The eighth pro­­ject in the ex­hi­bi­­tion se­ries HERE AND NOW at Mu­se­um Lud­wig em­barks on an an­ti­­co­lo­­nial jour­ney through the per­­ma­­nent col­lec­­tion. To­gether with the artists Daniela Or­­tiz (b. 1985 in Pe­ru), Pau­la Baeza Pail­amil­la (b. 1988 in Chile), Pa­lo­­ma Ay­ala (b. 1980 in Mex­i­­co) and Páv­el Agui­lar (b. 1989 in Hon­­duras), we will take a crit­i­­cal and cu­ri­ous look at ar­tis­tic po­si­­tions from Latin Amer­i­­ca. Which Latin Amer­i­­can artists are part of the col­lec­­tion? How did mod­­er­nist artists (most of whom were from Eu­­rope) re­pro­­duce the ex­oti­­ciz­ing gaze di­rec­t­ed at the Glob­al South? Which works need to be crit­i­­cal­­ly ques­­tioned, and which ones of­fer coun­ter-mod­­els?

The In­dian pho­to­g­ra­pher Raghu­bir Singh (1942–1999) re­peat­ed­ly re­turned to Kol­ka­ta (called Cal­cut­ta un­til 2001), and over the years he cre­at­ed a com­plex and mul­ti­lay­ered pho­to­graph­ic por­trait of the ci­ty. In this way, the dif­fer­ent his­tor­i­cal lay­ers are equal­ly rep­re­sent­ed in the pho­to­graph. Singh’s pho­to­graphs are a cos­mopol­i­tan’s ho­mage to a cos­mopol­i­tan ci­ty. In the pho­tog­ra­phy room, the Mu­se­um Lud­wig is pre­sent­ing twelve pho­to­graphs from Singh’s Cal­cut­ta se­ries, which have been part of the col­lec­tion since 2017.

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 ev­ery two years since 2017 an artist has been in­vit­ed to cre­ate a large-scale work for this pro­mi­nent lo­ca­tion.