Events

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 the architecture, were transferred to the wall as colored surfaces. In the process, the individual ‘scraps of paper’ of the collages became abstract, sometimes multi-tiered […]

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. The 1970s are regarded as the pioneering phase of video art and saw […]

Unfolding across 100 days, the exhibition surveys the early acquisitions of contemporary art by the Aachen-based collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig.

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, to exhibit it publicly, to curate it?Should all art be exhibited? How is meaning created through the arrangement of artworks? Does art even need to […]

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. Across various series, the artist appropriates gendered projections onto women’s bodies, subverting and playing with them. Her themes include […]