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TIME MACHINE: A New Selection from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum
September 1, 2020–December 31, 2024
The new selection from the museum’s collection examines the relationship between time and art from different perspectives, and sees the works themselves as time machines that allow us to travel mentally. Extended for 12 months, the exhibition will be expanded in 2024 to include digital content, related visitor activities and games, and a museum education chamber exhibition.
À la Recherche de Vera Molnar: Artworks by Vera Molnar and Contemporary Homages
February 10–April 14, 2024
The recently deceased Vera Molnar was among the first to create artworks using a real computer, and she is still widely regarded as one of the most significant pioneers of computer art. The two-part exhibition provides an overview of pivotal chapters in Vera Molnar’s career. The other part of the exhibition introduces, for the first time worldwide, a special group exhibition featuring works and unique reflections by invited internationally acknowledged artists.
Till Brönner: Identity—Landscape Europe
April 14–August 25, 2024
MÜPA and Ludwig Museum will present the exhibition of a jazz musician and photographer with a special talent. He is considered to be one of the most successful German jazz musicians, whose work gives a compelling insight into the contemporary sense of life. His current project, “Identity—Landscape Europe”, is still in progress and will be shown for the first time at the Ludwig Museum.
Small Hungarian Cubeology: Modernity and Living in the Kádár Era
May 3–August 18, 2024
The fundamental idea of the exhibition is to explore a familiar, almost everyday architectural phenomenon, the characteristic Hungarian “cube house” as an expression of architectural modernization. The exhibition aims to present the origin, development, and impact of this house type in the history of Hungarian visual culture through various artistic media and immersive installations.
Reversed Objects
September 6, 2024–January 12, 2025
In contemporary art, the last decade and a half has seen an increasing number of works made using traditional craft techniques on display. When visual artists turn to these techniques and methods, they are far from always seeking to dismantle the established canonical system, but rather to reinterpret existing concepts and practices and examine their usability today. The exhibition will therefore present objects from the contexts of fine art, ethnography and craftsmanship in parallel, and offer these as a basis for discussion.
Before the Storm: Taiwan, on the Frontier of Past and Future
October 18, 2024–February 16, 2025
The exhibition focuses on current trends and works that showcase Taiwan’s scientific and technological development, as well as the historical and socio-political context that has shaped Taiwan’s unique identity and its dynamic, open society today.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Museum education exhibition
November 1, 2024–February 23, 2025
The exhibition was inspired by the frequently asked questions about contemporary art. It explores the relationship between contemporary art and the classical art tradition, using a selection of works from the Museum’s collection. In order to facilitate reception, media objects, games and exercises will be placed alongside the works and in the exhibition spaces.
Nemes Marton: Techno Zen
Hungarian Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Giardini: April 20–November 24, 2024
Ludwig Museum—Museum of Contemporary Art: December 20, 2024–February 23, 2025
Márton Nemes is one of the most innovative representatives of the young generation of painters, who experiments with a 21st-century reinterpretation of the image, pushing the boundaries of traditional painting in material and space. For the Hungarian Pavilion, he has designed a multimedia, multi-sensory, colour-centred Gesamtkunstwerk that builds on the traditions of abstract painting and on contemporary experience, such as techno-subculture and digital imaging.
The exhibition will be shown at the Ludwig Museum after the Biennale, this time in an extended format.
Press contact: Gabriella Rothman, rothman.gabriella@ludwigmuseum.hu
