Past exhibitions

The Museum of Contemporary Art / Ludwig Museum Budapest presents a group of young artists, around 30, in the framework of the Budapest Spring Festival. Generally speaking this is a painting show by painters but we had no intention to make any restriction concerning genre and techniques.

PAINTING PRIZE OF HUNGARIAN ASPHALT LTD, 1998
Exhibition of works by the prize-winners
Museum of Contemporary Art / Ludwig Museum Budapest
March 5-29, 1998 (1st floor, Danube side)

The material of the exhibition, which includes 54 oil paintings and 21 collages, was selected by Dr. Hans Joachim Neyer, director of the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hannover (museum of caricature and graphics of social criticism) and by Gunnar B.

ballroom
music–light installation
by Kaija Saariaho, Hilda Kozári and Esa Vesmanen
9–21 December 1997

The exhibition, 'Meret Oppenheim meets Man Ray,’ presents the works of two artists of great influence on 20th century art. Meret Oppenheim (1913 Berlin –1985 Basel) and Man Ray (1890 Philadelphia –1976 Paris) met in 1933 at the centre of art life, in Paris.

One ego of Dóra Maurer is playful, witty and womanlike, while her other ego is decisive, exact and well-organized. It is largely owing to her activities that exhibitions of concrete, systematic and serial art were presented in Hungary from the 70s.

“Military camouflage – imitated nature. Its markings are the various shades of our climate and vegetation, from yellow through to brown. The forms – as is the nature of camouflage – imitate foliage, leaves, the shadows cast by the leaves, or the traces of sunlight filtering through the foliage.

The exhibition "Embodied Logos" featuring 14 German women artists, will open on April 18th, and it will provide the opportunity for a series of events organised around the theme of women in society and in the arts.

This exhibition was selected as a Circulating Exhibition and is not designed as a history of constructed photography in Britain.

Last year, Jan Fabre presented this installation in Tarragona, Spain, in three rooms separated by narrow gaps between them. Passage was originally the name of another work, created with a similar technique, using hundreds of beetles.

This exhibition is about the experience of simultaneity, and it is materialized in many ways, in its making, in its presentation, and in its organization and production. Word history appears here as a meshing of particular histories in which divisions of West and East, North and South, modern and

Something has been lost, but it can be recovered – at least this is what Imre Bak might have thought, when he said in a naive touching tone: “The newest concept of art has been the one which is valid for me all the time.” Fortunately, what he thought to be valid was harmonious with the nature of

I see the show as an aggregate consisting of two units or machines.
A machine, as I understand it here, is a complex of purposefully connected elements which produce something-objects, ideology, beauty, history, whatever.

The young Cracow artist, Piotr Jaros exhibited three photo-installations in Budapest, Umarmen I – II and Triumph. Jaros started to work with large black-and-white staged photography in 1994–95.