This exhibition examines for the first time, in terms of geographical and political aspects and in terms of the history of their collection, the routes and collection strategies followed by Irene und Peter Ludwig. Their activities as collectors led them on particular travel routes from Western Europe and the USA to Eastern Europe and finally to China and Cuba.
For the two collectors, art held a kind of world memory and understanding of the world that transcended time and space, something which is once more highly topical in these times of globalisation. The works shown here range from Western European art since the 1960s through Pop Art, Bad Painting, Appropriation Art, art from the former GDR and the former USSR to the emerging Chinese and Cuban art scenes of the 1980s and ’90s.
Curated by Dr. Brigitte Franzen and Holger Otten