Brink is the title given by the British artist Phyllida Barlow to her first solo exhibition on the continent. Barlow, winner of the Kunstpreis Aachen this year, works mostly in the medium of sculpture. Since the 1960s, the artist, who was born in 1944 in Newcastle, has been developing expansive, large-format sculptures. Her favoured materials […]
Wolfgang Breuer, Nine Budde, Thomas Kilpper, Henrik Olesen, Sophie Reinhold, Yorgos Sapountzis, Nora Schultz, Rebecca Ann Tess and Vincent Vulsma
Farewells and new starts: in his video and film works, the Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevičius explores the Soviet history of the post-war period. His Video Ausgeträumt (Dream Over), which starts off the exhibition series Videozone, shows five young musicians who have formed a band with the Name Without Letters. The images evoke a sense of […]
Processes at work in media and society are changing our world and creating spaces in which the borders between fact and fiction are blurred. Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt takes the visitor to kind of the places that lie in between. The works of the 20 photo, film and video artists in this exhibition […]
Blindly is the second exhibition in the series Videozone and will present works by Artur Żmijewski. The Polish artist and curator of the 7th Berline Biennale 2012, creates situations that break social norms and taboos and thereby provoke controversial reactions. The show will present three videos and one audio work that confront us with the […]
Discoveries of the 1970s and 80s
The series of exhibitions of site-specific works of art in the main hall of the Ludwig Forum, which began in 2011 with Susan Philipsz’ sound installation, continues this spring with a project by the Detroit artist Michael Edward Smith. So far, Smiths' work has only been on show in Germany in a single museum solo […]
Workshop und Filmproduktion
From a fluff of dust to a satellite image of nighttime London – Ilka Helmig investigates the phenotypes, the modes of physical appearance of images and objects. She traces the structures and processes of growth, whether ordered or chaotic. And she searches for an aesthetic of the incidental. An aesthetic-dissecting eye for the structures of […]
Bea Otto relates in her work directly to existing sites. They build the framework and starting point of a specific sculptural process of appropriation and transformation. In her exhibition she explores the meaning of the Ludwig Forum itself as a place, its architecture and also its experienced space by questioning and transforming it through openings […]
