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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180219
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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
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171030
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170925
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171002
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170717
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
CREATED:20170221T081946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T070310Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180101
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
CREATED:20161221T080330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T063150Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170327
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
CREATED:20161027T055259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T143034Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170213
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
CREATED:20170110T151553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180809T091142Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170213
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170109
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160926
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160926
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160627
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160313T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160605T170000
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161108
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160314
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160111
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151116
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150920T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151122T170000
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160502
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
CREATED:20150603T104738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T111949Z
UID:4280-1442707200-1462147199@ludwigforum.de
SUMMARY:Videoarchive
DESCRIPTION:Since its beginnings in the mid-1960s\, Video has been intertwined with performance in a close and complex relationship. Artists immediately realized the potential of portable cameras to document and to disseminate both public and studio-bound performative actions. \nThe third exhibition in the Ludwig Forum series Video Archive explores how early video in relation to performance meant a medium of documentation and distribution\, but also a genuinely artistic medium. In certain circumstances an action in front of the camera becomes an action for and with the camera\, video as a tool becomes video as an artwork. Performance video becomes video performance. \nThe featured videos (among them well-known works by artists such as Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman as well as rare documents from the archive) are part of the Ludwig Forum collection and the Video Archive research project\, a collaboration of the Ludwig Forum Aachen with the art history department of the University of Cologne and the ZKM Centre for Arts and Media Karlsruhe. The project is funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung. \nCurated by Jenny Dirksen and Lou Jonas. \n \n  \nVideoarchive\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn/ Ludwig Forum Aachen
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/videoarchive-facing-the-camera/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160314
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
CREATED:20150803T133505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T080134Z
UID:4731-1442707200-1457913599@ludwigforum.de
SUMMARY:Plattform Aachen
DESCRIPTION:A Fluxus-commotion at the lecture hall\, a burning knight’s castle at the Old Spa House: art\, is not always made for eternity. Beginning in the 1960s\, with performances and happenings\, artists create art forms that do not produce works of material worth\, but only exist for the moment of their performance. By means of rare original documents in the exhibition the research project Platform Aachen reconstructs certain examples that took place in Aachen. \nThe Fluxus-festival at the Technical University of Aachen acted like a starting signal after which Aachen advanced to a lively center for action art in Germany. Not uncommonly newspaper articles\, photos and assumed nondescript publications are the only trail\, reminding of the often provocative art events. But how much story telling is behind the former news coverage and how effektively does this inform our view on the events nowadays? Why have some activities nearly been forgotten by now and others have turned into art historical myths? \nOne of the exhibition’s focal points lies on the activities of the Neue Galerie\, which was since its foundation in 1970 completely committed to contemporary art and hereby – very up to date – also to action art. \nCurator: Benjamin Dodenhoff \nImage: Franz Erhard Walther during the Fluxus-festival\, 20th July 1964 in the Audimax at the TH Aachen\, Photo: Peter Thomann \nPlattform Aachen\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/platform-aachen/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150717
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150831
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
CREATED:20150629T092327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T111840Z
UID:4512-1437091200-1440979199@ludwigforum.de
SUMMARY:Le Musée imaginaire
DESCRIPTION:Der Gestalter als Kurator\, Sammler und Autor einer imaginären Ausstellung — das war der Inhalt eines Seminars von Prof. Ilka Helmig\, das an der FH Aachen im Fachbereich Gestaltung stattfand und in dem sich Studierende mit selbstgewählten Themen aus einem kulturellen\, wissenschaftlichen oder gesellschaftlichenKontext auseinandersetzen.Ziel war es die Inhalte in Form einer imaginären Ausstellung zwischen zwei Buchdeckeln zu entwerfen und zu inszenieren. Das Seminar nahm inhaltlich Bezug zum Gedanken des imaginären Museums von André Malraux und dem Atlas Mnemosyne von Aby Warburg\, die sich beide mit der Sammlung und Ordnung komplexer visueller Inhalte beschäftigt haben.Die entstandenen Bücher werden vom 17.07.–30.08.15 im Eingangsbereich des Ludwig Forum gezeigt\, Eröffnung mit Musik und Getränken ist am 16.07.15 um 18.30 Uhr. \nEröffnung mit LUFO Bar:\nDo 16.07.15\, 18.30 Uhr\nEintritt frei
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/le-musee-imaginaire-das-buch-als-ausstellungsort-2/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150531T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150920T180000
DTSTAMP:20260504T202037
CREATED:20150304T060225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T082359Z
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SUMMARY:Paulina Olowska - Needle / Nadel
DESCRIPTION:Paulina Olowska is to receive the Aachen Art Prize for 2014. In celebration of the award Olowska will develop a site-specific exhibition project at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst. \nIn her artistic work Paulina Olowska trawls the historical sources of Modernism\, delves into art and design history\, and draws on fashion and advertising. Fascinated by the utopian promise articulated in the historical avant-garde\, Olowska adopts and makes use of their techniques. She thus works in a variety of media\, such as performance\, video\, sculpture\, painting\, and fashion\, while also curating exhibitions or organizing events. In the process\, forgotten women of bygone eras once again come under the spotlight\, reappraised by Olowska and repositioned historically. She raises the issue of how we read\, appraise and negotiate history\, and thus the present. \nExploring the idea of production\, both industrial and artistic\, the show Needle/Nadel addresses fragmented processes by which an artwork comes to be. Olowska combines disparate sources\, merging found material\, applied arts\, and cast-off or recycled elements from factory production together within her own painting and sculpture. Culling from high and low materiality\, sculptures may juxtapose marble\, metal and pieces of 1960s tapestry. The exhibition structures an interplay between positive and negative\, showing the gaps and by-products of artworks in formation. \nThe title Needle/Nadel plays with the history of the building and the crafts connected with it. Once the production facility for the world’s largest umbrella factory\, its central manufacturing hall filled with working women\, Ludwig Forum today displays international art. \nIn this industrial context of the past\, Olowska’s work negotiates ideas about craft\, labor and the fragile moment of an artwork’s creation. Thus\, the exhibition offers insight into several of Olowska’s emblematic themes like feminism\, fashion\, and a critical nostalgia. Thus\, the exhibition is following several of Olowska’s emblematic themes such as genderism\, fashion and critical nostalgia\, which revels in history while simultaneously questioning and negotiating the interpretation of history\, and thereby also the present. \nCurators: Dr. Brigitte Franzen and Julia Küchle \n  \nPaulina Olowska\, born in 1976 in Gdansk\, studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts\, Gdansk. She lives and works near Krakow. Olowska can look back at a series of solo shows in some of the most renowned museums for contemporary art worldwide\, most recently in the Kunsthalle Basel (2013)\, the Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam\, in MoMA\, New York (2012)\, and Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne (2009). Her work has featured in a host of group exhibitions\, for example in the Museum of Modern Art\, Warsaw\, the Sammlung Goetz\, Munich\, in the Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh\, and in the Museum Folkwang\, Essen. \nThe Aachen Art Prize is awarded biannually to an artist whose works have had a formative influence on the international art scene. The Aachen Art Prize is donated by the Freunde des Ludwig Forums für Internationale Kunst e.V. and is enabled by cooperation with the City of Aachen and Aachen trade and industry. The award includes prize money of 10.000 Euros and is connected with a solo exhibition in the Ludwig Forum. In 2014 it is supported by Culture.pl\, BMW Group Munich\, Rhein-Nadel Automation GmbH\, Sparkasse Aachen and others. \nJury of the Aachen Art Prize 2014: Dr. Sabine Breitwieser\, director Museum der Moderne\, Salzburg; Dr. Ulrike Groos\, director Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Dr. Brigitte Franzen\, director Ludwig Forum\, Aachen; Ernst Höhler\, chairman of the Verein der Freunde des Ludwig Forums e.V.. \nPast winners of the Aachen Art Prize: Phyllida Barlow (2012)\, Pawel Althamer (2010)\, Aernout Mik (2008)\, Roman Signer (2006)\, Andreas Slominski (2004)\, Tacita Dean (2002)\, Michael Asher (2000)\, Richard Tuttle (1998)\, Katharina Fritsch (1996)\, Christian Boltanski (1994)\, On Kawara (1992)\, Ilya Kabakov (1990)\, Richard Long (1988)\, A.R. Penck (1985)\, and Luciano Fabro (1983). \n  \nPaulina Olowska – Needle / Nadel\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/needle-nadel-paulina-olowska-2/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:6. Promotion Award for Children in ART
DESCRIPTION:More than 200 children from Aachen and the city region have collected ideas in the last few months\, experimenting with found objects\, gathering images. All that generated on the subject of “collecting” in the Primary school courses of the “Aachen Model” will be presented in a separate exhibition. As every year\, five children will be selected from all the contributions and will receive the Promotion Award for Children in ART. With the kind support of the Community Foundation of the Sparkasse Aachen and Lindt Sprüngli.
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/6-kinder-foerderpreis-kunst-2/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:LUFONAUTS
DESCRIPTION:Children on a discovery tour in the Ludwig Forum \nAstronauts investigate space – Lufonaut explore the Ludwig Forum: All children are invited to go on a great expedition and discover the museum and the works of art. For example\, the hollowed-out tree trunk by the sculptor Thomas Virnich. Is there a secret inside? And why are there two of the same tree trunks\, the second one\, however\, out of clay? Looking at the story of yet another tree\, it gets even stranger. Here a tree plays an important role in a film by Roderick Hietbrink\, where it seriously rustles through the midst of a peaceful living room! \nAbout 30 works of art from the Ludwig Collection invite all visitors\, young and old\, to explore their environment with imagination and impartiality and to engage in new perspectives. To be curious\, to look at things from the other side\, to be surprised especially by the everyday: that is the Lufonauts’ challenge. And the interesting thing is that they thus provide the same challenge as artists do in their work. For both children and artists things can be very important where normal adults do not see anything out of the ordinary\, because they can become starting points for fantastic trips\, ideas and stories. \nCurated by Karoline Schröder and Holger Otten \n  \nLUFONAUTS\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/lufonauten-expedition-museum-3/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:LUFONAUTS - Expedition Aachen North
DESCRIPTION:Expedition Aachen North – Become a Lufonaut! \nWe cordially invite you to expand your explorations and reflections to the museum’s neighbourhood. Often\, the most exciting observations can be made off the known path\, on trails or back ways. Familiar or unknown\, draft a new portrayal of Aachen North with us. \nStart a photo expedition through the district Aachen North and upload your most interesting discoveries on google maps. So\, there will be a wall of photos\, on which all observations are gathered. The photos map and document the visitor’s view of the quarter. All who are interested are asked to form their own idea of Aachen North and participate directly in the exhibition. \nCurated by Karoline Schröder and Holger Otten \nWith the kind support of: \n \n  \nIn cooperation with: \n 
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/lufonauts-expedition-aachen-north/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Le Souffleur
DESCRIPTION:Where Peter and Irene Ludwig say “Jeff Koons”\, Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann answer “Mike Kelley” or “Christopher Williams”. The major currents in art followed by the Ludwigs were counteracted by the Schürmanns who were drawn to context oriented positions informed by Institutional Critique and political art. In Le Souffleur these two different attitudes walk a path together: Wilhelm Schürmann was invited to \ncurate an exhibition with the Ludwig collection in mind. The result is an open and agile conception of art spaces in which works from both collections meet on level footing\, an arrangement full of subtleties and interactive comments. Together both collections provide an unusually precise and comprehensive view of contemporary art since 1960. Into the early 1990s Peter and Irene Ludwig continually expanded their collection\, guided by an inquiring spirit that seems absolutely unique today. In \nparticular the upheavals impacting on global society in the late 1980s and early 1990s resonated in their collection. And it is precisely here that the collection of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann sets a turning point\, considering the history of art from the perspective of the collector. \nThe collection Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann have assembled since the mid-1980s\, is today one of the finest of contemporary art worldwide. Their focus is completely different\, reflecting that they belong to a younger generation; along with the enormous political and social developments\, their interest is how the art of their own and a younger generation have responded to such changes. The notion of world art needs to be explained in their view\, and it is in any case very much shaped by its political implications. \nArtists featured in the exhibition (selection): Monika Baer\, Fiona Banner\, Alice Creischer\, Lygia Clark\, Guerilla Girls\, Richard Hamilton\, Lee Lozano\, Jewyo Rhii\, Joëlle Tuerlinckx\, Franz West\, Heimo Zobernig\, Heinrich Dunst\, Anna Oppermann\, Chuck Close\, Valie Export\, and many more. \nDirector: Dr. Brigitte Franzen\nCurator: Wilhelm Schürmann\nCuratorial Assistence: Josephine Mengedoht \nHave a look at the fascinating frame program. \nBehind the Scenes: Installation of the exhibition \nLe Souffleur – Schürmann meets Ludwig\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Carl Brunn / Ludwig Forum Aachen
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/le-souffleur-2/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Plattform Aachen – Peter Lacroix
DESCRIPTION:Parallel to the exhibition Pure\, the Platform Aachen provides insights into the working approach taken by the artist Peter Lacroix (1924-2010). \nMany of the handwritten notes from the artist’s estate are shown for the first time publicly. On unremarkable slips of paper Lacroix noted his thoughts\, for example: I consider painting in the old way no longer suitable for expressing the feelings of our present\, or I’ve always fought against habits. They are self-reflections on an artistic and political stance that Lacroix preferred to articulate through his work instead of grand proclamations. \nUsing historical newspaper articles\, letters\, and photos from the Platform Aachen archive\, it is possible to retrace the history of some of the projects Lacroix had planned for public urban space. The realization often ran aground on its long journey across the desks and through the conference rooms of municipal decision-makers. The plans testify to an artistic conception however that sought nothing less than to extend the reach of art into everyday life. \nThis presentation also marks the opening of the new exhibition room on the first floor designed by Lars Breuer; it will now feature regularly as a venue for exhibitions and events related to the Platform Aachen. \nCurator: Benjamin Dodenhoff \nPlattform Aachen – Peter Lacroix\, Installtion Views \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Ludwig Forum Aachen
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/plattform-aachen-peter-lacroix/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Pure
DESCRIPTION:Peter Lacroix devoted his work to exploring various facets of non-representational art. The oeuvre begins with early works from the 1950s in the Informel style. From 1968 Peter Lacroix created geometric constructions in bright primary colors and black-white contrasts\, very much in the tradition of Concrete Art. The artist translated the affinity to Bauhaus and the signal-like appearance of the works to plans for artistically revitalizing Aachen’s urban profile. In the mid-1970s Peter Lacroix embarked on a conceptual work phase. Based on numerical and color codes\, he let the random principle – in the form of a throw of a dice – determine their arrangement. At the end of the 1980s Peter Lacroix developed an innovative system: from numerical codes based on key personal details and overlapping diagrams he created unusual polygonal forms. Similar to in his last glucose profile images\, abstract formulas and personal portrait come together to form an intriguing unity. \nThe exhibition is generously supported by Andreas Petzold\, the trustee of Peter Lacroix’s artistic estate\, and extensive loans from Reyhane Nematollahi-Lacroix. If not otherwise noted\, all exhibits are from the estate of Peter Lacroix. \nA catalogue will accompany the exhibition with 191 pages\, and approximately 210 colour images. \nCurator: Dr. Annette Lagler \nPure – Peter Lacroix (1924-2010)\, Installation Views \n \n  \n \n  \n\nPhotos: Ludwig Forum Aachen
URL:https://ludwigforum.de/en/event/pure/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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