When is a trip really over? Anton and Beyza know the feeling of wanderlust, of being homesick, and also the joy of coming home when you return from vacation. During their forays through the exhibition ‘Bon Voyage!’ the two have talked about many kinds of travel. We are curious to see which end they will choose for their expedition at the Ludwig Forum!

For the collector couple Peter and Irene Ludwig, travel was an important part of their activity. The Ludwig Collection consists of several thousand objects and gathers together art from many continents and epochs. The idea of “world art” was the inspiration.

An interview with Cordula Sohst-Brennenstuhl and Dominic Brennenstuhl, the lenders of Till Krause’s works – “Achse Kiel-Hamburg, Blickfeldkarte” and “Handykarte”.

A cooperation of the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Akademie für Handwerksdesign-Gut Rosenberg and the Ahoi Group in the context of the exhibition Bon Voyage! Travelling in Contemporary Art.

Beyza and Anton think it’s great to pack their suitcases for a trip. In this episode, they are reminded by artworks that there are a lot of people who are forced to leave their country. They are packing their bags with a completely different feeling. This is pretty unfair! Beyza and Anton think about laws they would like to pass in their own state to enable justice for everyone.

An interview with Sibille and Dietmar Spiegel, the lenders of the booklet on Stanley Brouwn – THIS WAY BROUWN.

Within the context of the exhibition “Bon Voyage! Travelling in Contemporary Art” a special project took place in summer 2020: Together with an interdisciplinary project team – dance, design, music and film – a large group of kids and teens from Aachen’s north worked on a dance film about the movements of migrant birds that tells a story of the adventures and encounters of cranes, brants and swallows.

Do you know the book “Die unendliche Geschichte”? Here, a boy travels to the land of fantasy. In the same way, there are journeys in the exhibition that do not happen physically, but only in our mind. One artist takes us on a mental journey to exotic places, and another artist sends people who actually prefer to stay at home on a journey by mail.

Travelling is fun because you can discover new things in foreign places. Often you also get to know something new about yourself! In this episode, Beyza and Anton get the chance to ask curator Alexandra Kolossa questions. “What new things did you discover when you made this exhibition?” The two are pretty sure they see something that is new to the curator as well.

Enjoy a nice and relaxing time with our winter travel songs.

While in the past, travel may have been about speed and efficiency, we are looking for holistic, authentic, and unique travel experiences today.

There’s a new podcast from kids at the Ludwig Forum! Find out who the kids are who are reporting from the museum. They take us on a special journey. It’s about 40,000 kilometers, completely wrong directions, a packed car and much more. (in German)

The museum is closed, the exhibition is waiting for visitors. But two children, Anton (7) and Beyza (9), report exclusively from the Ludwig Forum in the podcast Kunstrauschen.

Claudia Linzel, one of the two founders of the podcast and blog Die Leichtigkeit der Kunst, in an interview with Alexandra Kolossa and guests.

Rarely have our suitcases been as useless as this year, rarely have our journeys been confined only to our minds – that needs to change!

Gizem Güven from Aachen is looking to get in touch with her fellow people. To this end, she decided to print  postcards and to distribute them in aesthetic places in public space. Only those who perceive their surroundings precisely can discover these cards, sometimes between flower pots, sometimes behind stones.  

Final spurt of the installation: Nicole Schuck arrived from Berlin, Cécile Hummel came all the way from Switzerland, Manaf Halbouni drove across the country from Dresden and a package by Anne Pöhlmann reached us from Düsseldorf.

Almost at the finish line! Our blog is online since Sunday, only a few artworks are not in place yet and this week has been somewhat more relaxed.

All museums are closed in November. We will present an artwork of the exhibition Bon Voyage! Travelling in Contemporary Art every day until the end of the year, so that you can still enjoy art.

Full house this week – four male artists, three female artists, two milestones and a podcast. And as you’re not allowed to visit the exhibition in November, don’t worry, we’ll bring it to you!

A review of the first week of installation: How do more than 100 works get to their place? How does an exhibition installation proceed? How does it feel to leave your own comfort zone? And where does the term Retourkutsche (retort) come from?

Or: Why does this blog exist? Looking back on the last few months, we realize one thing in particular: Nothing is the same as usual, but often it is only through this that the opportunity to break new ground arises.