Current exhibition
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 […]
Future exhibition
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 […]
Future exhibition
Reflections: Important artistic positions from the collection of the National Bank
29.06.2024 – 01.09.2024
Under the programmatic title “Insights – Outsights”, the Ludwig Museum will present around 80 works by artists from the National Bank collection from June 30th to August 22nd, 2024. Over decades, the National Bank has built up a high-quality collection, which it now presents in museums with selected items. The reason for this is the […]
Future exhibition
Arne Quinze – Secret Beauty
22.09.2024 – 24.11.2024
Arne Quinze is one of those contemporary artists who engage intensively with nature. In one of his statements he says: “Since I have been living on this planet, 30 percent of the natural and animal world has already been destroyed.” In his art, he is interested in the lost ecosystem that is increasingly threatened by […]
Future exhibition
TAN PING. Body of Abstractions
01.12.2024 – 26.01.2025
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 gestures. Trained in the Chinese tradition and […]
Past exhibition
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 […]
Past exhibition
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 […]
Past exhibition
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 […]
Past exhibition
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 […]
Past exhibition
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 […]