The Ludwig Forum is based on the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig. This comprises major works of Pop Art, Photorealism and international art movements from the beginning of the 1960s until today.
In the exhibition series Fokus different themes of the collection take the spotlight, illustrating its remarkable quality and scope.
The exhibition Becoming Visible primarily showcases unfamiliar facets of the collection. Visitors can view a diversity of styles and genres, including graphics, paintings, photographs, installations, objects and videos from the years 1966 to 2001. The individual works in the exhibition rooms have been put together with much thought regarding the way they relate to each other, sometimes in terms of content, sometimes in terms of formal criteria, but always with an eye to richness of contrast.
The first things visitors encounter are Mónica Girón’s knitted apparel for birds and two feature films by Rebecca Horn, whose work plays delicately with the boundaries between the playfully absurd and the abysmal. Then, overdimensional pictures by Valerie Jaudon, Jo Baer and Rune Mields are contrasted with architectural photography by Matthias Hoch. The preoccupation they share with space and depth is pursued further in a sculpture by Annette Sauermann. The spatial installation Short Space II by Mona Hatoum was reinstalled in a side room especially for this exhibition. Next, the work Drei Typologien von Fördertürmen (Three typologies of pit head towers) by the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher is contrasted with the video works Hell/Dunkel (Light/Dark) and Ausatmen/Einatmen (Breathe out/Breathe in) by Marina Abramovic and Ulay. The exhibition is rounded off by Hanne Darboven’s room-filling work Four Seasons, presented in dialogue with the piece Stabile Entwicklung (Stable Development) by Karla Sachse.
Curated by: Anna-Sophia Schultz
Becoming Visible, Installation Views
Photos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen
