An archive is a place where things are registered, kept safe and explored. The Video Archive of the Ludwig Forum has not only been collecting video art for almost the last forty years, but also encompasses many works that document events. The exhibition "Videoarchiv" takes this place as its theme. As a complement to the […]
The 14th Künstlerinnenpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen goes to Anja Schrey and Vera Lossau. This year's two prize winners were selected by an expert jury chaired by Dr. Brigitte Franzen, Director of the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen from a total of 258 candidates. "Both artists impressed the jury with their outstanding imagery," said […]
Ergin Çavuşoğlu has attracted a lot of attention in recent years through his spatial-oriented video installations, sculptures and drawings. In 2003, he represented Turkey at the Venice Biennale. He finds his subjects in the transit spaces and on the migration routes of our globalised world. But his works are not of a documentary nature. On […]
20 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung thematisiert die Ausstellung das deutsch-deutsche Verhältnis seit den 1960er bis zu den 1990er Jahren. Beginnend mit der Suche nach einem neuen Menschenbild, die bereits in der Nachkriegszeit intensiv betrieben wurde, werden die unterschiedlichen Kunstentwicklungen und spezifischen Befindlichkeiten in West und Ost vorgestellt. Werke von Baselitz, Lüpertz und A.R. Penck stehen […]
In a wide range of different media, Andreas Fogarasi investigates the strategies used to aestheticise and commercialise urban spaces. His works explore and rattle structures of perception and construction of history, and play with the boundaries between architecture, exhibit and museum presentation. One of the things Andreas Fogarasi has produced for this solo exhibition in […]
Die LUFO Production ist ein Projekt des Fachbereichs für Gestaltung der Fachhochschule (FH) Aachen zur Entwicklung von Design-Editionen für den Museumsshop des Ludwig Forum. Zu Beginn des letzten Jahres starteten das Ludwig Forum und der Fachbereich für Gestaltung der FH Aachen eine Kooperation mit dem Ziel, für einen künftigen Museumsshop des Ludwig Forum Designprodukte zu […]
A new garden for the Ludwig Forum
The exhibition West Arch - A New Generation in Architecture shows how contemporary architecture can respond to current issues. 25 architecture studios from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany will be presenting experimental and unconventional proposals for solutions to such problems and demands – as plans, as already built objects, or as mere possibilities. The discussion […]
Pawel Althamer, born 1967 in Warsaw, is known for his critical view on existing structures and systems. He questions and subverts them, often using them as a playground to explore alternative behavioural patterns. His projects are critical of institutions and show a great deal of social commitment―often for people who would otherwise not be heard […]
The Ludwig Forum is based on the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig. This comprises major works of Pop Art, Photorealism and international art movements from the beginning of the 1960s until today. In the exhibition series Fokus different themes of the collection take the spotlight, illustrating its remarkable quality and scope. The exhibition Becoming […]
