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Illiberal Lives

opening April 21st 2023, 7 pm

Illiberal Lives – Conversation with the curators and the artists

Exhibition tour and conversation with the participating artists Blaise Kirschner, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Mikołaj Sobczak & Jordan Strafer, as well as the curators Eva Birkenstock, Anselm Franke, Holger Otten, and Kerstin Stakemeier. With Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj […]

Explosions Near the Museum – Screening and Conversation

Kiev-based artists and filmmakers Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, have been collaborating at the intersection of visual art and cinema since 2013. At Ludwig Forum Aachen, they present their two most recent video works: Explosions Near the Museum (2023) features footage from the Kherson Museum of Local Lore, looted by Russian occupational forces in 2022; […]

“Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share” – Book launch and screening

Book Launch at the Café, 6 – 8 pm Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share by Mathilde Supe The Ludwig Forum is pleased to invite you to the book launch of Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share with the author, Mathilde Supe, and the artist, Keren Cytter. The publication was released in 2022 […]

Recurring

Curator’s tour with Holger Otten

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen

Illiberal Lives (22.04. –10.09.2023)With Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Jordan Strafer and, selected by the artists, a rehanging of works from the collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen of Vincent Desiderio, Jann Haworth, Domenico Gnoli, Renato Guttuso, Jörg […]

Artist talk with Mikołaj Sobczak, artist of the exhibition “Illiberal Lives” (in German)

Mikołaj Sobczak explores the depiction of historic events in his works. He is working on a contemporary reformulation of the romantic genre of history painting, not least against the backdrop of the current right-wing populist government in Poland: in contrast to its historical heyday in the 18th-century founding of European nation-states, Sobczak brings narratives and […]

Recurring

Curator’s tour with Holger Otten

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen

Illiberal Lives (22.04. –10.09.2023)With Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Jordan Strafer and, selected by the artists, a rehanging of works from the collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen of Vincent Desiderio, Jann Haworth, Domenico Gnoli, Renato Guttuso, Jörg […]

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