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 […]
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 […]
Isle of Arts Festival
Bassem Saad is an artist and writer born in Beirut. Their work explores historical rupture, infrastructure, spontaneity, and difference, through film, performance, and sculpture, as well as through essays and fiction. With an emphasis on past and present forms of struggle, they attempt to place scenes of intersubjective exchange within their world-historical frames. Bassem’s work […]
Ludwig Forum Aachen is pleased to be part of the transnational network program Borderland Residencies for the first time this year. In addition to providing financial support for the scholarships, short-term artistic interventions and co-productions, the program also offers the opportunity to all fellows for professional and transnational networking, for deepening their own artistic practice, […]
In autumn 2023, art residencies along the border between Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium open their doors wide for international guest artists and join their forces in a unique network programme: the Borderland Residencies. Numerous events await the artists during their residencies. Whether it's cross-border excursions, day trips to selected art venues or studio visits […]
Dear visitors, we are reconstructing for you. The museum is temporarily closed from 11.09. - 06.10.2023! We cordially invite you to the next exhibition Katalin Ladik.Ooooooooo-pus and the opening on Friday, 06.10.2023 at 7 pm! The library of the Ludwig Forum is open from Tuesday to Friday, 1 - 5 pm upon personal arrangement. Please […]
The Ludwig Forum Aachen is pleased to present Ooooooooo-pus, the first major survey exhibition of Katalin Ladik (b. 1942 in Novi Sad) in Europe. Drawing on the artist’s lifelong interest in language, sound, and corporeality, the exhibition provides a first comprehensive overview of her works from the late 1960s to the present. With her radical […]
