09/10/2016–01/08/2017

Karl Schenk­er (1886–1954) was one of the best-known so­­ci­e­­ty pho­­to­g­ra­phers in the 1910s and ’20s more

11/05–11/27/2016

The se­cond ex­hi­bi­tion in the se­ries HERE AND NOW did not take place in the mu­se­um, but in six pri­vate homes in Cologne more

04/13–08/28/2016

The Chi­nese artists is the re­cipi­ent of the 22. Wolf­gang Hahn Prize, pre­sent­ing an ex­hi­bi­tion in the grand stair­well of the mu­se­um more

04/09–07/03/2016

The first ret­ro­spec­­tive that fo­­cus­es on Fer­­­nand Léger’s mu­rals, cast­ing a new light on one of the most di­­verse and in­­flu­en­­tial artists of mod­­er­nism. more

02/20–05/22/2016

The first part of the new ex­hi­bi­tion se­ries HERE AND NOW takes Zobernig's in­s­tal­la­tion for the Venice Bien­nale in 2015 as a start­ing point more

11/14/2015–2/21/2016

The Mu­se­um Lud­wig is pre­sent­ing a re­stro­spec­tive ex­hi­bi­tion of the le­g­endary artist Joan Mitchell, one of the most im­­­por­­­tant fig­ures in twen­ti­eth-cen­­­tu­ry art more

05/30–11/22/2015

Ber­­nard Schultze (1915–2005) was a lead­­ing ex­po­­nent of ges­­tu­ral ab­s­­tract pain­t­ing in Eu­­rope. The Mu­se­um Lud­wig is pay­ing ho­­mage to him on the cen­ten­­nial of his birth. more

08/01–10/25/2015

The Viet­namese artist Danh Võ is pre­sent­ing his most well-known long-term pro­ject 'We The Peo­ple', amongst other works more

04/15–08/30/2015

For the first time, the Wolf­gang Hahn Prize was award­ed to two artists: Michael Kreb­ber and R.H. Quayt­man more

03/14–07/05/2015

For the first time, all the me­­dia with which the artist en­­gaged in­­ten­­sive­­ly through­out his ca­reer are brought to­gether in one ex­hi­bi­­tion, with works dat­ing from 1963 through 2010. more

In­tractable and Un­tamed: Doc­u­men­tary Pho­tog­ra­phy around 1979

06/28–11/16/2014

The ex­hi­bi­tion shows works by 15 artists who fol­lowed a doc­u­men­tary ap­proach in their pho­tog­ra­phy in the so-called cri­sis de­cades af­ter 1979 more

06/28–11/16/2014

Do we need a mu­se­um of pho­tog­ra­phy? Tak­ing a clos­er look at the col­lec­tor Erich Stenger (1878–1958) and his col­lec­tion, the ex­hi­bi­tion sub­mits his idea to a re­vi­sion more

02/14–07/13/2014

Os­car Tu­a­zon has re­al­ized a site-spe­cif­ic in­s­tal­la­tion at the Mu­se­um Lud­wig, re­buld­ing parts of a pri­vate home in­side the mu­se­um's wide open stair­case more

04/11–07/13/2014

Pierre Huyghe has trans­formed the ex­hi­bi­tion space in­to a whole world of its own, bring­ing to­gether liv­ing sys­tems, ob­­jects, films, pho­­to­­graphs, draw­ings, and mu­sic more

10/01/2014–1/11/2015

Peter and Irene Lud­wig brought Pop Art to Ger­­many. The ex­hi­bi­tion brings it to­gether in a large sur­vey ex­hi­bi­­tion with works from the other Lud­wig Mu­se­ums around the world more

09/15/2014–03/15/2015

2 – the ti­tle is the agen­da. The largest room in the mu­se­um is di­vid­ed in­to two parts, one light and the other dark, show­ing re­cent works range­ing from prints, wood­cuts, phot­graphs, to a large-scale video-in­s­tal­la­tion more

10/11/2013–01/26/2014

See­ing fa­­miliar things with new eyes and com­ing up with dif­fer­­ent sto­ries. The new pre­sen­ta­tion of the col­lec­tion more

05/25–09/01/2013

The Mu­se­um Lud­wig mount­ed the first so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion of work by Cal­i­for­nian artist Kathryn An­drews to be seen in a public in­sti­tu­tion more

05/25–08/25/2013

From 24 May through 25 Au­gust 2013, the Mu­se­um Lud­wig show­cased - as the first ev­er Ger­man in­sti­tu­tion to do so - the US Amer­i­can artist Jo Baer (b.1929 in Seat­tle, lives since 1984 in Am­s­ter­dam) in a so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion more

04/21–07/21/2013

The first ret­ro­spec­tive ex­hi­bi­tion by the Amer­i­can Per­for­mance artist in an in­sti­tu­tion more

04/21–07/21/2013

At the heart of Phil Collins' work is the in­di­vi­d­u­al in our me­dia so­ci­e­ty. A new com­pre­hen­sive pro­ject has been cre­at­ed es­pe­cial­ly for the Mu­se­um Lud­wig more

03/23–06/23/2013

The Mu­se­um Lud­wig pre­sents the com­plete mu­ral-col­lage cre­at­ed by Saul Stein­berg for EX­PO 58 in Brus­sels for the first time since its en­tire­ty more

01/31–05/05/2013

The out­s­tand­ing archive of an ex­traor­d­i­nary friend­ship more

12/01/2012–03/17/2013

Ci­net­ic ma­chine-sculp­tures with cryp­tic hu­mour more

10/27/2012–02/03/2013

Land­s­cape paint­ings, iPad-Draw­ings, and Mul­ti-Fo­cus-Films of­fer a broad overview of the re­cent work by the Bri­tish artist more

09/22/2012–01/06/2013

A Ret­ro­spek­tive of Comics, Graph­ics, and Scraps more

06/23–09/30/2012

The most com­pre­hen­sive ex­hi­bi­tion to date fo­cus­ing on the monu­men­tal oeu­vre of the 1950s to 70s by the Pop-Artist more

06/02-11/04/2012

An overview of 12 years at the Mu­se­um Lud­wig - The last pre­sen­ta­tion of the col­lec­tion by the former di­rec­tor more

04/28–07/29/2012

The first Eu­ro­pean ret­ro­spec­tive of the in­flu­en­tial chore­o­g­ra­pher and film­mak­er more

04/17–07/29/2012

The Dan­ish artist was the 2012 re­cipi­ent of the Wolf­gang Hahn Prize award­ed by the Ge­sellschaft für Mod­erne Kunst am Mu­se­um Lud­wig more

12/23/2011–07/08/2012

Graph­ic works and au­dio plays by Ger­man artist Fer­d­i­nand Kri­wet more

12/17/2011–04/22/2012

The para­ble “Be­fore the Law” by Franz Kaf­ka (1915) serves as a guid­ing mo­tif for this ex­hi­bi­tion idea more

11/29/2011–06/24/2012

On the oc­ca­sion of the first an­niver­sary of her pass­ing, the Mu­se­um Lud­wig has in­s­talled a room with works from the pri­vate resi­dence of Peter and Irene Lud­wig more

11/05/2011–05/13/2012

The Mu­se­um Lud­wig is pre­sent­ing an ex­hi­bi­tion of the artist Cosi­ma von Bonin, which will de­vel­op as a 'Work in Progress' in four Eu­ro­pean ci­ties more

09/24/2011–01/22/2012

Pab­lo Pi­cas­so was not on­ly a great artist but al­so a mas­ter of self-drama­ti­za­tion more