Archive: Exhibitions
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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.