Past exhibitions

Hungarian Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Gyula Várnai: Peace on Earth!

The exhibition presents the artistic activities and draws attention to the significance of a Neo-Avant-garde artist group that used to exist on the periphery of Hungarian art scene.

A comprehensive array of avant-garde art from the former Yugoslav states and some neighbouring countries, focusing on the Cold War era.

The exhibition presents media art in Hungary from its beginnings to our present days, introducing the lifework of artists who were responding to constantly changing technologies in creating their works.

With a focus on the recent past, the exhibition provides an overview of Attila Szűcs’s achievements as a painter. His latest pieces are at the center of the display, their thematic and technical characteristics serving as a basis for the presentation of the complete oeuvre.

The spirituality of nature and painting as a contemplative process are the key themes addressed by the American artist Susan Swartz. To appreciate the meditative aura of her paintings, a different mode of seeing is required.

Timed for the current Bartók Memorial Year, this international exhibition looks at the composer’s legacy through the means of contemporary art.

Poles are still struggling with identity issues, 27 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Only after 1989 were they able to discuss and examine Poland publicly, without censorship, for the first time in 50 years. Today, they continue to ponder the true nature of Poland and the Poles.

An exhibition organised by Wrocław Contemporary Museum (Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław) held as a part of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 program.

One of the priorities at Ludwig Museum Budapest is to keep track of the contemporary art scenes and new tendencies of the Central and Eastern European region and the post-socialist countries.

”We are always searching for the higher level of intimacy in our images.”

A Ludwig Musem collection showcase exhibition at the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania (Galeria Kombëtare e Arteve)

The present version of Julius Popp’s Bit.Fall is a logical next step of the project, which started in 2001 as an installation of eight nozzles. Water is used as a medium between information regarding current affairs and the viewer.

This exhibition explores the mutual influence of Hungarian popular music and visual art: iconic artworks, typical positions, important and influential scenes.

Youth culture is known to manifest itself in a variety of ways.

Founded in 1971, the Makó Artists’ Colony is a special site in the history of Hungarian graphic art. Its main profile comprised photo-based silk screen and offset printing.

Had he not passed away unduly young, Zoltán Érmezei would be sixty years old now. His lifework is less known for the wider public, although he was an outstanding member of the alternative artist generation in the 1980’s.

“When we cast a web over the world or set milestones in space and time: that is our concern and not the world’s. Probably this subjective existence also has some impact on the world. Our relation is of constant giving and receiving, throughout which we both change.

The art collection brought together by Peter and Irene Ludwig is the foundation of all Ludwig Museums. Perhaps the most well-known and famous part of this collection is the body of artworks that represents the period of Pop Art.

Neoacademism in Saint Petersburg took flight in the beginning of the 1990’s under the intellectual guidance of Timur Novikov, the non-conformist Russian philosopher, artist and theoretician.

One of the most important endeavours of Peter and Irene Ludwig, founders of Ludwig Museum Budapest, was to undertake the role of mediators between the former East and West through their cultural activity.

A Selection of Works from the Video Collection of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest
Venue: Collegium Hungaricum, Belgrade, Serbia