Together with their partners, the Ludwig Museum and the Foundation for Art and Culture (Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur) are organising the exhibition “À la Recherche de Vera Molnar”. The exhibition, hosted by the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, marks the first stage of an international tour dedicated to the most influential pioneer of computer art.

The exhibition pays tribute to the artistic legacy of Vera Molnar, who passed away shortly before her 100th birthday, on December 7, 2023. Born in Hungary and educated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Molnar lived and created in France from 1947 until her death. From 1968, she was among the first to create artworks using a real computer, and she is still widely regarded as one of the most significant pioneers of computer art.

The exhibition‘s title refers to Vera Molnar‘s series “À la recherche de Paul Klee”, recalling the artist‘s experiments in examining art historical influences through her own creative methods and tools. Similar to the narrator of Marcel Proust‘s novel sequence” À la recherche du temps perdu” (In Search of Lost Time), Molnar was interested not only in the mere recall of the past but also in its reinterpretation in the context of the present.