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Past exhibitions (31)
Harald Naegeli in Cologne – Sprayer and Draughtsman
Street art pioneer Naegeli: spray work meets fine drawing.
2024 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Anna Boghiguian
A solo show honouring the 2024 Wolfgang Hahn Prize winner
Fluxus and Beyond: Ursula Burghardt, Benjamin Patterson
Two Fluxus pioneers reunited at Museum Ludwig
Chargesheimer
Retrospective of a landmark 20th-century photographer
Roni Horn. Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death
Roni Horn's multidisciplinary solo show at Museum Ludwig
Paris 1863–1874: Revolution in Art
From the Salon des Refusés to the first Impressionist show.
2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Francis Alÿs
Solo show celebrating Alÿs's 2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize
Collection Presentation: Pablo Picasso Suite 156 with Kubra Khademi
Picasso's Suite 156 in dialogue with Kubra Khademi
Walde Huth. Material and Fashion
Postwar fashion and material photography by Walde Huth.
Füsun Onur: Retrospective
A major retrospective of Turkish artist Füsun Onur at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, surveying decades of her poetic, installation-based practice.
HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Modernism in Ukraine 1900–1930 & Daria Koltsova
Ukrainian modernism meets Koltsova's contemporary vision.
Image/Counterimage: Tarrah Krajnak, VALIE EXPORT, Sanja Iveković, Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems
Five artists subvert the image through body, gender, and identity.
2022 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Frank Bowling
Solo show honoring Frank Bowling, 2022 Hahn Prize winner
Raghubir Singh. Kolkata
Raghubir Singh's colour vision of Kolkata's streets
Isamu Noguchi
Noguchi's sculptures, designs, and stage sets in Cologne
Voiceover: Felice Beato in Japan
Beato's 19th-century Japan, reframed as constructed narrative
Presentation of the Gerhard Richter Collection
A focused look at Museum Ludwig's Richter collection
2021 Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize: Marcel Odenbach
A retrospective survey of video and installation works by Marcel Odenbach, winner of the prestigious Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize at Museum Ludwig.
Schultze Projects #3: Minerva Cuevas
Minerva Cuevas challenges capitalism at Museum Ludwig
August & Marta: How August Sander Photographed the Painter Marta Hegemann (and Her Children's Room!)
Sander's portraits of painter Marta Hegemann at Museum Ludwig
Picasso Shared and Divided: The Artist and His Image in East and West Germany
Museum Ludwig explores how Picasso's legacy was claimed, contested, and shaped differently on either side of the Iron Curtain in a compelling temporary exhibition.
2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Betye Saar
Betye Saar wins the 2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize
RESIST! The Art of Resistance
An exhibition exploring how artists have used their work to challenge power, resist oppression, and advocate for social change throughout history.
Ursula — That's Me. So What?
Ursula's solo show on identity and artistic legacy
Green Modernism. The New View of Plants
Modern art's radical new gaze on the plant kingdom
I miss you
A temporary exhibition exploring themes of absence, longing, and emotional connection through contemporary art.
Boaz Kaizman: Green Area
Immersive solo show by Israeli artist Boaz Kaizman.
HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. And Yesterday and Tomorrow
Past, present, and future collide at Museum Ludwig.
Kiss, kiss. In memoriam Lady Renate Gruber
A tribute to Lady Renate Gruber at Museum Ludwig
HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Anti-colonial Interventions
Anti-colonial interventions reshape Museum Ludwig's collection.
HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: together for and against it
Collective voices for and against at Museum Ludwig