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?

Frank Bowl­ing (*1934 in Bar­ti­­ca, Guya­­na) is the re­­cip­i­ent of the 2022 Wolf­­gang Hahn Prize by Ge­sellschaft für Mod­­erne Kunst am Mu­se­um Lud­wig. The award cer­e­mony al­ways al­so in­cludes an ac­qui­si­tion for the col­lec­tion of the Mu­se­um Lud­wig. Thanks to the artist’s generos­i­ty, the 2022 Wolf­gang Hahn Prize will mark the first ac­qui­si­tion of one of his works for a public col­lec­tion in Ger­many. Frank Bowl­ing's paint­ing Flog­ging the Dead Don­key (2020) be­comes part of the mu­se­um col­lec­tion and can be seen from Novem­ber 16, 2022 till Fe­bruary 12, 2023 in a pre­sen­ta­tion at Mu­se­um Lud­wig.

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.