through the forest, bird watching. Their excursion, which provides a way of escaping reality and seeking the beauty of existence, lasts from early morning till late at night.

After P.S.1, New York, and KunstWerke, Berlin, Ludwig Museum Budapest is the next venue to present the exhibition Katharina Sieverding: Close Up.

Ludwig Museum, Budapest, presents its collection pertaining to the 1990s based on a new curatorial concept and complete with recent acquisitions, on view throughout this year in its 2nd-Floor exhibition space. A choice of newly acquired artworks has provided the point of departure for the exhibit

John Wood’s and Paul Harrison’s names may sound familiar to the audiences and professionals within the Hungarian art scene as their videos have been included in Hungarian exhibitions more than once.

Judit Kurtág was born in 1975 in Budapest. She emigrated with her parents to Paris and since 2004, she has lived in Amsterdam.

Péter Forgács and the Labyrinth Project
(Marsha Kinder, Rosemary Comella, Kristy H. A. Khang, Scott Mahoy, Jim McKee)
The Danube Exodous. The Rippling Currents of the River (installation)

Portuguese-born London-based Joao Penalva’s large-scale retrospective is a selection of works reflecting on a great number of his artistic considerations together with the approaches and strategies he applies.

The annual competition for the STRABAG Painting Prize has been announced for the eighth time, this year with entries of outstanding quality received from sixty-two artists.

For a short – three weeks’ – time in September Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art is serving as a presentation space for the still lively avant-garde art scene of Central and Eastern Europe.

“I have been interested in myself since the very moment it became clear to me that this was the only way for a man to be able to know anything.” (Tibor Hajas)

Richter’s offset work from 1998, a chart in fact gives the title of this exhibition.

Organized by Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam, with Ludwig Museum, Cologne, as co-organizer in Loud&Clear Too, Organized by Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam, with Ludwig Museum, Cologne, as co-organizer in Loud&Clear Too, Loud & Clear is an international project of short films created by el

The exhibition showcases the most significant movements and artists of the past fifty years by presenting a selection of one of the world’s most important collections of modern and contemporary art.

The Ludwig Museum is the only museum of contemporary art in Hungary to collect international art. The museum was founded by the Hungarian cultural government in 1989.

For a long time, the Hungarian born (Budapest, 1936) László Lakner’s name – who lived in Germany in the past thirty years - was associated with the emergence of Pop Art in the Hungarian art scene.

Smart Country
Touching the Invisible
Smart Studio / Interactive Institute, Stockholm
ARTISTS FEATURED:
Thomas Broomé, Arijana Kajfes, Magnus Jonsson, Tobi Schneidler, Ingvar Sjöberg