BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ludwig Forum - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Ludwig Forum X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/ X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ludwig Forum REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230126T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230126T200000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20230120T105754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T144231Z UID:34421-1674756000-1674763200@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Welcome by Eva Birkenstock and Nikola Dietrich \nBook presentation and reading with Ewa Majewska and the performance artist Wojciech Kosma \n  \nThe event will be held in English. \n  \nThe Ludwig Forum Aachen is pleased to invite you to a presentation and reading of the latest publication by Polish cultural theorist and activist Ewa Majewska in the presence of the author and performance artist Wojciech Kosma as part of reboot: responsiveness. \n  \nCoronafuga. Fragments of online dating discourse from pandemic times is an auto-theoretical negotiation of online dating discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book combines theory and digital dating conversations into a literary account of discourses of intimacy during pandemic times. Media and other tools like dating sites\, conversations in\, around\, and about digital flirting\, and immediate entertainment are key elements of this book. \n  \nEwa Majewska (lives in Warsaw) is a feminist cultural theorist\, activist\, and author. She has taught at the University of the Arts in Berlin\, the University of Warsaw\, and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California\, Berkeley\, the ICI Berlin\, and the IWM in Vienna. She currently works at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. She has released six books\, most recently Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common (2021)\, and publishes in journals and platforms such as e-flux\, Signs\, Third Text\, Journal of Utopian Studies\, and Jacobin\, among others. Her current research focuses on archival studies\, dialectics of the weak\, feminist critical theory\, and antifascism. \n  \nThe publication is part of reboot:—a collaborative\, cyclical\, anti-racist\, and queer-feminist dialogue between performative and research-based practices\, co-hosted by the Kölnischer Kunstverein and Ludwig Forum Aachen. The first cycle reboot: responsiveness provided infrastructures for provisional stagings\, rehearsals\, processual choreographies\, and encounters around themes of presence\, intimacy\, care\, and responsibility. Conceived by Eva Birkenstock\, Nikola Dietrich\, and Viktor Neumann. \n  \n  \nEwa Majewska Coronafuga. Fragments of online dating discourse from pandemic times\nEdited by Eva Birkenstock\, Nikola Dietrich\, Viktor Neumann \nDesign: Sean Yendrys \nEnglish \nCo-published by Ludwig Forum Aachen and Kölnischer Kunstverein with DISTANZ Verlag \nISBN 978-3-95476-523-2 \n  \nThe book can be purchased at the Ludwig Forum Aachen as well as online at DISTANZ Verlag. \n  \n€ 16\,- URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/book-launch/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Coronafuga_Website-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221230T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221230T200000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221128T151454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T125624Z UID:33592-1672430400-1672430400@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Beat the System! Festival - Pussy Riot DESCRIPTION:30.12.2022\ndoors open 7 pm / start 8 pm \nVenue: Musikbunker Aachen\, Goffartstraße 26\, 52066 Aachen\, Germany \nTickets at: musikbunkeraachen.bigcartel.com \nSoli tickets to the events:\nThe Musikbunker provides a contingent of soli-tickets to all events: those who do not have enough money to afford a ticket can register for a concert by e-mail and get free access. The promotion is valid for all concerts at the Musikbunker Aachen and will continue in 2023. Proof that one cannot afford the entrance fee is not required. Early registration is requested at: booking@musikbunker-aachen.de \nAn event takes place on the occasion of\nBeat the System! Festival im Musikbunker Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/beat-the-system-festival-pussy-riot/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/bts_typo-by-ddt2w.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221201T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221201T180000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221025T153039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230111T081453Z UID:33169-1669917600-1669917600@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Psychic Universe. Lecture by Patrizia Dander DESCRIPTION:During her studies\, Kerstin Brätsch started working on her series of “Psychic” paintings\, which she created after visits to fortune tellers. Some show non-representational forms\, while others are reminiscent of abstracted heads or even portraits. In this series of works\, the artist examines the relationship between subjectivity and expression\, between interiority and surface\, which is so essential to painting. Along her subsequent series of works\, which fan out these questions as if through a prism\, Patrizia Dander’s lecture traces Kerstin Brätsch’s working method\, which is as clever and serious as it is intuitive and humorous. \n\n Foto: Manuel Nieberle\n Patrizia Dander was most recently senior curator at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich\, where in 2017 she curated the solo exhibition Kerstin Brätsch. Innovation. At the beginning of November\, she took over as Deputy Artistic Director / Head of Curatorial Department at the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03tAmdWodh4 URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/psychic-universe-lecture-by-patrizia-dander/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022.09.20_Ludwigforum-71.web_-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221231 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221128T140249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221207T145121Z UID:33598-1669852800-1672444799@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Beat the System! Festival at Musikbunker Aachen DESCRIPTION:The concert series “Beat the System! Festival” is part of the exhibition of the same name curated by Myriam Kroll\, which was on view at the Ludwig Forum Aachen from 9 October 2021 to 30 January 2022. The artists\, musicians\, and collectives presented in the exhibition—such as Die Tödliche Doris\, Schwabinggrad Ballett\, Goldene Zitronen\, Pussy Riot\, Christoph Schlingensief or Chicks on Speed—share an interest in questioning prevailing social values and norms. In the foreground of their works and performative actions are transgressions and provocations\, while working at the intersection of performance\, visual art\, activism\, and music. The concert series that was originally planned to accompany the exhibition had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We are very happy that the events can now take place throughout the month of December 2022 as a collaboration between Musikbunker Aachen and Ludwig Forum Aachen. \nProgramme \n01.12. Festival Opening: 180-Minutes-Party\, Live: MC Yallah & Debmaster / Catu Diosis\ndoors open 6.30 pm / starts 7 pm – ends 10 pm \n03.12. Klitclique / Der Täubling\ndoors open 7 pm / starts 8 pm \n09.12. Mykki Blanco + Support\ndoors open 7 pm / starts 8 pm \n10.12. Finna / Support: Carlashnikova\ndoors open 7 pm / starts 8 pm \n15.12. Drillminister / Lowkey\ndoors open 7 pm / starts 8 pm \n16.12.\n9 pm Film screening Raving Iran (CH 2016)\n11 pm Clubnight and Party with Arash Shadram\, Kertsman\, and more \n17.12. Bärchen und die Milchbubis + Support\ndoors open 7 pm / starts 8 pm \n19.12. Dota (Duo)\ndoors open 7 pm / starts 8 pm \n30.12. Pussy Riot\ndoors open 7 pm / starts 8 pm \nConcept by Myriam Kroll\, Rainer Beck\, Eric Gluth\, and Musikbunker Aachen e.V.\nFunded by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW \nTickets at: musikbunkeraachen.bigcartel.com \nSoli tickets to the events:\nThe Musikbunker provides a contingent of soli-tickets to all events: those who do not have enough money to afford a ticket can register for a concert by e-mail and get free access. The promotion is valid for all concerts at the Musikbunker Aachen and will continue in 2023. Proof that one cannot afford the entrance fee is not required. Early registration is requested at: booking@musikbunker-aachen.de URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/beat-the-system-festival-at-musikbunker-aachen/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/bts_typo-by-ddt2w.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260101 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221207T133829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T093834Z UID:33578-1668643200-1767225599@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Training the Archive - Lab DESCRIPTION:Training the Archive aims to accompany the developments of artificial intelligence (AI)\, critically question them and examine the technology with regard to applying it in museum work. The central question is whether AI harbours potential and poses risks in relation to the automated structuring of collection data in curatorial practice. Which types of collaboration between AI systems and experts are possible and can contribute to more explorative research? Do patterns\, connections and associations in museum collection data that are not apparent to humans in this form become recognisable? \nIn the laboratory-like exhibition\, the research project presents its results and provides insight into the subject matter. In addition to a selection of specialist literature for self-study\, all published texts\, so-called working papers\, from the project are available. Interviews with international artists\, curators and theorists who have made significant contributions to the research field of image production and AI in recent years will also be shown. The presentation sees itself as a “work in progress” and will continue to develop\, exhibit new results and connect relevant artistic positions. \ntrainingthearchive.ludwigforum.de \nResearch Project Manager:\nDominik Bönisch \nCollaborative Partner HMKV Hartware MedienkunstVerein\, Dortmund:\nDr. Inke Arns & Francis Hunger \nDigital Partner Visual Computing Institute\, RWTH Aachen University:\nProf. Dr. Leif Kobbelt\, Dr. Isaak Lim\, Moritz Ibing & Marian Schneider URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/training-the-archive-lab/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TTA_Lab-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221119 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221010T073903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T074209Z UID:32307-1668643200-1668815999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Training the Archive – Conference on Art & Algorithms DESCRIPTION:On November 17 and 18\, 2022\, a conference will be held on the topic of Art & Algorithms as part of the research project »Training the Archive.« On this occasion\, renowned scholars will provide an overview of the current state of research in the application of algorithms in the context of art and museums. \nProfessor Sybille Krämer will introduce the topic in her keynote. This will be followed by a panel discussion with Inke Arns (director of HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein)\, Yvonne Zindel (author & curator) and Sybille Krämer on the social impact of algorithmic technology in our everyday lives. Hannes Bajohr (author of Blanks. Word Processing) will conclude the program with a literary reading before a get-together. \nBased on the question of how artificial intelligence and machine learning models can change access to museum collections\, the second day of the conference will address the big questions regarding the keywords: Select\, Retrieve\, and Combine. Speakers: Fabian Offert\, Roland Meyer\, Tillmann Ohm\, Eva Cetinić\, Dominik Bönisch\, Vincent Christlein\, Katrin Glinka\, Gaia Tedone\, and Geoff Cox. \nWhatTraining the Archive – Conference on Art & AlgorithmsModeration: Mads Pankow \nWhenThursday\, 11/17/2022| 6:00 pm–8:15 pmReception: Eva Birkenstock (Ludwig Forum)\, Julia Mai (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) a. o.Program with Sybille Krämer (keynote\, panel discussion)\, Inke Arns & Yvonne Zindel (panel discussion)\, Hannes Bajohr (reading)\, and a get-together afterwards. \nFriday\, 11/18/2022 | 9:00 am–4:15 pm1 Select: Analyzing the space of possibilities in state of the art AI models | with Fabian Offert\, Roland Meyer\, and Tillmann Ohm2 Retrieve: Multimodal exploration of museum collections and iconography | with Eva Cetinić\, Dominik Bönisch\, and Vincent Christlein3 Combine: Curating as an interaction between humans and the machine | with Katrin Glinka\, Gaia Tedone\, and Geoff CoxSimultaneous translation English ⇔ German will be offered on Friday. \nWhereLudwig Forum for International Art | Jülicher Str. 97-109 | 52070 Aachen\, Germany \nRegistrationFree admission | No registration required. \nTraining the ArchiveIs a joint project of the Ludwig Forum Aachen with the HMKV Hartware Medien KunstVerein\, Dortmund. In collaboration with the Visual Computing Institute of RWTH Aachen University. \nFundingFunded by the »Digital Culture Programme« of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media). \nFeel free to share and spread the word!Blog link URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/training-the-archive-conference-on-art-algorithms/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Lufo_TTA_Websitescreen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221115T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221021T152745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230113T120848Z UID:32619-1668470400-1682208000@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Palmípeda DESCRIPTION:The collection presentation Palmípeda\, conceived on the occasion of the exhibition Belkis Ayón. Ya Estamos Aquí\, spans the newly reopened graphic art cabinets in the basement of the Ludwig Forum Aachen\, the entire 2nd floor\, as well as parts of the entrance hall of the museum. Works by influential Cuban artists already active during Ayón’s lifetime provide insights into the context of the Havana art scene of the 80s and 90s\, entering occasionally into dialogue with works by contemporary artists from other parts of Latin America\, which are also part of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Collection in Aachen. These decades—a particularly prolific period for the arts in Cuba—coincide with the founding of the Havana Biennale in 1984\, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 as well as the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union\, and two mass emigration waves of Cubans in 1980 and in 1994\, due to dire economic situations. The graphic art cabinets are entirely dedicated to works by Cuban artists. As a conceptual frame\, photographs from the series Living Together\, initiated in 1991 by photojournalist Ramón Pacheco Salazar (b. 1954)\, hang along the outside walls\, bearing witness to the impoverished way of life of Cuban families in the province of Matanzas and everyday yet often marginalised aspects of Afro-Cuban culture. In contrast\, the theatrical portraits of René Peña (b. 1957)\, are staged performances\, with which Peña questions concepts of self-image and masculinity\, and points at the universal need for disguise. Artist\, critic\, and curator Tonel deploys humour and word play in his drawings from 1989–90 to highlight the absurdity and contradictions of the official national narratives. The theme of Afro-Cuban religions\, already important for many artists at the time\, is referenced in the works by artists José Bedia (b. 1959) and Carlos \nEstévez (b. 1969). Lastly\, the coloured chalkographs (copperplate engravings) by artist\, curator\, and lecturer Sandra Ramos (b.1969)\, a close friend of Belkis Ayón\, address forced migration and the traumas associated with it in works with titles such as The Boat\, The Deep Sea Diver\, or The Raft (all from 1994). On the 2nd floor\, María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959) affirms a feminist position with her sculptural piece Alternatives for the Myth: Leda Thinking (1989)\, where she transgresses moral and political restrictions in the field of female sexuality. In this work she empowers the figure of Leda\, who in Greek mythology was impregnated by \nZeus in the form of a swan. Ricardo Rodríguez Brey (b. 1955) not only references but also actively thematises syncretism by using household materials and objects that play a role in Santería rituals in his installation An Innocent Object (1988). Noticeable parallels emerge between the paintings of René Francisco Rodríguez (b. 1960) and Eduardo Ponjuán (b. 1956)\, who analyse and connect ideological influences in Cuba from the East and the West; the black-and-white portraits by José Toirac (b. 1966) that show Che Guevara and Fidel Castro; and the humourous works by Tonel\, commenting not only on Cuban politics and economy\, but also on the consequences of the exodus and the exoticising touristification of the island state. In their works\, the untouchable heroes of the Revolution are portrayed as ordinary mortals\, giving rise to questions of why and when they became sacred. \nThe exhibition title Palmípeda is the name of one of Tonel’s drawings that play with language\, fusing two words together. In this case\, he merged “palmera\,” which means palm tree\, with “palmípedo\,” the name given to web-footed animals. This idea of hybridity is present throughout the exhibition\, as is the conscious effort by the artists selected of making sense of a puzzling present by understanding\, analysing\, questioning\, and at the same time honouring a complex history. \nCurated by Ana Sophie Salazar \nCredit (above): René Peña\, Solitario\, 1994\, b/w-photograph (partially coloured)\, 39\,9 x 49\,5 cm. Photo: Carl Brunn. \nDownload exhibition booklet \nInstallation views: URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/palmipeda-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4147_MuseumPlus-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221023T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240205T160000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221019T100153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230102T121633Z UID:32486-1666537200-1707148800@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Öffentliche Führung DESCRIPTION:Öffentliche Führungen finden immer donnerstags um 17 Uhr und sonntags um 15 Uhr statt. \n  \nKosten: 2\,00 €\, zzgl. Museumseintritt \nTreffpunkt: Museumskasse \nInformationen und Anmeldung\nMuseumsdienst Aachen\nTel. +49 241 432 – 4998 oder\nper Mail an museumsdienst@mail.aachen.de URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/oeffentliche-fuehrung-3/ CATEGORIES:Guided tour END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221022T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221022T153000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221019T142840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T125812Z UID:32534-1666440000-1666452600@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Belkis Ayón. Matinée with Lectures by Cristina Vives and Yolanda Wood DESCRIPTION:On the occasion of the exhibition we cordially invite you to a matinée with two lectures: Cristina Vives (art historian and curator\, Havana) will speak about important moments in the artist’s life\, and Yolanda Wood (Professor for Art History\, University of Havana) will explore the artist’s broader context of production just before the turn of the millennium. \nCristina Vives\nBelkis Ayón in 5 Moments\n12 – 1.30 pm \n \nThe lecture analyses five significant moments in the creative process of the Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón\, following a chronological order from 1988—the year of her first solo exhibition—to her death in 1999. These moments are used to trace the creative\, socio-cultural\, and ideological factors that led the artist to become intensively involved with the Abakuá Secret Society as both myth and fraternal community. Vives’ research on the work of Ayón began during her longtime friendship and collaboration with the artist and continued as part of the travelling exhibition Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón\, which was on view at seven museums in the United States between 2016 and 2021\, and most recently at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. \nCristina Vives is a curator and art critic based in Havana\, Cuba. She graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Art History. She is the founder of Estudio Figueroa-Vives (since 1994)\, a pioneering space in Cuba for independent contemporary art. In 1994 and 1995 she received a J. Paul Getty Center grant and won the Premio Nacional de Curaduría in 2007\, 2009 and 2010. She has curated exhibitions in Cuba\, the United States\, and Europe since 1986\, including the recently touring retrospective of Belkis Ayón. Recent publications include Cultura y contracultura en la fotografía de la revolución cubana (Fundación Mapfre\, Barcelona\, 2022); Belkis Ayón. Colografías(Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía\, 2021); Behind the Veil of a Myth. Belkis Ayón (Houston\, 2018); The Inevitable Space. Alexandre Arrechea(2014); Nkame. Belkis Ayón (2010); I Insulted Flavio Garciandía in Havana(2009); and José A. Figueroa. A Cuban Self-Portrait (2010). \nYolanda Wood\nBelkis Ayón on the threshold of this new millennium\n2-3.30 pm\n \n \nYolanda Wood will examine key aspects of the year 1999\, when Belkis Ayón decided to end her life at the age of 32\, on the threshold of this new century. She highlights the artist’s broader context of production during an intense creative process in the last months of her life\, encompassing multiple fields of her artistic practice: international commitments\, her curatorial work and general promotion of engraving\, her teaching work\, public and participatory projects\, as well as the establishing of relationships between her work and that of other female\, Cuban\, contemporary artists. Wood’s deep connection to the work of Ayón becomes evident\, as well as the ways in which Ayón’s life and work not only managed to transcend the threshold of the millennium\, but became unforgettable for the artist’s contemporaries and generations to follow. \nYolanda Wood Pujols (1950\, Cuba) is Professor of Art History\, University of Havana\, researcher\, art critic\, and Invited Professor at the Ibero-American University\, Mexico City. She holds a PhD in Art History (1993)\, and was Postdoc Fellow at UNAM (2017-18). She founded the Chair of Caribbean Art at the University of Havana in 1985. Wood has given lectures and courses of Cuban and Caribbean Art at the Institute of Aesthetic Investigations (Mexico)\, Polytechnic University (Valencia)\, and Quisqueya University (Haiti)\, among others. Wood is a member of the Visual Art Association (UNEAC) and the AICA International. She was Dean\, Faculty of Arts and Letters\, University of Havana (1994-2000); Vice-chancellor\, Instituto Superior de Arte\, Cuba (1985-91); Cuban Cultural Advisor in France (2000-05); Director\, Caribbean Studies Centre\, Casa de las Américas (La Habana) and Anales del Caribe (2006-16); and CSA President (2017-18). In 2918 she received the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres Medal of the French Republic. \nBoth lectures are in Spanish. Simultaneous translation into German is provided. URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/belkis-ayon-matinee-with-lectures-by-cristina-vives-and-yolanda-woo/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Martinica_-1994.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230313 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20220829T083034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230317T095149Z UID:31266-1666396800-1678665599@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Belkis Ayón. Ya Estamos Aquí DESCRIPTION:The Ludwig Forum Aachen is pleased to present Ya Estamos Aquí (Spanish for: We’re Here Already)\, the first survey exhibition of the Cuban artist Belkis Ayón (Havana\, 1967-1999) in the German-speaking world. Starting from a selection of around seventy works created in the period from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s\, the exhibition introduces key creative periods of the artist’s career. The figures\, symbols\, and rituals in her collages are borrowed from the Afro-Cuban secret society Abakuá\, reserved exclusively for men\, which Ayón studied intensively throughout her life. In her personal adaptations of Abakuá mythologies\, she brings together concepts of syncretism\, meaning the fusion of different belief systems\, and hierarchical power structures. For her updated depictions of this myth\, the artist used the process of collagraphy—a printing technique in which collaged and textured materials are painstakingly layered onto a cardboard matrix. \nStarting with nineteen prints and three matrices from the early 1990s that are part of the permanent loans from the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation to Ludwig Forum Aachen\, the exhibition is significantly extended and includes loans from the Belkis Ayón Estate and a selection of ephemera and archival materials. This comprehensive presentation of her practice highlights\, not least\, the links between the artist and Peter and Irene Ludwig’s collection as well as the broader Aachen region\, where she first exhibited in 1995. Now\, Ya Estamos Aquí opens up to a broad audience the themes that Belkis Ayón always sought to question: the human\, the fleeting feeling\, the spiritual. \nCurated by Eva Birkenstock and Annette Lagler\nAssistant Curator: Ana Sophie Salazar \nExhibition Design: Studio Manuel Raeder\, Berlin\nThe exhibition project was organized in collaboration with the Belkis Ayón Estate\, Havana\, with the generous support of the Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung\, STAWAG\, the Landschaftsverband Rheinland and the Friends of the Ludwig Forum. Download exhibition booklet \nA corresponding collection presentation was conceived on the occasion of the exhibition. Under the title Palmipeda\, a selection of Latin American graphic art\, installation and painting of the 80s and 90s from the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig will be presented. Curated by Ana Sophie Salazar. \nEvents: \nFr October 22\, 2022\, 8 pm\nOpening\nDuring the opening day the museum will be open from 10am to 10pm. \nSat October 22\, 2022\nMatinée with talks by Cristina Vives and Yolanda Wood\nIn Spanish\, simultaneous translation into German will be provided\n \n12 pm: Belkis Ayón in 5 Moments\, lecture by Cristina Vives (curator and art historian\, Havana). \n2 pm: Belkis Ayón at the Threshold of the New Millenium\, lecture by Yolanda Wood (Professor of Art History\, University of Havana). \nSun March 23\, 2023\, 3 pm\nItinerant Afro-Diasporic Spiritual Technologies\nLecture by Gabi Ngcobo URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/belkis-ayon-ya-estamos-aqui/ LOCATION:Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/09-Belkis-Ayon-Sin-titulo_klein.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221021T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221021T000000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221024T114651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221024T144638Z UID:32590-1666310400-1666310400@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Palmipeda DESCRIPTION:This collection presentation Palmipeda was conceived on the occasion of the exhibition by Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). Through works by two closer friends of Ayón\, artists Sandra Ramos (*1969) and Tonel (*1958)\, as well as that of other Cuban artists already active during Ayón’s lifetime\, the context of the Havana art scene of the 80s and 90s unfolds in the newly reopened graphic cabinets. With works by José Bedia\, Carlos Estévez Carasa\, Ramón Pacheco Salazar\, René Peña\, Sandra Ramos\, and Tonel. \nThe presentation expands into the entrance hall\, with works by Lygia Clark\, Siron Franco\, Lady Pink\, and Lee Quiñones. \nFurthermore\, the entire 2nd Floor will open in the beginning of November with works by Juan Pablo Ballester\, María Magdalena Campos-Pons\, Humberto Espíndola\, René Francisco Rodríguez\, Mónica Girón\, Eduardo Ponjuán González\, Ricardo Rodríguez\, José Angel Toirac\, Tonel\, Tunga\, Emmanuel Nassar\, Ileana Villazón\, and Adriana Varejão. \nCurated by Ana Sophie Salazar URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/palmipeda/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230227 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221007T092357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T083503Z UID:32240-1665792000-1677455999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Oil painting. Michel Majerus in dialogue with the Ludwig Collection DESCRIPTION:The Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst is presenting Michel Majerus’s large-format Ölbild (Oil Painting\, 1994) for the first time in dialogue with artistic positions from the Peter and Irene Ludwig Collection. Seeing it vis-à-vis selected works by Georg Baselitz\, Jean-Michel Basquiat\, Jasper Johns\, Martin Kippenberger\, Roy Lichtenstein\, Kenneth Noland\, James Rosenquist\, Andy Warhol and others\, provides deeper insight into the formal-aesthetic discourses that Majerus conducted in his artistic development. These echo in both his works and his notebooks\, which served as a basis to select the works. The list of artists shows the large range across what at first glance seem to be contradictory influences on Majerus. It also reflects\, however\, the sad truth that in the 1990s the art world was still absolutely male-dominated. \nMajerus’s skilful sampling of quotations from pop culture\, comics\, advertising and motifs of other artists and the new lightness in his painting in comparison with the 1980s made him internationally well-known. He treats the popular iconography of the 1990s just as freely as he does artistic stylistic devices\, whereby he trims his found objects in such a way that they undergo a change from an illustrative pictorial element to one that comes across as ornamental or abstract. Here\, stylistically confident composing with cut-outs is not his sole interest\, as the models used form a reference system of their own. For Ölbild\, one can name Jean-Michel Basquiat and Rolf Kauka\, illustrator of the Fix & Foxi comic books\, among others. The motifs here are – as always in Pop Art – sensations of the new\, and thus have short half-lives. As illustrated in the draft of Ölbild\, which is also in the Ludwig Collection\, the painterly gestures with which Majerus expressed himself are not a direct impulse\, but rather carefully thought out. They serve the compositional balance that determines the quality of his works. \n  \nMichel Majerus (1967–2002) studied painting from 1986 to 1992 at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart\, with\, among others\, K.R.H. Sonderborg and Joseph Kosuth. Even the choice of his professors – a painter who worked expressively and gesturally and an internationally renowned conceptual artist –shows the freedom in which Majerus developed his artistic way of working. After his studies he moved to Berlin\, where he then lived and worked\, apart from a one-year stay in Los Angeles in 2001. \nMajerus had his international breakthrough in 1998 with his contributions to Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg. In 1999\, Harald Szeemann invited him to design the external facade of the Italian pavilion for the Venice Biennale. He created a collage of text and images entitled Sun in 10 different directions. With his work if we are dead\, so it is\, a half pipe 455 qm in size\, painted in the year 2000 for an exhibition at Kölnischer Kunstverein\, Majerus succeeded in stepping into three-dimensionality. Michel Majerus died in a plane crash on November 6\, 2002\, aged 35. \n  \nTwenty years after his death\, numerous institutions\, including Kunstwerke (KW) Berlin\, Kunstverein in Hamburg\, Sprengel Museum Hannover\, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg\, Museum Folkwang Essen\, Museum Ludwig in Cologne\, Mudam Luxemburg\, Kunsthalle Mannheim\, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Lenbachhaus in Munich have dedicated the exhibition series Michel Majerus 2022 to the various phases and aspects of the artist’s extraordinary oeuvre (www.michelmajerus2022.com). \n  \nCurated by Holger Otten \n  \nAs part of: \n \nIn cooperation with: \nMichel Majerus Estate\, Berlin URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/oil-paintings-michel-majerus-in-dialogue-with-the-ludwig-collection/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4233_MuseumPlus-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221011T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221011T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20220902T074657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T110452Z UID:31596-1665482400-1665500400@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Places to Peace DESCRIPTION:Discover Aachen’s museums and their art workshops! \nAt the workshops\, Ukrainian children and young people meet with peers from different backgrounds to spend time together\, get to know each other\, look at works of art\, exchange ideas about them and work in an artistic-creative way. \nThe participants get to know each other through the variety of artistic possibilities. They can interact through paint\, brushes\, paper\, clay or photography\, among other things\, and discuss what they like\, what is important to whom\, and why. \nDuring the workshops we speak English\, German\, Russian and Ukrainian. \nInformation and registrationmuseumsdienst@mail.aachen.de+49 241 432-4998 \nPlease provide the following information:1. name of the workshop2. first name and last name of the child3. age of the child4. your e-mail address5. your address \n  \nA story without words!Tue 10/11/2022 / 10 am – 3 pmfrom 8 years of ageAt the workshop you can get to know stop-motion trick technique and video animation and create your own short films. \nWhere am I – Monument!Wed 10/12/2022 / 10 am – 3 pmfrom 6 years of ageAt the workshop you can dress up and turn into a sculpture. With the of your transformation photographs you can create a collage and design a place for the sculpture. \nPeace Demo!Thu 10/13/2022 / 10 am – 3 pmfrom 10 years of ageAt the workshop you will learn the technique of screen printing and how to design and produce your own poster for peace. \n\nОсередки миру\nПрограма на шкільні канікули для дітей та підлітків\nВідкрий для себе музеї Аахена та їхні художні майстер-класи! \nНа майстер-класах українські діти та молодь зустрічаються з однолітками з різних спільнот\, щоб разом проводити час\, ближче взнати один одного\, розглядати витвори мистецтва\, обмінюватися думками про них і працювати в мистецько-креативній формі. \nУчасники знайомляться один з одним через різноманіття мистецьких можливостей. Вони можуть взаємодіяти за допомогою фарб\, пензлів\, паперу\, глини чи фотографії\, серед інших засобів\, та обговорювати\, що їм подобається\, що для кого важливо та чому. \nПід час майстер-класів ми розмовляємо англійською\, німецькою\,  українською та російською мовами. \nІнформація та реєстрація на майстеркласиMuseumsdienst@mail.aachen.de+49 241 432-4998 \nНапишіть на цю поштову адресу англійською чи німецькою:1. Які воркшопи бажаєте відвідати2. Ім‘я та прізвище дитини3. Вік дитини4. Ваш email5. Ваша адреса \n  \nІсторія без слів!Вт 11/10/2022 / 10 – 15 годДля дітей від 8 роківНа воркшопі можна ознайомитись з технікою стоп-моушн трюків та відеоанімації та створити власні короткометражні фільми. \nЯ – Пам’ятник собі!СР 12.10.2022 / 10 – 15 годДля дітей від 6 роківНа майстер-класі можна одягнутися і перетворитися на скульптуру. З фотографій вашого перетворення можна створити колаж і оформити місце для скульптури. \nДемонстрація миру!Чт 13.10.2022 / 10-15 годДля дітей від 10 роківНа майстер-класі ви навчитеся техніці трафаретного друку та зможете розробити та виготовити власний плакат за мир. \n\n \nEine Initiative der Kulturstiftung der Länder\, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien\, der Kulturstiftung der Länder\, dem Ministerium für Wissenschaft\, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg\, der Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa\, dem Ministerium für Kunst und Wissenschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen\, der Staatskanzlei und Ministerium für Kultur in Sachsen-Anhalt und privaten Spendern. URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/places-to-peace/ CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Peace2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220925T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220925T170000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20220919T081249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T083239Z UID:31789-1664121600-1664125200@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Finissage with test-film screening DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to the last opportunity to visit the current exhibition Bad Words by Keren Cytter at the Ludwig Forum Aachen. Join us for a finissage with the artist\, and a test screening of the rough version of her upcoming feature film (to be released in 2023). URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/finissage-with-test-film-screening/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220924T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220924T110000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20220901T080116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T151515Z UID:31320-1664017200-1664017200@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Book launch with conversational tour with Kerstin Brätsch\, Kerstin Stakemeier and Eva Birkenstock DESCRIPTION: The exhibition Die Sein: Para Psychics will be accompanied by the artist’s book Para Psychics published by Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. On the occasion of its release\, we invite you to a guided tour with Kerstin Brätsch\, Kerstin Stakemeier (Professorfor Art Theory and Mediation\, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg) and Eva Birkenstock on Saturday\, September 24\, 2022 at 11 am.  Para PsychicsEdited by Bettina FunckeWith contributions by Báyò Akómoláfé\, Eva Birkenstock\, Kerstin Brätsch\, CAConrad\, Bettina Funcke\, Donna Haraway\, Inanna\, Lucretius\, Kerstin Stakemeier\, Zoe Stillpass\, Merlin Sheldrake\, and Michael Taussig Ludwig Forum Aachen and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König During the pandemic Kerstin Brätsch shifted into a slow and inward-looking mode and made one hundred dense 11×14-inch large color-pencil drawings over the course of the last two years. The Para Psychics are time-collectors\, each filled with an array of metaphysical traditions ranging from mythology\, Tarot\, symbolism\, mysticism\, astrology\, numerology\, spiritism to magic\, Herbalism\, and plant medicine. Organized in two parts\, the first beautifully reproduces each drawing on its own spread\, inviting the viewer into Brätsch’s fluidly interwoven cosmos. A second part puts the drawings into dialogue with newly commissioned texts and excerpted historical reprints\, a constellation of ideas that shaped the artist’s thought process. We witness how Brätsch activated especially the female aspects of the worlds of mythology\, art\, social history\, poetry\, and anthropology. Another contribution comprises images that inspired the artist accompanied by Brätsch’s and Funcke’s annotations on how they are connected to the drawings and reproduced texts\, pointing to the many interlinked and constantly transitioning worlds that make up the Para Psychics. URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/booklaunch-with-conversational-tour-with-kerstin-braetsch-kerstin-stakemeier-and-eva-birkenstock/ LOCATION:Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen CATEGORIES:Event,Guided tour ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/website-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220924 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230227 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20220722T122000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231123T115334Z UID:30935-1663977600-1677455999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Die Sein: Para Psychics DESCRIPTION:Opening: Fr September 23\, 2022\, 7 pmFree admission on the opening weekend! \nOver the past twenty years\, Berlin and New York based painter Kerstin Brätsch has developed a distinctive way of working with which she continually expands the medium of painting\, redefining and interpreting it time and again by including performances\, artistic interventions\, and installations. Besides her regular collaboration with other artists such as Adele Röder (DAS INSTITUT)\, Debo Eilers (KAYA) and Ei & Tomoo Arakawa (UNITED BROTHERS)\, she also draws on traditional artisanal techniques\, some of which have been forgotten\, in order to reveal painting’s metaphysical and animistic qualities in a humorous manner. \nPara Psychics\, her most recent series\, continues this exploration\, albeit in a modified form. During the first Corona lockdown in New York\, Brätsch transposed her largescale and collaborative practice into an inwardlooking process of drawing on a daily basis. In the period between January 2020 and March 2022\, she created one hundred Mandalalike drawings in a time in which she intensively pursued mysticism\, tarot\, plant medicine and deities like the Sumerian sky goddess Inanna. Die Sein: Para Psychics at the Ludwig Forum Aachen presents all one hundred drawings from this series for the first time in a sitespecific installation of transparent spatial structures juxtaposed against tinted window panes which manipulate the sunlight\, creating a unique atmosphere for the viewer. Her exploration of painting in relation to the body\, be it the social\, physical or psychic\, is continued in the drawings as a journey into the mental body. Distributed across the museum walls and metal structures\, the drawings evoke abstracted fortunetelling\, laid out in a way that visitors can interpret and wander through them. \nTAU (Resurrection); “Flow directly implicates not one but several bodies” (Plasmastate); The Call; So as a Female Bird? (The High Priestess); Channeling; *Shapeshifter\, Direct Action as a Means of Escaping Fate (Medea); Soulmate; Pharmaceia (Christa’s Blutbild—Can’t Describe It More Closely); Blut (That Abrupt and Heavy Falling); Von Geistern geworfen [Tossed by spirits]; Transitioning (Please Leave a Message); Time breaks down into many times; The Waiting Room … The drawings’ abstract titles consist in part of quotations from essays and publications the artist consulted while working on this project\, in part of titles of older works\, of references to personal experiences\, of madeup names and neologisms\, of the names of goddesses\, and of concepts from a handbook of German superstitions. These poetic spells and invocations are projected onto a wall\, accompanied by a sound sphere composed by Wibke Tiarks. They create a room for rest and rehabilitation\, for arrival and departure. \nThe title of the series references older works by Brätsch\, the socalled Psychics (2005–2008)\, for which she sought out countless fortune tellers in New York. The results of the sessions ultimately provided the starting point for numerous oil paintings—painted\, provisional truths that range ambiguously between irony and authenticity. In series like the Psychics\, the subsequent Unstable Talismanic Renderings (since 2014)\, the Blocked Radiants the Fossil Psychics (Stucco Marmo) (since 2017)\, however\, it was the materiality of the works themselves or the associated production processes that opened up links to questions of animism in painting: by building images out of drops (marblings)\, by sculpted brushstrokes that seem fossilized (stuccos)\, and through the constant multiplication of her own artistic identity\, including old handcrafts and their masters (or in the case of the Psychics\, by painting abstract portraits after actual sessions with psychics). After many years of collaborating with artists and craftspeople\, Brätsch\, however\, is inverting this collaborative impetus with the Para Psychics. She no longer generates the means for exploring alternative spheres\, temporalities\, and personalities by including others or by adopting centuriesold processes\, but rather (triggered by her own isolation caused by the lockdown) via/para the multiplicity of her self. The drawings\, made using the simplest\, readily accessible materials like colored pencils and paper\, thus constitute personal concretions of the involuntary pausing during the pandemic. In their formal reference to divination cards\, however\, they also open up a constant transitionary process of seeing and being. Die Sein is a derivative of the German term “Da Sein”—to be there\, to exist\, substituting the female “Die/she” for “Da/there.” It refers in addition to the change that the series of drawings represents in Brätsch’s artistic working method: she stresses a personalized\, feminized “being there\,” where her own mutability\, complexity\, and multiplicity shifts to the role held by collaborations. \nCurated by Eva Birkenstock \nCuratorial Assistance: Lisa Oord \nDownload exhibition booklet \nPublication\nThe exhibition will be accompanied by the artist’s book Para Psychics published by Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. On the occasion of its release\, we invite you to a guided tour with Kerstin Brätsch\, Kerstin Stakemeier (Professorfor Art Theory and Mediation\, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg) and Eva Birkenstock on Saturday\, September 24\, 2022 at 11 am. \nThe book Para Psychics is available at our museum shop for a special prize of 50\,- €. \nOn Sunday\, September 25\, 2022\, 12 pm Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in Düren presents the exhibition of the Peill prizewinner Kerstin Brätsch Sein (through January 8\, 2023). \nhttps://youtu.be/9AF2H6gfpjM URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/die-sein-para-psychics/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/KB_178.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220625T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220626T180000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20220518T094235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220615T140112Z UID:29749-1656180000-1656266400@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Cold Summer DESCRIPTION:As an extension of the exhibition Bad Words by Keren Cytter\, the festival Cold Summer introduces readings\, dance\, and music performances by befriended artists\, poets\, and musicians\, such as Dan Bodan\, DECHA\, Cosima Grand with Milena Keller\, Adam Harrison\, Karl Holmqvist\, Marie-Caroline Hominal with Joseph Ravens\, Ari Benjamin Meyers with Thomsen Merkel and Jan Terstegen\, New Noveta x Vindicatrix\, Mathilde Supe\, amongst others\, in and around the museum from June 25\, 6 pm to June 26\, 6 pm. \nThe festival is conceived by Keren Cytter as part of the non-profit organization A.P.E. (Art Projects Era)\, which she co-founded in 2010 to challenge the limitations of culturally given structures. \nFree admission. \n \nProgram\nSaturday\, June 25\n6 pm\nArrival and Bar \n6.30 pm\nMathilde Supeand Adam Harrison\nIntroduction \n6.40–7.15 pm\nMarie-Caroline Hominal\nONE\nPerformance with Marie-Caroline Hominal and Joseph Ravens as auctioneer \n7.30–7.50 pm\nKarl Holmqvist\nWERK AND NUMBERS\nReading  \n8–9 pm\nCosima Grand\nCTRL-V (LP)\nDance performance with Milena Keller \n9.15–9.45 pm\nDan Bodan\n Concert \n   \nSunday\, June 26\n 2 pm\nArrival and Bar \n2.20 pm\nMathilde Supe and Adam Harrison\n Introduction \n2.30–2.50 pm\nNew Noveta x Vindicatrix\nAlukah in Aachen\n Music performance \n3.05–3.20 pm\nMathilde Supe\nScreening \n3.55–4.55 pm\nDECHA\nConcert \n5.15– 6 pm\nAri Benjamin Meyers\nSerious Immobilities (Module 4 / Instrumental Version)\nPerformance with Thomsen Merkel and Jan Terstegen \n\nDownload Festival Flyer URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/cold-summer/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/LFA22-Keren-Cytter_HP-Screen_1024x556px_Festival.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220625 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220926 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20221007T072922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221007T082610Z UID:32196-1656115200-1664150399@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Bad Words DESCRIPTION:Opening: Fri June 24\, 2022 at 7 pm \nThe admission to the festival and to the exhibition is free during the opening weekend. \nThe multidisciplinary works of New York-based artist Keren Cytter include films\, soap operas\, plays\, sculptures\, drawings\, novels\, zines\, life coaching guides\, and children’s books\, as well as festivals. Including more than one hundred works produced between 2002 and 2022\, the survey Bad Words at Ludwig Forum Aachen presents all of the artist’s versatile fields of interest combined for the first time. Their particular sequencing throughout the three exhibition floors at the Ludwig Forum follows Cytter’s ongoing interest in personal mythologies and the various stages of life\, while highlighting text and language as crucial elements in her practice. \nThe first room introduces a series of children’s books\, sculptures\, and animated films that describe childhood as a search for one’s own identity in proximity to and at a distance from family\, friends\, and strangers. This installation is followed by a series of drawings and two videos reflecting the ever-changing emotional world of young people: clichéd icons such as Che Guevara or personalities like underground filmmaker and pioneer of queer cinema Kenneth Anger illustrate possible bandwidths of youth culture and socialization. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from her film Bad Words or when you wake up and realize that you are late to your job interview with your best friend’s ex and you are not a lesbian\, but the product of a patriarchal society that’s conditioned you to see women as sex objects (2021). Keren Cytter dramatizes today’s new normality dominated by social media and the Internet\, characterized by a state of permanent networking\, circulation and updated presence\, resulting in the collapse of clear boundaries between private and public. \nOther stops in the exhibition include Keren Cytter’s multiple collaborations\, most notably with New York-based artist John Roebas. Through their joint sculptural project Ego bodies\, Cytter / Roebas playfully highlight that disturbances and fragmented bodies belong to growing up just as much as dealing with coming of age. Art Projects Era (A.P.E.)\, a non-profit organization and production platform\, is another collaboration co-founded with curators Maaike Gouwenberg and Kathy Noble. Since its creation in 2010\, A.P.E. has challenged the limitations of institutional structures through festivals with international performance artists\, writers\, dancers\, and musicians in Amsterdam\, Basel\, Bologna\, Bregenz\, Düsseldorf\, New York\, Warsaw\, and Zurich. \nIn the last room\, 825 Polaroid photos taken between the years 2012 and 2013 display family\, friends\, objects\, film sets\, landscapes\, and manipulated portraits—a collection of images in which Cytter imitates different photographic genres and which she ironically\, or affirmatively\, calls MOP (Museum of Photography) (2013) to question the power of memory and the interpretive authority of institutions. Behind it\, a series of blue drawings document apartments where the artist has recently spent her time (her home in Queens\, and a house in Lausanne where she quarantined for ten days)\, still-lifes\, and views from windows drawn with a ballpoint pen on small sheets of paper that she carried in an envelope and reassembled in the exhibition space. \nAll works on view are connected by a new site-specific installation: a text that sprawls along the walls of the museum\, guiding the visitor from one space to the next. Being at the same time its own long title\, this text addresses the individual objects of the exhibition it accompanies\, as it incorporates additional narratives. In other instances\, it refers to its own physical presence as a plotted wall text\, and to the presence of the visitors\, who\, while walking and reading the text\, become in a way performers themselves. \nOn the occasion of the exhibition\, an artist book in the form of a novel will be published by Sternberg Press. Written by Mathilde Supe after she moved as a twenty-four-year-old student to New York City to be Cytter’s assistant in 2013\, Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share narrates her hardships and learning processes in this logbook of adventures (release date: September 2022.) \nCurated by Eva Birkenstock and Holger Otten with an exhibition display by Milica Lopicic. \nFestival: Cold Summer \nFor the opening weekend\, Keren Cytter has invited a number of artists\, poets and musicians to participate in the festival Cold Summer\, conceived as part of Cytter’s non-profit organization A.P.E. . The festival will feature readings\, dance\, and music performances by Dan Bodan\, DECHA\, Cosima Grand with Milena Keller\, Nicholas Vargelis\, Karl Holmqvist\, Marie-Caroline Hominal with Joseph Ravens\, Ari Benjamin Meyers with Thomsen Merkel and Jan Terstegen\, New Noveta x Vindicatrix\, and Mathilde Supe. \nKeren Cytter studied visual arts at Avni Institute of Art and Design\, Tel Aviv\, and from 2002-2004 she was a resident artist at De Ateliers\, Amsterdam. Her work was shown in solo exhibitions at internationally renowned institutions such as Winterthur Kunstmuseum (2020); Center for Contemporary Art\, Tel Aviv (2019); Museion Bolzano (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago (2015); Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Copenhagen (2014); Tate Modern\, London (2012) and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2011)\, among others. She participated in numerous group exhibitions and biennials such as Museum Angewandte Kunst\, Frankfurt (2017); KADIST\, Paris (2017); SeMA Seoul Museum of Art (2017); Busan Biennial (2016); Museum Brandhorst\, Munich (2015); Kunsthalle Wien (2015); Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York (2011); Witte de With\, Rotterdam (2010); Van Abbemuseum\, Eindhoven (2010); 8th Gwangju Biennale (2010)\, Future Generation Art Prize – PinchukArtCentre Kiev (2010); Whitney Museum\, New York (2009); 53rd International Art Exhibition\, La Biennale di Venezia\, (2009); Yokohama Triennial (2008). Her films were screened in numerous film festivals\, such as Bolzano Film Festival (2019); European Media Arts Festival\, Osnabruck (2018); Bergamo Film Festival (2016); Berlin International Film Festival\, Forum Expanded (2008). Cytter was awarded the Joseph Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021)\, Absolut Art Award\, Stockholm (2009)\, Ars Viva Prize\, Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft\, Berlin (2008). \nWith the generous support of Kunststiftung NRW\, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland\, Jugend- und Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Aachen. URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/bad-words-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/LFA22-Keren-Cytter_HP-Screen_1024x556px_RZ2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220524 DTSTAMP:20260701T062512 CREATED:20220523T142306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220523T145052Z UID:29835-1653264000-1653350399@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer\, 1976-1980 DESCRIPTION:Two sisters\, an artist and a poet\, describe the contours of their lives among New York’s artistic avant-garde through an intimate collection of letters. \nThis collection of the correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) occurs between the years of 1976 and 1980\, a period of rich creativity in New York’s artistic avant-garde\, and one which includes the development of major bodies of work by the two women. Rosemary Mayer was creating sculptures\, watercolors\, books and “temporary monuments” from weather balloons and snow\, while Bernadette Mayer was working on some of her best-known publications\, including the book-length poem Midwinter Day and the poetry collection The Golden Book of Words. Spanning the worlds of Conceptual art\, Postminimalism\, feminism\, the New York School\, Language poetry and more\, these letters elucidate the bonds of sisterhood through intimate exchanges about art\, relationships and everyday life. \nEdited by Gillian Sneed\, Marie Warsh\nPreface by Eva Birkenstock\, Robert Leckie\, Laura McLean-Ferris\, Stephanie Weber\nText by Bernadette Mayer\, Rosemary Mayer\, Gillian Sneed \nPrice 24 € \nISBN 978-0-9995059-6-0 URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/the-letters-of-rosemary-bernadette-mayer-1976-1980/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220523_152252-22-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220519T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220518T090551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220518T090652Z UID:29721-1652983200-1652983200@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Ludwigs neue Köpfe DESCRIPTION:Es ist ein so umfassender Personalwechsel\, wie es ihn in der Aachener Kulturlandschaft noch nie gegeben hat. Nahezu alle Spitzenposten in führenden Institutionen sind vor kurzem neu besetzt worden oder werden es in naher Zukunft. Dazu gehören auch die Einrichtungen der Ludwig-Familie. \nSo ist Carla Cugini neue geschäftsführende Vorständin der Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung (die in diesem Jahr ihr 25-jähriges Bestehen feiert)\, Eva Birkenstock neue Direktorin des Ludwig Forums für Internationale Kunst und Till-Holger Borchert neuer Direktor des Suermondt-Ludwig-Museums. Die drei eint nicht nur der Name Ludwig\, sondern auch eine große Liebe zur Kunst. Doch was treibt sie an? Welche Themen aus Kunst und Kultur – und darüber hinaus – beschäftigen sie? Welche Pläne haben sie für ihre jeweiligen Häuser? Wie blicken sie auf Aachen als Kulturstandort und als neue Heimat? Und wie auf die herausragende Sammlung von Peter und Irene Ludwig? \nLudwig Forum für Internationale Kunst\, Aachen \nInformation und Anmeldung: www.azan-freundeskreis.de \nEine Veranstaltung des AZ/AN Medienhaus in Kooperation mit Ludwig Forum Aachen und Freunden des Ludwig Forums e.V. URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/ludwigs-neue-koepfe/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220519T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220519T160000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220518T085851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T163631Z UID:29720-1652976000-1652976000@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:„Learning to look“ - Öffentliche Führung mit Eva Birkenstock\, Alexander Markschies und Max Kerner DESCRIPTION:In einer interaktiven Veranstaltung unter dem Motto “Learning to look” geben drei Fachleute aus ihrer jeweiligen Disziplin Impulse zur aktuellen Ausstellung von Rosemary Mayer „Ways of Attaching“. \nEva Birkenstock führt als Kuratorin in die Ausstellung ein\, Alexander Markschies\, Professor für Kunstgeschichte an der RWTH\, bietet eine Vertiefung \naus kunsthistorischer Sicht und Historiker Prof. Dr. Max Kerner beleuchtet die historischen Bezüge\, auf die Rosemary Mayer in ihren Werken referiert. \n  \nNur Museumseintritt \nMax 20 Teilnehmer*innen \nAnmeldung erforderlich \nInformation und Anmeldung \nMuseumsdienst AachenTel.: +49 241 432-4998\, museumsdienst@mail.aachen.de \nServicezeiten:Di\, Do\, Fr 09.00 – 14.00 Uhr\, Mi 09.00 – 12.00 Uhr und 14.00 – 17.00 Uhr URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/learning-to-look-oeffentliche-fuehrung-mit-eva-birkenstock-alexander-markschies-und-max-kerner/ CATEGORIES:Guided tour END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220515T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220515T170000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220510T100247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220512T074643Z UID:29690-1652608800-1652634000@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:International Museum Day DESCRIPTION:Sparda-Day\, Mai 2022\, Rosemary Mayer. Ways of Attaching\, Photo: Fabian Nawrath\nDiscover the museum with pleasure!\nInternational Museum Day Program\nFree admission from 10 am – 5 pm \nВідкривайте для себе музей з радістю!\nПрограма до Міжнародного дня музеїв 15.05.2022\nВхід вільний  \n10 am to 12 am: Forget Me Not – a Workshop for Youths and Adults\nThe drawing and painting of flowers has inspired many artists. The workshop offers the chance to paint small watercolors of flowers\, simply for the pleasure they bring or to use them as greeting cards. Details of compositions can be enlarged and experimented with to create fascinating and colorful pictures. If the sun shines we can paint outside in the park. \n10:00 – 12:00 Незабутні моменти – майстер-клас для підлітків та дорослих \nМалювання та зображення квітів є надихаючим предметом для багатьох художників. \nУ цій майстерні під час майстер-класу разом намалюємо маленькі акварелі з квітів. Картини можна буде використовувати як вітальні листівки та дарувати задоволення. \nНе бійтеся експериментувати та використовуйте колір на повну\, щоб отримати чудові барвисті шедеври. \n11 am to 1 pm: Slips and Sketches – Family Workshop\nDiscover your favorite motifs and themes while exploring the museum with family or friends. You can sketch and note whatever takes your eye\, inspires or intrigues you. Draw\, scribble\, write or even invent whatever you feel like. At the end we will have a diverse collection of drawings and thoughts on small slips of paper. Each slip will be given a fitting place in a self-made sketchbook or we will arrange them into one large picture. \n12 am: Guided tour through the exhibition Geometry and Flowers. A Corresponding Collection Presentation\n3 pm: Guided tour through the exhibition Rosemary Mayer. Ways of Attaching URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/international-museum-day/ CATEGORIES:Event,Guided tour,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220507 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220509 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220420T090538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T094322Z UID:29133-1651881600-1652054399@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:„Asynchronicity – symposium-like-gathering" DESCRIPTION:reboot: responsiveness presents \n„Asynchronicity. A symposium-like gathering“ hosted by Cally Spooner at the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the Ludwig Forum Aachen \nWith Paul Abbott & Will Holder\, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins\, Taina Bucher\, Elizabeth Freeman\, Hendrik Folkerts\, Irena Haiduk\, Dana Luciano\, Martina Roß-Nickoll\, Cally Spooner with Sanna Blennow and Melody Giron\, Mark von Schlegell\, Jesper List Thomsen\, Jackie Wang and films by Pierre Bal-Blanc and Frances Scholz \nFree Admission\, no registration required \nAll contributions are in English. In Aachen\, simultaneous translation into German is provided. \n \n“Asynchronicity” is a symposium-like gathering of choreographies\, lectures\, sounds\, screenings\, and discussions assembled by artist Cally Spooner with reboot: responsiveness at Kölnischer Kunstverein\, Cologne and Ludwig Forum\, Aachen. \n“Asynchronicity” takes as its backdrop the neoliberal paradigm of an always measurable performance. In this climate performance manifests at once as a regime of disciplinary power and a condition of everyday life\, in which subjects constantly quantify\, manage and stratify themselves until the social imagination and desire is deadened. “Asynchronicity” probes how such draining quests can be subverted by collectively fostering a resistance towards chrononormativity. Coined in 2010 by queer studies scholar Elizabeth Freeman (one of the gathering’s contributors)\, the term chrononormativity describes the prevalent use of time to organize human bodies toward maximum productivity. \n“Asynchronicity” responds by unraveling the resistant potentials of becoming or remaining asynchronous. Over the course of two days\, collaborators–artists\, performers\, musicians\, theoreticians\, dancers\, curators and designers–are invited to unfold a diverse set of propositions for alternative\, fugitive temporalities\, affects and bodily practices that bend and subvert familiarity and which deliberately\, or naturally\, remain out of sync. Jointly introducing the notion of asynchronicity as an alternative\, non-sequential mode of time\, texts\, movements\, encounters and thoughts will collide across the partnering institutions in Aachen and Cologne. \n“Asynchronicity” is part of Cally Spooner’s long term research project „Deadtime“ (since 2018) in which she finds and handles temporal structures beyond the Clock-Time standardizations that force labor\, bodies\, nervous systems\, and digital technologies into a completely metric-orientated future. Conceived as the first of five assemblies hosted by the artist\, that challenge the chrononormative order and the performance imperative implied. \nWhile you may enter the symposium-like gathering in your own time–any moment or time span of preference–we suggest you experience its choreography in its entirety and in both cities\, if possible. \nSaturday\, May 7 2022\, 8:59am – 6:30pm \nKölnischer Kunstverein\, Cologne \n8:59am “I GOT UP AT 8:59 AM OCT. 19 2021” \n10am “Deadtime“ (Lecture and Introduction to Asynchronicity I) \n11am “On Chrononormativity: Histories and Possibilities“ \n12pm „Carceral Temporalities and the Politics of Dreaming“ \n1pm and 6pm Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Lawn of Excluded Middle”* read by Will Holder (vocals) and Paul Abbott (drums) \n1pm Lunch \n2pm “On the right time and Deadtime“ \n2:30pm “Chromonautics\, Then and Now” \n3:30pm „FREEEee“ \n4:15pm “Freedom’s Ammonite: Blackness\, Geomorphology\, Worldmaking” \n5pm “Introduction To Feelings\, Studio Feelings“ \n5:30pm “(A rehearsal for) Unending love\, or love dies\, on repeat like it’s endless“ \nSunday\, May 8\, 2022\, 11am – 8pm \nLudwig Forum für Internationale Kunst\, Aachen \n11am “Duration symposium in the spring of 2023; an asynchronous lapse” \n12pm “Crip Asynchronies: COVID\, Cancer\, Climate” \nElizabeth Freeman\, Professor of English\, University California\, Davis \n1pm “Captured Voices: Prisoner Voiceprints and the Carceral Laboratory” \n2:05pm Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Lawn of Excluded Middle”* read by Will Holder (vocals) and Paul Abbott (drums) \n2:05pm Lunch \n3:00 pm “Oceanic Time and Black Feminist Futures”  \n4pm „Conversation on Meadows“ \n4pm Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Lawn of Excluded Middle”* read by Will Holder (vocals) and Paul Abbott (drums) \n4:30pm “Introduction to YEAR OF THE WRITER\, by Frances Scholz\, 2004\, 17:35 min” \n5:10pm “Prop Positions“ \n6pm “(A rehearsal for) Unending love\, or love dies\, on repeat like it’s endless“ \nMore about the programme and biographies \nThis symposium-like gathering is part of reboot: responsiveness. \nreboot: responsiveness is the first cycle of reboot: – a collaborative\, multi-cycle\, anti-racist and queer-feminist dialogue encompassing performance and research based practices\, jointly presented by Kölnischer Kunstverein\, Cologne and Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst\, Aachen. \nreboot: \nConceived by Eva Birkenstock\, Nikola Dietrich\, and Viktor Neumann \nCore Collective: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins\, Gürsoy Doğtaş\, Klara Lidén\, Ewa Majewska\, Rory Pilgrim\, Cally Spooner\, and Mariana Valencia \nGraphic design by Sean Yendrys \n \nreboot: responsiveness wird unterstützt von:  URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/asynchronicity-symposium-like-gathering/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220501T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220501T170000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220421T132030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T133252Z UID:29251-1651399200-1651424400@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:01.05. Sparda-Day: One Day in May DESCRIPTION:Rosemary Mayer once said about “Some Days in April”: “The work is a monument for\, and to connect\, the individuals\, flowers\, stars\, times\, on the balloons.” The project is a memorial to her friend Ree Morton and Mayer’s late parents who shared birthdays in April. On the balloons\, Mayer painted the date in April associated with the person\, two names for each person\, the names of stars currently in the sky and the names of flowers currently in season. \nOn May 1\, 2022 we are celebrating “One Day in May” sponsored by Stiftung der Sparda-Bank West with a balloon workshop\, guided tours and free access to the museum from 10 am to 5 pm. \nProgram \n10 am – 5 pm\nFree entrance\nCoffee & cake\, café with snacks \n10 am – 4 pm\nOne Day in May:\nOpen workshop for families\, friends and the curious \n11 am / 1 pm / 4 pm\nFamily tours \n12 pm\nGuided tour of Geometry and Flowers with Holger Otten\, Curator \n4 pm\nGuided tour of Rosemary Mayer. Ways of Attaching with Eva Birkenstock\, Director \n  \nCredit: Rosemary Mayer\, photo documentation of: Some Days in April\, 1978\, balloons\, helium\, paint\, fabric\, rope\, and wooden rods\, installed during the week of April 17\, 1978 Property of Bruce Kurtz\, Hartwick\, New York\, The Estate of Rosemary Mayer\, photo: unknown URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/01-05-sparda-day/ CATEGORIES:Event,Guided tour,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220501T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220501T170000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220414T141530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T115634Z UID:29339-1651399200-1651424400@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Sparda Day DESCRIPTION:Free admission \nThe programme: \n10 am – 16 pm: One Day in May\nOpen workshop for families and friends\nIn the work of US-artist Rosemary Mayer\, not everything had to last for eternity. She celebrated the moment and liked to create connections between people. Therefore\, she invited others to actively participate in her art.\nWith big balloons\, pens and paint\, ribbons and lots of ingenuity\, this day in May will be a colourful one. \n11 am / 1 pm / 4 pm: Family tours\n12 am:  Guided tour Geometry and Flowers with curator Holger Otten\n4 pm:  Guided tour Rosemary Mayer. Ways of Attaching with Director Eva Birkenstock \nCafé with snacks\, coffee and cake \nIn order to give as many people as possible access to contemporary art\, the Sparda-Bank West Foundation regularly organises action days in museums. On Sparda-Day\, admission is free for all visitors. An extensive accompanying programme offers guided tours and workshops for children\, young people and adults. \n \nРОЗМАРІ МАЙЄР. \nШЛЯХИ ПРИВ’ЯЗАНОСТІ. \nВ своїх роботах Розмарі Майєр демонструє\, що не все триває вічність. Вона виділяла важливі події і любила об’єднувати людей. Таким чином\, вона залучала інших до активної участі в своєму мистецтві. Великі повітряні кулі\, фломастери і фарба\, стрічки та винахідливість кожного додадуть творчості у цей травневий день. \n10.00-17.00 \nВхід вільний \nКава\, смаколики та \nїжа \n10.00-16.00 \nОдин день в травні \nВідкрита творча майстерня для сімей\, друзів та поціновувачів мистецтва \n11.00-16.00 \nЕкскурсії з гідом \n12.00 \nЕкскурсія з гідом виставкою \n„Геометрія і Квіти“\, \nкуратор Хольгер Оттен \n16.00 \nЕкскурсія з гідом виставкою \n„Розмарі Майєр. \nШляхи прив’язаності“ \nз Євою Біркенсток\, \nдиректоркою Музею Людвіга \nРОЗМАРИ МАЙЕР. \nПУТИ СОПРИКОСНОВЕНИЯ. \nГлавная тема в творчестве американской художницы Розмари Майер это непостоянство природных процессов и времени – ничто не длиться вечно. Она особенно отмечала момент соприкосновения человеческих душ и любила создавать связи между людьми. Поэтому она приглашала других активно участвовать в ее творчестве. Этот майский день будет красочным и останется в памяти большими воздушными шарами\, маркерами и красками\, цветными лентами и большим количеством  творческой изобретательности. \n10.00 до 17.00 \nВход свободный \nКофе и сладости \nКафе с легкими закусками \n10.00 до 16.00 \nОдин день в мае \nОткрытые мастерклассы для семей\, \nдрузей и заинтересованных в искусстве \n11.00 / 13.00 / 16.00 \nЭкскурсии с гидом для семей \n12.00 \nЭкскурсия по выставке “Геометрия и цветы” \nс куратором Хольгером Оттеном \n16.00 \nЭкскурсия по выставке “Розмари Майер. Пути соприкосновения” \nс Евой Биркеншток\, директором Людвиг Форум URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/sparda-day/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27_RosemaryMayer_SomeDaysInApril_Photo-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220428T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220428T183000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220420T110918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T161014Z UID:29172-1651170600-1651170600@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:“Rosemary Mayer and Donna Dennis: Beginnings on the Cusp of the 1970s New York City” DESCRIPTION:The American artists Rosemary Mayer and Donna Dennis became best friends when chance – and their individual connections to the New York poetry world – brought them to live/work spaces a block from one another in New York’s Little Italy around 1970. It was the most formative time in their young lives as artists: Inviting each other over for dinner and a look\, when a new work was finished\, was like a celebration and the best kind of competition.\nIn her lecture “Rosemary Mayer and Donna Dennis: Beginnings on the Cusp of the 1970s New York City”\, Donna Dennis attempts to create a sense of what it was like to be young women artists just starting out in downtown New York in the heady\, challenging early days of the 1970s. As a basis for this lecture serve excerpts from the journals\, which Rosemary Mayer and Donna Dennis both used as a primary source for shaping their works\, along with images of their work and their friends\, especially those in their feminist consciousness-raising group. \nDonna Dennis is known for her installations inspired by vernacular architecture\, urban and rural: “Ship and Dock/Nights and Days or The Gazer”\, at Lesley Heller Gallery\, New York (2018)\, “Coney Night Maze”\, Neuberger Museum (2013)\, “BLUE BRIDGE/red shift”\, SculptureCenter (1993) “Deep Station”\, Brooklyn Museum (1987) “Tourist Cabins on Park Avenue” (2007). Dennis has collaborated with poets Anne Waldman\, Kenward Elmslie\, Ted Berrigan and Daniel Wolff. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum\, the Cleveland Art Museum\, the Walker Art Center\, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst\, Aachen\, Germany\, the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, the Martin Z. Margulies Collection. Recipient of many grants and awards\, she has permanent public art commissions in New York and Boston. After decades in New York City\, she currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley. \nCredit: Donna Dennis. Photo: private\nMuseum admission only. URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/rosemary-mayer-and-donna-dennis-beginnings-on-the-cusp-of-the-1970s-new-york-city/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220421T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221231T170000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220506T100306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T110455Z UID:29574-1650535200-1672506000@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Free admission DESCRIPTION:Free admission to the municipal museums for all refugees \nFrom now on the museums of the city of Aachen are free for all refugees:\nFree admission for all refugees and their volunteer companions.\nThe Ukrainian passport or the residence status of the refugees is sufficient as proof at the museum ticket office. \n“Inspired by the situation of Ukrainian refugees\, we are opening the doors to our cultural institutions\,” says Mayor Sibylle Keupen. “This applies to all refugees\, wherever they come from\, all are welcome\, because culture knows no borders.” \nSusanne Schwier\, Assistant Mayor for Youth\, Education and Culture\, adds: “I am delighted when children and young people in particular can be creative together and get different ideas. That’s why we’re keeping the Museum Service’s educational offerings free for refugee children and their families as well.” \n  \nБезкоштовний вхід до муніципальних музеїв для всіх біженців. \nНаступне стосується музеїв міста Аахена з негайною дією:\nБезкоштовний вхід для всіх біженців та їхніх супутників-волонтерів.\nУ касі музею достатньо паспорта України або статусу проживання біженця. \n«Ініційовані долею українських біженців\, ми відкриваємо двері до наших культурних закладів»\, – каже мер міста Сібілле Кейпен. «Це стосується всіх біженців\, звідки б вони не прийшли\, усіх щиро запрошують\, бо культура не знає кордонів». \nСюзанна Швієр\, старший з питань молоді\, освіти та культури\, додає:\n«Мені приємно\, коли діти та молодь\, зокрема\, разом творять і можуть мислити по-іншому. Тому ми також зберігаємо освітні пропозиції Музейної служби у вільному доступі для дітей-біженців та їхніх сімей». \n  \nБесплатное посещение муниципальных музеев для всех беженцев \nтепе́рь музеи города Ахен являются бесплатными:Бесплатный вход для всех беженцев и их добровольных помощников.В качестве доказательства в кассе музея достаточно украинского паспорта или вида на жительство беженцев. \n“Вдохновленные судьбой украинских беженцев\, мы открываем двери наших культурных учреждений”\, – говорит мэр города Сибилле Кеупен. “Это относится ко всем беженцам\, откуда бы они ни приехали\, всем мы рады\, потому что культура не знает границ”. \nСюзанна Швиер\, советник по делам молодежи\, образования и культуры\, добавляет:”Я счастлива\, когда дети и особенно молодые люди могут вместе заниматься творчеством и в процессе получать другие идеи. Вот почему мы также сохраняем образовательные предложения музейной службы в свободном доступе для детей беженцев и их семей”. \n  \nTüm mülteciler için belediye müzelerine ücretsiz giriş! \nAachen şehrinin müzeleri\,\ntüm mülteciler ve gönüllü destekcileri için ücretsiz giriş sunuyor.\nUkrayna pasaportu veya mültecinin ikamet durumu\, müze veznesinde ücretsiz giriş için kanıt olarak yeterlidir. \nBelediye Başkanı Sibylle Keupen\, “Ukraynalı mültecilerin kaderini hafiflete bilmek amaçıyla kültürel kurumlarımızın kapılarını açıyoruz” dedi. Bu\, tüm mülteciler için geçerlidir\, nereden gelirlerse gelsinler herkes candan davetlidir\, çünkü kültür sınır tanımaz.” \nGençlik\, Eğitim ve Kültürden Sorumlu Meclis Üyesi Susanne Schwier şunları ekliyor:\n“Özellikle çocuklar ve gençlerin birlikte yaratıcı olmaları ve farklı düşünebilmeleri beni mutlu ediyor. Bu nedenle Müze Hizmetinin eğitim tekliflerini mülteci çocuklar ve aileleri için ücretsiz olarak erişilebilir tutuyoruz.” URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/freier-eintritt/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220330T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220330T200000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220328T122224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T124125Z UID:28916-1648663200-1648670400@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Mariana Valencia. Tulum\, New York DESCRIPTION:reboot: responsiveness is pleased to premiere New York-based artist and choreographer Mariana Valencia’s latest video work Tulum\, New York in its newly conceived multi-language versions in English\, German\, and Spanish. On March 30\, 2022\, Kölnischer Kunstverein\, Cologne and Ludwig Forum Aachen invite to a screening of the videos and a subsequent zoom-conversation with Mariana Valencia to contextualize her practice in dialogue with Viktor Neumann\, one of the three curators of reboot. All three versions of Tulum\, New York will be on view at Kölnischer Kunstverein and Ludwig Forum Aachen on site afterwards. \n“Exploring the ‘pandemic screen’\, Tulum\, New York makes use of the video-chat function that’s been imposed onto us as a means to connect and transport during pandemic times. Here\, Mariana Valencia retells her recurring dreams that feature her psychotherapist\, during the beginning of the first Covid-19 lockdown. Her face fills the frame and moves in slow-motion\, out of rhythm to the speaking and in a surreal incantation. Tulum\, New York sits between the tropical and urban\, wakefulness and dreams\, loss and attachment.” \nChoreographer and performer Mariana Valencia works in the New York experimental field of dance and performance. Her commissions include Baryshnikov Arts Center\, The Chocolate Factory Theater\, Danspace Project\, The Whitney Museum\, The Shed and Performance Space New York. Valencia’s work has toured in Korea\, England\, Norway\, Macedonia and Serbia; her residencies include AUNTS\, Chez Bushwick\, New York Live Arts\, ISSUE Project Room\, Brooklyn Arts Exchange\, Gibney Dance Center\, Movement Research\, and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (OR). Valencia is an LMCC Extended Life grantee\, a Whitney Biennial artist\, a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer\, a Bessie Award nominee for Best Production\, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award to Artists grant recipient\, a Jerome Travel and Study Grant fellow\, and a Movement Research GPS/Global Practice Sharing artist. Valencia is a founding member of the No Total reading group and she has been the co-editor of Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence. She’s worked with artists AK Burns\, Elizabeth Orr\, Em Rooney\, Fia Backstrom\, Geo Wyeth\, Guadalupe Rosales\, Jazmin Romero\, Juliana May\, Jules Gimbrone\, Kim Brandt\, Lauren Bakst\, Lydia Okrent\, Morgan Bassichis\, MPA\, and robbinschilds. Valencia has published two books of performance texts\, “Album” (Wendy’s Subway) and “Mariana Valencia’s Bouquet” (3 Hole Press). She holds a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst\, MA with a concentration in dance and ethnography. \nWednesday\, March 30\, 2022Online Zoom\, 6 – 8pm CET (in English) \nParticipation link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83878297992Meeting ID: 838 7829 7992 URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/mariana-valencia-tulum-new-york/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Mariana-Valencia_Tulum-NY.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220305T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220305T130000 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220304T162209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T162855Z UID:28641-1646481600-1646485200@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Curatorial Guided Tour DESCRIPTION:Guided dialogue tour with Marie Warsh (The Estate of Rosemary Mayer\, New York) and director Eva Birkenstock through the exhibition Rosemary Mayer. Ways of Attaching in English. \nMeeting point: Entrance area URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/curatorial-guided-tour/ CATEGORIES:Guided tour END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221001 DTSTAMP:20260701T062513 CREATED:20220222T080055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220525T153855Z UID:28558-1646438400-1664582399@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:reboot: responsiveness DESCRIPTION:reboot: is a collaborative\, cyclical\, anti-racist\, and queer-feminist dialogue of several years’ duration between performative and research-based practices. The project was initiated in 2021 and will continue in Spring 2022 at Ludwig Forum Aachen (in cooperation with Kölnischer Kunstverein). \nThe first cycle\, reboot: responsiveness\, is based on the longings\, fears\, and hopes reinforced by the current pandemic. In two different yet interconnected locations which support\, complement\, and challenge one another\, reboot: responsiveness offers infrastructures for provisional stagings\, rehearsals\, processual choreographies\, and encounters dealing with themes such as presence\, intimacy\, care\, and responsibility. By using different formats and together with other invited guests and the audience in Cologne and Aachen\, these artists and thinkers will explore ways to dedicate time to each other\, to perform in a contemporary way using time\, to develop alternative vocabularies\, archives\, gestures\, movements\, and translations\, to share and pass on resources and ideas\, and to find modes of resistance and togetherness in response to the current situation in which we live. \nreboot: responsiveness is pleased to premiere New York-based artist and choreographer Mariana Valencia’s latest video work Tulum\, New York in its newly conceived multi-language versions in English\, German\, and Spanish. On March 30\, 2022\, Kölnischer Kunstverein\, Cologne and Ludwig Forum Aachen invite to a screening of the videos and a subsequent zoom-conversation with Mariana Valencia to contextualize her practice in dialogue with Viktor Neumann\, one of the three curators of reboot. All three versions of Tulum\, New York will be on view at Kölnischer Kunstverein and Ludwig Forum Aachen on site afterwards. Read more here. \nreboot: responsiveness\nKölnischer Kunstverein\, Cologne and Ludwig Forum Aachen jointly announce the launch of reboot: – a collaborative\, multi-cycle\, anti-racist\, and queer-feminist dialogue encompassing performance and research based practices. \nreboot:\nConceived by Eva Birkenstock\, Nikola Dietrich\, and Viktor Neumann\nCore Collective: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins\, Gürsoy Doğtaş\, Klara Lidén\, Ewa Majewska\, Rory Pilgrim\, Cally Spooner\, and Mariana Valencia\nGraphic design by Sean Yendrys \nSponsored by: Kunststiftung NRW\, Stiftung Kunstfonds\, Neustart Kultur URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/reboot-responsiveness/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMAGE-1.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR