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AMM SPOTLIGHT • COLOGNE, GERMANY

Museum Ludwig

40 YearsC E L E B R A T E S

The group exhibition We Call It Ludwig is the high point of the landmark year 2016 at the Museum Ludwig. The museum will be
celebrating three anniversaries: In 1946 Josef Haubrich donated his collection of modernist artworks to the city of Cologne and
thus laid the foundation for a museum. In 1976 Peter and Irene Ludwig signed a donation agreement comprising some 350 works
of contemporary art, and in 1986 the new museum building was opened.
The theme of this wide-ranging show is the institution itself. For the anniversary exhibition, which was jointly conceived by the
director and all the museum’s curators, twenty-five international artists and artist collectives have been invited to engage in depth
with the institution and to react to the question of what the Museum Ludwig means to them. The Museum defines itself in large
part based on its own history, its collection, and, above all, the people who have shaped it – as an artists’ museum. We Call It Lud-
wig reflects on what the museum has been, is, and can be.
AMM recently had the pleasure of experiencing the Museum Ludwig and the We Call it Ludwig group exhibition. The museum
is just a stone’s throw away from the magnificent, Cologne Cathedral, and right next door to the historic centre of the city that
takes you back to a time long gone.

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