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Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Budapest 1095 – Hungary The exhibition SIGNAL looks at the birth and evolution of Slovak art from the mid-1960s until the present day. In so doing, it shows the broader contexts that gave rise to Slovak conceptual art in 1964–1965 while also

The 7th edition of MIA Photo Fair saw the participation of 80 galleries from 13 different countries. The fair includes many new features, including, for the first time ever, three theme projects focusing on two different geographical areas: Focus Brazil, curated by Denise Gadelha, Focus Principate of Asturias, curated by

Beat Generation / Allen Ginsberg November 9, 2013 – January 12, 2014 Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest 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,

Not Yet Titled: Now and Forever at Museum Ludwig In autumn 2013 museum director Philipp Kaiser will unveil Not Yet Titled, a completely new presentation of the collection. This new display is more than a simple inventorytaking, but will also include new acquisitions and introduce a programmatic perspective on the

Gábor Ősz – Three by Three Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest July 26, 2013 – November 03, 2013 Gábor Ősz is a Hungarian photographer living and working in Amsterdam, who graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts as a painter, in 1986. He painted for years

Pieter Hugo: This Must Be The Place – Selected Works 2003-2012 May 24, 2013 – August 11, 2013 Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest 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

The Naked Man March 22, 2013. – June 30, 2013. Exhibition of the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, in cooperation with the Ludwig Museum, Budapest www.ludwigmuseum.hu While the naked female body, the female nude is an accepted topic of art, the naked male body, after Classical Antiquity, remained close to invisible for

The Other Half of the Sky. Selection from the Ludwig Museum’s Collection The exhibition features István Csákány’s installation Ghost Keeping (2012), commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13) The realization of the installation was supported by: Horváth Művészeti Alapítvány, Budapest; Somlói Zsolt / Spengler Katalin; Szauer Péter; Málnay B. Levente; Dénes Andrea /

The Freedom of Sound. John Cage behind the Iron Curtain November 23, 2012. – February 17, 2013 Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Komor Marcell u. 1, Budapest, H-1095 On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art

Antal Lakner: Workstation September 21, 2012 – January 06, 2013 Antal Lakner is one of the Hungarian artists emerging in the 1990s, who have achieved international recognition. Working at the border between reality and fiction, he creates works of a subversive nature, integrating visual arts into quotidian reality, or querying

The Hero, the Heroine and the Author July 06, 2012 – October 23, 2012 Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Palace of Arts Komor Marcell u. 1, Budapest, H-1095 http://www.ludwigmuseum.hu Where have all the heroes gone? Where are the heroes that we came to know so well from the

Robert Mapplethorpe May 25 – September 30, 2012 Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest  www.ludwigmuseum.hu/  Robert Mapplethorpe is by all means one of the most important artists of 20th century photography and also a key figure in the history of the genre. He took his inspiration from antique and renaissance

THE BIRTH OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY FROM PICTORIALISM TO MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY (1889-1929) 29th March – 1 July, 2012 Curator: Baki Péter Exhibition Manager: Pablényi Agnes Exhibition co-ordination: Schilling Sara Catalogue Editor: Baki Péter – Publisher: dr. Laszlo Baan, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2012 Museum of Fine Arts Budapest (Szépművészeti Múzeum)

Modern Fine Art Collection Museum of Fine Arts Budapest (Szépművészeti Múzeum) Dózsa György út 41, Budapest 1146 – e-mail: info@szepmuveszeti.hu Text by Vittoria Biasi – translated by Salvatore Rollo The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest (Szépművészeti Múzeum) has one of the richest and important collection of art from Middle

19th International Book Festival Budapest XIX. Budapesti Nemzetközi Könyvfesztivál  19—22 April 2012 Venue: MILLENÁRIS H-1024 Budapest, Kis Rókus u. 16-20., Hungary http://www.bookfestival.hu/angol.html  – E-mail: festival@mkke.hu Download: Programme 2012 After last year’s special Guest of Honour presence, when in honour of Hungary’s EU presidency, as the first among international book fairs, we invited the

János Megyik: The Space of the Image 9 March – 10 June 2012 LUDWIG MUSEUM – MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Phone: (+36 1) 555-3444, 555-3457 Fax: (+36 1) 555-3458 info@ludwigmuseum.hu – www.ludwigmuseum.hu Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-20:00 – Closed on Monday Working in a realm that is defined by the overlapping fields of

The Retrospective Exhibition of Károly Ferenczy (1862-1917) 30 November, 2011 – 27 May, 2012 Hungarian National Gallery Szent György tér 2., Budapest, Hungary, 1014 www.mng.hu – info@mng.hu – nemzetigaleria.budapest@museum.hu http://www.mng.hu/kiallitasok/idoszaki/ferenczy_nyito_en   Text by Vittoria Biasi – translated by Salvatore Rollo. All Texts are 1F mediaproject copyright. All Rights Reserved. The

Contemporary Paraphrases of an eighteenth-Century Brussel’s Tapestry Curatated by Ildikó Dobrányi Foundation in conjunction with the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Brussels www.webofeurope.eu  –  www.dobranyifoundation.hu Download: PROJECT THE WEB OF EUROPE Brussels Musées Royaux d’Art et d’ Histoire 20 May 2011- 14 august 2011 Budapest Museum of Applied Arts October 13

EAST OF EDEN | Photorealism: Versions of Reality Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest / Third-floor exhibition space 14 September 2011 – 15 January 2012 www.ludwigmuseum.hu/ –  Budapest The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present from September 2011 a broad international collaborative exhibition of Central-

Yona Friedman. Architecture without building 29 October 2011 – 08 January 2012 Opening: 28 October 2011, 7pm LUDWIG MUSEUM – MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Phone: (+36 1) 555-3444, 555-3457 Fax: (+36 1) 555-3458 info@ludwigmuseum.hu – www.ludwigmuseum.hu Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-20:00 – Closed on Monday   The Ludwig Museum presents a

SITE INSPECTION – The Museum on the Museum Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest July 22 – October 23, 2011 While the museums’ main function is to preserve works of art for eternity, museums have gone through fundamental changes recently. New, spectacular museum buildings all over the world,

László Moholy-Nagy. The Art of Light June 09, 2011 – September 25, 2011. www.ludwigmuseum.hu/ –  Budapest László Moholy-Nagy is a world-famous figure of twentieth-century avant-garde art. His visual art and theoretical works, photographs, films, educational activities and photograms – taken without a camera and now synonymous with his name –

Sing! – Mladen Stilinović Retrospective April 22 – July 03, 2011. Húzd rá! – Mladen Stilinović retrospektív kiállítása 2011. április 22. – 2011. július 03. www.ludwigmuseum.hu/ –  Budapest curated by: Branka Stipančić coordinated by: Katalin Székely Mladen Stilinović (1947, Belgrade) starting his career in the early seventies, is one of

www.ludwigmuseum.hu/ –  Budapest KIND OF CHANGE / NEW ACQUISITIONS 2009-2011 2011, March 5 – May 15. Following on the Ludwig Museum’s exhibition, New Acquisitions – Rarely Seen Works (2009), Kind of Change offers a second occasion for the museum to display recently acquired works of art. This overview exhibition can