Ergin Çavuşoğlu, West/Ost, Andreas Fogarasi, atelier le balto – les pieds sur terre, West-Arch and Kunstpreis Aachen
2010
Jülicher Straße 97-109
52070 Aachen, Germany
Phone +49-241-1807 104
Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Nov 7, 2009 – Jan 17, 2010
In recent years, Ergin Çavuşoğlu’s architectural video installations, sculptures and drawings caught a lot of attention. In 2003 he represented Turkey at the Venice Biennial. He finds his subjects in places of transition and the routes of migration in today’s globalized world. His works, however, are not strictly documentary, they rather turn space as such and the actors in it into an aesthetical and narrative element. With his structural and detailed view, Çavuşoğlu achieves images of density and solitude. In his own biography he represents a type of artist whose thematic sources are his own migration experiences and life in different cultures. The exhibition will present the video installations Silent Glide (2008-2009), Voyage of no Return (2009) and Liminal Crossing from 2009 that has been produced by the Ludwig Forum. Çavuşoğlu will conclude this year’s programmatic leitmotif of video/film.
Opening: Friday, November 6, .2009, 08.00 p.m.
West/Ost
Ludwigs Grafik 2
Feb 6 – April 25, 2010
20 years after the German reunification West/Ost explores how the internal relationship between the two German states had been reflected in the arts from the 1960s to the 1990s. Artists from East and West Germany in central works from the Ludwig Forum’s comprehensive graphics collection among which A.R. Penck, Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, Hanne Darboven, Martin Kippenberger und Albert Oehlen. Otto Sandberg, Strawalde, Gerhard Altenbourg.
Opening: Friday, Feburary 5, 2010, 08.00 p.m.
Andreas Fogarasi
Feb 28 April 25, 2010
Andreas Fogarasi, born in 1977 in Vienna, explores strategies of economization in urban spaces.. He traces ist visible symptoms that can may be a park bench, a police barrier or a logo. They are archived, studied and dealt with in installations, photographs, films, objects and typographic studies. The solo exhibition in the Ludwig Forum will show both new and older works.
Opening: Sunday, Feburary 28, 12.00 noon
atelier le balto – les pieds sur terre
Exhibition and garden project
May 9 – August 18, 2010
The exhibition will give a comprehensive introduction in the work of the garden artists atelier le balto. Since ten years, they have been gaining international attention with remarkable garden projects such as most recently at the Lausanne Jardins 2009 and the garden of Villa Romana in Florence. Atelier le balto follows the principle of minimal invasion and integration of existing structures. Inaccessible, overgrown or fallow green spaces are rediscovered under aesthetical aspects and made accessible to the public again. Next to a retrospective view on their projects, le balto will present the transformation of the museum park for the Ludwig Forum.
Opening: Sunday, May 9, 12.00 noon
West-Arch
Architektur of a new generation
September 12 – November 14, 2010
West-Arch presents a momentary view of the young experimental architects scene of West Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. West-Arch traces the networks and structures and creates new links in a multi-faceted supporting program. The guest curators from the group modulorbeat show the conditions of production for architecture and its decision-makers in different local contexts. A special architecture for presentation and discussion within a flexible exhibition situation will form the framework of this project.
Opening: Sunday, September 12 12.00 noon
Kunstpreis Aachen
From December 2010 on
Every two years, the Aachen Art Prize is awarded to artists who have given the international art scene fundamental and long-lasting impulses. An international jury determines the prize winner. Among the previous awardees have been, among others, Aernout Mik, Tacita Dean, Roman Signer, Richard Tuttle and Michael Asher. The prize is endowed by the Friends of the Ludwig Forum, the City of Aachen and local enterprises.
For up-to-date information on additional programs, guided tours and courses:
Press contact: Julia Zeh,, julia.zeh@mail.aachen.de, +49-241-1807 107
Opening hours
Tue, Wed, Fri 12.00 – 6.00
Thu 12.00 – 08.00
Sat, Sun 11.00 – 6.00
