Liebe Besucher*innen, aufgrund einer Sanierung des historischen Daches bleibt das 3. Obergeschoss ab dem 19.08.2024 vorübergehend geschlossen.
Dear visitors, due to the renovation of the historic roof, the 3rd floor will be temporarily closed from 19 August 2024.
Current exhibition
Aljoscha. Project HOPE
07.12.2024 – 26.01.2025
Ukrainian artist Aljoscha (born Aleksey Potupin in 1974) focuses his highly scientific and 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. With unique […]
Current 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 […]
Future exhibition
Once upon a time. Vill passiert sickher. Manfred Boecker, Rainer Gross, Wolfgang Niedecken
09.03.2025 – 18.05.2025
In Cologne in the 1970s, Manfred Boecker, Rainer Gross and Wolfgang Niedecken met in the Südstadt, in the immediate vicinity of the Cologne Werkschulen. During their studies at the city’s creative center for fine arts, architecture and design, they became close friends and found – by founding an artist collective – a suitable platform to […]
Future exhibition
Erwin Wortelkamp – Works on Paper
01.06.2025 – 17.08.2025
Erwin Wortelkamp has lived and worked in the Westerwald since the mid-1980s, where, in addition to his impressive oeuvre of sculptures, works on paper, texts on art and his own exhibition projects with artists, he has created an important landscape space in which he presents his artistic position. For him, it is often the inner […]
Art and Architecture
Discover the Art and Artists, learn about the Collection and History of the Museum or the historic building in which the museum is located.
Ludwig, the movie
A short movie about our museum (german).