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Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky és a Rocky Flats Truth Force pártfogói feltartóztatnak egy vonatrakománynyi hasadóanyagot 1978. július 14-én; a Plutonikus óda keletkezésének ideje © Fotó: Steve Groer, Rocky Mountain News Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and friends of Rocky Flats Truth Force, thwarting trainload
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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,

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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

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© Végel Dániel / Ludwig Múzeum - Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum, Digitális Archívum és Adattár © Dániel Végel / Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Archives
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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

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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

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Spencer Tunick: Düsseldorf 5 (Museum Kunst Palast), 2006. Courtesy Stephane Janssen
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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

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© ROSTA József / Ludwig Múzeum - Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum Adattára © József ROSTA / Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Archives
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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 /

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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

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Winter_Timber.jpg David Hockney "Winter Timber", 2009 Öl auf 15 Leinwänden / Oil on 15 canvases Je / each 91,44 x 121,92 cm, gesamt / total 274,32 x 609,60 cm © David Hockney Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson
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David Hockney. A Bigger Picture Press reception: Thursday, October 25, 12 a.m.; preview begins at 11 a.m. October 27, 2012 until February 3, 2013 David Hockney’s swimming pool paintings are among the most popular images of the 1960s. He attained world fame as a flamboyant figure of “swinging London” and

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INERS_Dupla-és mikrogravitációs állapotok / INERS_Double and Microgravitational State, 2005 © a művész jóvoltából / courtesy of the artist
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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

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A hős, a hősnő és a szerző, Enteriőr / The Hero, the Heroine and the Author, Interior © Balázs SZÉKELYHIDI / Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Archives
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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

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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

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János Megyik: Object on Photogram, 1985–1988 The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Photo: József Rosta
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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

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Paul Chan Sade for Sade's sake, 2009 Digitale Projektion Maße variable Foto: Achim Kukulies © Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
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Before the Law Post-War Sculpture and Spaces of Contemporary Art Opening: December 16, 7 pm Press conference: December 15, 11 am December 17, 2011 – April 22, 2012 A joint exhibition of Museum Ludwig and Siemens Stiftung The question of the fundamental conditions of human existence is of timeless importance

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Gérard Gasiorowski The approach. That's me, who needs to make enormous efforts to keep himself on the surface of things. 1970 oil on canvas 129 x 192 cm Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
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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-

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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

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Marcel Duchamp: La Boîte-en-Valise, 1938-1941 Photo © MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
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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,

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MOHOLY-NAGY László Untitled, 1939 Fujicolor Crystal Archive print Image: 22.8 x 34.2 cm. Paper: 27.9 x 35.5 cm Courtesy of László Moholy-Nagy Estate and Andrea Rosen Gallery Inc., New York (people around a table in a garden) ©Hattula Moholy-Nagy/VEGAP 201
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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 –

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Mladen Stilinović Az amerikai gazdaság lassú dekonstrukciója / Slow destruction of American economy Részlet a Pénzről és Nullákról c. installációból / part of the installation On Money and Zeros, 1978-2000
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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

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Waliczky Tamás: A kert (21. századi amatőrfilm) / The Garden (21st Century Amateur Film), 1992-1996 számítógépes animáció, loop / Computer animation, video installation, 1/5 3'3” Múzeumi vásárlás / Purchased, 2009
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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

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Joel Shapiro February 26 – May 29, 2011 Museum Ludwig Heinrich-Böll-Platz  – 50667 Köln www.museum-ludwig.de –  info@museum-ludwig.de Fifteen free-hanging, colored wooden beams help to generate a new feeling for what space and sculpture can be. American sculptor Joel Shapiro (*1941) will create an installation of new and preexisting works for

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The Museum Ludwig Heinrich-Böll-Platz  – 50667 Köln www.museum-ludwig.de –  info@museum-ludwig.de The Museum Ludwig is one of Germany’s most important museums for 20th century art and contemporary art. It was founded in 1976 when Peter and Irene Ludwig presented the City of Cologne with 350 works of modern art. These works

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TZENG Yong-Ning (CENG Jung-ning): Ősi ritmus 15 (triptichon). 2009. 111 x 486 cm, golyóstoll, papír. A művész tulajdona. / TZENG Yong-Ning: Original Rythm 15 (triptych). 2009. 111 x 486 cm. ball point pen, paper. Courtesy of the artist.
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Taiwan Calling – Elusive Island December 17, 2010 | March 06, 2011 Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art – Palace of Arts Komor Marcell u. 1, Budapest, H-1095 Phone: +36 1 555 3444 │ Fax: +36 1 555 3458 www.ludwigmuseum.hu Taiwan Calling is the first large-scale exhibition in the

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Martin Munkácsi: Think While You Shoot Ludwig Museum- Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest 7 October 2010 – 9 January 2011 After Hamburg, Berlin, New York, San Francisco and Moscow, the Ludwig Museum, Budapest will host the so far most representative exhibition of the lifework of Martin Munkácsi, a photographer of

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The Pleasure of Light: György Kepes and Frank J. Malina At the Intersection of Art and Science Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art September 3, 2010. – November 21, 2010. Curators: Nina Czeglédy and Róna Kopeczky. The Pleasure of Light exhibition at the Ludwig Museum aims to reveal the

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