Walking is one of the most fundamental forms of human movement, which goes beyond its obvious practical, everyday function: it can be interpreted as a cultural-historical phenomenon, a tool for cognition and thought, an artistic act, and a philosophical methodology. In the visual arts, it can be applied to practices that foreground walking as a central process, event, experience or outcome.
The exhibition Pneuma Cosmic is based on a fictional research project that explores the manifestations of the air movement that permeates the entire world. Sectioned into three installations, the ensemble of works explores the artistic possibilities of representing airflow, drawing analogies between the physical phenomenon and the immaterial spiritual world.
The exhibition presents the ART FOND Collection from Bratislava, in which the neo-avant-garde strategies of late modernism remain urgently relevant today. Rather than a closed historical phenomenon, the neo-avant-garde appears here as a lasting mode of resistance, critical thinking, and civic responsibility, continuously reactivated in contemporary artistic practice.
The Ludwig Museum’s collection, which has been developing for several decades, features a number of contemporary works that deal with imaginary visions of the future or interpret the present as a dystopian reflection of the past in some way. The 90 works featured in the exhibition serve as a kind of black mirror: we see not only our present in them, but also a vision of the future that helps us understand what kind of future we want to avoid.
For many years, the museum has organised its annual exhibitions and activities around a theme that reflects the role of museums and contemporary art in the 21st century. In 2024, the links between contemporary art and other art forms and disciplines have been explored, and a strong emphasis has been placed on reaching out to disadvantaged communities. The 2025 exhibition programme has been designed with an unusual focus on diverse artistic practices rather than an overarching theme.
We are proud to announce that our exhibition Handle with Care (curators: Rita Dabi-Farkas, Viktoria Popovics) won the award for BEST CURATORIAL PROJECT of 2023 by AICA Hungary.
The Ludwig Museum will present a new temporary exhibition exploring the theme of caring, and the diversity of the works on display will demonstrate that care is a key concept of our time with a critical potential that cannot be neglected.