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March 22, 2024 — August 12, 2024

Roni Horn - Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death

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March 6, 2024 — June 17, 2024

Tübke and Italy: exhibition at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 7.3.-16.6.2024

Flügel eines Diptychons mit der Krönung Mariens, Köln, um 1350, Elfenbein, Leihgabe der Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung, erworben 2023 für das Museum Schnütgen

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January 26, 2024 — July 7, 2024

Newly acquired ivory carvings from the time of the Gothic cathedrals

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, Iris, nach 1800, Hessen Kassel Heritage. Foto: Ute Brunzel

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December 15, 2023 — March 24, 2024

Old Masters interpreted from a queer Perspective - Exhibition at Schloss Wilhelmshöhe of the Hessen Kessel Heritage

Ausstellungsplakat mit This Way Up Restricted with Melinda Napurrurla Wilson, Polly Anne Napangardi Dixon, Kirsten Nangala Egan and Delena Napaljarri Turner

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December 8, 2023 — April 7, 2024

REVISIONS made by the Warlpiri of Central Australia and Patrick Warehouse - Exhibition at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne

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Ludwig Collection: A Selection

Unidentified artist

Large faience vase with hexagonal decoration, 1260

Museum for Islamic Art

Unidentified artist

Large faience vase with hexagonal decoration
1260

Permanent Loan

Photo: Hans-Dietrich Beyer

Peter Skubic

Necklace, 1977

Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK)

Peter Skubic

Necklace
1977

Permanent Loan

© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023. Foto: DetlefSchumacher.com

Nairy Baghramian

Damenrad, 2009

Ludwig Forum for International Art

Nairy Baghramian

Damenrad
2009

Permanent Loan

© Nairy Baghramian. Photo: Carl Brunn, Aachen.

Unidentified artist

Lion from presumably Taranto, 300 BC

Hessen Kassel Heritage – Antikensammlung Schloss Wilhelmshöhe

Unidentified artist

Lion from presumably Taranto
300 BC

Permanent Loan

Unidentified artist

Chalice crater in the style of the Niobid painter, 450 BC–440 BC

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Unidentified artist

Chalice crater in the style of the Niobid painter
450 BC–440 BC

Donation

Photo: Andreas F. Voegelin, Basel

Domèvre-sur-Vezouze

Lorraine stone Madonna, 1320

Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

Domèvre-sur-Vezouze

Lorraine stone Madonna
1320

Donation

Photo: Anne Gold, Aachen

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Peter and Irene Ludwig – Collect Art, Change the World

Collect art, change the world: Beginning in the 1950s, Irene (née Monheim, 1927–2010) and Peter Ludwig (1925–1996) amassed one of the most important art collections of the second half of the twentieth century