2019 exhibitions in Ludwig Museum
Westkunst – Ostkunst. A Selection from the Collection
The new permanent exhibition attempts to present the emphatic points not only in chronological order or along stylistic features, but to examine the characteristics, consonances, differences as well as the artistic-cultural parallels between Western and Eastern art. Popular and favourite pieces will again be put on display together with the latest acquisitions of the museum in this large-scale selection.
IPARTERV 50+ Exhibition and Conference
1 February – 24 March
It was fifty years ago that the exhibitions Iparterv I (1968) and Iparterv II (1969), which led to a paradigm shift in the Hungarian art scene, were held. These group exhibitions that were on view only for a few days have fundamentally changed Hungarian art history and everything we think about contemporary art. On the occasion of the anniversary, the group exhibition will show the latest and most recent works of the former members of the group.
Bauhaus 100 – A Programme for the Present
10 April – 25 August
Just a hundred years ago, in 1919, Walter Gropius founded the Weimar Bauhaus, the most important source and milestone of contemporary art, an art workshop and school. Its theory and practice inspired a number of subsequent art movements and approaches, and its original program offered even more: the aesthetic reform of life from everyday life to art. This selection is a kind of attempt to look back: rethink and recall this unique modernist utopia from a contemporary perspective.
SIGNAL – Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Positions in Slovak Art
19 April – 23 June
The exhibition SIGNAL will introduce one of the crucial tendencies present in contemporary Slovak art through the works of the most outstanding artists of the past fifty years. The exhibition will focus on the conceptual positions of the alternative unofficial art scene of the sixties and seventies (Július Koller, Rudolf Sikora, Stano Filko, Peter Bartoš, Dezider Tóth), closely related to the post-conceptual art of the nineties (Roman Ondák, Boris Ondreička, Denisa Lehocka, Péter Rónai) as far as to the legal artistic platform after 1989 (Petra Feriancová, Jaro Varga, Aneta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová).
Exhibition of the Leopold Bloom Art Award nominees and prize winners
18 June – 28 July
The Leopold Bloom Art Award is designed to support contemporary artists, enhance their presence in the international contemporary art world. The award intends to contribute to the cooperation of Hungarian artists and prestigious foreign exhibition spaces, to the international presentation and career building of artists, and to the more intensive involvement of contemporary Hungarian scenes in international art.
Fashion designer Tamás Király's oeuvre exhibition
12 July – 15 September
It is the first large-scale, retrospective presentation of an artist in Hungary whose activity resists classification by traditional genres and trends. In Király’s perception, clothing is a common point of contact between the boundaries of fashion, film, theatre, performance, and art. His clothes are at once costumes, mobile sculptures, futuristic transformations, future-looking creations of an artist ahead of his own age.
Bosch+Bosch and the Voivodina Neo-Avantgarde Movement
13 September – 17 November
The Bosch+Bosch Group was founded on August 27, 1969 by young artists from Subotica. The collective was the second such group in the former Yugoslavia. The group was established outside the larger cultural and artistic centres, on the outskirts of the country that had been influenced by Hungarian activism between the two world wars (Lajos Kassák, Sándor Barta). Most of the members of the group were of Hungarian origin, but South Slavic members also spoke Hungarian language well (Slavko Matković, Ante Vukov).
Pattern and Decoration
5 October – 5 January 2020
The movement Pattern and Decoration was developed in the USA in the 1970s. Followers of the movement radically distinguished themselves from the predominant Minimal Art and Concept Art at that time. They questioned not only traditional notions of art, but also addressed broader political and social issues. Their works celebrate sensuality, fantasy and colour, as well as an immediate lust for life.
Esterházy Art Award Ceremony and Exhibition
13 December – 2 February 2020
The Esterházy Art Award, founded in 2009, is aimed at empowering young talented Hungarian artists and supporting international dialogue. The prize of € 5000 per person is awarded by an independent jury every two years, at least two and a maximum of three Hungarian painters under 45 years. An exhibition and awards ceremony organized from the selected artworks.
Hungarian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte - La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Giardini)
Tamás Waliczky: Imaginary Cameras
11 May - 24 November, 2019
Tamás Waliczky’s proposed project for the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale revolves around the wide array of possibilities of visual perception and the ways in which they can be captured and depicted. The title refers first and foremost to the 23 imaginary cameras Waliczky began designing in 2016. The optical devices Waliczky has envisioned, images of which were created using digital software, operate with analogue mechanisms and draw attention to the cultural and technical determinedness of visual perception and depiction. His choice of subject matter is particularly timely, as we have become enmeshed in the intricate web of cameras to an extent that we have not yet entirely grasped.