Place Value is not the first exhibition dedicated to displaying our new acquisitions. This year’s selection is special in that it mainly includes works that have been acquired – purchased with the help of the NKA colleges, deposited by the Ludwig Stiftung in Aachen, or donated by artists and art collectors – over the last 7–8 years and only those that have not been shown in our permanent and temporary exhibitions before, thus providing the public with a sense of novelty.
Our exhibition is a “selection of selections”, as this group of works includes almost 500 pieces from our collection, which now comprises more than 1000 works of art and 40,000 items. Less than half of these works are on show in this exhibition; the rest can be found on the museum’s website.
Our selection also provides an overview of the Ludwig Museum’s collection. It includes works by progressive artists of the neo-avant-garde, conceptual tendencies of the seventies with works never shown before, and the artists of the BOSCH & BOSCH group from Vojvodina, juxtaposed with the activities of the Pécs Workshop. A separate room is dedicated to the young artists of the painting turn that became more and more prominent at the end of the 2010s and to other talented representatives of the youngest generation of artists.
The highlight of our collection are Central-Eastern European artworks: we have arranged the newly added Slovak, Ukrainian, Estonian, Polish, Russian and Albanian works in thematic blocks, comparing them with similar Hungarian endeavours.
Similar units include works on women’s role models as well as works on individual and collective historical memory/traumas, mainly based on photography, (self-)portraits and their absence. The selected works also raise more general questions of art theory such as the difficulty and loss of “representability” or painterly identification, as well as the position of the artist and art in society, or the disappearance of the traditions of landscape and genre painting, and the relationship between three dimensions and the plane.
Of course, these categories are intersecting. In the organisation of the exhibition, we have sought not to define the interpretative framework in a didactic way, but rather to encourage visitors to discover new perspectives and create new connections between the works with the help of the texts accompanying them.
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The exhibited works have been selected and arranged by
Soma Bradák, Kriszta Dékei, Julia Fabényi, József Készman, Krisztina Szipőcs
Exhibiting Artists
Pjotr ARMJANOVSZKIJ, BAKOS Gábor, BARABÁS Zsófi, BÁLVÁNYOS Levente, BARANYAY András, BORSOS LŐRINC, Kim CORBISIER, CSATÓ József, Alexandr CSEKMENYOV, CSERNIK Attila, David CSICSKAN, Anna DAUČÍKOVÁ, ERDÉLY Miklós, ERDÉLYI Gábor, FABRICIUS Anna, FICZEK Ferenc, Stano FILKO, FODOR János, GALÁNTAI György, GÉMES Péter, HAJAS Tibor, Alban HAJDINAJ, HALÁSZ Péter Tamás, HOPP-HALÁSZ Károly, HARIS László, HENCZE Tamás, JOHNSON & JOHNSON, KÁLDI Katalin, KÁROLYI Zsigmond, Olga KASIMBEKOVA – Gleb KATCSUK, KASZÁS Tamás, KEMÉNY György, KEREKES László, KISMÁNYOKY Károly – SZÍJÁRTÓ Kálmán, LADIK Katalin, LOVAS Ilona, Petra MAITZ, Slavko MATKOVIĆ, MÉHES László, NAGY Imre, Natalia LL, NEMES Márton, NÉMETH Hajnal, NÉMETH Ilona, Jevhen NYIKIFOROV, PERNECZKY Géza, PINCZEHELYI Sándor, PINTÉR Gábor, PUKLUS Péter, RAVASZ András, Mikola RIDNYIJ, RÓNAI Péter, SZABÓ Eszter Ágnes, Olekszij SZAJ, SZALAY Péter, SZEGEDY-MASZÁK Zoltán, URAY-SZÉPFALVI Ágnes, SZVET Tamás, TÓT Endre, TÜRK Péter, UJJ Zsuzsi, VÁRNAGY Tibor, Erwin WURM, ZÁBORSZKY Gábor, Natalija ZSERNOVSZKAJA
Acquisitions were supported by
NKA College of Fine Arts, NKA College of Photography, NKA College of Public Collections; Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung; Ministry of Human Resources
The exhibition was supported by
College of Museums
