At Ludwig Forum Aachen, Clemens Meyer will read from his novel Die Projektoren, which was published in August and was shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2024 and nominated for the Bavarian Book Prize 2024. The reading will be held in German. “An epic about the crises of Europe and the art of storytelling. From […]
We cordially invite you to join us for a studio visit with the current ‘Borderland Residencies’ fellows Ayo Akingbade and the Apparatus 22 collective, who are exploring the specific context of the city, the surrounding region and the museum during their three-month residency in Aachen. While Akingbade is studying the history of Aachen's thermal springs […]
For more than forty years, the Aachen Monday Evening Talks have been a highlight in the university life of the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University. Anthropology is at the centre of this year's Monday Evening Talks. As the science of humans, anthropology enquires into the possibilities and limits of being human; into the […]
Lecture by Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, art historian Courtauld Institute of Art, London Welcome: Holger Otten (curator, Ludwig Forum Aachen), moderation: Galina Dekova (research trainee, Ludwig Forum Aachen) Thursday, November 28, 2024, 7pm In her lecture Free Movement? Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe through the lens of contemporary art, Klara Kemp-Welch introduces her new research […]
Lecture by Bazon Brock
Concert with Garth Erasmus (vocals, bow, alto sax), Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet), Ruth May (viola), Peter Thiessen (cello), Stefan Schneider (electronics) Garth Erasmus is an artist and musician based in Cape Town, South Africa. Threnody for the KhoiSan is his first album under his own name. Since 1985 his artistic interests have broadened to include music-making, […]
In her lecture European Reception of 20th century Japanese Avant-garde curator Aomi Okabe will look back at the exhibition Japon des Avant-Gardes: 1910–1970 (Avant-garde Japan: 1910–1970), which was realized between 1986–1987 at Centre Pompidou in Paris. She was one of the only young Japanese curators commissioned by the Pompidou Center for the preparation of this […]
Currents is an annually recurring group exhibition, showcasing works by recently graduated artists from art academies in Belgium, the German Meuse-Rhine region and the southern Netherlands. Currents 12 is looking for a team of curators (two to three people) to take the temperature of the times, select the artists and curate the exhibition that will […]
In Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M), Harrell makes a full-evening work for three dancers which engages the formalism and minimalism of postmodern dance with the flamboyancy and performativity of voguing. Combining these contrasting styles, Harrell repositions the influence of jazz, funk, […]
Oh, Clock, the first major exhibition in Germany by the New York-based painter Amy Sillman (born 1955, Detroit), was composed of two parts: the first part was on view at Ludwig Forum Aachen through August 31, 2025, and featured a focused selection of Sillman’s work from the past decade, including twenty-four paintings, more than three hundred […]
