Events

A Project with Lars Breuer

With the exhibition Hyper Real - Kunst und Amerika um 1970 the Ludwig Forum Aachen celebrates its 20th anniversary. The Mother Ship of the Ludwig Collection, which is today distributed around the world, will function as a link for a first collaborative series of exhibitions in the Ludwig Museums in Aachen, Vienna and Budapest. The […]

More than 200 works of art on the ground floor of the Ludwig Forum Aachen have been removed to make room for the installation Seven Tears, a piece by the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz. But the walls remain white; the rooms empty. For the seven-part artwork of this winner of the Turner Prize 2010 is […]

Das Ludwig Forum präsentiert in Kooperation mit der Fachhochschule Aachen die Ausstellung Books & Zines, ungewöhnliche Buch- und Zeitschriftenprojekte von Aachener FH-Studenten. Die Ausstellung im Lichtturm des Ludwig Forum zeigt Bücher und Magazine, die in den Seminaren von Prof. Ilka Helmig und Prof. Wilhelm Schürmann entstanden sind. Ob Wissenschaftspublikation, Literatur- oder Modemagazin, Geschichtsbuch oder Fanzine […]

Aachen Avant-Garde since 1964

In the early 1970s already, video art was a central and programmatic focus of the collection- and exhibitionactivities of the Neue Galerie, the preceding institution of the Ludwig Forum Aachen. The collection today spans approximately 200 substantial, partially top-caliber video works of international orientation. Within the framework of the Research project video archive supported by […]

3.3.- 29.4.2012 in the Ludwig Forum, Aachen 3.3.- 1.4.2012 in the Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp The artists' collective Magicgruppe Kulturobjekt presents materials taken from a range of formal and functional contexts as a spatial narrative that begins at the exhibition site. The work of art evolves on site through a process of negotiation and consolidation […]

From New York to Beijing

The Ludwig Collection is one of the largest and most important art collections in the world. The collection of the Ludwig Forum alone comprises over 3,000 works of art, including many works that have earned their place in any history of art and are thus an integral part of our art world heritage in the […]

LUFONAUTEN is dedicated explicitly, though not exclusively, to our youngest visitors. The exhibition of works from the collection has been made – quite literally – for the eyes of children. The works are presented at children's eye level, which in itself alone leads to an interesting change of perspective. In the usually rather austere exhibition […]