Illiberal Lives
opening April 21st 2023, 7 pm
opening April 21st 2023, 7 pm
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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, […]