Current exhibition
Erwin Wortelkamp – Translucencies
01.06.2025 – 24.08.2025
Erwin Wortelkamp (born 1938 in Hamm/Sieg) is deeply engaged with nature, particularly in the sculpture park he designed, “Im Tal,” and in Acquaviva (Italy), which is reflected in his sculptural and graphic work. In close dialogue with nature, he also draws inspiration from the human form. “Perhaps a Tree” is the title he gave his […]
Current exhibition
Multiple Choice. The MAT Collection (Multiplication of transformable art) on the 100th birthday of Peter Ludwig
08.07.2025 – 31.08.2025
Exhibition flyer here Peter Ludwig (*9 July 1925 in Koblenz; † 22 July 1996 in Aachen) acquired the Edition MAT in the early 1990s and initially gave it to the Ludwig Museum as a permanent loan in 1992. This significant collection of contemporary works, with a particular focus on French, German, and Italian artists, represents […]
Future exhibition
ERWIN WURM – Life Beat soft melt
07.09.2025 – 23.11.2025
Erwin Wurm distinguishes himself as an artist with his particularly fine sense of humor and irony. His drafts and their realizations now appear innumerable when it comes to apparently “banal”, everyday” motifs in his art. Starting with sculptures made of dust and found materials, he very quickly developed the “One-Minute Sculptures”, which caused a sensation […]
Future exhibition
Joël Andrianomearisoa – Tools of Emotions and Desires
30.11.2025 – 22.02.2026
Joël Andrianomearisoa works in a multidisciplinary manner, with materiality and scale being important aspects. Imbued with complex emotional experiences, his delicate, often ambiguous works are an ongoing series of evolving exercises that consider the aesthetics and architecture of feelings that all can perceive but not necessarily name. He works in a multidisciplinary manner, with materiality […]
Past exhibition
Wege. Menschen.Perspektiven. Eine Ausstellung der JuKuWe
30.05.2025 – 26.06.2025
The Mediterranean region and southern Europe are criss-crossed by well-known and infamous paths, roads and sea routes, e.g. the Way of St. James, the Alpe Adria cycle path, the Dolomites road, the Strait of Gibraltar, the sea route that has been documented in literature since ancient times and on which Odysseus wandered through the Mediterranean. […]
Past exhibition
Once upon a time. Vill passiert sickher. Manfred Boecker, Rainer Gross, Wolfgang Niedecken
09.03.2025 – 18.05.2025
Manfred Boecker, Rainer Gross and Wolfgang Niedecken – the three musicians and artists met in the early 1970s while studying at the Cologne Werkschulen and founded an artist collective shortly afterwards. Like their peers, whose awareness was shaped by the 1968 movement, they too experienced a generational conflict and thus the unease with bourgeois society […]
Past exhibition
Tan Ping. Body of Abstraction
01.12.2024 – 23.02.2025
Audio Article, SWR 2, Natali Kurth (German) 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 […]
Past exhibition
Aljoscha. Project HOPE
07.12.2024 – 02.02.2025
Extended until February 2th, 2025! Ukrainian artist Aljoscha (born Aleksey Potupin in 1974) focuses his cross-media practice on “bioism” an attempt to create and explore new life forms for an organic future. A student of Konrad Klapheck and Shirin Neshat, Aljoscha works with sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography to explore the aesthetics of the future. […]
Past exhibition
HIDDEN BEAUTY. Arne Quinze
22.09.2024 – 24.11.2024
By “Hidden Beauty” I want to delve deep into the hidden beauty of nature. I function as an archivist of nature, meticulously documenting the delicate balance of existence – from the brilliant bloom to the inevitable decay. At the core of “Hidden Beauty” lies a deep truth: that nature is the ultimate artist and humanity […]