{"id":52936,"date":"2026-06-29T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=52936"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:33:39","slug":"30-werke-fuer-100-tage-die-sammlung-ludwig-und-die-gegenwartskunst","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/event\/30-werke-fuer-100-tage-die-sammlung-ludwig-und-die-gegenwartskunst\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Werke f\u00fcr 100 Tage\u2009\u2013 Die Sammlung Ludwig und die Gegenwartskunst"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"tec_event_single_static\" data-elementor-id=\"52936\" class=\"elementor elementor-52936\" data-elementor-post-type=\"tribe_events\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4848120 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4848120\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1194544 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1194544\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Unfolding across 100 days, the exhibition surveys the early acquisitions of contemporary art by the Aachen-based collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig. Running until autumn 2026, it presents highlights from the Ludwig Forum\u2019s collection of art from the USA. Comprising around 30 works that were created from the 1960s onwards \u2013 a period often regarded today as the beginning of \u2018contemporary art\u2019 \u2013 the presentation is each of these sections will be complemented by art from Europe and Latin America.<\/p><p>Upon viewing the work of Andy Warhol in 1964, the US-American art critic Arthur C. Danto (1923\u20132013) sensed a rupture between what he called the \u2018indistinguishability\u2019 of art and non-art: the context in which a work is viewed had become more important than the individual expression of the artist. This marked the beginning of a new form of realism that is open to the everyday and reflects how perception is shaped by media consumption.<\/p><p>This was also the moment that Irene and Peter Ludwig began to take an interest in contemporary art during their frequent business trips to New York: Pop Art, Minimalism and other parallel movements in the USA offered a counter-model to the art of the post-war years; situating it in the here-and-now: a need that resonated particularly strongly in the young Federal Republic of Germany during the years of the economic miracle. During the 1960s, the Ludwigs were the first German art collectors to purchase and exhibit around 150 works of Pop Art that are now considered significant: \u201cAmerican Pop really turns on German art lovers\u201d as the New York Times reported on 27 November 1970.<\/p><p>This presentation showcases two of the major art movements of the 1960s: Pop Art and Minimalism. Rather than focusing on subjectivity and inner life, both movements emphasised the coolness of the surface and its own material reality. A third section of the exhibition illustrates how subjectivity returned to art historical discourse from the 1980s onwards: Artists whose lives have been shaped by the struggles for emancipation, such as Jean Michel Basquiat (1960\u20131988) and Lady Pink (b. 1964), process personal, emotional and media-related experiences in their work. Their works create a form of storytelling that addresses physicality, identity and rebellion within the thrall of the present moment.<\/p><p>With works by Jo Baer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mar\u00eda Magdalena Campos-Pons, Lygia Clark, Don Eddy, Err\u00f3, Richard Estes, Ralph Ladell Goings, Duane Hanson, Alex Hay,<br \/>Valerie Jaudon, Jasper Johns, Lady Pink, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Lee Lozano, Piero Manzoni, Rissa, John Salt, Jos\u00e9 Toirac, Andy Warhol and Peter Young.<\/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":"<p>Unfolding across 100 days, the exhibition surveys the early acquisitions of contemporary art by the Aachen-based collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[16,14],"class_list":["post-52936","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-event","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_event","cat_exhibition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/52936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/52936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52939,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/52936\/revisions\/52939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52936"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=52936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}