Eröffnung Francis Alÿs – Kids Take Over

In the organizer's words:

We cordially invite you and your friends to the opening of the exhibition Francis Alÿs - Kids Take Over. Free admission all evening.

With Francis Alÿs - Kids Take Over, the Museum Ludwig presents an extraordinary exhibition in which children take center stage. 30 video works and paintings from his series Children's Games with playing children from all over the world can now be seen at the Museum Ludwig. An outreach project with children from Cologne adds a participatory dimension to this presentation.

Francis Alÿs (*1959 Antwerp, lives in Mexico City) has been documenting children's games from different regions of the world for 25 years. His work shows children jumping rope, chasing tires or having snowball fights, among other things - in different climatic zones, in cities and in the countryside, in steppes or forests. Some of the games are familiar to us all, others take a while to figure out the rules.

A special feature of the exhibition is the participatory collaboration with children from Cologne: Francis Alÿs has handed over part of the exhibition space to them. 50 schoolchildren, aged 8 to 13 like the children in the films, are working together to create a play zone and a children's museum. Classes 3b of the Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Köln-Lindweiler and 6a/b of the Adolph Kolping-Hauptschule in Cologne-Kalk worked on this exhibition project for over a year. They selected works of art from the museum's collection for the children's museum they curated. Their museum and the free play zone are an experiment by children for children: they comment on the paintings, sculptures and video works from their perspective and invite children to look and join in.

Price information:

Free admission all evening.