Solo show
2024 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Anna Boghiguian
9 Nov 2024 — 30 Mar 2025 at Museum Ludwig
· Cologne
Museum Ludwig in Cologne presents a special exhibition marking the award of the 2024 Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Anna Boghiguian. The Wolfgang Hahn Prize, granted annually by the Gesellschaft fur Moderne Kunst at Museum Ludwig, recognises outstanding contemporary artists whose work is then acquired for the museum's collection.
Anna Boghiguian is an Egyptian-Canadian artist known for her expansive, interdisciplinary practice that weaves together drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. Her work engages deeply with history, migration, trade routes, and political upheaval, drawing on a lifetime of travel and observation. This exhibition offers visitors a compelling encounter with one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art.
Anna Boghiguian is an Egyptian-Canadian artist known for her expansive, interdisciplinary practice that weaves together drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. Her work engages deeply with history, migration, trade routes, and political upheaval, drawing on a lifetime of travel and observation. This exhibition offers visitors a compelling encounter with one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art.
About the artist
Anna Boghiguian
1946
Anna Boghiguian is an Egyptian contemporary artist. One of Egypt's foremost contemporary artists, her work investigates various historical events in a political context, such as the history of the cotton trade, the salt trade and the life of Egyptian Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy. Her work…
About the artist →About the venue
Museum Ludwig
· Cologne
Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It holds many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
