Past exhibitions

Resonance. Electromagnetic Bodies 21. May, 2006 – 27. August
The material for this international exhibition is centred on Nikola Tesla’s path-breaking inventions.

Lydia Schouten: “Le jardin secret” 11. May, 2006 – 2. July
“A group of people pass through the forest, bird watching. Their excursion, which provides a way of escaping reality and seeking the beauty of existence, lasts from early morning till late at night.

Katarina Sieverding: Close up 30. March, 2006 – 28. May
After P.S.1, New York, and KunstWerke, Berlin, Ludwig Museum Budapest is the next venue to present the exhibition Katharina Sieverding: Close Up.

Works on the Edge, No. 2 9. March, 2006 – 31. December
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, presents its collection pertaining to the 1990s based on a new curatorial concept and complete with recent acquisitions, on view throughout this year in its 2nd-Floor exhibition space. A choice of newly acquired artworks has provided the point of departure for the exhibit

Wood & Harrison: Five Rooms 9. March, 2006 – 30. April
John Wood’s and Paul Harrison’s names may sound familiar to the audiences and professionals within the Hungarian art scene as their videos have been included in Hungarian exhibitions more than once.

Judit Kurtág: Video Works 16. February, 2006 – 19. March
Judit Kurtág was born in 1975 in Budapest. She emigrated with her parents to Paris and since 2004, she has lived in Amsterdam.

Péter Forgács and the Labyrinth Project: Danube Exodus. The Rippling Currents of the River 9. February, 2006 – 19. March
Péter Forgács and the Labyrinth Project
(Marsha Kinder, Rosemary Comella, Kristy H. A. Khang, Scott Mahoy, Jim McKee)
The Danube Exodous. The Rippling Currents of the River (installation)

João Penalva’s Retrospective Exhibition 3. November, 2005 – 15. January, 2006
Portuguese-born London-based Joao Penalva’s large-scale retrospective is a selection of works reflecting on a great number of his artistic considerations together with the approaches and strategies he applies.

Painting Prize of STRABAG 2005 13. October, 2005 – 13. November
The annual competition for the STRABAG Painting Prize has been announced for the eighth time, this year with entries of outstanding quality received from sixty-two artists.

Essence of Life – Essence of Art 8. September, 2005 – 2. October
For a short – three weeks’ – time in September Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art is serving as a presentation space for the still lively avant-garde art scene of Central and Eastern Europe.

Tibor Hajas (1946-1980): Emergency Landing 16. June, 2005 – 4. September
“I have been interested in myself since the very moment it became clear to me that this was the only way for a man to be able to know anything.” (Tibor Hajas)

Gerhard Richter: Survey 9. June, 2005 – 7. August
Richter’s offset work from 1998, a chart in fact gives the title of this exhibition.

Loud&Clear TOO 9. June, 2005 – 28. August
Organized by Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam, with Ludwig Museum, Cologne, as co-organizer in Loud&Clear Too, Organized by Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam, with Ludwig Museum, Cologne, as co-organizer in Loud&Clear Too, Loud & Clear is an international project of short films created by el
The Enigma of Modernity 15. March, 2005 – 15. June
The exhibition showcases the most significant movements and artists of the past fifty years by presenting a selection of one of the world’s most important collections of modern and contemporary art.

Works on the Edge A New Selection of the Collection of the Ludwig Museum 1 15. March, 2005 – 31. December
The Ludwig Museum is the only museum of contemporary art in Hungary to collect international art. The museum was founded by the Hungarian cultural government in 1989.

László Lakner: Metamorphosis 4. November, 2004 – 30. January, 2005
For a long time, the Hungarian born (Budapest, 1936) László Lakner’s name – who lived in Germany in the past thirty years - was associated with the emergence of Pop Art in the Hungarian art scene.

The Touch of the Invisible (Smart Country) 19. October, 2004 – 28. November
Smart Country
Touching the Invisible
Smart Studio / Interactive Institute, Stockholm
ARTISTS FEATURED:
Thomas Broomé, Arijana Kajfes, Magnus Jonsson, Tobi Schneidler, Ingvar Sjöberg

Surfacing - Who if not we? 16. September, 2004 – 24. October
Surfacing has partly developed out of the experiences of one of my previous projects, which defined the gallery’s position as the intersection of the white cube and the black box, where the physical and the absolute, the constructed and the ephemeral, fiction and documentary became interchangeabl

BANGA SCROLLS with texts by Péter Esterházy and Lajos Parti Nagy 14. September, 2004 – 24. October
Banga Scrolls
with texts by Péter Esterházy
and Lajos Parti Nagy
14 September – 24 October 2004

Photographs by Endre Kovács 9. September, 2004 – 10. October
Kassák House Studio – Squat Theatre
Photos of the History of the Hungarian Underground Theatre

Jeanne van Heeswijk: Games People Play 7. September, 2004 – 31. October
The project room’s residency programme, as was launched last year, is continuing in 2004 with its focus on the notion of space, including all its possible interpretations.

CTRL - Group András Mengyán, András Kapitány, Zoltán Prosek, Balkan Fanatik: Visions on Space 6. July, 2004 – 8. August
The familiar space of the Ludwig Museum’s Project Room is being transformed through an interactive show. Six projectors placed in the room transpose the space by means of pre-designed images applying 3D effects and light.

Lithographs, silkscreens and paintings from the collection of the Dubuffet Foundation, Paris 10. June, 2004 – 29. August
Jean Dubuffet created prints with ardent zeal for 40 years, up until his death in 1985. These prints embody an integral part of his oeuvre. Starting with lithographs, he continued to experiment with various techniques.

Man Made Planet. Photos by Wolfgang Volz 20. May, 2004 – 29. August
The large-format photographs by Wolfgang Volz reveal to the viewers how humankind treats the landscape, the vulnerable skin of our planet, in a manner that is as much fascinating as it is upsetting.