Exhibitions - Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Exhibition

IN SITU: Photo Stories on Migration

19.06.2021 – 03.10.2021

Photographs of Cologne and other cities in the Rhineland from the period between 1955 and 1989 visualize the constant changes brought about by the residents. Yet the stories of migrant workers in photography are barely present in the public visual memory of these cities. For the first time, this exhibition at the Museum Ludwig will focus on personal photographs. An important starting point is documents of stories of migration from DOMiD.

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Sisi in Private: The Empress’s Photo Albums

10/24/2020 – 9/19/2021

Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, called Sisi, collected photographs in the 1860s, but kept them private throughout her life. Today the Museum Ludwig holds eighteen of her albums with some 2000 photographs. The most renowned are from her “albums of beauties,” highly staged portraits of other women. The presentation outlines the connections between her almost obsessive collecting of portraits of women and the image of herself that she created.

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Betye Saar - 2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize

6/01/2020–09/12/2021

For more than fifty years, Betye Saar has created assemblages from a wide variety of found objects, which she combines with drawing, prints, painting, and photography.

The Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig purchased the assemblage The Divine Face from 1971 together with the Museum Ludwig for the museum’s collection as part of the prize awarded to Betye Saar. The work will be presented in the museum’s collection from June 1 to September 12, 2021 along with two etchings recently acquired through the “Perlensucher am Museum Ludwig” initiative as well as a collage and an artist’s book. The film Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business, which was produced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for an exhibition there in 2019/2020, will also be shown as part of the presentation.

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Schultze Projects #2

Avery Singer

October 2019 – October 2021

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.