Joël Andrianomearisoa new exhibition at Ludwig Museum of Koblenz

Joël Andrianomearisoa continues to blur the boundaries between poetry, architecture, and visual art with his latest project Tools of Emotions and Desires, on view from November 30, 2025 to Februray 15, 2026 at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany.

 

Known for his emotive spatial interventions, the artist transforms exhibition environments through carefully crafted architectural compositions. His work prominently features special textiles, intricate weaves, and custom-dyed papers, using scale, texture, and materiality as fundamental elements to shape immersive and emotionally charged experiences. 

 

Collaborating with artisans from his native Antananarivo, he reimagines conventional embroidery by incorporating raffia—a palm fiber indigenous to Madagascar—and pushing its expressive and technical limits. The result is a series of monochromatic works where embroidered words, nearly illegible due to their tonal subtlety, invite intimate contemplation.

 

For the Ludwig Museum, Andrianomearisoa will expand on these themes by creating two distinct but interconnected pictorial spaces—each reflecting and responding to the other, continuing his exploration of memory, identity, and transformation through material and form.