The exhibition Mapping the Collection takes a new look at two influential decades in American (art) history: the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition presents a selection of artworks from the Museum Ludwig’s collection by female, queer, and indigenous artists as well as artists of color who are not represented in the collection, as an impetus for a broader reception of American art.
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In 2006, the Museum Ludwig acquired eleven works from the series Ruhrlandschaften (Ruhr Landscapes) by Joachim Brohm (*1955) from between 1981 and 1983. The Museum Ludwig presented these photographs in the Photography Room.
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For the exhibition “HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Dynamic Spaces”, the Museum Ludwig collaborated with the platform Contemporary And (C&). Founded by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, C& sees itself as “a dynamic space for issues and information on contemporary art from Africa and its Global Diaspora.
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The photo album “Atheniensische Alterthümer” by Felix Alexander Oppenheim was exhibited for the first time, thus revealing a moment in history when the enthusiasm for antiquity, early archeology, the politics of symbols in Greece, and the struggle for rightful ownership created a context rich in words and images for these silent ruins.
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Dank einer Schenkung des Kölner Sammlers Ulrich Reininghaus besitzt das Museum - als einzige öffentliche Institution - seit 2018 eine vollständige Sammlung von Palermos Editionen. Nun wird diese Sammlung zum ersten Mal präsentiert.
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Born in 1972, the American artist Wade Guyton has created a consistent and distinct oeuvre for more than two decades. After acquiring several of the artist’s works for the collection, the Museum Ludwig is hosting a major survey exhibition.
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On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary, the Museum Ludwig is dedicated 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 were be presented.
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Aware of the fact that institutions create and deny access in a complex way, "Transcorporealities" asked who or what defines the boundaries of bodies and museums.
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In the 1990s a new art scene began to form in Cologne. Alexander Schröder followed these developments from Berlin, and began collecting art from the 1990s and 2000s with his special eye.
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In 2017 the Museum Ludwig launched a new project series entitled "Schultze Projects" with a five-part work by Wade Guyton created especially for this occasion.
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On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Benjamin Katz the Museum Ludwig presented his series of photographs "Berlin Havelhöhe (1960/1961)", which has never before been shown in its entirety. The photographs represent a socio-historical as well as an artistic and personal document, since they record Katz’s beginnings as a photographer.
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The Museum Ludwig invited the artist and filmmaker Fiona Tan to realize an exhibition project with the museum’s photography collection as the starting point.
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In 2019, the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig recognized Jac Leirner with the 25th edition of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize. The Brazilian artist has been pursuing a subtle analysis of social and representational systems for many years.
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Since the 1970s, Nil Yalter has been working as a pioneer of socially engaged and technically advanced art.The Museum Ludwig will hosted the Turkish artist’s first major survey exhibition.
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David Hockney and Richard Hamilton: two greats artists as British and as famous as the Beatles. The Museum Ludwig was highlighting their subversive beginnings with rarely exhibited works on paper and two films by James Scott.
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The year 2019 will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). The Museum Ludwig is taking this anniversary as an occasion to trace Humboldt’s connection to photography.
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Her role as a dedicated proponent, mediator, and longtime companion of Wassily Kandinsky is well known and recognized. This exhibition demonstrated Gabriele Münter’s importance and independence as a painter.
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This survey exhibition presented the mutual influence between German and American positions in the dense cultural landscape of the Rhineland from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Aenne Biermann (1898–1933) took photographs of her immediate surroundings from 1925 until her early death, and this body of work helped shape modernist photography.
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The Museum Ludwig showcased the remarkable versatility of Haegue Yangs' entire oeuvre in the artist’s first-ever survey exhibition
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Günter Peter Straschek was a filmmaker, researcher, and probably the most knowledgeable person about the film emigration from Nazi Germany.
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With sympathy and observing distance, the photographer couple Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch captured the 1960s in San Francisco.
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Werner Mantz is known as one of the most prominent photographers of the Neues Bauen movement of modernist architecture in Cologne during the 1920s. In a second creative period he returned to portrait photography. .
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On the centenary of Heinrich Böll’s birth, the Museum Ludwig examined Böll’s relationship to photography and taking photographs.
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The exhibition Gerhard Richter: New Paintings presented new abstract paintings created in 2016 alongside works from the collection of the Museum Ludwig by Richter
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In a big retrospective, the Museum Ludwig presented one of the most original abstract artists of the twentieth century: Otto Freundlich (1878–1943)
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This was the first presentation in the Photography Room within the permanent collection of the Museum Ludwig that was inaugurated in March 2017
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Since 2004 Reena Spaulings has appeared as an artist, gallerist, and literary character. The exhibition HER AND NO was Reena Spaulings’s first institutional collaboration with a museum
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The Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig presented the 2017 Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Trisha Donnelly. With this prize, the organization recognized the extraordinary oeuvre of the artist
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In the 1960s, the Rhineland already was an important center for a revolutionary occurrence in art. In touch with the latest trends of this exciting period, Wolfgang Hahn (1924–1987) began acquiring this new art and created a multifaceted collection
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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.
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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
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The Museum Ludwig is presenting a restrospective exhibition of the legendary artist Joan Mitchell, one of the most important figures in twentieth-century art
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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.
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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.
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2014
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
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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
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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
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Pierre Huyghe has transformed the exhibition space into a whole world of its own, bringing together living systems, objects, films, photographs, drawings, and music
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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
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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
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The Museum Ludwig mounted the first solo exhibition of work by Californian artist Kathryn Andrews to be seen in a public institution
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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
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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
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The Museum Ludwig presents the complete mural-collage created by Saul Steinberg for EXPO 58 in Brussels for the first time since its entirety
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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
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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
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