KIS MAGYAR KOCKOLÓGIA
The exhibition is based on the idea of a familiar, almost everyday architectural phenomenon, the typical cubic house (the so-called Kádár cube) as an expression of modernisation. The family house of the sixties and seventies still defines the image of the Hungarian countryside. Scorned by post-Socreal architecture in Hungary, the stepchild has proved to be the most enduring architectural form of the last century. The cube house with a tent roof is the twin of the factory dwelling; two characters of the housing of the existing socialism are unimaginable without each other. Whatever our attitude to the cube house, it is part of our built cultural heritage.
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The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the cultural context and genealogy of one of the identical, defining types of 20th century Hungarian spatial development. As a medium of private private housing (kaláka) and a form of modernisation, the cubic house was a spontaneous reaction of vernacular architecture to the social demands of housing construction. Strictly speaking, the typology of Hungarian rural houses, which was created over a period of about two decades - from the late 1950s to the late 1970s - remained a significant local influence, a model-giving, style-creating factor in our region until the next house type (the Alpine house) became dominant. Within the general framework of the tent-roofed cube house, the project is concerned with the ornamentation of the facades of Hungarian village houses as a kind of pre-Urban-post-Folkloric aesthetic, with its specific semantics. The exhibition uses a variety of artistic media and ever-changing installations to present the origins, evolution and impact of the house type in the history of Hungarian visuality.
Ludwig Museum
The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Müpa, is the first museum in Hungary to exclusively collect contemporary art. In addition to a permanent exhibition of the collection donated by the Ludwigs and a number of temporary exhibitions, the museum aims to raise awareness of the works and their creators through special publications and a variety of art education and art education programmes.