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The public installations of iconuu are meant to motivate visitors to communicate with people around the globe, using a visual form of expression and crossing the limits of language.
In the spring of 2015 the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art organises a comprehensive as well as gap filling exhibition of Vilmos Zsigmond’s photographic life-work.
The name //////////fur//// covers two media artists and art critics, gadget artists and game designers, Volker Morawe and Tilmann Reiff.
Acting as a synthesis of the artist’s past conceptual and formal investigations, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic’s new video installation and project Spielraum: The Nation Loves It, presents the first chapter of the project Spielraum, which will be followed by two subsequent chap
Ciprian Mureșan belongs to the generation of the post-Communist regime and is, in a post-conceptual manner, preoccupied with the historical and political fallout for his country, Romania.
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.
Monochrome Clack | Intermedial installations of Éva Köves and Andrea Sztojánovits
This virtual exhibition, curated by Jean-Jacques Lebel, provides detailed insight into the legendary history of the Beat Generation, which, with its early beginnings in 1940s New York and San Francisco, was to later catch like a wildfire appearing in very different forms throughout the world.
The Leopold Bloom Art Award supports progressive contemporary visual artists in Hungary and their presence on the international art scene.
The solo exhibition of Gábor Ősz, living and working in Amsterdam, is part of a series of exhibitions at the Ludwig Museum presenting Hungarian and foreign artists whose life and works are less known in Hungary.
Pieter Hugo’s (b. Johannesburg, 1976) career is quite young, yet his photography is already so comprehensive that we can rightly speak of a consistent oeuvre. Since 2003 Hugo has photographed people and themes exclusively in sub-Saharan Africa.
Some of the works of art may be of a sexually explicit nature, parental guidance is advised.
Exhibition of the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, in cooperation with the Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Door opening: 28 February 2013. 18:30 pm
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition entitled The Freedom of Sound – John Cage behind the Iron Curtain between 23 November, 2012 and 17 February, 2013.
“THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS UNTOUCHABLE IN ALL OF US. THIS SOMETHING IS UNRELATED TO COUNTRIES, REGIMES AND EVEN TO PEOPLE. IT SPRINGS FROM LIFE ITSELF. FROM THE UNIQUE, INIMITABLE EXPRESSION OF HUMAN EXISTENCE. WE CAN COMPREHEND IT ONLY IN OURSELVES. ONCE AND FOR ALL.
