Coinciding with this summer’s World Equestrian Games in Aachen, the Ludwig Forum presents two short films, projected at scale in the museum’s central hall: Centaur (2020), a film by German-Iranian artist and filmmaker Yalda Afsah (b. 1983), and Pferde über Wiese (2014) by Swiss artist duo Marianne Halter (b. 1970) & Mario Marchisella (b. 1972). […]
We cordially invite you, your family and friends to the opening of the exhibition The Emergence of Sound on Saturday, 23 May 2025, at 6pm! 6pm: WelcomeRebekka Seubert, Director Ludwig Forum AachenUlla Griepentrog, Mayor City of AachenDr. Carla Cugini, Chief Executive Officer, Peter und Irene Ludwig StiftungMiriam Schmidt, Curator of the exhibition 7:30pm: Performance Emergency Solos (1975/2026), duration: […]
For more than five decades, sound artist and composer Christina Kubisch (born in 1948 in Bremen) has been making artworks at the intersection of visual art and music, combining composition, installation, performance, drawing, video, and electronic music. The Emergence of Sound is both the title and guiding theme of this survey exhibition. It presents sound […]
The Electrical Walk at 2 pm is already fully booked. Kubisch’s countless wire installations, which have only grown in scale since Il respiro del mare (Breath of the Ocean, 1981) and occupy a range of different spaces, ultimately brought her to a creative flashpoint: she abandoned fixed installation sites and turned her attention to exploring […]
Christina Kubisch has been researching and mapping the electromagnetic fields of cities since 2003; in Electrical Walks, the results are made audible through induction headphones specially designed by the artist. Discover the electric, electronic and digital devices that are all around us: lighting systems, transformers, electronic security tags, CCTV cameras, Wi-Fi points, power lines, mobile […]
To mark the start of Christina Kubisch’s Electrical Walks in Aachen, we warmly invite you to the two keynote talks Electrical Walks 2003–2026. Electromagnetic surveys by Christina Kubisch and Sonotopias. Sound mapping between auditory exploration of the world and speculative future practice by Dr Anna Schürmer (media theorist Freie Universität Berlin), followed by an artist talk […]
From 23 to 28 June 2026, Colombian artist Oscar Murillo invites people of all ages to take part in a multi-day collective drawing session in the courtyard of the Ludwig Forum.The Social Mapping project is a celebration of collective spirit anchored by the exercise of drawing and mark-making. Participants can use pens, pencils, crayons, and […]
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?’
Curator Mailin Haberland gives a guided tour through the exhibition Margit Palme and Double Wall Project: Ulrike Müller.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. Her work […]
