Current exhibition
GAWINA And Other Experiments
05.12.2021 – 23.01.2022
The Ludwig Museum presents three scholarship-holders of the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben (Artist-Residence Edenkoben): Gabriele Engelhardt, Wiebke Elzel and Nándor Angstenberger.
Current exhibition
Daniella Sheinman – Drawings against War
11.12.2021 – 30.01.2022
The Ludwig Museum presents the new donation of Daniella Sheinman’s works. The works of the Israeli artist oscillate between drawings and paintings. She realises her black lines on canvases two metres high and three metres wide. The series (9/11 SERIES) from 2004-2008 thematises the chaos and insecurity in the world, which the artist felt particularly […]
Current exhibition
Re-opening of the collection presentation on the 2nd floor
14.12.2021 – 01.12.2022
We are pleased to present the collection of the Ludwig Museum again. After the 2nd floor was used for the exhibition “Anleitung zum Selbstversuch. Baedeker’s First Journey on the Rhine as an Artistic Excursion”, works from Eva Aeppli to Wols can now be seen again.
Future exhibition
Chen Zhiguang – Magic Spaces
06.02.2022 – 24.04.2022
Chen Zhiguang is one of China’s best-known artists, who creates a parable for life in the state in his art. Externally, his art is about ants and ancient trees. Both reflect culture and nature in the traditional understanding of Chinese philosophy. Here, his ants symbolically and physically stand for the strength of the community, which […]
Future exhibition
Yoon-Hee – Density and Liquidity (A.T.)
12.06.2022 – 14.08.2022
At the beginning of her career, the Korean artist Yoon-Hee studied in Seoul, where she completed her Master of Fine Arts in 1974. From 1983, she first worked in Paris and then moved to France altogether in 1986. Like so many artists who come to Europe from the Asian region, she ideally combines both cultures […]
Future exhibition
Anne and Patrick Poirier – Fragility – for the 30th anniversary of the Ludwig Museum
03.09.2022 – 30.10.2022
The exhibition compares for the first time the artists Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell under the sign of their common confrontation with the Shoah in Germany as well as in America after 1945. On the occasion of the Ludwig Museum’s 30th anniversary, a thematic exhibition is planned that will both take us back to the […]
Future exhibition
Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell – Art After the Shoah – An Art of Survival
13.11.2022 – 29.01.2023
The exhibition compares for the first time the artists Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell under the sign of their common confrontation with the Shoah in Germany as well as in America after 1945. Boris Lurie, born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1924, and Wolf Vostell, born in Leverkusen in 1932, were linked by a […]
Past exhibition
Instructions for self-experiment. Baedeker’s first trip to the Rhine as an artistic excursus
23.09.2021 – 28.11.2021
Karl Baedeker (1801-1859) opened a bookstore in Koblenz on July 1, 1827 and took over the publishing house from Franz Friedrich Röhling in 1832. He had published the first Rhine travel guide in 1828, written by the Neuwied historian Johann August Klein and with the descriptive title “Rhine journey from Mainz to Cöln, manual for […]
Past exhibition
Isabelle Cornaro. Sunset
28.08.2021 – 14.11.2021
Isabelle Cornaro uses various stylistic devices, the representation of well-known paintings in object-based installations in which only a few stylistic devices are referenced. In 2021, Cornaro is nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp.
Past exhibition
Till Brönner. MELTING POTT EUROPE
16.07.2021 – 22.08.2021
The musician and composer Till Brönner, who was born in Viersen in 1971 and is Germany’s most famous jazz musician, began taking photos as early as 2010. He took his first portraits with a Leica photo camera, including actors and prominent personalities. In 2019, the Brost Foundation (Essen) made it possible for Till Brönner to […]
Past exhibition
Janus Hochgesand – Muy Mucho (Artistic Intervention)
06.06.2021 – 15.08.2021
12 new paintings by Janus Hochgesand will encounter 24 selected works from the collection.
Past exhibition
Präsenz. IKKG Absolventinnen Ausstellung
03.07.2021 – 11.07.2021
From July 3rd to July 11th, 2021, the Ludwig Museum is showing the group exhibition of this year’s graduates of the Institute for Artistic Ceramics and Glass, Koblenz, under the title “Presence”. The five artists – Lyia Gabitova, Yuan Yuan, Ching-Ya Huan, Elisa Ekler and Helena Sekot – present their individual positions using various media, […]