Art History Seminars / Spring 2011


Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art


Art History Seminars Spring/2011

Can you understand contemporary art?
Art interpretation lectures and art analysing practices

31 March, 7, 14, 21, 28 April, 2011
Thursday, 16.00

Ludwig Museum, Library, 2nd floor (31 March, 28 April)
Ludwig Museum, Auditorium, 1st floor (7, 14, 21 April)


31 March 2011. Thursday at 16.00
Scandals of the modern and contemporary at scene

Lecturer: Katalin M. Káldi, art historian
Related work of art: János Sugár: Dirty money (2008)

7 April 2011. Thursday at 16.00
How do the media shape history?

Lecturer: Zoltán Kékesi, critic, literature historian
Related work of art: Harun Farocki: Immersion (2009)

14 April 2011. Thursday at 16.00
Who is an artist and what is a work of art?

Lecturer: Hedvig Turai, art historian
Related work of art: Judit Kele: I am a work of art (1979-1980-1985/2009)

21 April 2011. Thursday at 16.00
Should or must art deal with politics?

Lecturer: Katalin Timár, art historian
Related work of art: Csaba Nemes: Remake I-X. (2007)

28 April 2011. Thursday at 16.00
A chest of money. A monument of the first Hungarian performance

Lecturer: Géza Boros, art historian
Related work of art: Bik van der Pol: Untitled (After Miklós Erdély) – Project for Moszkva tér (2003)

The lectures are in Hungarian.

Ticket price: 600 HUF