Events

The murals Paper Body (ghost), and Paper Body (pointer) by artist Ulrike Müller (both 2023) are temporary monumentalizations of two small-scale collages, which, enlarged in keeping with the scale of […]

By the late 1960s, video and film had become paradigmatic forms in contemporary art. The Ludwig Forum’s video archive holds some 200 works from the 1960s and 70s, many of them seminal moments from the history of the moving image in art.

Unfolding across 100 days, the exhibition surveys the early acquisitions of contemporary art by the Aachen-based collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig.

This room is the answer to a question posed by the new director to all staff at the Ludwig Forum during her own first encounter with the collection: ‘Which works from our
collection particularly speak to you, and which do not speak to you at all?’

Confident, expressive female figures are the protagonists in Margit Palme’s (1939–2025) graphic works. Her aquatints on paper were created over a period of six decades and are characterised by precise linework and a limited color palette.

With works by Christo und Jeanne-Claude, Danielle Dean, Richard Downes, Anton Egloff, Nancy Graves, Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson und Alan Sonfist.

The exhibition public/public draws on the museum’s own history and on Aachen collectors Irene and Peter Ludwig’s commitment to collecting for the public.