What makes an object, especially a utility object, a statue?How will it come from a huge cardboard box, and what role does it play in the process of becoming a statue for the viewer himself?Erwin Wurm, the world-renowned Austrian artist, is seeking answers to such and similar questions, who will lapse the genre of sculpture for a quarter of a century. One Minute Sculptures are based on our most casual items: slightly transformed garments, furniture, home decor accessories, or just a means of transportation that are depicted with "user guides". As such, they act as a leader in the actor, who, with his participation act, becomes creative and actor at one and only one minute, but also a work of art. His works not only do not follow the traditional expectations of the genre, but his creator tries to fundamentally re-think the sculpture. With Erwin Wurm's works, he asks what is happening to everyday things when he is deprived of their function and somewhat transformed into the public to make the viewer a part of a true artistic performance, highlighting his passive "art consumer" position. The large-scale exhibition, besides the pieces of the series that has been continuously expanding for almost ten years, will also feature objects and clothes that, after the smaller but more distinctive artistic interventions, sometimes give the consumer's society an absurd, sometimes ironic, critique. Erwin Wurm is a real star who conquers the audience with his works. His works were recently published in the 57th Venice Biennial's Austrian pavilion. The exhibition fits in with the Ludwig Museum's ambition to make the works of artists at the Venice Biennale regularly appear among the walls of the museum. Curator : Julia Fabényi, József Készman Curator Assistant: Zsuzsanna Petró When? 6 July 2018 - 23 September, admission 1600 HUF Knight moves - Sam Havadtoy in New York The exhibition presents Sam Havadtoy's (Sámuel Havadtõy) New York years, when his art was largely impacted by his working relationships with the outstanding artists of the city in the 1970's and 1980's. Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Yoko Ono, and many others often involved Havadtoy, an interior designer arriving in New York at a young age, in their art projects. In these collaborations, his creative vision, which became the basis of his later independent art career, increasingly gained significance. The exhibition draws a parallel between his artistic cooperation in New York and his later artistic goals: as a successful interior designer he turned to spacial elements that create complex messages and tools that organically-shape spaces. The objects, furniture, and interior design elements of his world homogenized with lace and paint make part of reality like a comic strip. A door of a fireplace, or a door is a world with a clear message, or password: it is through these elements that we get involved in Havadtoy's humorous, ironic world. The exhibition will showcase a number of works made in New York and works made in collaboration with other artists: the door installation presented in Milan in 2016 and the carpet displayed in Monza in 2017. At the entrance of the museum, the audience will see the Fiat500 made for his 2016 exhibition in Milan. These pieces are complemented by the American artworks of the period from the collection of the Ludwig Museum. Curator: Attila Nemes When? 13 July 2018 - 2 September, admission 1600 HUF Photo: Ludwig Museum 1/3 ×