{"id":53538,"date":"2026-08-31T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/?page_id=53538"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:02:08","slug":"borderland-residencies-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/borderland-residencies-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderland Residencies 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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From 1 September to 30 November 2025, the museum will host the artist C\u00e9line Vahsen as artists-in-residence. The Borderland Residencies programme supports the development of artistic practices through financial funding, provision of studio spaces, and opportunities for cross-border networking within the Borderland Residencies community. We warmly welcome C\u00e9line Vahsen and look forward to accompanying her processes throughout the residency!<\/p>

C\u00e9line Vahsen<\/strong> (b. 1987, Malmedy) is living and working in Brussels. Her work has been presented in numerous international group exhibitions, including at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Marres, Maastricht; Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels; and New York Textile Month in the US. Solo exhibitions include E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi; Saarl\u00e4ndische Galerie, Berlin; and Affiliate, the WIELS project room, Brussels. Until 1 November 2026, IKOB Museum in Eupen presents her solo exhibition Shiftings<\/em>. In 2025, she was artist-in-residence at The Mothership, Yto Barrada\u2019s dyers\u2019 garden and studio in Tangier; the Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts in Paris; and Thread\u2014The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Sinthian, Senegal. Her practice explores the perceptual interplay of structure and colour through textile-based abstraction. Rooted in ancestral dyeing techniques, Vahsen translates this hybrid cultural heritage into a contemporary context. For her Ludwig Forum residency, she approaches the Aachen cloth<\/em> as a material archive of regional knowledge and industrial transformation. Hand-stitching and natural dyeing become forms of deliberate slowing down, reflecting on labour, production and technological acceleration. The residency will result in a new series of geometric textile-based works.<\/p>

The Borderland Residencies programme offers the artists a unique platform to deepen their practice, engage with the specific cultural and social contexts of the region, and contribute to a vibrant artistic exchange across (national) borders. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and from funds of the RKP \u2013 Regional Cultural Program NRW.<\/p>

For further information about the Borderland Residencies Programme please visit https:\/\/borderland-residencies.eu<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>

Credit: C\u00e9line Vahsen, photo: Sarah Duby, 2025.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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