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Museum Ludwig

Cologne · Official site
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.

On view

Past exhibitions (27)

2024 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Anna Boghiguian

9 Nov 2024 — 30 Mar 2025

A solo show honouring the 2024 Wolfgang Hahn Prize winner

Fluxus and Beyond: Ursula Burghardt, Benjamin Patterson

12 Oct 2024 — 9 Feb 2025

Two Fluxus pioneers reunited at Museum Ludwig

Chargesheimer

27 Apr 2024 — 10 Nov 2024

Retrospective of a landmark 20th-century photographer

Roni Horn. Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death

23 Mar 2024 — 11 Aug 2024

Roni Horn's multidisciplinary solo show at Museum Ludwig

HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. And Yesterday and Tomorrow

9 Mar 2024 — 13 Oct 2024

Past, present, and future collide at Museum Ludwig.

2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Francis Alÿs

18 Nov 2023 — 7 Apr 2024

Solo show celebrating Alÿs's 2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize

Collection Presentation: Pablo Picasso Suite 156 with Kubra Khademi

28 Oct 2023 — 4 Feb 2024

Picasso's Suite 156 in dialogue with Kubra Khademi

Walde Huth. Material and Fashion

23 Sep 2023 — 3 Mar 2024

Postwar fashion and material photography by Walde Huth.

Füsun Onur: Retrospective

16 Sep 2023 — 28 Jan 2024

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

3 Jun 2023 — 24 Sep 2023

Ukrainian modernism meets Koltsova's contemporary vision.

Image/Counterimage: Tarrah Krajnak, VALIE EXPORT, Sanja Iveković, Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems

22 Apr 2023 — 27 Aug 2023

Five artists subvert the image through body, gender, and identity.

Ursula — That's Me. So What?

18 Mar 2023 — 23 Jul 2023

Ursula's solo show on identity and artistic legacy

Kiss, kiss. In memoriam Lady Renate Gruber

3 Dec 2022 — 12 Mar 2023

A tribute to Lady Renate Gruber at Museum Ludwig

2022 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Frank Bowling

16 Nov 2022 — 19 Mar 2023

Solo show honoring Frank Bowling, 2022 Hahn Prize winner

HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig. Anti-colonial Interventions

8 Oct 2022 — 5 Feb 2023

Anti-colonial interventions reshape Museum Ludwig's collection.

HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: together for and against it

from 8 Oct 2022

Collective voices for and against at Museum Ludwig

Green Modernism. The New View of Plants

17 Sep 2022 — 22 Jan 2023

Modern art's radical new gaze on the plant kingdom

Raghubir Singh. Kolkata

9 Jul 2022 — 6 Nov 2022

Raghubir Singh's colour vision of Kolkata's streets

Isamu Noguchi

26 Mar 2022 — 31 Jul 2022

Noguchi's sculptures, designs, and stage sets in Cologne

Voiceover: Felice Beato in Japan

19 Feb 2022 — 12 Jun 2022

Beato's 19th-century Japan, reframed as constructed narrative

Presentation of the Gerhard Richter Collection

1 Feb 2022 — 1 May 2022

A focused look at Museum Ludwig's Richter collection

2021 Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize: Marcel Odenbach

17 Nov 2021 — 20 Feb 2022

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

6 Nov 2021 — 11 Sep 2024

Minerva Cuevas challenges capitalism at Museum Ludwig

August & Marta: How August Sander Photographed the Painter Marta Hegemann (and Her Children's Room!)

16 Oct 2021 — 23 Jan 2022

Sander's portraits of painter Marta Hegemann at Museum Ludwig

Picasso Shared and Divided: The Artist and His Image in East and West Germany

25 Sep 2021 — 30 Jan 2022

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.

Boaz Kaizman: Green Area

3 Sep 2021 — 16 Jan 2022

Immersive solo show by Israeli artist Boaz Kaizman.

2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Betye Saar

1 Jun 2021 — 12 Sep 2021

Betye Saar wins the 2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize