Living in the Ruhr area – many have a preconceived idea about workers' settlements and 'Gelsenkirchen Barock' design. Hardly anything says so much and requires less explanation than private rooms when it comes to "getting an idea". How artists approach the phenomenon of living is seen for the first time in this comprehensive exhibition. Whether its is historical living style, photography, painting, new media or objects; a look through the keyhole is risked in all categories and the voyeur gets his money's worth.
Visitors are invited to interactively participate in the exhibition. Exhibits, whether objects or photographs, can be brought to the LUDWIGGALERIE and go on to demonstrate the characterisation of the environment as a kind of work in progress.

The exhibition project of the artist Qi Yang, "The Year of the Dragon – the Person of the Dragon" is dedicated to the yearning for identity and feelings for the motherland, and impressively reflects the ambivalent situation of two different cultures in Germany and China. The show covers around twenty works including two largely dimensioned room installations, several paintings incorporating gestural painting, eight objects (so-called combination works) and a video.
Two cultures, two languages and two mentalities pulsate through the art created by the artist QI YANG who lives in Düsseldorf. His intellectual approach to painting and his philosophically rich installations such as "Beyond the Heaven" or "Über das Nichts hinaus" ("Beyond the Nothing") have drawn a high level of attention among art admirers. The creation of image spaces, their conquest and intensification via painterly means have always occupied a high level of meaning in his works, and spatial constructions and brush marks massively applied to paintings are characteristic features of his works.