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Beginners – as if we still had everything to learn
Does art do something, or does art say something? Can there be art without context? How can art be judged: objectively or subjectively? What does it mean to collect art, […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Upcoming
Hamid Zénati. Cut Out
Opening: Friday, 16.10.2026, 7pm
Further information will follow shortly.
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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. […]
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.
Struck by an Image
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?
Shu Lea Cheang. KI$$ KI$$
Opening: Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 7pm KI$$ KI$$ is the first institutional survey exhibition of artist Shu Lea Cheang (b. 1954). Since the 1990s, the Taiwanese American artist’s films, installations […]
Zeitbild, Provokation, Kunst [Image of Time, Provocation, Art]: Peter Ludwig on his 100th Birthday
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 […]