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Research Season “Beside, not infinite”
2025/26

“Beside, not infinite” is a collection-related research season, conceived by the Austrian Ludwig Foundation for 2025/26. Within the framework of a series of events, a travel and research grant, and a concluding publication, “Besides, not infinite” takes seven works from the collection as its starting point. Over the past ten years, the Foundation purchased these works at the suggestion of four Austrian national museums—the Albertina, Belvedere, MAK, and mumok—and made them available as permanent loans to these museums’ public collections.

The works by Yto Barrada, Rosemarie Castoro, Sonia Gomes, Jann Haworth, Lee Lozano, Julie Mehretu, and Ingrid Wiener which have been selected for this project can be seen as material and discursive nodes, situating the collective and academic conversations that “Beside, not infinite” wishes to initiate within the context of the collection. Read more under Research

Purchases in 2024

In accordance with its purchasing and funding policy, the Austrian Ludwig Foundation purchases works of art for the collections of the Republic of Austria. By making these purchases, the Foundation fulfils its task of enhancing the collections of the federal museums in substantive terms, supplementing its statutory mission, i.e. also regarding an aesthetically complex and socially relevant concept of art.

In 2024 the Austrian Ludwig Foundation purchased works by the following artists as permanent loans for the museums:

For Albertina: Jo Ractliffe, Toni Schmale

For Belvedere: Ursula Pürrer & Ashley Hans Scheirl

For MAK: Ranti Bam, Hana Miletić

For mumok: Radcliffe Bailey, Yto Barrada, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Robert Gabris, Iman Issa, Fahamu Pecou, Maud Sulter, Moffat Takadiwa

For more detailed information on the works purchased historically, see the Art and Culture Reports published by the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of the Republic of Austria.

© Toni Schmale; Foto: Kristina Kulakova§© Pürrer/ Scheirl; Courtesy Sixpackfilm; Filmstill: Ein Schlauchboot und Austern, 1985§© Moffat Takawida; Foto: Nicodim Gallery§© Estate Radcliffe Bailey, Jack Shainman Gallery Inc. NYC; Foto: Jack Shainman Gallery Inc. NYC§© Robert Gabris; Foto: Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio§© Courtesy of the artist & Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg§

Dr. Gottfried Toman Receives the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art I Class in March 2023

Carla Cugini, Gottfried Toman, Theresia Niedermüller, © BMKÖS/HBF/Pusch

New Managing Directors of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation from January 2024

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Sylvia Tuczka, Theresia Niedermüller, Bettina Brunner © Paul Kulec, HBF

Obituary Prof. Hermann Fillitz († June 14, 2022)

© Photo: Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Aachen; 25th anniversary of the foundation, 2006§© Photo: Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Aachen; 25th anniversary of the foundation, 2006§© Photo: Barbara Pflaum, around 1979, mumok collection§© Photo: KHM Museumsverband; Martina Pippal, Oil on canvas, H. Fillitz, 2013§© Photo: Pia Theis, book launch, 2011§© Photo: Pia Theis, book launch, 2011§© Photo: Pia Theis, book launch, 2011§

Call for Applications: Travel and Research Grant 2025
Deadline: December 15, 2024

As part of the collection-related research season 2025/26 “Beside, not infinite,” the Austrian Ludwig Foundation is offering a grant in 2025 to support research for academic as well as artistic and curatorial projects in the field of visual arts by funding a research trip outside of Austria. The Foundation invites scholars, curators, and artists living in Austria to apply.

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The application documents must be sent as a single PDF to office@ludwig-stiftung.at by December 15, 2024 with the subject “Grant Submission.” Due to the international jury, only submissions in English can be considered.