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.

On the Val­ue of Time

New Pre­sen­ta­tion of the Col­lec­tion of Con­tem­po­rary Art

For the fourth time the Mu­se­um is show­ing a new pre­sen­ta­tion of the col­lec­tion of con­tem­po­rary art in the base­ment.This edi­­tion, run­n­ing from Au­­gust 10, 2023 till Au­­gust 31, 2025, will fo­­cus on dif­fer­­ent con­­cepts of time and ways in which artists han­­dle the top­ic in their work.

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.

Museum

360° Pano­ram­ic tour

Dis­cov­er high­lights from our col­lec­tion vir­tu­al­ly: 360° Pano­ram­ic tour

Sus­tain­a­bil­i­ty

The Mu­se­um Lud­wig is gett­ing green­er. What kind of world do we want to live in? This is a press­ing ques­­tion, es­­pe­­cial­­ly in light of the cli­­mate cri­­sis. As a public in­­sti­­tu­­tion that is com­mit­t­ed to so­­cial, eco­log­i­­cal, and eco­nom­ic re­spon­si­­bil­i­­ty, sus­­tain­a­­bil­i­­ty is a con­cern for the Mu­se­um Lud­wig at all op­er­at­ing lev­­els, with the aim of bet­ter pro­­tec­t­ing peo­­ple and na­­ture now and in the fu­­ture.

Col­lec­tion On­line

Get to the sci­en­tif­ic database to re­search the col­lec­­tion of the Mu­se­um Lud­wig here.

Event

Late Night Thurs­day

On the first Thurs­­day of ev­ery month un­til 10 p.m.

Our next Late Night Thurs­day will take place on May 2, 2024.