What is Lóránd Hegyi?
[[File:14 Scully Hegyi 1.JPG|thumb|Lóránd Hegyi, 2014]] '''Lóránd Hegyi''', was born on April 19, 1954 in [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]] is an art historian, curator and writer. == Education == Lorand Hegyi studied History, [[Art history|Art History]] and [[Aesthetics]] and received his PhD from [[Eötvös Loránd University]] (ELTE) in [[Budapest]]. He worked as researcher at the Institute of Art History in the 1980s and taught at ELTE University in Budapest as well as at [[Karl-Franzens-Universität]] in Graz. He dedicated himself to curating contemporary art exhibitions in [[Hungary]], [[Austria]] and [[Germany]] while writing art historical and theoretical texts about [[Modernism]] and [[Postmodernism|Post-Modernism]]. == Career in the Public Institutions == 1977-1999 Researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, [[Budapest]] 1990-2001 Director of the [https://www.mumok.at/en Ludwig Museum] (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig) in Vienna, [[Austria]] 2002-2006 Art Director of the [http://www.madrenapoli.it/en/about-us/the-museum/ PAN], (Palazzo Arte Napoli - Centre Of Contemporary Art Naples), [[Italy]] 2003-2016 Director of the [https://mamc.saint-etienne.fr/fr Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Etienne] (Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne), [[France]] From 2017 Art Director of the [https://www.parkviewmuseum.com/about Parkview Museum] [[Beijing]]/[[Singapore]], [[China]]/[[Singapore]] == Life and Work == Shortly after the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]], he was invited to [[Austria]], where from 1990 to 2001 he was director of the Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna, where he developed one of the largest and most complex collections of [[Contemporary art]] of the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Europe, to which he dedicates two great exhibitions: ''Reduktivismus - Abstraktion in Polen, Tschechoslowakei, Ungarn (Vienna, 1992), Aspects, positions: Fifty years of art in Central Europe'' (Vienna, [[Barcelona]], [[Southampton]] 1