Current exhibition
Reflections. Positions from the National-Bank Collection
29.06.2024 – 08.09.2024
By the title “Reflections”, the Ludwig Museum will present around 80 works by artists from the collection of the National-Bank Essen from June 29th to September 1st, 2024. Over several decades, the National Bank in Essen has built up a high-quality collection, which it now presents in museums with selected items. The reason for this […]
Future exhibition
Arne Quinze – Hidden Beauty
22.09.2024 – 24.11.2024
Arne Quinze is one of those contemporary artists who engage intensively with nature. In one of his statements he says: “Since I have been living on this planet, 30 percent of the natural and animal world has already been destroyed.” In his art, he is interested in the lost ecosystem that is increasingly threatened by […]
Future exhibition
Tan Ping. Body of Abstraction
01.12.2024 – 26.01.2025
Tan Ping (born 1960 in Chengde, Hebei, China) belongs to the generation of artists who played a decisive role in the reorientation of Chinese painting after the opening of China. His work is characterised by a confident abstract formal language in which he alternates between painterly and graphic gestures. Trained in the Chinese tradition and […]
Past exhibition
Art auction at the Fête des Arts – friends meet friends.
07.07.2024 – 07.07.2024
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Mittelrhein-Museums und Ludwig Museums zu Koblenz e.V., an art auction will be held at the Ludwig Museum on 7 July 2024 at 3 pm. As part of this event, you will have the opportunity to purchase wonderful works by artists who are […]
Past exhibition
Sean Scully. Géographies
28.04.2024 – 16.06.2024
Sean Scully (born 1945 in Dublin, Ireland) is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential abstract artists living today, whose work marked a paradigm shift in American art from minimalism to an emotive form of abstraction with a return to metaphor and spirituality, such as they can be found in the European […]
Past exhibition
KOEN VAN DEN BROEK – Of(f) Road
25.02.2024 – 21.04.2024
Whether curbs, bridge pillars or empty streets: the Belgian artist Koen van den Broek (born 1973) makes the urban present the subject of his paintings and sketches. He moves with ease along the boundaries between abstraction and representation of reality. Van den Broek first studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Antwerp in the late […]
Past exhibition
Im Westen was Neues. Ausstellung der JUKUWE
24.02.2024 – 16.03.2024
The youth art workshop shows works on the cultural summer theme “westwards”. In dealing with the culture of Western European countries, the current and new present and the associated challenges were linked. Germany was also the focus as a country because it sees itself as belonging to the West. For a long time, its people […]
Past exhibition
1966. Spain’s awakening – An artists’ museum of the future
02.09.2023 – 11.02.2024
Audio SWR2 about the exhibition (German) here Audio contribution by Deutschlandfunkkultur on the exhibition can be found here. Interview with Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid (Film in German Language) here The Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in the Spanish city of Cuenca opened on July 1, 1966. Its founder, the Spanish artist Fernando Zóbel (1924-1984), knew […]