Ulrike Müller "Monument to My Paper Body"

9 Dec 2023 — 9 Jun 2024
With works from the collections by, among others, Carla Accardi, Laurie Anderson, Belkis Ayón, Lygia Clark, Donna Dennis, Nancy Graves, Alex Hay, Alfred Jensen, Bertram Jesdinsky, Jasper Johns, Imi Knoebel, Christopher Knowles, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Gary Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Piero Manzoni, Rune Mields, Klaus Paier, Margit Palme, Judy Pfaff, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Miriam Schapiro, Stefan Wewerka, Peter Young, Fahr El-Nissa Zeid

 
For the exhibition project Monument to My Paper Body, New York-based Ulrike Müller has conceived a site-specific mural on the two facing, fourteen-meter-high walls in the Ludwig Forum Aachen. This intervention is accompanied by collages, drawings, enamel paintings, monotypes, and textiles by the artist, which are presented in dialog with selected works from the collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen.  

The exhibition picks up on the Double Wall series (2004-2008) initiated by Harald Kunde, in which artists were invited to artistically activate the two monumental walls of the museum on a rotating basis. Ulrike Müller’s presentation marks the return of the series, in an expanded form, as a fixture in the museum’s exhibition program.

Monument to My Paper Body will be accompanied by a program of events and the production of a publication.

Curated by Eva Birkenstock
Curatorial Assistance: Mailin Haberland
 
The exhibition is generously supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, BMKOES, Land Vorarlberg and Rueff Textil.