“For ants, the sky begins at the tip of a blade of grass. I wonder whether they can see the clouds at all. For me, the sky begins here, above the Royal Castle of Buda. I can simply reach out and stir the clouds up. Then I brush all the clouds away, and a clear blue sky appears above me.
An artistic career of nearly fifty years provides ample matter for an analytical approach.
Gia Edzgveradze (born in Georgia, currently living and working in Germany) made his first show in the Ludwig Museum Budapest with the title Ultramodern Nihilism in 1999.
In conformity with its eight-year tradition, the STRABAG Painting Competition has remained a high-standard forum for talented young representatives of painting in Hungary.
As young as he is, Levente Bálványos has already established his career as an artist. He graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, where he had studied under sculptor György Jovánovics. Bálványos’ work bears the influence of classical avant-garde and constructivism.
Kokoro no Arika – The Location of the Spirit is the first large-scale exhibition in Hungary for ten years to give an overall survey of the actual situation of Japanese society and art.
Ágnes Szépfalvi’s last major solo show in a Hungarian museum took place in the István Király Múzeum in Székesfehérvár in 1998. Most of the present exhibition’s selection of approximately twenty-five works from the recent years are exhibited for the public for the first time in Budapest.
Hajnal Németh graduated from the Intermedia Department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2000, although prior to this she had already participated in numerous international and national exhibitions with her videos, photographs, installations etc.
In the course of creating the images for DESIRE we approached people—with or without a personal connection—we were curious to find out more about in the given moment.
We conducted an interview with our selected ‘customers’ which we began thus:
Thanks to Rebecca Major, lost objects – gloves – become found objects. Found objects that grow into hermeneutic packages during the course of an exhibition, for the visitors add their comments to the exhibits. Each glove, recorded in a photograph, induces a surplus of stories.
These days we speak of the human body with increasing opennes; the veil has been lifted off eroticism and sexuality in the media. Magazines of all kinds show the body-builder’s physique, fitness, and health as a prerequisite of success in society.
Promising to become this summer’s sensation, the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art in cooperation with the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, Bonn, is presenting CHINaRT, an exhibition selected by Walter Smerling, acting director of the Duisburg Küppersmühle and Fan Di’ An, vice-pre
Florin Tudor and Mona Vatamanu are acknowledged as the most important representatives of young media artists working in Bucharest, and alongside their activity as artists they also curate the Coop Media Festival of Bucharest.
The starting point of the project is ‘Moszkva tér’ [Moscow Square], a space taken in the metaphorical sense, yet it is a real square in the centre of Budapest. It blends different controversial aspects of a typical urban place.
The exhibition of Zoran Naskovski is realised as part of the international residency programme entitled Platforms for Desire: The Urban Scene and Its Discontents in the project room.
73 entries were submitted for the seventh Painting Prize of STRABAG. The Jury found the submissions of a satisfactory quality, and was pleased to observe that the painters participating represented the artistic aims of the generation born in the seventies.
In this work Katarzyna Kozyra processes Vaclav Nijinsky’s choreography of Igor Stravinky’s music using the tools of film and digital media. The subject of the Ballet is the sacrifice of a virgin to the God of Spring by the elders and wise men of the tribe.
The Ludwig Museum Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art shows seventy-one photographic works and paintings from the Austrian Essl Collection, a group of works by nineteen internationally renowned artists in their first show in Hungary.
This year the Museum launches an international residency programme entitled “Platforms for Desire: The Urban Scene and Its Discontents” in the project room.
Tillmann Roth was born in 1975 and graduated from the Kunsthochschule für Medien of Cologne to win the Nam Jun Paik International Prize for media art of the State of North Rhine Westphalia in the young artist category.
An exhibition of Eduardo Arroyo’s work at the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art opens on January 16, 2003, under the auspices of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Society of International Cultural Activities (SEACEX).
László L. Révész is an outstanding representative of the generation of Hungarian artists in their 30s-40s. After graduating from the Painting Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, Révész also took a diploma in animation film making from the College of Applied Arts.
The View From Here: Recent Pictures From Central Europe and the American Midwest is a collection of 84 photographic works by 22 contemporary artists who live and work in Central Europe and the American Midwest.
Sebestyén Kodolányi and Csaba Uglár’s project violates the toposes of confraternity and the noble-spirited sentiments of men’s brotherhood. The „documentary film”, an experiment, documents a fraud.
An exhibition under the title “Work in Progress” by Balázs Kicsiny, who lives in London since 1995, and produced in co-operation with the Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs is on show at the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art from 24 October through to 1 December 2002.