Past exhibitions

Kassák House Studio – Squat Theatre
Photos of the History of the Hungarian Underground Theatre

The project room’s residency programme, as was launched last year, is continuing in 2004 with its focus on the notion of space, including all its possible interpretations.

The familiar space of the Ludwig Museum’s Project Room is being transformed through an interactive show. Six projectors placed in the room transpose the space by means of pre-designed images applying 3D effects and light.

Jean Dubuffet created prints with ardent zeal for 40 years, up until his death in 1985. These prints embody an integral part of his oeuvre. Starting with lithographs, he continued to experiment with various techniques.

The large-format photographs by Wolfgang Volz reveal to the viewers how humankind treats the landscape, the vulnerable skin of our planet, in a manner that is as much fascinating as it is upsetting.

Sebastião Salgado, the world-renowned photographer of Brazilian origin, started his project entitled Exodus in 1993, determined to demonstrate history at the turn of the millennium through the tribulations of displaced populations, refugees and migrants.

The project room’s residency programme, as was launched last year, is continuing in 2004 with its focus on the notion of space, including all its possible interpretations.

The Museum has organised this exhibition to celebrate the artist’s 65th birthday and the publication of a monograph on György Jovánovics by the Corvina Publishing house.

“For ants, the sky begins at the tip of a blade of grass. I wonder whether they can see the clouds at all. For me, the sky begins here, above the Royal Castle of Buda. I can simply reach out and stir the clouds up. Then I brush all the clouds away, and a clear blue sky appears above me.

An artistic career of nearly fifty years provides ample matter for an analytical approach.

Gia Edzgveradze (born in Georgia, currently living and working in Germany) made his first show in the Ludwig Museum Budapest with the title Ultramodern Nihilism in 1999.

In conformity with its eight-year tradition, the STRABAG Painting Competition has remained a high-standard forum for talented young representatives of painting in Hungary.

As young as he is, Levente Bálványos has already established his career as an artist. He graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, where he had studied under sculptor György Jovánovics. Bálványos’ work bears the influence of classical avant-garde and constructivism.

Kokoro no Arika – The Location of the Spirit is the first large-scale exhibition in Hungary for ten years to give an overall survey of the actual situation of Japanese society and art.

Ágnes Szépfalvi’s last major solo show in a Hungarian museum took place in the István Király Múzeum in Székesfehérvár in 1998. Most of the present exhibition’s selection of approximately twenty-five works from the recent years are exhibited for the public for the first time in Budapest.

Hajnal Németh graduated from the Intermedia Department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2000, although prior to this she had already participated in numerous international and national exhibitions with her videos, photographs, installations etc.

In the course of creating the images for DESIRE we approached people—with or without a personal connection—we were curious to find out more about in the given moment.

We conducted an interview with our selected ‘customers’ which we began thus:

Thanks to Rebecca Major, lost objects – gloves – become found objects. Found objects that grow into hermeneutic packages during the course of an exhibition, for the visitors add their comments to the exhibits. Each glove, recorded in a photograph, induces a surplus of stories.

These days we speak of the human body with increasing opennes; the veil has been lifted off eroticism and sexuality in the media. Magazines of all kinds show the body-builder’s physique, fitness, and health as a prerequisite of success in society.

Promising to become this summer’s sensation, the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art in cooperation with the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, Bonn, is presenting CHINaRT, an exhibition selected by Walter Smerling, acting director of the Duisburg Küppersmühle and Fan Di’ An, vice-pre

Florin Tudor and Mona Vatamanu are acknowledged as the most important representatives of young media artists working in Bucharest, and alongside their activity as artists they also curate the Coop Media Festival of Bucharest.

The starting point of the project is ‘Moszkva tér’ [Moscow Square], a space taken in the metaphorical sense, yet it is a real square in the centre of Budapest. It blends different controversial aspects of a typical urban place.

The exhibition of Zoran Naskovski is realised as part of the international residency programme entitled Platforms for Desire: The Urban Scene and Its Discontents in the project room.

73 entries were submitted for the seventh Painting Prize of STRABAG. The Jury found the submissions of a satisfactory quality, and was pleased to observe that the painters participating represented the artistic aims of the generation born in the seventies.