Kick off your shoes and dive into the darker side of life! Float amongst the stars, discover monsters from all around the world, plunge into quiet and loud night spaces. Design bright landscapes, collect dreams and nightmares, meet nocturnal animals, plants, and people. Look for your location in the universe on the globe, vote on secrets on our question board, dare to go through our ghost tunnel. In the middle of the exhibition, a giant bed full of scary arm pillows invites you to relax and take a break.
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In the second half of the 19th century, the citizens of Ludwigsburg saw their city as a “city of poets”. To make this image known beyond the city frontier, they founded the historical association in 1897. They asked the descendants of the writers Eduard Mörike, Justinus Kerner and Friedrich Theodor Vischer, who were born in Ludwigsburg, for memorabilia and thus laid the foundation for the town’s historical collection. In the 1920s, furniture and everyday objects were arranged into “poet’s rooms”, in the Favorite Palace. These rooms were the starting point for a magnificent pantheon dedicated to the poets.
The exhibition focuses on the material testimonies from the life of the writers and puts them in dialogue with their work, with the texts of letters and drawings by the authors. What can the memorabilia tell you about the former owners and their work? Where do they appear in literary works and what relationship did the authors develop to the objects?
The experiences of industrialization and political upheavals at the beginning of modernity did not necessarily lead to an objective handling of the world of things. On the contrary, under the eyes of a writer, objects could develop an active life of their own and express human insecurity. For the stubborn thing, Vischer coined the term "the duality of the inanimate".
Anyone who knows from personal experience that buttered bread always falls butterface down, that toppling, lost or otherwise resistant things sometimes turn everyday life into a slapstick theatre suitable for comedy, knows about the insidiousness of the object. But things aren't always malicious. Everyday objects can also be jokers, loyal companions, or reliable witnesses. This is shown not least by the objects in the new exhibition.
I don't believe it! That can't be true! "Pack of Lies" is an exhibition for lie artists and fact finders, for fantasists and discoverers, for cheating experts and detectives. Lies and deception play an obvious role in everyday life. Everyone has been deceived at some time or misled someone themselves: for fun, out of politeness, out of necessity ... The reasons are different.
In "Pack of Lies", magic tricks, optical illusions, crazy crooked rooms, fantasy and tall tales to invent or a climbing wall with green screen technology that beams the climbers into different landscapes await. While exploring, important questions arise: How do I manage not to give everything away? How do seeing, smelling, feeling or hearing help to detect deceptions? And can a lie detector really find out the truth? After the visit, it will be easier to distinguish between appearance and reality!
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In the exhibition, sensitive portraits of long-time lovers alternate with shots of evergreen plants. Loredana Nemes shows timelessness and age as a multifaceted play of light and shadow in the foliage as well as on human skin. Her black-and-white photographs of people from Ludwigsburg are captivating because of the subtle use of the analogue double exposure technique and the fine hand prints on barite paper.
With this project, Loredana Nemes continues her collaboration with the museum, for which she had created the series "Blütezeit" ("Blossoming Time") in spring 2012 with portraits of young people and photographs of blossoming trees. "Evergreen" is at the same time a testimony to the pandemic in 2020: on site, the artist had extraordinary encounters with the older couples, who talked about their lives and their love. These moments of closeness and togetherness inspired Loredana Nemes to her poetic photographs and poems.
Astrid and Wolfgang (photography), Barbara and Günter, Berthel and Hans, Elfriede and Uli, Elisabeth and Waldemar, Helga and Siegfried, Ilse and Wolfgang, Marianne and Karl, Marie-Luise and Winfried, Monique and Gottfried, Roswit and Helmut, Ruth and Manfred, Suse and Heinz, Waltraud and Siegfried, Wilma and Gerhard
Those who visit the "PAY DAY!" exhibition are richly endowed. Each visitor receives coins worth ten million and, as treasurer of the city of Ludwigsburg, decides on their spending. How much money is allotted to business development, education and culture, housing and road construction or city maintenance? Millions can be invested for each budget item on the entertaining machine course. The responsibility is great, the funds are easily spent. In the end, the "levers of power" show what moves the city forward.
The exhibition texts are in German.
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