Black Mirror. The long shadow of the future
Although the dark/black mirror was originally a divination tool used in magical practices, today the concept of the black mirror mostly refers to the screens of digital devices, displays and their malfunctions, or the "freezing" of devices—in a figurative sense, the switched-off, dark screen shows us a distorted image of the present, thus functioning as a metaphor for technological self-reflection in our culture.
The exhibition, which can be considered the first stage of a longer and more comprehensive research project, draws primarily on the Ludwig Museum's collection, in addition to a few invited artists, and through this, it maps the dystopian artistic assumptions and thought experiments of the Hungarian creative milieu over the past decades.
Schedule
List of planned exhibitors:
BLUE NOSES; BORSOS LŐRINC; Luchezar BOYADJIEV; CSÁKÁNY István; ESTERHÁZY Marcell; Endri DANI; Andreas FOGARASI; DROZDIK Orshi; GELLÉR B. István; GERBER Pál; Oto HUDEC; KASZÁS Tamás; KERESZTES Zsófia; Krištof KINTERA; KISSPÁL Szabolcs; Eva KOŤÁTKOVÁ; LAKNER Antal; Ciprian MUREŞAN; Nam June PAIK; Jevhen NYIKIFOROV; PUKLUS Péter; Gentian SHKURTI; SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE; SZACSVA Y PÁL; Olekszij SZAJ; SZALAI Tibor; SZOMBATHY Bálint; VÁRNAI Gyula; WALICZKY Tamás; Peter WEIBEL
Curators: József Készman, Borbála Kálmán
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.