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As My Hands Became the Leaves. Landschaft und Umwelt in der Sammlung Ludwig
With works by Christo und Jeanne-Claude, Danielle Dean, Richard Downes, Anton Egloff, Nancy Graves, Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson und Alan Sonfist.
Margit Palme. New Arrivals
Confident, expressive female figures are the protagonists in Margit Palme’s (1939–2025) graphic works. Her aquatints on paper were created over a period of six decades and are characterised by precise linework and a limited color palette.
Nam June Paik. Earth, Moon, Sun
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.
Body Matters. Physicality in the Video Art of the 1970s
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.
Double Wall Project: Ulrike Müller
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 […]
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Iván Argote. Hier Zusammen
What does it mean to engage in dialogue, to express ourselves and open up to others? How do communities take shape, whether large or small? With playfulness and humour, Colombian artist Iván Argote explores the frictions and tensions inherent to human interaction.
public/public. Zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Öffentlichkeit
The exhibition public/public draws on the museum’s own history and on Aachen collectors Irene and Peter Ludwig’s commitment to collecting for the public.
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Beginners – as if we still had everything to learn
This room is the answer to a question posed by the new director to all staff at the Ludwig Forum during her own first encounter with the collection: ‘Which works from our
collection particularly speak to you, and which do not speak to you at all?’
30 Werke für 100 Tage – Die Sammlung Ludwig und die Gegenwartskunst
Unfolding across 100 days, the exhibition surveys the early acquisitions of contemporary art by the Aachen-based collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig.
Social Mapping 2026
From 23 to 28 June 2026, Colombian artist Oscar Murillo invites people of all ages to take part in a multi-day collective drawing session in the courtyard of the Ludwig […]
Christina Kubisch. Electrical Walks Aachen
Christina Kubisch has been researching and mapping the electromagnetic fields of cities since 2003; in Electrical Walks, the results are made audible through induction headphones specially designed by the artist. […]
Christina Kubisch. The Emergence of Sound
For more than five decades, sound artist and composer Christina Kubisch (born in 1948 in Bremen) has been making artworks at the intersection of visual art and music, combining composition, […]
Centaur – Human and Horse
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.