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We Call It Ludwig
On 5 February 1976, Peter and Irene Ludwig signed an endowment contract with the city of Cologne which marked the beginning of the Museum Ludwig. The couple donated 350 works of modern art to the city on the condition that the new museum in the heart...
Yüksel Arslan
This exhibition "Artures" was the first in Western Europe to present works by the Turkish-born artist Yüksel Arslan (*1933). Arslan left his home country in 1962 for political reasons and resettled in Paris with the help of such well-known artists as...
Yvonne Rainer – Space, Body, Language
In cooperation with the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne presented the works of Yvonne Rainer, born in San Francisco in 1934 and one of the world's leading choreographers, dancers and filmmakers. In the 1960s, Rainer made a name for...
Liu Jun
The writer Liu Jun (pseudonym Xi Chuan, born in 1969) is a poet, publisher, translator and a lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Peking. Liu is one of the leading representatives of what is commonly termed "symbolic poetry". He has been...
Willem de Rooij – Intolerance
Dutch artist Willem de Rooij (*1969) combines images – in media as diverse as sculpture, film or text. Where earlier film installations had a sculptural quality, recent exhibitions of his work became artpieces in their own right, often incorporating...
William Forsythe
William Forsythe is regarded as one of the top choreographers in the world. His artistic endeavours include dance installations, performances, films and the development of Internet-based dance projects. In the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden,...
Cell 05
Im Städtedreieck der sächsischen Kunstmetropolen entsteht im ehemaligen Zisterzienserkloster in Altzella bei Nossen ein Museums- und Galerieareal. Das Ausstellungskonzept verknüpft Ort, Thema und Metapher der "Zelle". Mit ihr verbindet man einen...
In the Network of Modernism. Kirchner, Braque, Kandinsky, Klee ... Richter, Bacon, Altenbourg and their critic Will Grohmann
On the occasion of Will Grohmann’s 125th anniversary in 2012, a monographic exhibition commemorated the life’s work of one of the most influential German artists of the 20th century in Dresden – the city where Grohmann worked for most of his life....
Vot ken you mach?
“Vot ken you mach?” is Yiddish for “What can you do?” The question comes from a song written in the 1920s about the situation of Jewish immigrants in the United States. What can you do when modern times are changing the world around you? How well can...
Walker Evans: Depth of Field
The American photographer Walker Evans shaped the history of 20th-century photography like no other. Born in 1903, he studied literature at the Sorbonne in Paris in the 1920s, where he became increasingly interested in European photography. The...