{"id":51404,"date":"2026-01-30T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=51404"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:22:55","slug":"centaur-human-and-horse","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/event\/centaur-human-and-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Centaur \u2013 Human and Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Opening: Sunday, 17 May 2026, 11am<\/strong>
Artist Talk: Sunday, 17 May 2026, 3pm<\/strong><\/p>

Coinciding with this summer\u2019s World Equestrian Games in Aachen, the Ludwig Forum presents a film installation as a thematic counterpart to the event. Taking its title from the Centaur \u2013 the part-horse<\/a>, part-human<\/a> hybrid creature of Greek mythology<\/a> \u2013 the installation brings together two short films, projected at scale in the museum\u2019s central hall. Each offers a strikingly different take on the relationship between human and horse.<\/p>

The installation takes its name from Centaur<\/em> (2020), a film by German-Iranian artist and filmmaker Yalda Afsah (b. 1983), whose work probes the complex dynamics between humans and animals. Poised between care and control, between affinity and manipulation, the film offers extensive documentary insights into the microcosm of dressage. An intimate observer of the interplay between human and horse, Afsah turns her lens on dressage \u2013 a form of domestication not without controversy \u2013 and raises uncomfortable questions: who has control over who? Who steers, who follows?<\/p>

Swiss artist duo Marianne Halter (b. 1970) & Mario Marchisella (b. 1972) approach the subject from a different angle in Pferde \u00fcber Wiese<\/em> [Horses Across Meadowlands] (2014), applying a poetic, gently humorous touch. The short film follows a breakneck-speed ride on a bicycle: a man in a black suit careens downhill, accompanied by the sound of hoofbeats and whinnying from a speaker strapped to the frame. The absurd spectacle of the cyclist, his speaker flailing wildly, inevitably and decisively gives way to the overpowering image of a great herd of horses thundering past. Marianne Halter and Mario Marchisella \u2013 she an artist, he an artist and musician \u2013 make collaborative work that moves between space and action, sound and image. Starting from everyday actions and settings, they disrupt the relationship between sensory signals \u2013 here, between image and sound \u2013 to open up new associations.<\/p>

The film installation is presented as part of the Aachen World Equestrian Championship Special.<\/p>

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Credits:
(1) Yalda Afsah, Centaur<\/em>, 2020, film still
(2) Marianne Halter, Mario Marchisella, Pferde \u00fcber Wiese<\/em> [Horses Across Meadowlands], 2014, film still.<\/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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