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Established in 2009, the aim of the award is to promote contemporary art and international dialogue. For the eighth edition of the competition, 262 artists applied. The independent jury of the Esterházy Art Award has nominated 18 artists for the prize. The shortlisted entries were presented in the exhibition from 15 December, 2023 until 3 March, 2024.

The exhibition will explore the theme of cuteness, a current phenomenon in contemporary art that is attracting increasing professional interest.

Thanks to Nexus360, we can take a virtual walk in the Reziduum exhibition at the Hungarian Pavilion of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.

This is already the fourth time that the Venice exhibition will also be presented in Budapest after the Biennale has ended. In a museum setting, integrated into the modern spaces of the Ludwig Museum, the works are displayed differently than composed in the mirror-symmetrical interior of the Venetian monument pavilion.

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The exhibition is comprehensible and even entertaining for the lay audience, and at the same time it explores the genre of diorama and its role in art history from a professional point of view

The works presented take on layers of almost mystical connotations. They awake a childlike wonder in us, allowing a glimpse into another dimension, be it science-fictional, scary, or simply an expression of our subconscious. In the video the curators and the artists speak about the exhibition. 

The exhibition explores the powerful impacts of today’s technological developments on everyday life. The focus is not simply on newer and more advanced media and techniques, but on their consequences in society and in the life of the individual. In the video the curators talk about the exhibition and the artworks. 

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The exhibition focuses on the state of permanent transience: it captures the moment in a process in which the present time dimension expands and the characteristics and inner events of this state can be observed closely by means of visual arts. 

The guiding principle of the exhibition is the adaptation of both material and personal sources of trauma by means of the tools of visual art and a novel analysis of their performative representation. 

Due to its size, central role and careful selection of nominated artists, the exhibition related to the award represents the most significant overview of the art scene of young Hungarian talents.

The exhibition builds a bridge between contemporary art and the artistic tools of 30,000 years. Through a selection from the archeological finds of the Carpathian Basin and from the cultural and historical artefacts representing the rise of citizenship, the show will present the evolution of the role of hunting.

Take a virtual tour in the exhibition halls! The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the environmental impacts and exploitative practices that have led to the current global environmental, economic and social problems. 

This exhibition is a peculiar being in the life of the Ludwig Museum: a chimera that simultaneously preserves the methods and approaches of several different types of knowledge. It is a mosaic woven of science and art, where some elements of the two media are often interchanged and new shoots are developed, new patterns are created.

The virtual version of the exhibition was created by the professional team of ExhibitOnline.

The exhibition Spatial Affairs aims to investigate the relation and interdependence of physical and digital presence via Modern, Conceptual and Contemporary works of art and manifestos. 

The material of the exhibition was selected from the artist’s studio, with his contribution, with a strong emphasis on the latest works made in the 2000s and 2010s, which proved the artist’s seemingly inexhaustible zest for life and creativity with their formal variety and striking colours. The larger part of the exhibition is made up of these large-scale pictures, which summarize his work while at the same time seek new ways.

Keeping the Balance is a temporary exhibition presenting about sixty works from the Art Collection Telekom. Most of the works are by artists of Eastern European roots.

Keeping the Balance is a temporary exhibition presenting about sixty works from the Art Collection Telekom. Most of the works are by artists of Eastern European roots.

The Ludwig Museum continues its practice of presenting the Hungarian exhibition of the Venice Biennale to the public in Budapest. In 2019, Tamás Waliczky’s exhibition Imaginary Cameras was on display at the Hungarian Pavilion (curated by Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák).

What would happen if the internet suddenly collapsed and ceased? The exhibition Dead Web - The End attempts to imagine this world, balancing on the border of virtual and physical reality.

The exhibition at the Ludwig Museum is part of the international series of events commemorating the Bauhaus Centenary. The exhibition introduces the activity of the Bauhaus in thematic groups (e.g. colour theory, esotery, vision/utopia, object design, light art, etc.), encompassed by its history of ideas and reception history through a selection of works by mainly contemporary artists. 

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, the exhibition Related by Sister Languages examines the points of intersection between Nordic, Baltic and Central-European history and experience in the present of the 21st century, where Estonia and Hungary are both building their futures within the bounds of the European Union. Can we draw a parallel between the themes and motifs that appear in the contemporary art of the two countries? How do they relate to the general problems of our time?

How does an object, especially an article, become a statue? How does a huge cardboard box become an overcoat, and what is the viewer’s role in the process of becoming a statue? World-renowned Austrian artist Erwin Wurm seeks answers to such questions having queried the genre of sculpture for about a quarter of a century.

The exhibition focuses on the New York years of Hungarian painter Sam Havadtoy. His work relations with the city’s influential artists throughout the 1970s and ‘80s greatly affected his developing career as an artist. The exhibition draws a parallel between Sam Havadtoy’s New York collaborations and his own later artistic endeavours.

The first major presentation of the Ukrainian contemporary art scene in Hungary is a special occasion to look into the vibrant art of a country full of tensions, which is still largely in the blind spot of the European cultural area. Permanent Revolution is an exhibition of Ukrainian contemporary art featuring the works of from several generations.

The emergence of art in an economic context and its interpretation in the refraction of contemporary culture and politics raises a vast number of questions. Most people perhaps only see this aspect manifested in the quality of art as a commodity, in the way art is marketed through a system of profit-oriented galleries to provide the artist with a living (or, as is often the case, with bare subsistence at best).