The ex­hi­bi­tion se­ries HERE AND NOW at Mu­se­um Lud­wig chal­lenges the con­ven­tions of mu­se­um work from to­day’s per­spec­tive. Rus­sia’s war against Ukraine changes our ap­proach to­ward the con­cept of “Rus­sian avant-garde”. Many artists – al­­so in the Mu­se­um Lud­wig col­lec­­tion – who are as­­so­­ci­at­ed with this art move­­ment came from Ukraine or shaped Ukrai­­nian cul­­ture. The ex­hi­bi­tion ded­i­cat­ed to mod­er­nism in Ukraine brings to­gether some eigh­ty paint­in­gs and works on pa­per cre­at­ed be­tween the 1900s and 1930s. This new art-his­­tor­i­­cal per­spec­­tive is ex­­pand­ed with a con­tri­bu­­tion by the con­tem­po­rary artist Daria Kolt­­so­­va. She will pre­sent works that deal with the cul­­tu­r­al her­i­­tage in the face of war.

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.