Born in 1972, the Amer­i­can artist Wade Guy­ton has cre­at­ed a con­sis­tent and dist­inct oeu­vre for more than two de­cades. He is best known for his large-scale can­vas paint­in­gs made with a con­ven­tio­n­al ink­jet prin­t­er, fea­tur­ing me­m­orable sub­jects such as flames, the let­ters X and U, and the New York Times web­site. Af­ter ac­quir­ing sev­er­al of the artist’s works for the col­lec­tion, the Mu­se­um Lud­wig is host­ing a ma­jor sur­vey ex­hi­bi­tion that will pre­sent his oeu­vre from the be­gin­n­ing of his ca­reer to his most re­cent works.

Die Auss­tel­lung Tran­s­cor­po­re­al­i­ties re­flek­tiert das Mu­se­um als durch­läs­si­gen Kör­p­er, in dem ver­schie­dene bi­ol­o­gische, soziale, tech­nol­o­gische, poli­tische und wirtschaftliche Sys­teme in­ei­nan­der­fließen. Wie alle men­sch­lichen und nicht­men­sch­lichen Re­al­itäten befin­d­et es sich in steti­gen Stof­fwech­sel­prozessen mit sein­er Umwelt. Vor die­sem Hor­i­zont wird der Tran­si­traum des Ein­gangs­foy­ers zum Auss­tel­lungs- und Ve­r­an­s­tal­tung­sort. Hi­er wie auch in der Samm­lung stellen die Kün­stler*in­nen Fra­gen nach Verkör­pe­rung, Sicht­barkeit und Zugänglichkeit: Was wird dem Kör­p­er ein- und zugeschrieben? Wer schaut auf wen? Museen sind soziale Orte der Bil­dung, die Ma­terie und Be­deu­tung schaf­fen, doch wo lie­gen die Möglichkeit­en und Grenzen der Repräsen­ta­tion von Kör­per­lichkeit?

For the se­cond edi­tion of the se­ries Schultze Pro­jects, the Amer­i­can artist Av­ery Singer has cre­at­ed a new, site-spe­cif­ic work for the stair­well at the Mu­se­um Lud­wig. The sev­en-part work is over sev­en­teen me­ters long and three and a half me­ters high. 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 ma­jor work for the pro­mi­nent front wall of the stair­well.

On the oc­ca­sion of the Bauhaus an­niv­er­sary, the Mu­se­um Lud­wig is ded­i­cat­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion in the pho­tog­ra­phy room to the pho­to­g­ra­pher and his­to­rian of pho­tog­ra­phy Lu­cia Mo­ho­ly. In ad­di­tion to her pho­to­graphs, let­ters from the Mu­se­um Lud­wig archives will be pre­sent­ed. Mo­ho­ly pub­lished A Hun­dred Years of Pho­tog­ra­phy: 1839–1939&nb­sp;in Lon­don in 1939, a book that rewrote pho­tog­ra­phy's his­to­ry.