Archive: Exhibitions
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Markéta Othová, Michael Bielický and Kamila B. Richter – The world through lenses, in pixels and digital fluidity
01.03.2026 – 31.05.2026
With its second parallel exhibition, the Ludwig Museum once again focuses on the art scene of the neighboring Czech Republic, addressing both contemporary photographic positions and the question of how much image information should be questioned in the digital age and how much it is subject to constant change. The exhibition of Markéta Othová, Michael […]
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Marianne Aue. Unknown Zero
01.03.2026 – 31.05.2026
Marianne Aue *1932 in Freudenthal, now Bruntál, †2016 in Leverkusen, was one of the earliest representatives of the post-war avant-garde in Europe. She studied at the School of Applied Arts in Krefeld in the 1950s, where she gained her artistic skills. From the early 1960s onwards, she created works that showed a stylistic affinity with […]
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Ich bin…jung. Ausstellung der JuKuWe
21.02.2026 – 18.03.2026
Zum Kultursommerthema „Forever young“ zeigt die Jugendkunstwerkstatt Koblenz e.V. im Ludwig Museum Koblenz die in der Zeit vom 21.2.-18.3.2026 entstandenen Werke der Teilnehmer. Überwiegend Positives wird mit dem Jungsein und der zugehörigen Lebensphase verbunden. In Kunst und Kultur stets präsent und als erstrebenswert, dient die Jugend als immer sprudelnde Inspirationsquelle. Wie der Körperkult seine Ideale […]
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Joël Andrianomearisoa – Tools of Emotions and Desires
30.11.2025 – 15.02.2026
The Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa, born in 1977 in Antananarivo, Madagascar, lives and works between Paris and Magnat-l’Étrange in France, and Antananarivo in Madagascar. In 2003, he received a degree in architecture from the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. In 2016, he won the “Arco Madrid Audemars Piguet” Prize. Joël Andrianomearisoa works multidisciplinarily, expressing himself […]
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Noah Becker. Intervention im Ludwig Museum
04.12.2025 – 04.01.2026
Das Ludwig Museum Koblenz präsentiert vom 4.12.2025 bis 4.01.2026 eine künstlerische Intervention von Noah Becker. Der Künstler zeigt rund zehn Arbeiten, die erstmals in einen direkten Dialog mit Werken der Sammlung treten – darunter Positionen von Andy Warhol und Willem de Kooning. Noah Beckers oft farbintensive, materialreiche Arbeiten – darunter Gemälde in Öl auf Leinwand, Collagen, Holzarbeiten und objekthafte Setzungen […]
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ERWIN WURM – Life Beat Soft Melt
05.09.2025 – 23.11.2025
Famous for having long challenged the boundaries of sculpture, Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, born in 1954, keeps transforming this traditional medium into something more fluid, participatory, and playfully subversive. The title of his exhibition at the Ludwig Museum suggests that Wurm embraces life – its energy, temporality, movement, ironic and tragic aspects, as well as […]
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Multiple Choice. The MAT Collection (Multiplication of transformable art) on the 100th birthday of Peter Ludwig
08.07.2025 – 02.11.2025
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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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SACRED PLANET. Rita Sabo
18.11.2023 – 07.01.2024
For the artist Rita Sabo, who grew up in the North Caucasus, the preservation of planet Earth is at the center of her work. In a comprehensive concept, she develops the idea of the “Sacred Planet”, based on the ancient wisdom and myths with which humanity has understood itself to be in harmony with nature […]
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Dieter Nuhr. Surrounded by afar
08.10.2023 – 12.11.2023
Dieter Nuhr, the well-known cabaret artist, comedian, author and TV presenter, who completed his studies in art and history at the University of Essen to become a teacher, has been thinking more about his artistic roots in recent years. During his travels and in his homeland, the cultural region of the Ruhr, he has been […]
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Mohammed Kazem – Directions
18.06.2023 – 20.08.2023
Mohammed Kazem is considered to be one of the most prominent artist in the Emirate of Dubai and its neighboring Emirates. A true ambassador of Arab art, he has presented exhibitions around the world, from the Guggenheim Museum in New York to the Arab World Institute in Paris. Following his participation in the first group […]
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Toyen – Surreal/ Radical
07.05.2023 – 06.08.2023
Marie Čermínová/ Toyen (1902-1980) is considered the most important Czech female artist of the 20th century. In her almost 60 active years, the multifaceted painter, draftswoman, graphic artist and poet was part of many currents, ranging from Czech “Poetismus” to “Devětsil” and from Cubism to Surrealism. Born in Prague in 1902, she left home at […]
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Tatjana Valsang – Riverbanks
16.04.2023 – 11.06.2023
Tatjana Valsang (born 1963 in St. Tönis) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Klaus Rinke and Dieter Krieg and then worked for a long time without public presentations. During this time she developed her own artistic language. Her paintings show biomorphic structures, which she stages in a complex interplay of colour, form and pictorial space […]
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Kunstreich 2022 – Eine Ausstellung der JuKuWe
26.03.2023 – 23.04.2023
As every year, JuKuWe presents the most outstanding results of its three-day art camp at Fort Konstantin. This year the motto was: “Subtext_Between the lines”.
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About Playing. An exhibition by the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
12.02.2023 – 09.04.2023
Play is a creative, profoundly human process. In the same way that children begin to understand the world through play, adults also succeed in understanding their environment anew with freedom and leisure. Great inventions and ideas are often the result of playful coincidences. In particular, artists who follow the often-cited postulate of the ‘functionlessness’ of […]
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Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell – Art After the Shoah
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 (1924-2008) and Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) probably met during Vostell’s first stay in New York in 1964. Born in Leverkusen and […]
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Anne et Patrick Poirier – Fragilité – for the 30th anniversary of the Ludwig Museum
11.09.2022 – 30.10.2022
“Professor Peter Ludwig was one of the very first collectors to pay attention to our research when our work was only in its infancy, and in France there was only a neo-classical love for antiquity and a romantic feeling of the ruins. The exhibition organized by Wolfgang Becker, presented to us by our friend Ansgar […]
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Radical Appropriation? – Künstler*innen gestalten Werke der Sammlung Ludwig Koblenz neu!
18.09.2022 – 09.10.2022
The action “Radical Appropriation?” – Artists redesign works from the Ludwig Koblenz Collection! took place from 20 to 25 June at the Forum Mittelrhein. Many passers-by took the opportunity to get creative with the artists. The concept came from concept and pop artist Christoph Napp-Zinn, who carried it out together with Thomas Baumgärtel, Anna Recker, […]
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Jubilee celebration – 30 years Ludwig Museum Koblenz
18.09.2022 – 18.09.2022
We invite you to a ceremony and open day! Exactly 30 years ago, on 18 September 1992, the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz for contemporary art was ceremoniously opened to the public by Peter and Irene Ludwig. The focus was on French art after 1945, and in this way the Deutschherrenhaus, built in 1216, became a […]
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Yoon-Hee – non finito
11.06.2022 – 21.08.2022
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 […]
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Help for Children in Ukraine – Charity Sale of Works by Photographer Sergei Malikov
10.06.2022 – 21.08.2022
Photographs by Sergej Malikov will be on display at the Ludwig Museum from 10 June 2022. They will be offered for sale by the Ludwig Museum and the Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Städtischen Museen, Koblenz to raise money for children in Ukraine. This campaign is part of an international project to support Ukraine. […]
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Re-opening of the collection presentation on the 3rd floor
02.04.2022 – 10.07.2022
We are pleased to present the collection of the Ludwig Museum again. After the 3rd floor was used for the exhibition “JUKUWE Kunstreich 2021 ‘Spurensuche Nord’”, works from Daniel Buren to Claude Rutauld can now be seen again.
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Chen Zhiguang – Magic Spaces
06.02.2022 – 29.05.2022
Chen Zhiguang (born 1963 in Xiamen, China) is one of China’s most renowned sculptors and installation artists. He graduated from the Fine Arts Institute of Fujian University in 1988 and is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the China Sculpture Association, the Central Academy of Fine Arts of the City of Design School […]
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Re-opening of the collection presentation on the 2nd floor
14.12.2021 – 31.03.2022
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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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, […]
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Torben Kuhlmann – Mouse Landing Koblenz “The flying adventures by Torben Kuhlmann”
31.10.2020 – 30.05.2021
Torben Kuhlmann was born in 1982 in Sulingen, Lower Saxony. He studied illustration and communication design at the HAW Hamburg with focus on book illustration. In June 2012 he completed his studies with the children’s book “Lindbergh – The adventurous story of a flying mouse”. His debut book has received numerous international awards and was […]
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SLOW LIFE. Radical Practices of the Everyday
01.11.2020 – 15.03.2021
“SLOW LIFE. Radical Practices of the Everyday” is a group exhibition with an international scope, a commitment that reflects on today’s pressing global issues. The current logic of our world, the existing social & economic system and the market-consumer culture have caused serious environmental problems. The approach they are based upon is in crisis, and […]
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Hotspot Songzhuang: Fang Lijun & Ren Rong
30.08.2020 – 18.10.2020
In the artists’ village Songzhuang, located east of Beijing, numerous artists once settled in order to escape the narrowness and high cost of living of the capital. The then tranquil village has now become a hotspot for art. Originally, the artists here sought the simplicity and tranquillity of rural life and direct dialogue with one […]
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Troubled Times – Works from the museums collection
21.06.2020 – 16.08.2020
Holdings from the museum’s own collection are presented, which thematically focus on the themes of flight, expulsion, torture, remembering and forgetting.
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Otto Fried – “Heaven can wait / Heaven can’t wait”
21.06.2020 – 16.08.2020
Otto Fried was born in 1922 in Horchheim, a district of Koblenz, Germany. Due to the emerging anti-Semitism in Germany, his family sends him to the United States, where he arrives in 1936 in Portland, Oregon. In 1943 he joins the US-Army Air Corps and is deployed at various theatres of war in India, China […]
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JuKuWe – Factor Home – yesterday, today, tomorrow
07.05.2020 – 07.06.2020
The associations with the theme of home are probably as contrary as they are emotional. For some time the term struggled in the younger generation with the dusty image of a nostalgic return to the “golden age” and was about as attractive as grandmother’s smock apron. On the other hand, it had long had a […]
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Franziskus Wendels – Lichtungen
26.01.2020 – 22.03.2020
Franziskus Wendels’ paintings and installation arrangements deal with the effects of nocturnal city scenarios and their relationship to artificial illumination. In this way, the night and the dark room, in which light can only experience objects, inevitably become the central theme of his works. At the same time, his works are designed in such a […]
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Georges Rousse – Le Temps retrouvé
26.01.2020 – 22.03.2020
The renowned Parisian installation and photo artist Georges Rousse (born 1947) is known for his visual transformations of disused rooms. He uses drawing, painting, collage and sculpture according to his calculations in such a way that a so-called anamorphosis arises: viewed from a certain point of view, all the elements unite to a completely new […]
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Larry Rivers – An American-European Dialogue
10.11.2019 – 12.01.2020
The American painter, musician and filmmaker Larry Rivers (1923-2002) is considered one of the most influential artists of the New York art scene in the 1950s-1970s. Already in the 1950s, he was one of the pioneers of pop art and influenced not only its most central figure Andy Warhol, but also a number of other […]
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#Peacebell by Michael Patrick Kelly
03.11.2019 – 05.01.2020
In November 2018, the end of the First World War marks the 100th anniversary – reason enough to literally hang the issue of peace on the big bell. In both World Wars, over 150,000 bells were smelted to extract metal for weapons production. Bells, which were once meant to summon people, tore them apart. Musician […]
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The Known and the Unknown – New presentation of the Peter and Irene Ludwig collection and latest donations
22.09.2019 – 27.10.2019
Exactly ten years after the large collection exhibition in 2009, the Ludwig Museum again presents important works from its own collection and puts them in dialogue with the latest donations and long-term loans. Around 50 new positions will be on display on all four floors of the museum. The heart and identity of the house […]
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Nam Tchun Mo
— Gesture in Space
16.06.2019 – 15.09.2019
am Tchun-Mo (born 1961 in Daegu) counts to one of those loose artist groups who initiated a new era of abstract art in South Korea in the 1970s.
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Deng Guoyuan – The Butterflies conquer the Dinosaurs Garden
12.05.2019 – 06.06.2019
The Chinese artist Deng Guoyuan (born 1957 in Tianjin) has spent his entire life studying the garden. He interprets this in front of the treasure of thought and knowledge of the old Chinese tradition, in particular of Taoism, in which the garden is regarded as the “way”, “method” or even “principle” of knowledge. Thus the […]
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Alex Katz – Bigger Is Better
10.03.2019 – 28.04.2019
The American artist Alex Katz is internationally regarded as one of the outstanding figures of contemporary painting. His art is located between abstraction and figuration, which makes it impossible to consider his style just one-dimensional. Often related to Pop Art, he sees himself more as an abstract painter. With his paintings, drawings and prints Katz […]
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Pierre Soulages – Noir / Lumière
04.11.2018 – 06.01.2019
Far beyond the borders of France, the artistic work of Pierre Soulages is regarded as unique in the rigorous radicalism with which he has devoted himself, almost exclusively, to the colour black. Born in 1919, he has been producing work of an international reputation for more than seven decades. Already in the early 1940s, Soulages […]
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John Chamberlain. Bending spaces
26.08.2018 – 21.10.2018
The crumpled sculptures by the American artist John Chamberlain, welded together from deformed car body parts, revolutionized the art world back in the 1950s. Through the unusual use of industrially prefabricated materials and their completely free repurposing, he released new processes of artistic forms and a consumer-oriented aesthetic. At first assigned to Nouveau Réalisme, his […]
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Confluentes III. Breaking through boundaries
29.07.2018 – 12.08.2018
Invitations to the art festival ‘Confluentes III’ were sent to artists from around the world in order to present a variety of positions on the theme of ‘breaking through boundaries’. Twelve artists from Germany, China, Estonia, France, Italy and Russia are putting their mark on very different locations within the city of Koblenz, illuminating them from a number of perspectives and bringing them to life. The focus is on works and concepts that address the theme of overcoming ‘borderline’ experiences.
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Daniel Coulet. Between Heaven and Hell. Entre ciel et enfer
28.03.2010 – 09.05.2010
The sculptor and painter Daniel Coulet (born in Montpellier in 1954), who lives in Paris and Toulouse, is considered one of the emerging artists on the French art scene. The monumental sculptures he has placed in public spaces in recent years, in particular, demonstrate his mastery of sculpture: in the Mirail metro station in Toulouse, […]
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Jiří Křenek- Formel 1 – Hautnah!
09.07.2009 – 23.08.2009
Formula 1 – up close! With the young Czech photographer Jiří Křenek (b. 1974 in Prague), the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz is presenting a field of photography that has so far rarely been shown in an art museum. The world of sports and commerce only occasionally moves into the zones of art anyway. In this […]