Every two to three years, an artist is invited to create a new work for the Museum Ludwig’s largest wall, located in front of the main staircase. Schultze Projects pays homage to artist couple Bernard Schultze and Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), whose artistic estates are managed by the Museum Ludwig and commemorated with this series, which was initiated in 2017.
For the fifth edition of Schultze Projects, Jana Euler (born 1982 in Friedberg) has developed a new work, Triptych – Image Viewer Connections, that deals with specific ways of seeing and perceiving art, and with the interaction between work and audience.
The museum is one of the few places where seeing itself becomes an activity. Unlike in the cinema, where the gaze is guided and fixed in time, the museum experience is marked by movement: we walk, linger, talk, and discuss what we have seen. In contrast to the fast, fragmented movement of scrolling on screens, we take more time and are more concentrated, defining the duration, distance and sequence of our looking. We often view artworks slowly, comparing them from different angles. The museum offers many perspectives and the chance to give our eyes free rein.