Ser Serpas – sonderbare Tage
4.9.–13.12.2026

More information will be available soon.

Anatomical Theatre
Riphahnsaal
4.9.–13.12.2026

By Andreas Selg with Fabienne Boldt and Emanuel Rossetti

More information will be available soon.

The Leatherman
4.9.–29.11.2026

With works by Leonore Mau, Reba Maybury, Herbert Tobias, Dean Sameshima and Wolfgang Tillmans

Curated by Kévin Blinderman, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Charles Teyssou

More information will be available soon.

Game of No Games – Symposium
Saturday, 11.2.2023, 10 am – 4 pm

The symposium aims to explore the question of whether there is a need today for categorisations through terms such as Outsider Art. Is a definition possible at all, or is the term not rather arbitrary and oriented more towards social ideas of norms than towards the artistic work?

The symposium is part of the programme accompanying the exhibition Game of No Games at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, which presents historical and contemporary works by artists who have received little attention throughout art history. Their participation in society and the art world has been limited—as a result of conservatorships, disenfranchisement, or discrimination, to name a few.

10:30–11:00 am      
Welcome Nikola Dietrich and Susanne Zander 
                                   
Amelie Gappa 
A Feminist Perspective on the Work of Helga Goetze

11:00–11:30 am       
Lisa Arndt
Adelhyd van Bender – The Atom is Invincible

11:30–12:15 pm       
Andreas Fischer
“Take paints in hand and draw…”: The medium Margarethe Held
(cancelled due to illness)

12:30–01:15 pm       
Falk Wolf
The Shadow of the Avant-garde

01:15–02:00 pm       
Charlotte Laubard (in English)
Finding new grounds

03:15–04:30 pm Panel 
Moderator: Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck
Speakers: Nikola Dietrich, Kito Nedo, Susanne Pfeffer and Susanne Zander

The symposium is organized in cooperation with ZADIK | Central Archive for German and International Art Market Research, University of Cologne.

Ewa Majewska
Coronafuga. Fragments of online dating discourse from pandemic times
Welcom by Eva Birkenstock and Nikola Dietrich
Book presentation and reading with Ewa Majewska and the performance artist Wojciech Kosma
at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen

The event will be held in English.

At the conclusion of reboot: responsiveness, a presentation and reading of the latest publication by Polish cultural theorist and activist Ewa Majewska will take place at the Ludwig Forum Aachen in the presence of the author and performance artist Wojciech Kosma.

Coronafuga. Fragments of online dating discourse from pandemic times is an auto-theoretical negotiation of online dating discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book combines theory and digital dating conversations into a literary account of discourses of intimacy during pandemic times. Media and other tools like dating sites, conversations in, around, and about digital flirting, and immediate entertainment are key elements of this book.

Ewa Majewska (lives in Warsaw) is a feminist cultural theorist, activist, and author. She has taught at the University of the Arts in Berlin, the University of Warsaw, and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the ICI Berlin, and the IWM in Vienna. She currently works at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. She has released six books, most recently Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common (2021), and publishes in journals and platforms such as e-flux, Signs, Third Text, Journal of Utopian Studies, and Jacobin, among others. Her current research focuses on archival studies, dialectics of the weak, feminist critical theory, and antifascism.

The publication is part of reboot:—a collaborative, cyclical, anti-racist, and queer-feminist dialogue between performative and research-based practices, co-hosted by the Kölnischer Kunstverein and Ludwig Forum Aachen. The first cycle reboot: responsiveness provided infrastructures for provisional stagings, rehearsals, processual choreographies, and encounters around themes of presence, intimacy, care, and responsibility. Conceived by Eva Birkenstock, Nikola Dietrich, and Viktor Neumann.

Ewa MajewskaCoronafuga. Fragments of online dating discourse from pandemic timesEdited by Eva Birkenstock, Nikola Dietrich, Viktor Neumann
English
Cu-published by Ludwig Forum Aachen and Kölnischer Kunstverein with DISTANZ Verlag
ISBN 97-3-95476-523-2

The book can be purchased at the Ludwig Forum Aachen as well as online at DISTANZ Verlag.

€ 16,-

Film-Screening with an introduction by Naeem Mohaiemen
Thursday, 15.06.2023, 4–6 pm

Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017): “The Third World was not a place, but a project.” (Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations, 2007). This was to be a utopian alliance where the Global South would reconfigure planetary leadership, ending Euro-American dominance. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) attempted to navigate a “third way,” but parallel participation in the Petrodollar-driven “Islamic bloc” by some member countries shredded fragile coalitions behind the scenes. Two Meetings and a Funeral explores a “pivot” moment between the 1973 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Algeria and the 1974 Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Pakistan. The unraveling of old alliances began from a barely discernible venn diagram overlap between these two groups, one that would taken on world significance after the OPEC oil crisis, the Iranian revolution, and the invasion of Afghanistan.

Traveling through the residues of transnational architecture (Niemeyer, Moretti, Le Corbusier) in New York, Algiers, and Dhaka, the film considers the erosion of the idea of the Third World as a potential space for decolonisation, and an always imperfect understanding of Socialism. Conversations between Vijay Prashad, Samia Zennadi, Atef Berredjem, Amirul Islam, and Zonayed Saki look at the contradictions of decolonization movements that never remembered to liberate their own leadership. The film is a midpoint for Mohaiemen’s loosely affiliated projects around the Non-Aligned Movement.

The film screening is part of the exhibition Langer Tag by Naeem Mohaiemen, curated by Nina Möntmann, June 14-18, 2023, Temporary Gallery.

Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: curatorial project of the DFG-Research Training Group „connecting – excluding. Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks“

Admission is free, registration is not required.

Genoveva Filipovic: Bridge of Sigh, 2022
Pop-up book made of eloxated aluminium sheets, paper and staples, in two drawers
27 cm x 7 cm x 3.3 cm
Edition: 20 + 5 AP
Certificate
€ 250,00

The aluminum blanks designed and manufactured by Interzone in Berlin were milled flat from a single piece. The three main elements were subsequently drilled so that connecting hinges could be installed. The spine’s central hinges are glued and a total of 12 precision components were assembled by hand. The surfaces have been honed and anodized.

Genoveva Filipovic (b. 1986, Frankfurt am Main) lives in New York. Her works have recently been shown at Galleria Federico Vavassori in Milan (2019), Kunsthalle Zürich (2019), Goton in Paris (2018), Greene Naftali (2018), Svetlana (2018) and Dead Ends (2016) in New York, Vilma Gold in London (2016), and Neue Alte Brücke in Frankfurt am Main (2014).

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