BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ludwig Forum - ECPv6.15.15//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:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20140101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20140101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190627 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200114 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20190619T064619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200229T154454Z UID:15090-1561593600-1578959999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Video archive 05 DESCRIPTION:From the very beginning of video art\, artists were choosing various objects to describe\, examine\, or interact with\, both in front of and by using the camera. Sometimes the focus is the relationship between subject and object\, sometimes it’s the relationship between art and everyday objects. For example\, John Baldessari said of Folding Hat\, a video work he produced in 1970–71 for cameraman and gallery owner Gerry Schum’s now legendary Düsseldorf video gallery: “I was thinking of transience\, changeability\, fashion\, and of the fact that the distinction between a commodity and an art object is a question of intention.” In any case\, many artists were attracted by the technical possibilities of measuring and capturing objects in their temporal space\, but also of changing them and linking them with other things and thoughts. This is how the video art pioneers invented the videographic readymade. \nArtists of the exhibition: John Baldessari\, Klaus vom Bruch\, Nancy Graves\, Terry Fox\, and Jacques Louis Nyst.\nCurated by Holger Otten \n \n  \nNarrating Video Archives\nVideo art from NRW—Collections introduce themselves\nSince the late 1960s\, North Rhine-Westphalia has been one of the most vibrant regions of the artistic avant-garde\, especially video art\, which is still young. Important collections were created here early on―with a special focus on the contemporary regional video art scene―that still exist today. They provide a unique insight into the history of early video art in Germany. \nThe screening program and the series of events Narrating Video Archives present some of the institutions with the most significant video art collections: the Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen\, the Museum Folkwang in Essen\, the imai Foundation in Dusseldorf\, and the Videonale Bonn. Each collection has its own focus. The video programs specially compiled for the program series each present a chosen topic\, and the screenings are accompanied by introductions and lectures. \nNarrating Video Archives is a Videonale Bonn initiative in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen\, the Museum Folkwang in Essen\, and the imai Foundation in Düsseldorf \n \nProgram\n“Narrating Video Archives” \n  \nScreening-Program at the Ludwig Forum \n26.06. – 28.07.2019\ntechnik visionen with works by Freya Hattenberger\, Lynn Hershman Leeson\, Bernd Kracke\, Julie Kuzminska\, Stefan Panhans\, and Mateusz Sadowski\, curated by  Tasja Langenbach\, Videonale – Festival für Video und zeitbasierte Kunstformen\, Bonn \n30.07. – 01.09.2019\nSelbstwahrnehmung/Fremdwahrnehmung – Körperlichkeit in der frühen Videokunst with works by Denis Beaubois\, Dieter Froese\, Astrid Heibach\, Branda Miller\, Dennis Oppenheim\, and  Friederike Pezold\, curated by Max Rauschenberg\, Kunstmuseum Bonn \n03.09. – 29.09.2019\nWhen love is wrong I don‘t want to be right with works by Gerd Belz\, Kain Karawahn\, Franziska Megert\, Klaus Osterwald\, and VA Wölfl\, curated by Dr Anna Fricke\, Museum Folkwang\, Essen \n  \n  URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/videoarchiv-05-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Baldessari-John-Folding-Hat_Kachel_460x309.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190513 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20190207T083327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T132140Z UID:14445-1552694400-1557705599@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Wermke / Leinkauf DESCRIPTION:Opening  Fr. 12th May 2019\, 7 pm \nThe expansive installation shows two opposing\, brightly flickering LED panels\, accompanied by the deafening sound of soccer fan chants that lead into a fascinating visual space for the viewer: low-resolution scenes change from take to take in a rapid rhythm. Crowds from political protests and soccer stadiums are juxtaposed\, dissolving into a sea of color made of coarse image textures. The installation addresses a highly topical phenomenon: Whether at the Occupy movement in Spain\, the Istanbul Gezi Park revolt in the summer of 2013\, the unrest at Maidan Square in Kiev or\, most recently\, the riots in Chemnitz\, organized soccer fans\, so-called Ultras\, were involved. The installation by the Berlin based artist duo Wermke / Leinkauf is a powerful visual presentation of the sociopolitical potential of these groups\, which have existed since the 1970s and currently constitute the fastest growing youth subculture in Germany. \nCurator: Andreas Beitin \nProject management: Christian Haring \nThe exhibition is generously sponsored by the Stiftung Kunstfonds\, NRW Kultursekretariat and Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. \n \n  \n  \n  URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/wermke-leinkauf/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/4Halbzeit_02-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190222T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190630T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20180815T111838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T084717Z UID:14429-1550822400-1561914000@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Thrill of Deception DESCRIPTION:Opening: Thursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 7 pm \nWith 280\,000 visitors\, the exhibition in Munich was a real blockbuster. In February 2019\, the exhibition – a collaboration between the Kunsthalle Munich and the Ludwig Forum for International Art – is coming to Aachen. From February 22 to June 30\, 2019\, and with around 100 works\, it will offer an overview of appearance and illusion in art\, from antiquity to the latest virtual reality artworks. \nIn contrast to the exhibition in Munich\, the Ludwig Forum will focus more on contemporary art\, right through to immersive works that use digital technology to immerse viewers in artistic virtual worlds. Numerous works from the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig will contextualize and expand the exhibition. \nThe exhibition Thrill of Deception shows how artistic deception continually re-emerges\, readjusting to the shifting parameters of truth and lies\, existence and appearance\, reality and deception\, illusion and reality. In the 21st century\, the age of Photoshop\, fake news\, and social media bots\, the criteria formerly used to identify deception have been supplemented by hybrid forms such as “alternative truths” and “fictional reality\,” which contribute to a general sense of uncertainty. As a result\, it is almost impossible for modern humans to determine the truthfulness of this flood of images and information and thus to avoid being manipulated. \nIt is important here to refine our sense of objectivity and hone our senses. To this end\, the exhibition Thrill of Deception is supplemented by a rich event and education program that aims to stimulate a highly relevant discussion about the profound changes in the digital age and our society. \nArtists in the Exhibition: \nLaurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang\, Tim Berresheim\, Manuel Boden\, Louis-Léopold Boilly\, Mark Boyle\, Julius Brauckmann\, Cornelis Brisé\, Franz Buchholz\, Henri Cadiou\, Vija Celmins\, Oliver Cieslik & Barbara Schenk\, Chuck Close\, Edwaert Collier\, Daniel Crooks\, Matthew Day Jackson\, Jacques de Gheyn II\, John De Andrea\, Thomas Demand\, Melchior d´Hondecoeter\, Jan Dibbets\, Jim Dine\, Pierre Ducordeau\, Sam Durant\, Don Eddy\, Anna Ehrenstein\, Rainer Eisch\, Mona el Gammal\, Richard Estes\, De Scott Evans\, Firma Kraus\, Walchenbach & Peltzer\, Daniel Firman\, Sylvie Fleury\, Ceal Floyer\, Will Fredo\, Tom Früchtl\, Pierre Gilou\, Robert Gober\, Duane Hanson\, Jeppe Hein\, Oliver Herring\, Lynn Hershman\, Leeson\, Bastian Hoffmann\, Suse Itzel\, Christian Jankowski\, Karl-Heinz Jeiter\, Howard Kanovitz\, Alexander Kluge\, Thomas Lambertz\, Constantin Leonhard\, Auguste & Louis Lumière\, Emmanuel Maignan\, Manufaktur Choux\, Niderviller\, Straßburg\, Lucy McKenzie\, Georges Méliès\, Matthäus Merian d. Ä.\, Roland Mertens\, Philipp Messner\, Monogrammist CMK\, Vik Muniz\, Jud Nelson\, Till Nowak\, Evan Penny\, Markus Raetz\, Hans Peter Reuter\, Gerhard Richter\, Randall Rosenthal\, John Rummelhoff\, Andreas Slominski\, Monika Sosnowska\, Nancy Stevenson Graves\, Elaine Sturtevant\, Akihiko Taniguchi\, Toast VR\, Michael Triegel\, James Turrell\, Lina Uchida\, Ron van der Ende\, Han van Meegeren\, Jens Volbach\, Andy Warhol\, Julia Weißenberg\, Matthias Wollgast\, Liu Ye \nPublication \nAn extensive catalog accompanying the exhibition with 264 pages and approx. 200 color illustrations has been published by Hirmer Verlag. Edited by Andreas Beitin and Roger Diederen\, with contributions from the neurosciences as well as art\, cultural\, and media history by Andreas Beitin\, Ute Engel\, Margit Kern\, Rudolf E. Lang\, Susanna Partsch\, and Monika Wagner. \nCurator Team Aachen: Andreas Beitin and Annette Lagler \nCuratorial Assistant: Dominik Bönisch \nExhibition assistance: Marie Gentges \n  \n \n  \nhttps://youtu.be/oNHiE4telIo \n  \nUnknown\, Replica of a Wooden Door in Stone from the Mastaba of Seshemnefer (II.)\, from Giza\, Old Kingdom of Egypt\, 5th Dynasty\, c. 2400 BC\, 129.5 x 110.7 x 41.7 cm\, limestone\, Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim © Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim\, Photo © Shahrokh Shalchi \nGeorges Méliès\, Portrait of a Man\, c. 1883\, 63.5 x 52 cm\, oil/canvas\, Wallraf-Richartz Museum & the Fondation Corboud\, Cologne\, © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln\, rba_d031940\, photo © Sabrina Walz \nChuck Close\, Richard\, 1969\, acrylic\, charcoal and chalk on canvas\, 274 × 213 cm\, 274 × 213 cm Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen\, loan of the Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung © Chuck Close\, Courtesy Pace Gallery\, Foto © Ellen Page Wilson\, Courtesy Pace Gallery \nJames Turrell\, Elliptical Glass: KEPLER 452 b\, 2017\,Glass\, LED\, steel\, Corian\, opening 120 × 76 cm\, construction 240.6 × 135 × 37 cm\, 150 min. loop Private collectionVaduz\, Courtesy Häusler Contemporary\, München | Zürich\, © James Turrell\, Courtesy Häusler Contemporary München | Zürich\, Foto © Florian Holzherr. \nTim Berresheim\, Aspettatori bugged out I (Eye & World)\, 2014\, 240 x 180 cm\, diasec\, Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen\, loan of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation © Tim Berresheim and SNA – Studios New Amerika GmbH URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/thrill-of-deception/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Video-Screen.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181012T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190310T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20180809T050022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T061712Z UID:13334-1539331200-1552237200@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:The Invention of the Neue Wilde DESCRIPTION:Around 1980 they experimented with bold texts\, photographs\, fashion\, performance\, film\, music – and giant canvases. They found their subjects and motifs in the subcultures of large cities\, in the gay scene\, or in the punk and new wave movement. Museums and collectors seized upon the paintings of the Neue Wilde. Coined in Aachen by the founding director of the Ludwig Forum\, this group label soon became established in the media despite all the differences between the local scenes – and when many of the protagonists were already pursuing individual careers. \nToday\, the Neue Wilde are considered one of the last great artistic movements of the twentieth century. The success story of a young generation of German artists\, whose works were perceived internationally to be a revival of figurative painting\, has turned into a myth of art history. \nBesides the large-format paintings from the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig\, the exhibition will show numerous works and documents from the experimental early years of the artists and their milieu. They convincingly demonstrate the sheer diversity of the sources out of which this painting drew its exuberant energy. \nArtists: Hans Peter Adamski\, Peter Bömmels\, Werner Büttner\, Luciano Castelli\, Walter Dahn\, Jiÿí Georg Dokoupil\, Rainer Fetting\, G. L. Gabriel-Thieler\, Anne Jud\, Martin Kippenberger\, Helmut Middendorf\, Christa Näher\, Hilka Nordhausen\, Markus Oehlen\, Brigitta Rohrbach\, Salomé\, Bettina Semmer\, Bettina Sefkow\, Claudia Skoda\, Rolf von Bergmann\, Bernd Zimmer\, and others. \nA publication featuring scholarly essays\, interviews\, and historical source texts will be released in winter 2018/2019\, German/English\, ca. 280 pages. \n \n  \n \n  \nCarmen Knoebel\, Martin Kippenberger on drums\, exhibition opening 1st extraordinary event in sound and vision on the theme of time: Elend\, Kippenberger’s office\, Berlin 1979\, © Carmen Knoebel. \nInvitation to the exhibition Mülheimer Freiheit – Die Seefahrt und der Tod\, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven\, 1981\, © Photo: Mülheimer Freiheit\, Archive Peter Bömmels. \nSalomé / Luciano Castelli\, Salomé (right) at a performance of the band Geile Tiere as supporting act by Nina Hagen\, Deutschlandhalle\, Berlin\, 1982\, Photo: Helmut Metzner © VG Bild-Kunst\, Bonn 2018. URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/the-invention-of-the-neue-wilde/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/04-Salomé-_Luciano-Castelli-Tiere_ohne-Rahmen-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181002T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190210T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20180823T104959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181002T051151Z UID:13475-1538467200-1549818000@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:LuForm Meets RECIPROCITY DESCRIPTION:With LuForm Meets RECIPROCITY the LuForm. Design Department enters the next round. In cooperation with the design triennial RECIPROCITY with the motto “fragility” in Liège\, various contemporary design positions from Germany and abroad will be on display at the Ludwig Forum for International Art. These do not only deal with the topic of “fragility” on a structural and material level\, but also serve as reflections of our time and inspect political\, social and discourse fields that challenge a conscious approach between design object and the viewer / user. \nIn addition to controversial jewellery designs\, fragile fabrics and ceramics\, various design approaches are also presented\, which in a broader sense are dedicated to the topic of sustainability. Furthermore\, considerations on dealing with city and nature\, the use and influence of social media as well as questions on the subject of gender branding\, time constructions and mental illness find their way into the design drafts. \nLuForm Meets RECIPROCITY\nOpening: Tuesday 02.10.2018\, 7pm\nFree admission! \nDesigners: Anne Büscher\, Hugo Duina\, Camille El-Achkar\, Rachelle Hornesch\, Marco Iannicelli\, Maria J Juchnowska\, Laureline Lê\, Lieke Li\, Johannes Lindner\, Mariya Molotnikova\, Linda Nitsch\, Romina Patt & Eike Töllner\, Lukas Rudig\, Dana Sáez\, Alexander Schul\, Janika Slowik\, Giuditta Vendrame\, Michelle Zwinkels \nIn cooperation with RECIPROCITY Design.liège\, FH Aachen and designmetropole aachen. \nSupported by the Region Aachen. URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/luform-meets-reciprocity/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Mariya-Molotnikova-WTSHT_-©-Veronika-Schoberer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180921T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190113T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20180130T075401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T131806Z UID:11137-1537524000-1547398800@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Pattern and Decoration DESCRIPTION:Opening: Thursday\, September 20\, 2018\, 7 pm \nPatchworks and decorative patterns on the one hand and a political-emancipatory claim on the other – the Pattern and Decoration movement combines apparent contradictions. In the mid-1970s\, the movement developed in the USA as one of the last art movements of the 20th century\, brought forward by as many female artists as no other movement before. It was supported\, among others\, by feminist artists such as Joyce Kozloff\, Valerie Jaudon\, Robert Kushner and Miriam Schapiro. In reclaiming fantasy\, color\, variation of forms as well as sensuality\, they radically distinguished themselves from the predominant Minimal Art and Concept Art at that time. The movement questions not only traditional notions of art\, but also addresses broader political and social issues like the position of women\, of Native Americans\, or ethnic minorities in the global art scene. Pattern and Decoration represents an alternative to a male-dominated understanding of art that is globally influenced by the values of Western industrial states. The movement’s political and global aspiration is articulated through an aesthetic of captivating ease and seductive beauty: with works that celebrate sensuality\, fantasy and color and through which social-critically contents\, as well as an immediate lust for life\, are conveyed. \nThe works of this movement have received little attention in Europe so far. The Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen\, home to the largest public European collection of Pattern and Decoration artworks\, now undertakes a first comprehensive reappraisal and reassessment of the artistic movement through this exhibition and publication project. \nThe exhibition will present about 65 works that demonstrate the movement’s diversity for the very first time in Europe: the spectrum of artistic forms ranges from mosaics influenced by oriental art\, monumental textile collages\, paintings\, and graphic works through to room-sized installations and video performances. More recent works by Polly Apfelbaum\, Christine Streuli\, and Rashid Rana\, among others\, show how the achievements of Pattern and Decoration continue to resonate to this day in terms of both form and content. The movement’s interest in pictorial elements from non-Western art is more topical than ever\, especially in light of the rekindled discussion surrounding a “global art history” – a regular subject negotiated at major art shows like documenta. Moving beyond notorious stigma of “ornament as crime” (Adolf Loos\, 1908)\, it becomes clear that despite all their decorative effects\, ornaments have always been symbolically important and crucial means for expressing worldviews. To this very day\, they still serve artists as a tool to reflect on their own culture and criticize\, for instance\, political systems\, the traditional roles imposed on women\, social conventions and expectations. \nThe publication accompanying the exhibitions will be published in both German and English by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König\, and provides a comprehensive review of the Pattern and Decoration movement based on extensive new scholarly research. It features contributions by Manuela Ammer\, Esther Boehle\, Michael Duncan\, Holger Otten\, and Anne Swartz as well as historical texts by Amy Goldin\, Valerie Jaudon/Joyce Kozloff\, and Harald Szeemann. Edited by Esther Boehle (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen) and Manuela Ammer (mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien). \nArtists of the exhibition: Polly Apfelbaum\, Adriana Czernin\, Brad Davis\, Frank Faulkner\, Tina Girouard\, Dan Hays\, Valerie Jaudon\, Joyce Kozloff\, Robert Kushner\, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt\, Kim MacConnel\, Rashid Rana\, Miriam Schapiro\, Kendall Shaw\, Christine Streuli\, Ned Smyth\, Lee Wagstaff\, Heike Weber\, Robert Zakanitch\, Joe Zucker \nCurator: Esther Boehle \nCuratorial assistant: Denise Petzold \nSupporters: With generous support of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation\, Terra Foundation for American Art\, Stiftung der Sparda-Bank West \nThe project was initiated by the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen and realized in cooperation with the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. Following the venues in Aachen and Vienna\, the exhibition will be on view at the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art\, Budapest.  \n \n r\n Previous\n Next \nInstallation views\, Pattern and Decoration\, Photos: Ludwig Forum Aachen / Carl Brunn URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/pattern-and-decoration/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Unbenannt-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180420 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180820 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170913T113405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T062846Z UID:10157-1524182400-1534723199@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Flashes of the Future DESCRIPTION:Opening: Thursday\, 19th April 2018\, 7 pm \n1968 – No other year in the 20th century is given such a symbolic and iconic status\, no other year is studded with myths\, evokes associations\, viewed with bias\, and kindles emotions. A year in which protests\, upheavals\, and even revolutions took place in numerous countries around the globe: May 1968 stands for international youth and protest cultures in 56 countries\, 22 European ones amongst them\, but also for an art breaking out of its elitist ivory tower – parallel to this\, masses of individuals in the Western world begin to strive for autonomy. It is first through the interaction between students\, intellectuals\, and artists that a cultural revolution capable of disrupting the authoritarian structures of societies in both East and West could take place. Above all\, artists\, declaring the artwork to be obsolete while in part working massively against the art market and a commercially utilizable commodity ‘art’\, contributed significantly to the desires and the imaginative visions of the student movement finding expression in provocative and pithy signs and images and exerting power over reality (“all power to the imagination!”). \nFrom the distance of half a century\, 2018 is the perfect opportunity to take a comprehensive and transdisciplinary look at this key year of the twentieth century (and its place as the midpoint of a decade). The exhibition will show and analyze for the first time the ideas\, actions\, myths\, and self-interpretations of this generation by concurrently looking at them through the mirror of artistic productions and practices. Ultimately\, the aim is to provide a new and critical perspective on the years around 1968. \nThe International Newspaper Museum Aachen as cooperation partner\, will fulfill the ambitions of the exhibition and publication project with a special contribution – a satellite exhibition focusing on the role of the media. Of particular interest here is the influence exerted by the Hamburg-based publishing house Springer on public opinion in the 1960s and how this influence was generated and used. \nIn conjunction with the exhibition\, a comprehensive publication will appear in the “Zeitbilder” series of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (eds. Andreas Beitin and Eckhart Gillen). \nA cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education\, the Internationales Zeitungsmuseum Aachen and the University Archives of the RWTH Aachen University. \nWith generous support from the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia\, the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation\, the Kulturstiftung der Länder\, and the LVR – Quality for People. \nPatron of the exhibition: Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier \nCurators: Andreas Beitin und Eckhart Gillen\nProject management: Esther Boehle\nCuratorial assistants: Sabine Halver and Sonja Wunderlich URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/flashes-of-the-future/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Guttuso-Maggio-1968-Carl-Brunn-Kopie-sehrklein.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180323T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180923T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20180118T090222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T063029Z UID:11037-1521792000-1537722000@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Valdis Āboliņš DESCRIPTION:Opening Thursday\, 22.03.2018\, 7 pm \nOn July 20\, 1964\, when artists such as Joseph Beuys\, Wolf Vostell and Robert Filliou – the leaders of the FLUXUS movement – appeared in the Audimax of the Technische Hochschule in Aachen\, the performative avant-garde art had struck a bang. Āboliņš\, the cultural representative of the student council\, had invited to the scandalous action. \nThe Latvian Valdis Āboliņš (1939-1984) was not only the driving force behind numerous art events at Aachen’s university in the late 1960s. The Galerie Aachen\, which he co-founded\, showed legendary exhibitions and performances by artists such as Jörg Immendorff\, Franz Erhard Walther\, Günther Brus\, Peter Roehr and Per Kirkeby. Although Āboliņš was one of the most central figures in the local avant-garde scene\, his personality was largely concealed behind the art actions he initiated. \nThe exhibition presents the life and work of Valdis Āboliņš by means of photographs\, films and original documents. Letters from his estate\, which document the close contact with prominent artists of his time\, are on public display for the first time. The presentation is the prelude to the exhibition Flashes of the Future. The Art of the 1968s or the Power of the Powerless (20.04.18–19.08.18) and emerged in cooperation with the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art (LCCA) in Riga. \n  \nCurators: Ieva Astahovska / Benjamin Dodenhoff URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/valdis-abolins/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Film-36_-24a.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180219 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170918T072348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211005T083640Z UID:10166-1510876800-1518998399@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:dis/order DESCRIPTION:Framed by the hundred-year anniversary of the October Revolution and the presidential election in Russia in March 2018\, the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst looks at the situations and aesthetic forms of the political in contemporary art. In stark contrast to the perestroika years and the decade that followed\, the 1990s\, the pressure placed on a politically engaged art has increased continually in recent years. In response to the repressive practices of the “guided democracy\,” many artists of the post-perestroika generation – a lot of them are born in the 1980s – have developed strategies of artistic resistance ranging from subtle expressions of discontent to open protest. Their sphere of activity is the public space and the Internet. The exhibition will explore a range of artistic positions from critical social analysis to political actions – both of which have an obvious affinity with the political activism of opposition movements – to sociopolitical utopias. \nWhile the exhibition has been organized chronologically\, the works of art are grouped according to specific characteristics that aim to contextualize artistic practices and activities. Categories include\, for example\, the legacy of communism in Russia\, anarchism and punk culture\, feminism\, and stereotypes\, as well as the support of migrants and minorities in Russia. At the same time\, this classification poses the question of where the boundaries lie between art and activism and their strategies and movements. Archival material that documents the history of the censored exhibitions “Beware\, Religion!” (2003) and “Forbidden Art” (2007) will accompany the artistic and activist positions of the exhibition\, as well as a timeline that will highlight important political and artist-activist events from 2000 to the present. \nArtists of the exhibition: Blue Noses\, Bombily\, Chto Delat\, FFC (The Factory of Found Clothes)\, Gluklya (Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya)\, Gogol’s Wives\, Alexey Iorsh\, Olga Jitlina\, Maria Kiselyeva\, Victoria Lomasko\, Artem Loskutov\, MediaImpact\, Denis Mustafin/ Vlad Chizhenkov/ Georgy Dorokhov\, Nadenka Creative Association\, Katrin Nenasheva\, Anatoly Osmolovsky/ Nongovernmental Control Commission\, Partizaning\, PG Group\, Pussy Riot\, Queer-Feminist Affinity Art Group „Unwanted Organisation“\, #quietprotest\, Radek Community\, Timofei Radya\, Polina Rodriques\, Shvemy Sewing Cooperative\, Sveta Shuvaeva\, The Trade Union of Street Artists\, Tsvetafor\, Urbanfeminism\, Verhotura and Friends\, Voina/Moscow\, Alisa Yoffe\, ZIP Group. \nAccompanying the exhibition there is a publication (352 pp.\, Ger./Eng./Russ.)\, with contributions by Ilmira Bolotyan\, Jena Jonson\, Holger Otten\, Anna Saytseva\,Tatjana Volkova\, and Yevgenia Zubchenko (ISBN 978-3-929292-59-6). \nCurated by Holger Otten and Tatiana Volkova \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nExhibition views\, photos: Ludwig Forum Aachen/Carl Brunn \n  \nThe ex­hi­bi­tion is gener­ous­ly sup­port­ed by URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/disorder/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/nenasheva_2a_web.kl_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180416 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170613T054530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T072113Z UID:9709-1510185600-1523836799@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Digital Games DESCRIPTION:Opening: 11/08/2017\, 7 pm \nOXO\, Pong\, Pac Man\, Tetris\, Pokémon\, Mario\, The Sims\, Counter Strike – the success story of computer\, console and video games reflects not only the ‘digital turn’ and the profound and dramatic change in culture and society associated with it\, but also\, and in equal measure\, the irrepressible play instinct of homo ludens. \nSince the mid-1990s\, artists have been turning their attention to computer games\, seeking to exploit their potential as artistic material or exploring their influences on culture. As long ago as 2005\, the Ludwig Forum staged an exhibition on the issue: Artgames – Analogies between Art and Games. In the meantime\, the digital gaming landscape has gone through enormous changes. Today\, computer games are produced with budget extravagance comparable to that of Hollywood blockbusters\, and millions of gamers around the world are measuring their skills with each other in the arena of so-called eSport. Reason enough for a critical review of computer-culture developments over recent years and of the relationship between interactive art games and artistic modes of play. \nThe Aachen exhibition is designed to be fun\, but also to explore and highlight the significance of digital games as a medium\, and the phenomenon of playfulness itself. A selection of digital games and interactive installations will be on show\, inviting young visitors\, in particular\, to participate\, experience and reflect. \n  \nCurator: Prof. Dr. Stephan Schwingeler \nIn cooperation with the Next Level Festival in the NRW Forum\, Duesseldorf.\nFrom 09.11. to 12.11.2017\, the Next Level Festival will bring together creative gamers\, artists\, game developers\, media educators and commercial enterprises in a grand networking of fans and specialists of the digital culture scene.\nwww.next-level.org \nSponsored by Regio IT Aachen \n  \n  \nSee also the exhibition trailer of Digital Games (in German) URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/digital-games/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Everything_15-David-OReilly-2017.-klein.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180226 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170815T084920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T103349Z UID:10113-1508630400-1519603199@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Noemi Weber / Nobuyuki Osaki DESCRIPTION:Opening: Saturday 21.10.2017\, 6 pm \nParallel opening\nSat 21.10.2017\, 3 pm Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster\nSat 21.10.2017\, 7 pm Neuer Aachener Kunstverein \nIn a concentrated space\, this dual exhibition shows how differently contemporary artists deal with colour. For the Ludwig Forum for International Art\, Noemi Weber has created a ‘location-related’ work of art in which the materiality of the colours interrelates with the surrounding space\, blurring the boundaries between sculpture and painting. In the video installation created by Nobuyuki Osaki\, the depiction of a landscape dissolves\, as if in slow motion\, into ethereal streaks and smears of colour. The hypnotic effect might seem at first sight to be computer-generated\, but is in fact the product of a physical melting process of colour particles. \nThis presentation is part of the research project The Invention of the Neue Wilde. \n  \nCurator: Benjamin Dodenhoff \nCuratorial assistant: Ramona Heinlein URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/noemi-weber-nobuyuki-osaki/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1711_Weber-1769_220px.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170908 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180219 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170317T101006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T102307Z UID:9166-1504828800-1518998399@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Art x Cuba DESCRIPTION:“Cuba libre” and the Caribbean\, art and clichés – from the eternal revolutionary heroes to colorful street scenes: hardly any other country in the world has such an intense collective memory of images that are so marked by joie de vivre\, the urge for freedom\, but also by socio-political challenges and crises. \nThe exhibition Art x Cuba. Contemporary Perspectives since 1989 – made possible thanks to the generous support of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation and the German Federal Cultural Foundation – has its origin in a large collection of Cuban art in the Ludwig Collection. These works were exhibited at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1990 in the exhibition Kuba o.k.–Aktuelle Kunst aus Kuba [Kuba o.k. – Contemporary art from Cuba]. Most of the works presented there were purchased by Peter and Irene Ludwig and have since been in the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst. Together with later acquisitions\, they form one of the largest and first collections of contemporary Cuban art in Europe. \nIn the context of the exhibition Art x Cuba\, the collection’s own works of the “historical” show Cuba o. k. have been put together again to a large extent for the first time in around 25 years and will be subjected to a revision: How has the reception of the paintings\, sculptures and installations changed since their purchase\, which themes and motifs are still important\, how have the artistic strategies\, media and formal practices developed? To what extent and in what form did Cuban art take part in the developments of Western art in the 20th century and where did it go its own way? \nWith around 150 works of art by more than 70 artists\, Art x Cuba is the largest presentation of contemporary Cuban art in Germany to date. For the first time\, it complements the works in the Ludwig Collection with those of a younger generation of Cuban artists. Art x Cuba thus offers a deeper insight into the development of the visual arts in the Caribbean state within the last three decades – a time of crises and attempts to overcome them. The exhibition not only opens up a discussion on the aesthetic\, content and formal developments of Cuban art\, but also raises questions about the relationship between culture and politics\, art and the market\, globalization and power. \nAgainst the background of Peter and Irene Ludwig’s many years of activity in Cuba and the establishment of the independent Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in 1994 to support the Cuban art scene\, the exhibition Art x Cuba – especially against the backdrop of the current global and internal situation\, which could represent a historic turning point for Cuba – aims to further deepen and continue the cultural dialogue between the two countries. \nArtists: Juan Carlos Alom\, Rubén Alpízar\, Tanya Angulo\, Belkis Ayón\, Juan Pablo Ballester\, José Bedia\, Alejandro Campins\, María Magdalena Campos-Pons\, Raúl Cañibano\, Iván Capote\, Yoan Capote\, Carlos Martiel\, Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas\, Los Carpinteros (Alexandre Arrechea\, Marco Castillo\, Dagoberto Rodríguez)\, Yaima Carrazana\, Javier Castro\, Celia – Yunior\, Jeanette Chavez\, Ariamna Contino\, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo\, DIP (Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas)\, Felipe Dulzaides\, Ricardo G. Elías\, Enema Collective\, Alexis Esquivel\, Tomás Esson Reid\, Carlos Estévez\, Leandro Feal\, Adrián Fernández Milanés\, Adonis Flores\, Diana Fonseca Quiñones\, René Francisco Rodríguez\, Fidel García\, Lázaro García\, Rocío García\, Carlos García de la Nuez\, Kattia García Fayat\, Flavio Garciandía\, Luis Gárciga Romay\, Luis Gómez Armenteros\, Alejandro González\, Jesús Hdez-Güero\, Alex Hernández\, Diango Hernández\, Orestes Hernández\, Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado)\, Tony Labat\, Ernesto Leal\, Glenda León\, Miguel Moya\, Glexis Novoa\, Antonio Nuñez Hernández\, Ernesto Oroza\, Marianela Orozco\, Ramón Pacheco\, René Peña\, Marta María Pérez Bravo\, Michel Pérez Pollo\, Manuel Piña-Baldoquín\, Mabel Poblet\, Eduardo Ponjuán\, Wilfredo Prieto\, Renier Quer\, Sandra Ramos\, Grethell Rasúa\, Fernando Rodríguez\, Ricardo Rodríguez Brey\, Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal\, Lázaro Saavedra\, José A. Toirac\, Rubén Torres Llorca\, Ileana Villazón\, Jorge Wellesley\, Osvaldo Yero \n  \nWith generous support of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation and the German Federal Cultural Foundation. \nPatron of the exhibition: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel \nCurators: Andreas Beitin and Antonio Eligio (Tonel) \nCuratorial assistants: Janice Mitchell and Denise Petzold \n  \nSee also the exhibition trailer of Art x Cuba\n \nMore information about the artworks can be found in our short guide (please see link). URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/kunst-x-kuba/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Fernández_Cosmonaut-in-search-of-orientation-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170602 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171030 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170302T125538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T064407Z UID:8793-1496361600-1509321599@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Franz Erhard Walther DESCRIPTION:To mark the awarding of the Aachen Art Prize to Franz Erhard Walther\, the Ludwig Forum is staging a solo exhibition of the artist’s work in summer. Since the 1960s Walther has challenged the traditional notion of sculpture like no other artist of his generation\, extending and decisively changing our ideas about sculpture. The body\, time\, space\, language\, gestures – Walther includes all these materials into his sculptural works and installations. Liberated from just passively looking on\, the viewer is not only animated to intellectually\, emotionally\, and at times directly engage physically with Walther’s action objects but also to let the respective sculpture happen as a whole. The Aachen exhibition shows a representative selection of textile works\, floor sculptures\, and work drawings from different decades\, shedding light on Franz Walther’s central role as a pioneer of participatory art. \nThe Aachen Art Prize is donated by the Verein der Freunde of the Ludwig Forum\, the City of Aachen\, and the Aachen business community. It is awarded biannually by an international jury to artists whose innovative work has impacted on the international art scene. Worth 10 000 Euros\, the Prize also features an exhibition in the Ludwig Forum. \nCurators: Andreas Beitin and Esther Boehle\n \nWatch the trailer of Franz Erhard Walther. Handlung denken \n \n \n \n Franz Erhard Walther. Handlung denken (Thinking Action)\, Installation Views \n \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\n© VG Bild-Kunst\, Bonn 2017\, Photos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen\n \n Franz Erhard Walther. Thinking Action\, award ceremony & opening \n \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Fabian Nawrath URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/franz-erhard-walther-thinking-action/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1.1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170519 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170925 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170127T102300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170719T131614Z UID:9135-1495152000-1506297599@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Erik Levine DESCRIPTION:What makes a man a ‘real’ man? What do rituals of masculinity involve\, how do men face up to the challenges they pose\, how do they deal with failure? The American artist Erik Levine (*1960 Los Angeles) analyzes our society and its norms\, rituals\, and masculine stereotypes in his video works. With empathy but nonetheless uncompromising\, Levine circles in on the relationship between life and death\, social norms\, idealized images and stark reality. Far from being documentary\, Levine’s videos approach their subjects with striking and telling images as well as intensive sounds: the sport training drills adolescent boys are pushed through\, the tenderness with which men prepare their gamecocks for battle in the arena\, the stoically performed work in a slaughterhouse\, or the decline and imminent death in an old age home. \nThe publication Erik Levine. As a Matter of Fact\n With essays by Andreas Beitin\, Leonhard Emmerling\, Leila Farsakh and Berta Sichel and an interview by Hugh Davies with the artist (German/ english\, ed. by Andreas Beitin and Leonhard Emmerling\, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst\,  32 €/ special offer Ludwig Forum: 29 €). \nCurator: Andreas Beitin \n \n Watch the trailer of Erik Levine. As a Matter of Fact \n \n\n  \n Erik Levine. As a Matter of Fact\, Installation Views\n \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\n Photos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/erik-levine-as-a-matter-of-fact/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Cock-in-Sling_original1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170409 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171002 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170220T132557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T061616Z UID:8781-1491696000-1506902399@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Visual Screams DESCRIPTION:In 1978 the first wall paintings by an anonymous street artist appeared in Aachen. Completed overnight\, the political images captivate passersby with their explosive colors and angular-edged figures. Many of them also include textual appeals and warnings on controversial social and political issues. It was in 1989 that Klaus Paier (1945-2009) first acknowledges these “visual screams”\, as he calls them\, as his own work. During his student years he develops a distinctive visual language along with his friend Josef Stöhr\, leaving an impression on the streets of Aachen for many years to come. \nAlong with photographs of the mural paintings\, most of which no longer exist today\, the exhibition shows for the first time sketches from the artist’s estate. The exhibition is part of the new research project Die Erfindung der Neuen Wilden. \nClick here to read the brochure of the exhibition! \nCurators: Marlen Lienkamp and Benjamin Dodenhoff \n  \nVisual Screams. The Aachen mural painter Klaus Paier\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn/ Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/visual-screams/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Paier_Der-grosse-Krieg_1980-kl.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170717 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170221T081946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T070310Z UID:7763-1490313600-1500249599@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Armin Linke DESCRIPTION:For more than 20 years now\, in his photography Armin Linke has been documenting the impact of globalization\, the transformation of cities into mega-cities\, and the networking of postindustrial society through information and communication technologies. His shots capture the profound economic\, ecological\, and geological changes our high-tech world is going through in the Anthropocene age. \nScholars and theorists like Ariella Azoulay\, Lorraine Daston\, Frank Farelli\, Bruno Latour\, Peter Weibel\, Marc Wigley and Jan Zalasiewicz will be invited to engage with Armin Linke’s visual archive for The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen. \nProduced by ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe and Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC)\, Milan\, in cooperation with Ludwig Forum Aachen \nCurator: Andreas Beitin and Annette Lagler \nWatch the trailer of Armin Linke. The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/armin-linke-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2015_globale_infosphare_linke_002-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180101 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20161221T080330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T063150Z UID:8231-1489104000-1514764799@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:LuForm DESCRIPTION:Opening LuForm 5: Thu 22.02.2018\, 7 pm \n“Art makes originals. Design series. […] Design is focused on the feasible. Art is utopia. Design must be tangible and understandable. Not art […]”\, so the typographer and designer Kurt Weidemann described the difference between art and design. In the Ludwig Forum we show both: art and design! \nThe Department of Form and Design\, which was opened in March 2017 at the Ludwig Forum\, has grown and grown over the last few months… Starting with innovative design objects from the region\, the focus has increasingly shifted to universities of applied sciences for design\, so that a fascinating spectrum of ideas\, materials and application options is now on display. In accordance with the dynamics of the exhibition\, which is designed as a “blog roll”\, the first objects fall down “behind” and are replaced by new ones. We have invited young designers from Aachen\, Dortmund\, Offenbach and Karlsruhe to present their objects\, clothing\, furniture and jewelry. So look forward to the next update with us! \nIn cooperation with and curated by designmetropole Aachen\, Design Department/FH Aachen and Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen.\nSupported by Region Aachen and Mathes \nLuForm. Design Department\, Update 5\nThu 22.02.2018\, 7 pm\nFree admission! \n \n  \nWatch the trailer for LuForm. Design Department URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/luform-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/suelzkotlett_PYG_split_personality_closet_IMG_7286_7288.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170327 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20161027T055259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T143034Z UID:7757-1479340800-1490572799@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Interior x Exterior DESCRIPTION:Mies van der Rohe founded the concept of ‘free-flowing space’\, of the more or less seamless merging of outside and inside. Accompanying Mies van der Rohe: The MoMA Collages\, the exhibition Interior x Exterior presents artworks from the Ludwig Collection that explore architectural views from outside and in. Covering a diverse array of media\, artists such as Roy Lichtenstein\, Ben Schonzeit and Ira Joel Haber examine architecture’s many manifestations. Design and architecture become artistic motifs. \nWhat is hidden behind the façade? What does the voyeuristic gaze uncover in the interior space? The interior – according to Bazon Brock\, the ‘universe of the soul’ – allows us to peek inside the subconscious of humankind. The exterior\, on the other hand\, is ostensibly a bulwark that protects us from inquisitive intrusions into the private sphere. In his photographic work\, Brüssel #2\, Matthias Hoch focuses on the exterior\, the closed barrier\, the protective wall. The transparent miniature worlds of Robert Graham\, on the other hand\, investigate the border between inner and outer: nude wax figures in a Plexiglas box expose themselves in their nakedness\, with small wooden sticks offering scant protection. Our gaze penetrates the architecture and uncovers the most intimate details. \nShown over two exhibition spaces at the Ludwig Forum\, interior is separated from exterior\, but both invite the visitor into the intimate and public\, the closed-off and passionately open-minded visual-art spaces of the Ludwig Collection. \nArtists of the exhibition: Herbert Albert\, Sibylle Bergemann\, Donna Dennis\, Rackstraw Downes\, Erró\, Richard Estes\, Gilbert & George\, Robert Graham\, Ira Joel Haber\, Matthias Hoch\, Hans-Martin Küsters\, Roy Lichtenstein\, Gordon Matta-Clark\, Jacques Monory\, Albert Oehlen\, Philip Pearlstein\, Viktor Pivovarov\, Michail Romadin\, Ben Schonzeit\, Rudolf Schoofs\, Wilhelm Schürmann\, Aleksandr Sovlačkov\, Thomas Steinert\, Andrej Volkov\, Oleg Vukolov\, Andy Warhol\, Rachel Whiteread. \nCurator: Vanessa Roder \nSupported by loans from the Collection Gabriele Koenig \nInterieur x Exterieur (Interior x Exterior)\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/interior-x-exterior/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Haber.kl_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161028 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170213 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20170110T151553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180809T091142Z UID:6365-1477612800-1486943999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Mies van der Rohe DESCRIPTION:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969)\, one of the 20th century’s most important architects\, created numerous montages and collages between 1910 and 1965 that are fascinating illustrations of the design principles of his architecture. These works\, most of them large-format\, are far more than merely sketches that accompanied his creative process as an architect. They are works of art in their own right that show Mies van der Rohe’s structural vision in its purest form. Now the Ludwig Forum Aachen has organized a first-time exhibition of this amount of collages\, set in the context of modern and contemporary art and featuring about 50 loans from New York’s MoMA\, the Museum of Modern Art. \nLike almost no other visual art technique\, collage and photomontage reflect the aesthetic principles\, the zeitgeist\, and the attitude to life of Modernism. At the beginning of the 20th century\, war\, revolution and industrialization caused a shift in the way the modern world and progress were experienced and perceived\, a shift that found expression in equal measure in newspapers and magazines\, in visual and performing arts. Collage and photomontage were also soon being used in architecture. Influenced by Dada\, Constructivism\, and De Stijl\, Mies van der Rohe exploited these new techniques – to a far greater extent than most of his contemporaries – to visualize his creative ideas on “New Building” (Neues Bauen). \nMies’s use of abrupt changes of viewpoint\, freedom from perspective\, place and time\, montage of found elements and an aesthetic focus on mixed media places him in the same historical context as artists and experimental filmmakers like Kurt Schwitters\, Theo van Doesburg\, Hans Richter\, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy\, to name but a few of the protagonists of the artistic avant-garde of that period\, who contextualize Mies’s works in the exhibition. \nThe timeframe covered by the exhibition stretches from a first design draft for a proposed Bismarck Monument on the Rhine (1910) which was submitted jointly by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his brother Ewald Mies\, through his visionary projects for Glass Skyscrapers in Berlin (1922)\, and activities in the USA from 1937/38 to his later works\, like the design for the New National Gallery in Berlin from the 1960s. On the one hand\, the presentation of the works follows a chronology of Mies’s designs and projects\, on the other hand it explores the historical and artistic context. Special attention is paid to the fluid boundaries between fine art and architecture. In all his collages\, Mies used reproductions of works by artists he was friends with\, he highly appreciated\, whose works he partially actually collected himself\, and who obviously had special significance in terms of his aesthetics. Especially he chose to integrate into his collages works by Paul Klee\, Wilhelm Lehmbruck\, Georges Braque\, and Aristide Maillol. Selected works by some of these artists are also on show in the exhibition to visualize his free and innovative approach to the arts. \nIn the exhibition the strategies\, innovations and formulations of the architect over more than half a century are displayed from biographical\, chronological\, and project-related perspectives. The exhibition will be accompanied en passant by works of contemporary artists who\, like Sarah Morris\, Thomas Ruff\, Julia Weisenberg\, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle\, Christian Odzuck or Mischa Kuball directly address Mies’s oeuvre or conceived art works especially for this Exhibition. \nArtists of the exhibition: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / context positions: Theo van Doesburg\, Viking Eggeling\, Hannah Höch\, Wassily Kandinsky\, Paul Klee\, Wilhelm Lehmbruck\, El Lissitzky\, László Moholy-Nagy\, Hans Richter\, Alexander Rodtschenko\, Kurt Schwitters\, Robert Sennecke\, Alfred Stieglitz / contemporary positions: Mischa Kuball\, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle\, Sarah Morris\, Christian Odzuck\, Thomas Ruff\, Julia Weißenberg. \nParallel to the exhibition a publication will be released´ that shall explore in a monograph for the first time the collages and photo montages of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Numerous internationally renowned authors will shed light on the works from a variety of perspectives and place them in different contexts (incl. Martino Stierli\, Barry Bergdoll\, Dietrich Neumann\, Lutz Robbers\, Adrian Sudhalter). \nThe exhibition will also be shown at the Museum Georg Schäfer in Schweinfurt:\nFebruary 26\, 2017 – May 28\, 2017 \nIdea: Brigitte Franzen\nCurators: Andreas Beitin and Holger Otten\nProject management and curatorial assistance: Lena Büchel and Anna Pickel \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nExhibition views\, photos: Ludwig Forum Aachen/Carl Brunn \n  URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/mies-van-der-rohe-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1_Anzeige-Mies-van-der-Rohe.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161009 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170213 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20161206T125709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161020T090932Z UID:7189-1475971200-1486943999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Plattform Aachen: Perspektive 04 DESCRIPTION:In the series Perspective\, the research project Platform Aachen invites young artists from the Rhine-Maas Region to exhibit their work. Timo Seber (*1984\, Cologne) combines objects\, graphic art\, and text to visualize the economic and aesthetic phenomena of the internet and online gaming. E-sports events in front of a live audience and gaming apps are booming branches of the economy. Professional players can earn more here than in many long-established sports. Moreover\, computer games run contrary to the entrenched view that sporting contests are mainly about athletic performance. But are they thus disembodied? Somewhere between the digital display and a sweaty teenage room\, the virtual generates physical movement\, while gaming apps send their users to collect virtual trophies at real places. The console and keyboard were never the opposed to the body\, but always designed to be its extension. \nTimo Seber’s works sensitively trace the threshold zone where the aesthetic of immaterial computer images and physical activity merge. He has developed a site-specific work for the Ludwig Forum. \nCurator: Benjamin Dodenhoff \nBrochure PDF  \n  \nPerspektive 04: Timo Seber – GO\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/plattform-aachen-perspektive-04/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Seber_FakeCurrency-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170109 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20160908T060159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T083913Z UID:7257-1474329600-1483919999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Pictures by Refugee Children DESCRIPTION:The number of people currently forcibly displaced by war and persecution has surpassed the 60 million mark. Half of them are children. Very few of them reach Europe\, even fewer Germany\, and hardly any Aachen. They arrive with images imprinted in their minds and souls which every mother and father in Germany would do their utmost to prevent their children from seeing. For us\, excruciating\, unbearable to see\, for them part of everyday life for the first few years of their lives. And while fleeing they were also often caught in life-threatening situations. At the accommodation facility in Aachen’s Körner barracks\, the Aachen artist Mohammad Ahmad\, who himself fled from the Iraq-Iran War\, has been painting with the children since the fall of 2015\, depicting with them their sadness and fears but also their hopes and impressions upon finally arriving somewhere. This cultural first aid by the Barockfabrik\, a center for children and youth culture\, has since developed into the Open Studio\, a creative meeting place for all open-minded people in Aachen. \nSeveral hundred pictures by minor-age refugees are now on show in the Ludwig Forum until January 8 2017. The pictures do not aspire to being works of art. The majority are abstract\, and one can only imagine what the children may have witnessed on their journey. Although most do not strive to actually represent a scene or an incident\, some pictures nevertheless show very concrete moments\, such as drowning or death\, having a direct and vivid impression on the Viewer.\n \nDuration: September\, 20\, 2016 (World Children’s Day) to January\, 8\, 2017 URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/bilder-von-gefluechteten-kindern/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20160825_081025-rotated.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160702 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160926 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20110106T074024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T102347Z UID:5786-1467417600-1474847999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Plattform Aachen DESCRIPTION:In a comprehensive overview the research project Plattform Aachen examines the eventful founding phase of the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen. Revealing contemporary documents allow us to closely follow the process of development\, which went on for years and was often characterized by tension. Which decisions taken by local politicians led to abandoning the original idea of a new building on Monheimsallee\, and thus eventually to the complex renovation project for the former umbrella factory of Emil Brauer and Co. in Jülicher Strasse? In 1991 contemporary art\, at home for the previous 20 years in the Neue Galerie\, found its destination in the historical factory building. Under the title of a new kind of Museum\, the Ludwig Forum\, as a center for world art\, broke new ground with its innovative concept and multi-disciplinary program\, instantly becoming a location for artistic encounters and action\, for discussion\, and for active engagement with music\, dance\, poetry\, and film. Historical photos\, newspaper articles\, original documents\, and television reports from the Forum’s archives illustrate the turbulent planning phase through to the spectacular opening of the Ludwig Forum 25 years ago. \nCurators: Marlen Lienkamp and Benjamin Dodenhoff \nPlattform Aachen: The Ludwig Forum – Idea\, Planning\, Realization\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/platform-aachen-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Eröffnung-Ludwigs.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160702 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160926 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20110105T090507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170424T075045Z UID:5791-1467417600-1474847999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Around the world in 86 days DESCRIPTION:The exhibition collects works from countries across the globe to mark the birthday celebrations. Important landmark works of Pop Art\, Hyperrealism\, and graffiti as well as exciting pieces by artists from Africa\, Europe\, the Orient\, Latin America\, and Asia – these represent the uniquely broad panoramic perspective on art that the Ludwig Forum stands for. \nIndividual works conjure memories of largescale projects on art from Africa\, Cuba\, and China. These exhibition projects were pioneer undertakings\, of outstanding importance in raising the profile and appreciation of foreign cultural worlds in Europe. They testify to the programmatic direction of the Ludwig Forum: to present and popularize the driving forces behind a global artistic creativity. \nOther works – for example Transition by A. R. Penck\, Step of the Century by Wolfgang Mattheuer\, Sunrise or Sunset by Eric Bulatov\, and Many Glasnosts by Dimitry Prigov – represent the programmatic juxtaposition of art from the east and west\, which the Forum continually reflected on and presented against the backdrop of the collapse of the decades-long east-west divide in Europe. \nPosters and digital photos as well as timeline on the long wall in front of the light tower\, listing all the exhibitions since 1991\, complete the exhibition. \nCurator: Dr. Annette Lagler \nAround the world in 86 days\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/around-the-world-in-86-days/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/jungle-jism_klein-300x2561.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160403 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160627 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20100614T204351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180809T102324Z UID:6213-1459641600-1466985599@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Plattform Aachen: Perspektive 03 DESCRIPTION:David Bernstein\, Jason Hendrik Hansma\, Stéphanie Lagarde\, Brenda Tempelaar \nThe Ludwig Forum is taking a look at the current art scene in the Meuse-Rhine region with a small exhibition series. For Perspektive 03 we have invited four artists from the Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Although significant differences are evident\, the works of David Bernstein\, Jason Hendrik Hansma\, Stéphanie Lagarde\, and Brenda Tempelaar reveal a shared interest in exploring objects which\, to draw on Paul Valéry\, may be said to be “more intelligible to view and more mysterious to reflect upon”. \nAlmost 100 years ago Marcel Duchamp tried to smuggle his Fountain\, the urinal turned upside down\, into the exhibition space under a false name – this rupturing into its function as an object of use and an artwork ultimately led to the reversed thing not being exhibited. As it was then shown after all at Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291 in New York – and not at the large show put on by the Society of Independent Artists – the magazine The Blind Man (1917) wrote in its defense: “Whether Mr. Mutt made the fountain with his own hands or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an article of life\, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.” \nWhether artefact or ordinary object\, from time immemorial the usual practice has been to try to gain a new perspective from things in the world. Over the last few years a greater interest in our relationship to things in the world is observable. On the one hand\, our experience\, our (collective) memory\, forms the suchness of and the difference between the things we have to deal with. On the other hand however\, things and their properties also determine how we see the world. They evoke imagination and speculation. And ultimately\, we are – from their point of view – also merely another object in this world. It is in this spirit that the four young artists use our all-too-human penchant for fictionalizing life to present us with images and objects which challenge us to break with our entrenched views. \nCurators: Lars Breuer und Holger Otten \nIn cooperation with the Van Eyck Academie\, Maastricht\, and University of Applied Sciences Aachen/Arts and Design.\nSupported by: Ministerium für Familie\, Kinder\, Jugend\, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen\, Jugend- und Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Aachen and Freunde des Ludwig Forums für Internationale Kunst e.V. \nBrochure PDF \n  \n \n \n \nImages: Brenda Tempelaar\, Recession (Untimely Monument for Brancusi)\, 2015\, MDF. Courtesy the artist (oben\, vorne); Stéphanie Lagarde\, Drapé 4\, 2013\, from the series Stare\, b/w photograph. Courtesy the artist (oben\, hinten); David Bernstein\, Even if it’s not true it’s well found\, 2015\, steel and tigers eye. Courtesy the artist (Mitte); Jason Hendrik Hansma\, Seams\, 2016\, silver gelatine photographs\, Gongshí stones\, eggshell porcelain\, pearl\, birch\, laser prints on paper. Courtesy the artist (unten); photos: Ludwig Forum Aachen/Carl Brunn URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/a-matter-of/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/perspektive_03_neu.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160313T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160605T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20100313T121346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170731T120710Z UID:5170-1457856000-1465146000@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:DYSTOTAL DESCRIPTION:Brave new world? – Visions of modernity are negotiated in the group exhibition DYSTOTAL. By dealing with the visual vocabulary of the historical avant-garde\, the works collected in DYSTOTAL newly fathom the concept of the absolute or the Gesamtkunstwerk\, from longing via empathetic upheaval to failure in stagnation. \nA number of the 17 participating artists will produce site-specific works of various genres – wall paintings\, installations\, sculptures and architectures\, adopting\, copying and imitating the historical avant-garde’s language. This way DYSTOTAL turns the Ludwig Forum’s central exhibition hall into an extensive installation\, in which heterogeneous works encounter one another: computer game aesthetics meet neo-classical forms\, romantic elements are combined with science fiction blockbuster film stills. \nParticipating Artists: Linda Arts\, Ford Beckman\, Heiner Blum\, Nicolas Chardon\, Tim Cierpiszewski\, Neil Clements\, Markus Ebner\, Angela Fette\, Gabriel Kuri\, Gerold Miller\, Renato Nicolodi\, Jan van der Ploeg\, Martin Pfeifle\, Anja Schwörer\, Esther Stocker\, Sebastian Wickeroth\, Lars Wolter. \nCurated by the artist group Konsortium (Lars Breuer\, Sebastian Freytag\, Guido Münch) and Esther Boehle (Ludwig Forum). \nSupporters: Stiftung Kunst Kultur und Soziales der Sparda-Bank West\, Mondriaan Fund \n Watch the Trailer for DYSTOTAL \n \n  \nDYSTOTAL\, Installation Views \n \n\n\n\n\n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/dystotal-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/08-Konsortium-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161108 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20110107T151741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180809T095323Z UID:6426-1454371200-1478563199@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Between Abstraction and Figuration DESCRIPTION:Movements and disruptions in art since 1960 \nUntil the 1960s\, the myth of a directional development continued in modern art\, its movement from figuration to abstraction\, namely from its function as likeness would lead to the work of art representing nothing other than itself. At the end of this development would stand the kind of art that completely renounces the object\, in its last consequence the abstract monochrome or painting\, which abandons the image’s support altogether: the minimalist object itself. \nToday\, of course\, we know that modernity is marked more by its disruptions than by its continuities and that the New York School was followed by a rediscovery of the figurative\, for example in everyday and media culture. Counter-movements such as pop art\, conceptual art\, land art\, performance art etc. can also be found outside of the US. \nStarting from the American art of the 1960s and 70s\, which made the Ludwig Collection famous\, in this collection presentation the various ways of abstraction and figuration\, such as the mutual interrelations\, parallels and disruptions\, are exem-plarily illustrated also outside of the United States. In each case\, two artworks of the same year are juxtaposed. \nArtists of the exhibition: John Baldessari\, Bernd und Hilla Becher\, Lygia Clark\, Richard Hamilton\, Alex Hay\, Valerie Jaudon\, Jasper Johns\, Roy Lichtenstein\, Richard Long\, Lee Lozano\, Piero Manzoni\, Gerhard Richter\, Allen Sonfist\, Wolf Vostell\, Andy Warhol\, Peter Young et al. \nCurator: Holger Otten \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \nExhibition views\, photos: Ludwig Forum Aachen/Carl Brunn URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/between-abstraction-and-figuration/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/couples-e1452848308142.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160314 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20150731T104543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180809T104800Z UID:4723-1449273600-1457913599@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Plattform Aachen: Perspektive 02 DESCRIPTION:More than 40 years after the performance by Kraftwerk\, pioneers of electronic music\, at the Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig (1970) the Ludwig Forum Aachen shows with Magazine not only the post internet movement of the music avant-garde but also an artistic form which productively breaks open in their work established formats of art production. \nShortly after founding the Cologne label Magazine in 2010\, it turned into a top notch name in the international label scene located between art and techno. Contrary to the Berlin-trend\, the label founder Daniel Ansorge alias Barnt\, Jens-Uwe Beyer and John Harten alias Crato turn of the millennium were drawn towards the Rhineland\, absorbing the spirit of Cologne’s city and region\, merging with the avant-garde of art\, New Music and the electronic club culture. Next to Karlheinz Stockhausen\, the Krautrockband Can and Wolfgang Voigt\, a dinosaur of German minimal techno\, parallel art movements since the 1960s offered inspiration to a concept label such as Magazine\, which will be presented at the Ludwig Forum with their first institutional exhibition. \nThe grand theoretician of Pop culture Diedrich Diederichsen aptly described the record as a minimalist object\, covered in a Pop Art-wrapping. Even more so the Name Magazine refers to a storage as well as a news-magazine and stands for a concept that in its musical and visual presentation conveys a total work of art. \nAlongside a concert of Barnt\, Jens-Uwe Beyer and Crato\, Magazine presents its new record together with an exclusive Edition. \nwww.magazine.mu\nhttps://soundcloud.com/magazine-records \nWDR5\, Scala\, 08.12.15\nDeutschlandfunk\, Corso\, 03.12.15\n \nCurators: Lars Breuer and Holger Otten \nIn cooperation with University of Applied Sciences Aachen/Arts and Design.\nSupported by: Ministerium für Familie\, Kinder\, Jugend\, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen\, Jugend- und Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Aachen and Freunde des Ludwig Forums für Internationale Kunst e.V. \n  \n \n \n \n \nExhibition views\, photos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen \n  \n  \n \n \n \nMAGAZINE (Barnt\, Jens-Uwe Beyer\, Crato)\, Concert\, 04.12.2015\, photos: Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/plattform-aachen-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/magazine_silhouettes_white-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151025 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160111 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20150511T121205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T142302Z UID:4082-1445731200-1452470399@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Tim Berresheim DESCRIPTION:Simulated realities in the astonishing precision of Old Masters: with his computer the Aachen artist Tim Berresheim generates idiosyncratic scenarios in a visual language which emerges from the tension between computer technology and a questioning exploration of reality. He is constantly seeking to create something radical new with the latest technology. In the process\, he realizes his visual manipulations in a variety of ways: he creates computer images\, photographs or silkscreens through to whole room-filling installations which represent still lifes\, spatial illusions and visions of the future. Extraordinarily incisive images are the result\, which quite often have something mysterious about them – and these can brought to life with an Augmented Reality App especially developed for the exhibition. \nThe most extensive overview of Tim Berresheim’s work since 2003\, the Aachen exhibition opens with an innovative program highlighting the unique synthesis out of art and technology. Visitors can – for example – take part in special guided tours to the aixCAVE at the RWTH\, the largest Virtual Reality System worldwide\, where Berresheim staged his work Disguise and Delude. \nTim Berresheim (b. 1975 in Heinsberg) is one of the most important protagonists of contemporary\, computer-generated art. He lives and works in Aachen\, is active as an artist and a musician\, while running his own label and project space. \nCurator: Esther Boehle \nSupporters: regio iT\, NRW KULTURsekretariat\, Ministry of Family\, Children\, Youths\, Culture and Sport of the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen \nCooperation partner: IT-Center – RWTH Aachen\, C/O Lauscher GmbH\, Virtourio GmbH \nTim Berresheim\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/tim-berresheim/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Tim-Berresheim-Aspettatori-bugged-out-I-Auge-Welt-2014-Diasec-240-x-180-cm.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151116 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20150723T083224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180809T105600Z UID:4682-1443312000-1447631999@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Plattform Aachen: Perspektive 01 DESCRIPTION:In form of a small exhibition series\, the Platform Aachen looks into the present age of art production in the Rhine-Maas-area. Starting with the rhein verlag\, which came into existence in 2008 out of a loose connection of young Duesseldorf artists\, whose joint interest in the book as an artistic medium\, caused them to found a publishing house. \nEvery book is seen as a self-contained artwork and designed as such. The thought of the book as a so-called “primary work” developed in the 1960s especially through the artist Ed Ruscha\, who establishes the book as a work of art as one of the first of his time. In the 1970s Clive Phillpot and Ulises Carrión understand specific characteristics of the book as part of the artistic work. In their “bookworks” they elevated as an artwork and celebrated its mass media qualities. A book is intimate. But it is also: transportable\, replaceable\, affordable und therefore democratic. \nrhein verlag sees itself in this tradition. It does not produce unique copies\, the books are not signed and they are published in an unlimited edition. The American concept artist John Baldessari programmatically comments on this: “As so many people can own the book\, nobody owns it. Every artist should have such a cheap-series\, in this way art stays ordinary and saves itself from taking off.” \nCurators: Lars Breuer and Holger Otten \nIn cooperation with Prof. Ilka Helmig\, University of Applied Sciences Aachen/Arts and Design.\nSupported by: Ministerium für Familie\, Kinder\, Jugend\, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen\, Jugend- und Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Aachen and Freunde des Ludwig Forums für Internationale Kunst e.V. \n  \n \n \nExhibition views\, photos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/plattform-aachen/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/buch-the-remaining_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150920T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151122T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T192246 CREATED:20150226T090000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170331T101434Z UID:3885-1442736000-1448211600@ludwigforum.de SUMMARY:Videozone: Eric Baudelaire DESCRIPTION:In his films\, photographies and installations French artist Eric Baudelaire explores history\, its sources\, images as well as its modes of representation and perception.\nThe Ugly One (2013) is at once fiction and documentary – about love\, remembering\, forgetting\, and about Beirut\, a city scarred by decades of civil war. The film tells the story of Lili and Michel. Struggling to face their past and present as resistance fighters\, they find themselves questioning the meaning\, purpose and consequences of militant actions. Their thoughts and conversations circle around a planned – or perhaps already carried out – terrorist attack and the fate of a young girl\, onto whom Lili projects her own feelings of guilt. They try to reconstruct a past that also serves as the theoretical construct of a potential future. Baudelaire juxtaposes these scenes with shots of Beirut’s urban landscape\, still marked by the scars of conflict.\nThe Japanese filmmaker and left-wing extremist Masao Adachi\, formerly active in Lebanon as member of The Japanese Red Army\, wrote the first version of a deliberately impossible script\, which Eric Baudelaire recomposed during the shoot. Interwoven with Adachi’s own memories a political narration unfolds\, through which the borders between fact and fiction\, between times and generations become blurred and at the same time are confronted with one another. \nExhibition Text_The Ugly One_Eric Baudelaire \nThe film is presented as an installation\, together with the scripts by Adachi. \nDaily screening:\n12 pm\, 2 pm and 4 pm; Thu 6 pm\n \nSat 24.10. & Sat 21.11. only 12 pm and 2 pm \nCourtesy the Artist and Poulet-Malassis films \nCurator: Miriam Lowack \nThe show is part of the Video Archive research project funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/videozone-eric-baudelaire-2/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ludwigforum.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Ugly-One-19.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR