“When we travel, we leave familiar places behind and encounter different contexts, stories, and ways of seeing the world. Art, too, triggers such shifts.”
Yilmaz Dziewior, Director of Museum Ludwig
RIMOWA has long supported the art world, reflecting its close connection to travel as a form of movement, dialogue and discovery.
As partners and neighbours in Cologne, RIMOWA is proud to announce a new cultural project with Museum Ludwig that presents a unique encounter with art. Together, we invited six internationally acclaimed artists to contribute to ‘A Journey Into Art’, a limited edition sticker book that sends their work on an unusual new journey.
The selection of artists was personally curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, the director of Museum Ludwig who also provides the foreword to the book. Each artist was invited to translate their works into a medium traditionally associated with travel, with the aim to open up another way for art to reach people – in everyday life and while travelling, rather than simply confined inside a museum or gallery.
Featuring two artworks from each artist, alongside written quotes, the selection brings together different perspectives, generations and interpretations of conceptual practices. The artists include:
Carol Bove
Working with found objects to industrial construction hardware and architectural sites, Bove’s poetic use of materials is amplified by her more recent work in large-scale metal sculpture. Bove embraces the strategies of modernist formalism as a point of departure.
Wade Guyton
Since the early 2000s, Guyton has pursued an investigation into the condition and impact of digital image production. Guyton purposefully misuses his printer by challenging its commands and materials that exceed its design specifications.
Roni Horn
Horn’s conceptually driven work engages the fluid essence of identity, the pervasive and fundamental reality of paradox, and the importance of the experiential in place and art. Horn’s frequent solitary travels in Iceland have been a central influence.
Julia Scher
Based in Cologne, Scher experiments with performance, video, installation and sculpture to interrogate the psychic landscapes of surveillance. Her interest in privacy and safety originates from a concern with gender politics, particularly the feminisation of surveillance.
Rosemarie Trockel
A German conceptual artist, Trockel has long worked in mixed media, including creating pictures using knitting-machines in 1985. In 1999, Trockel became the first woman artist to represent Germany at La Biennale di Venezia.
Haegue Yang
The Seoul-born artist works with a hybrid language, combining industrial components with craft-based techniques and organic matter. The juxtaposition of materialities challenging conventional hierarchies, as seen in her recent small-scale sculptures, Mignon Votives.
The RIMOWA x Museum Ludwig Sticker Book is complimentary and available at selected stores worldwid:
IMOWA Beverly Hills - Rodeo Drive
RIMOWA New York - Soho
RIMOWA Shanghai - Kerry Centre
RIMOWA Hong Kong - Lee Garden Two
RIMOWA Tokyo - Ginza 7 Chome
RIMOWA Seoul - Cheongdam
RIMOWA Singapore - Mandarin Gallery
RIMOWA London - New Bond Street
RIMOWA Paris - Faubourg Saint Honoré
RIMOWA Köln Dom (Flagship)
