Opening: Thursday, July 10, 2025, 6pm
For over four decades, New York based artist Rochelle Feinstein (b. 1947, Bronx, New York) has explored the conventions of abstraction by incorporating diverse media—including printmaking, photography, sculpture, collage, digital techniques, and language—as well as everyday materials such as cardboard, tape, and shopping bags. These elements come together in complexly layered groups of paintings that condense both subjective and collective experiences of our current societal conditions.
With the exhibition The Today Show, Ludwig Forum Aachen—in cooperation with Secession Vienna and Kunsthaus Glarus—presents Feinstein’s first institutional solo exhibition in the Rhineland. Featuring around 30 works, mostly created between 2021 and 2025, the show offers profound insights into the artist’s rigorous engagement with today’s cultural, political, and societal realities through an exceptional, complex, and ever-expanding approach to abstract painting.
The exhibition at Ludwig Forum Aachen includes the production of the site-specific work, Curtains (2025), created especially for the third iteration of this collaboration. It closes a cycle of exhibitions dedicated to abstract painting that began with Ulrike Müller’s Monument to My Paper Body (of which the wall paintings are still on view) and continued with Amy Sillman’s show, Oh, Clock! (through August 31st, 2025).
Curated by Eva Birkenstock
Curatorial Assistant: Miriam Schmidt
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Secession, Vienna and Kunsthaus Glarus.
Credits: Rochelle Feinstein, ROYGBIV (Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain), 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
