Exhibitions: 2014

LUDWIG 25. The Contemporary Collection
The new permanent exhibition of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art

The exhibition, expanding from the 80’s up to the present time and focusing mainly on East-Central Europe, intends to elaborate on the revolutionary terminology formulated in its title through certain defining positions of contemporary art.

Ernő Tolvaly, an enigmatic figure of Hungarian art life, is primarily known for his artistic activity involving painting. In spite of his quiet personality, he exerted an influence on his colleagues as an artist, an organizer and a teacher, from the 1970s until his death in 2008.

The beginning of the discourse related to the Holocaust – and partly the “historicization” of the event itself – is dated April 1945, when World War II was officially not even over yet.

The artistic development of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini / GAC (1914-1990), Italian art collector and artist, led to the invention of a ‘movement’ by the early 1970s, called autostoricizzazione or ‘self-historicization’.

The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art will present the first major exhibition of Simon Hantai in Hungary.

What is this huge aviary doing here? The fundamental role of an artwork is to pose questions and create situations. This mobile sculpture by Austrian artist Josef Bernhardt (b. 1960) offers us the opportunity to observe the world from a bird’s-eye view.

Painter Judit Reigl was born in 1923 in Kapuvár, and has been living and working in France since 1950. She is one of the rare artists of Hungarian origins who is recognised in the United States, and whose oeuvre uniquely combines the traditions of European and American abstraction.

The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition titled Transition and Transition under the curatorship of the Montenegrin art historian and critic Petar Ćuković.

Fabrizio Plessi is one of the most remarkable and most popular Italian contemporary artists, who is foremost known for his large size, spectacular video installations.