Aachen Museum got a new director

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Brigitte Frantzen, curator of the project Skulptur Projekte Münster 07, was appointed director of the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Forum in Aachen. The main themes of the new museum will exhibit video art and the importance of realism in contemporary art.

Frantzen, Brigitte (Brigitte Franzen), curator of the project Skulptur Projekte Münster 07, was appointed director of the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen. As the e-flux, the main themes of the new museum will exhibit video art and the importance of realism in contemporary art.

Ludwig Forum, housed in a former factory for the production of umbrellas, has one of the best European collections of modern art, including the Russian artists of the Soviet and post-Soviet period. The museum specializes in pop art and hyper-realism. His collection also widely presented video art.

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The first exhibition, which holds the new director, called «Pop up!». Its central theme - the variety of forms of realism and reality - is treated in the works of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jean Michel Basquiat), Martin Kippenberger (Martin Kippenberger) and Nancy Graves (Nancy Graves). One of the main elements of the new project was critical, ironic look at the culture of everyday life, pop culture and postmodernism.

The impressive collection of graphics Ludwig Forum, mainly the 1960's and 1980's, the first time will be on display at the exhibition «Ludwig's Graphic».

Brigitte, France also plans to hold "Camp Video Archive» (Video Archives Camp), who will present video art as one of the main forms of art, discovered in the XX century. Especially for the exhibition, items will be restored, and demonstrate their will on the equipment of the time when they were created.

Museum Ludwig Forum in Aachen