| Nation and Fashion Italian fashion weekend in Műcsarnok
In the spring of 2008, Műcsarnok presents for the first time what is planned to be an annual celebration of fashion, a two-day event that seeks to establish links with the European scene by featuring some of the finest fashion houses from a different country each year. What distinguishes Nation & Fashion is that it welcomes not only professionals but also a general public interested... |
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| The Exhibition of the Sculpture Gábos Mihály
Gábor, Mihály sculptor (Székelyhíd, Romania 09. September 1942.) He spent his childhood in Csanádapáca, Békés Country. He started his secondary education in Orosháza but finished his studies in Rákospalota. Dési Huber circle, master: Ferenc Laborcz
1969-74: College of fine arts, masters: Sandor Mikus, József Somogyi
1975-79: Derkovits-scholarship
1977: State Youth... |
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| The Leipzig Phenomenon
Exhibiting artists:
Tilo Baumgärtel, Viktoria Binschtok, Henriette Grahnert, Matthias Hoch, Katharina Immekus, Martin Kobe, Oliver Kossack, Ulf Puder, Neo Rauch, Ricarda Roggan, Christoph Ruckhäberle, David Schnell, Annette Schröter, Tilo Schulz, Matthias Weischer
Curator: Készman József
Skype curator: Nagy Edina
assistant curator: Csóka Edina
The exhibition features... |
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| All that Cinema
Selection from the video collection of the Ludwig Museum Budapest
The last in the series of exhibitions featuring the Ludwig Museum’s collection, All That Cinema presents the best of the motion picture works held in the Museum. The selection spans some twenty years, from the beginnings of video art in Hungary up to the present. The Ludwig Museum started collecting only recently,... |
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| 1-2-3 The Collection in Focus
16 November 2007 –
1st floor: until 27 January 2008
From 7 February to 30 March 2008, film and video works from the collection under the title “All that Cinema”
2nd floor: until 10 February 2008
3rd floor: until the end of 2008
This is the first time since the initial exhibitions of the Ludwig Museum in 1991 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1996 that the Museum’s... |
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| Highlighted Works of Art in the Classical Antiquities
Representations of Hermes and Thoth from Roman Egypt
In memoriam László Kákosy (1932–2003)
After Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 BC, the Macedonian Ptolemies ruled the country for the next three hundred years, followed by the Romans, who dominated Egypt for several centuries. Never again did an Egyptian pharaoh sit on the throne of the country, and after... |
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| Luc Tuymans: Retrospective
Műcsarnok will be the first art hall in Central and Eastern Europe to host an exhibition by Luc Tuymans, who is considered, by art historians and collectors alike, to be one of the most important living painters. The show will then travel to Warsaw and Munich. Besides the valuable works, the Budapest exhibition will also boast a sensational, unique attraction: Luc Tuymans will create... |
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| GPS - Unknown Scene
Curators: József Bartha, Ilona Németh, Bálint Szombathy
Assistant curator: Marianna Mayer
Participating artists: József Bartha, Csaba Csiki, Roland Farkas, Zsolt Fekete, József Juhász R., Attila Kispál, Ivette Martiny, Szilárd Miklós, Dénes Miklósi, Ilona Németh, Sándor Sebesi, Ede Sinkovics, Péter Szabó, Bálint Szombathy, Emőke Varga, Gusztáv Ütő
We all... |
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| Deimantas Narkevicius: History continued / videoinstallations
The film and video work of Deimantas Narkevicius Lithuanian artist are centered on issues of history and the relation and representability of official and personal memory. Besides his inquests about the politicization of memory and the potentials of representing historical/personal traumas, he explores cinematic devices and possibilities. He places current issues of memory politics and... |
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| A Magical Eccentric
The Art of Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), painter, graphic artist and architect, was one of the most unusual artistic personalities of the 20th century. His rich creative fantasy was revealed equally in painting, graphic art, architecture and design. He used every means to express his life philosophy manifesting the creation of a harmony of... |
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| Martin C. Herbst: the presence of memory
Martin C. Herbst (1965. Salzburg) Austrian artist. Herbst’s one-man show in the Gallery is the internationally known painter’s début in Hungary. Since 2003 Herbst has been a regular participant of the US art fair, ArtMiami, and exhibited several one-man shows in Switzerland (Basel), Germany, Spain and Austria. His monumental paintings’ dominant themes are portraits and human... |
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| Katarzyna Kozyra: In Art Dreams Come True
Katarzyna Kozyra(Warsaw, 1963–) is one of the most famous contemporary Polish media artists. In 1999 she represented Poland at the 48th International Venice Biennial.
In Hungary, she became famous by shooting a video in one of Budapest’s spas with the help of a hidden camera. In the pieces entitled Men’s Bathhouse and Women’s Bathhouse she investigated from a sociological... |
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| Rescued works of art
Reading this title, the visitors may think of heavy gold finds, frescos of churches destroyed by earthquakes or stolen and recovered valuable paintings. However, the exhibition of the thesis works of the restorer students of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts "only" contains works of art from museums, ecclesiastic and private collections, which the students have restored naturally... |
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| Andreas Fogarasi: Culture and Leisure
Hungarian Pavilion
The Venice Biennale, 2007
52nd International Art Exhibition
Dr. Zsolt Petrányi – Commissioner
Katalin Timár – Curator
The exhibition and the catalogue of the Hungarian Pavilion are supported by the National Cultural Fund and the Ministry of Education and Culture with the contribution of Mûcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest.
From June to November 2007 the... |
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| László Fehér: Works 1975–2007
László Fehér first came to attention in the late 1970s in the Studio exhibitions, and has been a prominent figure of Hungarian art for the last twenty-five years. After the radical social documentation of his early photorealistic period, he turned to family mythology. Through images of anxiety filtered through family photographs and childhood memories from the nineteen fifties, he... |
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