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The Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum opened to the general public in St Petersburg's Marble Palace on 10 March 1995. The founders of the museum, Peter and Irene Ludwig, donated 118 works of international modern art to the Russian Museum. A unique collection, which represents all the main trends of contemporary art: pop art, hyperrealism, neo-expressionism, neoclassicism, conceptual art, modernism and postmodernism; has formed the main body of the second half of the XX century art collection of the Russian Museum.
The creation of the Ludwig Museum had the aim to present contemporary Russian art in the context of the achievements of western culture and to fix the realities of dynamically developing contemporary art process. Therefore the Ludwig collection and temporary exhibitions of modern Russian and western art function in the Marble Palace as part of an integral dynamic, constantly developing exposition system.
During its existence the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum project has presented three variants of an exposition of modern art on the basis of the Ludwig collection. Each variant represented the main tendencies and trends of the postwar art development. The present exposition is mainly focused on two stylistic directions: pop art and neo-expressionism. Thus the main emphasis is laid on the qualities of each work of art, connotations and confrontations (thematic, plastic, conceptual) between them regardless of their chronological or stylistic appropriation.
Alongside the Ludwig collection the current exhibition presents over 50 work of art from other museums and collections. It also comprises the works from exhibitions which took place within the framework of the Ludwig Museum: David Trampling the Red Square (1990) by Timur Novikov, Scene II (1975) by Judith Rothschild, Good Morning (1995-96) by Serge Essaian etc.
The curators of the exhibition: A. Borovsky, I. Karasik, M. Kostrits.
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