Múzeumok Éjszakája a Ludwig Múzeumban
Joint plush totem building, subjective guided tours and conversations with your pets and a midnight museum walk with a flashlight await you on the longest night of the year at the Ludwig Museum.
Buy your ticket and start the long night with us!
Schedule
Open exhibitions:
★ THE CUTENESS FACTOR| First floor
Thanks to the large number of visual, mainly digital contents in continuous circulation, the aesthetics of cuteness also affects contemporary visual artists. The purpose of the exhibition is to present and contextualize this new and current trend in contemporary art, especially painting, which is spreading worldwide.
★ BORIS LURIE & WOLF VOSTELL. ART AFTER SOA | 2nd Floor
The most important theme of Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell was the unfathomable horror of the Holocaust. By dramatically depicting war, cruelty, violence and crimes against humanity, they tried to draw attention to the need for joint responsibility. The works of the two artists affect the emotions, confronting the deceptive "reality" drawn by the mass media.
★ TIME MACHINE | 3 floors
The exhibition presents works from the museum's collection of around 1,000 pieces that reveal different aspects of individual, artistic and historical time to the viewer, from the curator's personal point of view.
★ PROGRAMS ★
★ 17.00–18.00 | Adrienn Csepelyi's exclusive tour of the exhibition The Cuteness Factor
Writer, journalist, publicist Adrienn Csepelyi is a recurring guest at the Ludwig Museum, both as a visitor and as an invited guest. His guided tours can include anything from listening to music to poems, from personal stories to recalling a wide variety of cultural references. One thing is for sure: boredom is excluded.
Location: 1st floor exhibition space
★ 17.00–22.00 | Stick it down - tear it up!
Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell. Art after the Shoah c. In connection with the exhibition, visitors to the Ludwig Museum can be part of the liberating power of joint creation. Those interested can take part in the creation of a constantly building and developing community collage in the space of the exhibition on the theme of individual and social traumas and memory. You can get involved in making the collage individually or with family and friends.
Location: 2nd floor exhibition space
★ 17.00–20.00 | Game Night - In the Time Machine
During the program, visitors can once again try the special games inspired by the artefacts of the museum's Time Machine exhibition, designed by METU graphic design students. Visitors can play with the unique games, which have only been completed as prototypes so far, and get closer to the works and contemporary art.
One piece of each game is available, so you can try them on a first-come, first-served basis.
Location: 3rd floor exhibition space
★ from 18.00 | Plasticine workshop - In connection with the exhibition The Cuteness Factor
In connection with the exhibition "The cuteness factor", we reimagine the works of the Gelitin artist group in our own composition. The collective often uses plasticine in its work. You can also try different materials, colors, shapes and the possibilities inherent in them on a plasticine painting.
The plasticine pictures can be made individually or in groups at any time during the specified time frame.
Location: 2nd floor, employer
★ 18.00–23.00 | Cuteness? – Screening of early Walt Disney cartoons
In the exhibition "The Cuteness Factor", the concept of cuteness and the creepy go hand in hand - the same phenomenon can be seen in the cartoon episodes from Disney's heroic era: (self)irony, social criticism, examination of global problems.
Location: 2nd floor, library
★ 19.00–01.00 | Responsible for the atmosphere: röböter collective - Kemuri, Simoniac, Enrico Palazzo Jr.
An essential element of a good evening is good music! Have you walked a lot and the (longest) night is still long? Relax on the museum's impressive panoramic terrace, relax a little and pick up the rhythm again!
Location: P'Art cafe terrace
★ 19.30–20.30 | Conversation at the Time Machine exhibition. Our guests: Krisztián Grecsó and Anna Ott
In connection with the Időgép exhibition, Anna Ott talks with Krisztián Grecsó about family history, personal life stories, diaries and family photo albums, with the participation of Krisztina Szipőcs.
Krisztián Grecsó is a writer, poet, songwriter, editor of Élét és Irodalom. Anna Ott is the artistic director of Hadik Kávéház. Art historian Krisztina Szipőcs is the professional deputy director of the Ludwig Museum and the curator of the Time Machine exhibition.
Location: 3rd floor exhibition space
★ 21.00–22.00 | Curated by Noémi Orvos-Tóth in the exhibition Art after the Shoah
Clinical psychologist and writer Noémi Orvos-Tóth is the exclusive curator of Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell. Art after the Shoah in the exhibition. In connection with the exhibition, we are thinking about the dark impulses inherent in man, the nature of evil, what it leaves behind, and how to remember it in such a way that remembering is also an obstacle to evil coming to life again.
Location: 2nd floor exhibition space
★ 22.00–23.00 | Márk Szapora, an esthete, guided the exhibition in the exhibition The Cuteness Factor
The esthete Márk Aurél Szapora, the editor-in-chief of the Laokoón online magazine, will give a subjective tour of our new exhibition entitled The cuteness factor. If something is "cute", then you have to pay attention to it, you have to take care of it. However, this quality of his sometimes just hides his true face...
Location: 1st floor exhibition space
★ 18.00–23.30 | Mini guided tours
At the program, those interested can meet the museum's new curators, who will also present their favorite works of art, the Time Machine and Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell. Art after the Shoah exhibitions. Tours are 30 minutes long.
Time machine:
18.00–18.30 | Anna Kasztovszky
22.00–22.30 | Anna Kasztovszky
Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell. Art after the Shoah:
20.00–20.30 | Nora Hádinger
23.00–23.30 | Nora Hádinger
★ 22.00–23.50 | Film screening: 1984
The film is an adaptation of George Orwell's novel of the same name, which tells the story of Winston Smith and his hopeless rebellion against the totalitarian state power that controls everything.
English film drama, 106 minutes, 1984
Director: Michael Radford
Written by George Orwell
Location: 3rd floor exhibition space (rear screening room)
★ 0.00-0.50 | Little night lights - a museum walk with a flashlight in the Time Machine
It is an exceptional opportunity to take a walk in the dark in an exhibition. The lights of flashlights or mobile phones help us to find the way and, of course, to "illuminate" the exciting details of the exhibited works.
The number of participants is limited: 20–25 people. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Location: 3rd floor exhibition space
★ Constantly | Increase the cuteness factor by expanding the plush totem
As part of the exhibition entitled The Cuteness Factor, artist Máté Balázs Tóth created a large-scale installation of stuffed animals in the museum's ground-floor foyer. Visitors to the museum can also contribute to the expansion of the plush totem with a stuffed animal. After the exhibition closes, the collected figurines will be offered to organizations supporting children.
Sponsors: REGIO JÁTÉK, Ty
Location: ground floor, staircase
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.
