Ex­hi­bi­tion

Roni Horn: Give Me Para­dox or Give Me Death
March 23 – Au­gust 11, 2024

Mu­se­um Lud­wig is pleased to pre­sent Roni Horn: Give Me Para­­dox or Give Me Death, a so­­lo ex­hi­bi­­tion of works by in­­flu­en­­tial Amer­i­­can artist Roni Horn. The ex­hi­bi­­tion in­­­cludes over 100 works, span­n­ing from the be­gin­n­ing of the artist’s de­­cades long ca­reer to pre­sent day.

Ex­hi­bi­tion

HERE AND NOW at Mu­se­um Lud­wig.
And Yes­ter­day and To­mor­row
March 9 – Oc­to­ber 13, 2024

Through its re­cur­rent HERE AND NOW se­ries, the Mu­se­um Lud­wig ques­­tions con­ven­­tio­n­al ways of ex­hi­bi­­tion-mak­ing and ex­amines its own work as an in­­sti­­tu­­tion. The ninth pro­­ject in the se­ries, And Yes­ter­­day and To­­mor­row, brings to­gether se­lec­t­ed con­tem­po­rary and his­­tor­i­­cal art­­works with sci­en­tif­ic ma­te­rial to ex­­plore our ex­pe­ri­ences of time and the places we oc­cu­py. More­over, by in­­­clud­ing var­i­ous dis­­­ci­p­­lines, the ex­hi­bi­­tion pro­­vides a space for col­lec­­tive learn­ing. This is al­­so the Mu­se­um Lud­wig’s first de­­mon­s­­tra­b­­ly cli­­mate-neu­­tral show.

Chargesheimer
April 27 – Novem­ber 10, 2024
Pre­sen­ta­tion in the Pho­tog­ra­phy Room

On May 19, 2024, Cologne pho­to­g­ra­pher Karl Heinz Hargesheimer, who was known as Chargesheimer (1924–1971), would have turned one hun­dred. To cele­brate the cen­te­nary of his birth, Mu­se­um Lud­wig will dis­play a se­lec­tion of around fif­ty of his works in the Pho­tog­ra­phy Room. Chargesheimer rose to fame with his pho­to books Cologne in­time and Un­ter Krah­nen­bäu­men, both of which fo­cus on ev­ery­day life in Cologne.

Ex­hi­bi­tion

Schultze Pro­jects #3
Min­er­va Cue­vas
Novem­ber 2021 – Au­gust 2024

For the third edi­tion of the Schultze Pro­jects se­ries, Min­er­va Cue­vas (*1975 in Mex­i­co Ci­ty) has cre­at­ed a new site-spe­cif­ic work for the large front wall of the main stair­way at the Mu­se­um Lud­wig. The name of the se­ries re­fers to Ber­nard Schultze and his wife Ur­su­la (Schultze-Bluhm), whose es­tate is ma­n­aged by the Mu­se­um Lud­wig, and in whose me­m­o­ry pe­ri­od­i­cal­ly since 2017 an artist has been in­vit­ed to cre­ate a large-scale work for this pro­mi­nent lo­ca­tion.