The murals Paper Body (ghost), and Paper Body (pointer) by artist Ulrike Müller (both 2023) are temporary monumentalizations of two small-scale collages, which, enlarged in keeping with the scale of the architecture, were transferred to the wall as colored surfaces. In the process, the individual ‘scraps of paper’ of the collages became abstract, sometimes multi-tiered […]
Oh, Clock, the first major exhibition in Germany by the New York-based painter Amy Sillman (born 1955, Detroit), was composed of two parts: the first part was on view at Ludwig Forum Aachen through August 31, 2025, and featured a focused selection of Sillman’s work from the past decade, including twenty-four paintings, more than three hundred […]
Opening: Thursday, July 10, 2025, 6pm The hundredth anniversary of the birth of the entrepreneur, art collector, and art patron Peter Ludwig falls on July 9, 2025. It was from their base in Aachen that he and his wife, Irene Ludwig (née Monheim, 1927–2010), built one of the world’s most significant art collections. Peter Ludwig […]
By the late 1960s, video and film had become paradigmatic forms in contemporary art. The Ludwig Forum’s video archive holds some 200 works from the 1960s and 70s, many of them seminal moments from the history of the moving image in art. The 1970s are regarded as the pioneering phase of video art and saw […]
What does it mean to be "struck" by an image? A physical encounter, an emotional connection? Perhaps even a profound realisation or intrusion, usually sudden and unexpected. And do photographs affect us differently than other works of art?
The three-part multi-monitor installation Earth, Moon, Sun (1990) by the video artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006) is one of the key works in the Aachen collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig.
On the occasion of this year’s World Equestrian Games, two short films will be presented on a projection screen in the Ludwig Forum’s central exhibition hall.
Coinciding with this summer’s World Equestrian Games in Aachen, the Ludwig Forum presents two short films, projected at scale in the museum’s central hall: Centaur (2020), a film by German-Iranian artist and filmmaker Yalda Afsah (b. 1983), and Pferde über Wiese (2014) by Swiss artist duo Marianne Halter (b. 1970) & Mario Marchisella (b. 1972). […]
Opening: Saturday, 23 May 2026 With The Emergence of Sound, Ludwig Forum Aachen presents a wide-ranging survey of the sound artist and composer Christina Kubisch (b. 1948 in Bremen, lives and works in Berlin). For more than five decades, Kubisch has been traversing the boundaries of composition, installation, performance and even intermedia video environments. In […]
