The Museum on the Museum

On the 20th anniversary of the first permanent exhibition of the Ludwig Museum, the museum is looking to itself in the mirror held by the artists. The museum hosts the exhibition Site Inspection-The Museum on the Museum. 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, the increasing number of visitors indicate that the function of the museum has changed radically.

The exhibition puts a special accent on the local and international neo-avant-garde artists of the 1970’s dealing with the topic of the museum. By examining the nature of the work of art itself, Marcel Duchamp was the first to point out the paradoxes of the connection between the work of art and its context, the museum, between the artist and the spectator.

The exhibition, which will run until October 23, includes works by Richard Artschwager, Azorro Group, Birk Ákos, Olga Chernyshev, Hubert Czerepok, Mark Dion, Marcel Duchamp and Henry Flynn among others.


Date: until October 23
Location: Ludwig Museum. Museum of Contemporary Art. Palace of Arts - Komor Marcell u. 1, Budapest, Hungary.
Hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm.