Tropismes

Drawing on the idea of plants turning toward light to grow, this exhibition curated by Danielle Igniti showcases emerging Luxembourgish artists who, like plants, harness their inner drive to reach outward, drawing strength from their surroundings. Staged at Luxembourg Art Week 2025, it offers visitors of the fair an intimate glimpse into each artist’s universe through two emblematic works, revealing the diversity and vitality of contemporary creation.With Robin Bigret, Elshan Rozafa, Lisa Kohl, Jil Lahr, Nathalie Lesure, Alex Macedo, Jeremy Palluce, Armand Quetsch, Letizia Romanini, Marc Schroeder, Eric Schumacher, Alexandra Uppman, Daniel Wagener
Curated by Danielle Igniti

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LEAP

Since its inception in 2016, artcontemporain.lu has been supporting Luxembourg’s main award for emerging artists. The LEAP – Luxembourg Encouragement Prize for Artists is organised in conjunction with Rotondes and Konschthal Esch. It aims to promote the careers of local and regional artists by providing a unique platform that encourages professionalisation and enhances visibility.Participants to date include Justine Blau, Julien Grossmann, Sophie Jung, Vera Kox (2016, Rotondes); Yann Annicchiarico, Laurianne Bixhain, Filip Markiewicz, Marianne Mispelaëre (2018, Rotondes); Hisae Ikanega, Suzan Noesen, Nina Tomàs, Bruno Baltzer & Leonora Bisagno (2020, Rotondes); Stefania Crișan, Paul Heintz, Lynn Klemmer, Mary-Audrey Ramirez (2022, Rotondes); Mike Bourscheid, Rozafa Elshan, Jil Lahr, Lynn Scheidweiler (2025, Konschthal Esch)

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Art Actuel

Art Actuel is an online and in-print cultural diary that handily lists contemporary art events in Luxembourg and the Greater Region (Moselle, Province de Luxembourg, Saarland). Whether you seek contemporary art exhibitions, performances or special cultural happenings, this platform keeps you connected. With a focus on showcasing the diversity and richness of Luxembourg's cultural scene, Art Actuel makes it easy for art lovers to explore, engage and discover new experiences.Published by artcontemporain.lu, Art Actuel is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the City of Luxembourg, Luxembourg for Tourism and the Ministry of the Economy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

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Art Walk

With the support of the City of Luxembourg, Artcontemporain.lu collaborates with Luxembourg Art Week on the fair’s off programme, extending the event beyond the exhibition halls and into the city. The Art Walk features several initiatives, including the Sculpture Trail, an artistic itinerary presenting monumental works throughout the city, and Capsules, a series of temporary exhibitions displayed in vacant shop windows, a laboratory of discoveries accessible 24/7 from the street. Running from one month before the fair until the end of Luxembourg Art Week, the programme also highlights current exhibitions in galleries, museums and cultural institutions, as well as artistic initiatives, projects, exhibitions and performances developed in collaboration with Luxembourg Art Week’s partners.Artists featured in past editions of the Sculpture Trail include Che Go Eun, Alice Channer, Guillaume Castel, Léa de Cacqueray, Max Coulon, Corentin Darré, Serge Ecker, Kendell Geers, Julie Krakowski, Stefan Rinck, Val Smets, Stefan Strumbel, Esther Stocker, Marion Verboom and many more.

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Luxembourg Art Week

Artcontemporain.lu founded Luxembourg’s first contemporary art fair in 2015 and led its organisation until Luxembourg Art Week S.A. was established the following year. Since then, the two organisations have worked in close collaboration to develop the fair and expand its cultural programme.Over the past decade, Luxembourg Art Week has become a key fixture in the country’s cultural calendar, bringing together leading international and local galleries, artists, collectors and art enthusiasts in the heart of Luxembourg City. In 2025, the fair welcomed more than 17.000 visitors from Luxembourg and abroad, reflecting its growing international reach and its appeal to a uniquely cosmopolitan audience.Since 2016, with the support of the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture, Artcontemporain.lu has collaborated with Luxembourg Art Week to present Take Off, a section dedicated to emerging galleries that champions new voices and fosters the discovery of the next generation of contemporary art.

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Animals of the Mind

LUGA Art Trail: Animals of the Mind, an open-air exhibition of site-specific contemporary artworks, unfolds across Luxembourg’s green spaces as part of Luxembourg Urban Garden (LUGA) from May to October 2025. Through sculptures, video works, performances and installations, the artists explore how animals are largely invisible in our urban environments — yet how do we explain the growing presence of animal motifs in everyday life, if not as a reflection of our deepening alienation from nature?With Atelier Van Lieshout, Roland Boden, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Henrik Håkansson, Cengiz Hartlap & Sara Lefebvre, Anna Hulačová, Laurent Le Deunff, Rémy Markowitsch, Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Su-Mei Tse, Studio Ossidiana, Ulrich Vogl
Curated by Boris Kremer

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Nothing Is Permanent

In 2022, artcontemporain.lu devised and implemented Nothing Is Permanent, a large exhibition of sculptures in public spaces as part of Esch2022, European Capital of Culture. This blockbuster show featured over 20 monumental works by established and emerging international artists, evidencing the city’s ambitious cultural policy.With Stephan Balkenhol, Guillaume Bijl, Katinka Bock, Valentin Carron, Tony Cragg, Wim Delvoye, Martine Feipel et Jean Bechameil, Tina Gillen, Hisae Ikenaga, Vera Kox, Michel Majerus, Christoph Meier, Bertrand Ney, Claudia Passeri, Roland Quetsch, Stefan Rinck, Eric Schumacher, Barthélémy Toguo, Bernar Venet, Wang Du, Wennig & Daubach, Erwin Wurm
Curated by Alex Reding

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Jan Voss

Blurring the boundaries between painting and collage, Jan Voss creates dynamic compositions where colourful forms and gesture collide. Presented in 2024 as part of Luxembourg Art Week’s off-site programme (Art Walk), this monographic presentation was curated by Alex Reding at Villa BGL, the Private Banking Center of BGL BNP Paribas, Luxembourg.

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Small Stories by David Lynch

Behind David Lynch’s acclaimed film career lies the vision of a painter. Small Stories revealed this lesser-known side of the director’s practice, presenting fifty-five black-and-white photographs that blur the line between dream and reality.The exhibition curated by Anastasia Chaguidouline and Alex Reding for the Ratskeller at Cercle Cité in 2023 immersed viewers in Lynch’s haunting iconography, where the familiar meets the uncanny.

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ART In Situ OAI

Organised under the aegis of the Luxembourg Order of Architects and Consulting Engineers (OAI), the Art In Situ OAI prize aims to create a dialogue between architecture and contemporary art.Held for the first time in 2021, it enabled artists Filip Markiewicz and Hisae Ikenaga to produce and exhibit new work at Forum da Vinci in Luxembourg, turning the site into a living space where architecture and everyday life meet art.

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Les pionnières – Portraits de femmes

Amid Luxembourg’s economic expansion in the 1990s, a wave of new galleries emerged, fostering the work of a new generation of local artists. This exhibition hosted by the historic Neumünster Abbey in 2020 focused on four pioneering women artists from that period, showing how, in a profoundly transformative era, art became a space for personal vision and social awareness.With Patricia Lippert, Flora Mar, Carine Kraus, Marie-Paule Feiereisen
Curated by Alex Reding

August Clüsserath

Staged at Neumünster Abbey in 2017, this exhibition familiarized Luxembourg audiences with the work of August Clüsserath (1899–1966), one of the most important mid-century artists from neighbouring Saarland.Curated by Beate Kołodziej, it highlighted the German painter’s abstract compositions and works on paper, tracing his evolution from naturalistic and Cubist beginnings to a gestural style influenced by post-modern European movements such as Informel and Tachisme.

Fail

This group show presented in 2014 at Nosbaum Reding looked at the changing nature of our appraisal of failure. From beautiful losers to burnout culture, the artists' works explored what it means to come up short in a society obsessed with performance.With Stina Fisch, Julie Goergen, Filip Markiewicz, Gilles Pegel, Pascal Piron, Eric Schockmel, Charles Wennig, Wennig & Daubach
Curated by Josée Hansen

Plateaux

Set in the main park of Luxembourg’s business district, this outdoor exhibition held in 2011 considered how architecture, mobility and European identity have shaped life and work in this fast-growing area. Through site-specific works, the invited artists engaged with Kirchberg’s environment as a site of circulation and encounter, inviting visitors and passers-by to reflect on how artistic intervention can offer new perspectives on public space and collective experience.With Pedro Barateiro, Hugo Canoilas, Marco Godinho, Leni Hoffmann, Sophie Krier, Claude Lévêque, The Plug
Curated by Didier Damiani

second nature

Humans constantly shape and transform their environment, creating what could be termed a “second nature”. This large outdoor exhibition brought together twenty-five renowned international artists with works that revealed how culture, technology and human intervention alter both the environment and our perception of it. It was first shown at Dexia Bank’s Park Heintz in Luxembourg in 2008, and subsequently travelled to Centre culturel de Chamarande near Paris.With Atelier van Lieshout, Eric Baudelaire, Marcel Berlanger, Aline Bouvy / John Gillis, Olaf Breuning, Chris Burden, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Hugo Canoilas, Simone Decker, Cyprien Gaillard, Tina Gillen, Alexander Heim, Una Hunderi, Susanne Huth, Chris Johanson, Betrand Lavier, Lutz & Guggisberg, Rita McBride, Myriam Mechita, Ugo Rondinone, Mary Temple, Gaby Trinkaus, Trixi Weis, Andrea Witzmann, Erwin Wurm
Curated by Sabine Dorscheid

Welcome to Our Neighbourhood

Welcome to Our Neighbourhood explored the idea of living side by side, offering a reflection on the cultural and social bonds that unite three neighbouring countries – France, Germany and Luxembourg – within the so-called Greater Region. Harnessing the notion of neighbourhood as a metaphor for openness and exchange, this travelling exhibition brought together contemporary artists whose works explored how borders and shared histories shape the human sense of community. It was shown in 2007 at Arsenal Metz, Casino Luxembourg and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken.With Francis Berrar, Jean-Marie Biwer, Frédéric Coché, Damien Deroubaix, Shila Khatami, Volker Sieben
The Luxembourg leg was curated by Dr Ralph Melcher with Alex Reding

Ultramoderne

Conceived as part of Luxembourg & Greater Region, European Capital of Culture 2007, the exhibition Ultramoderne questioned the relationships between architecture and collective artistic experimentation. Between ideal and ruin, it reflected on the heritage of modernity while exploring new possibilities for shared experience and reinvention. First shown at Hall Paul Würth in Luxembourg in 2007, the extensive project travelled to Centre d’art Passerelle in Brest the following year.With Armando Andrade Tudela, Götz Arndt, Ben Laloua & Didier Pascal, Karina Bisch, Karla Black, Katinka Bock, Simon Boudvin, Martin Boyce, Valentin Carron, Nicolas Chardon, Stéphane Dafflon, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Jason Dodge, Toni Grand, Experimental Jetstet, Roger Hiorns, Chris Johanson, Pierre Leguillon, Genêt Mayor, Damien Mazières & Yann Géraud, Mathieu Mercier, Gyan Panchal, Diogo Pimentão, Falke Pisano, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Soraya Rhofir, Evariste Richer, Clément Rodzielski, Team T(C), H&M, Jan van der Ploeg, Jens Wolf, Raphael Zark
Curated by Tiphanie Blanc, Yann Chateigné and Alex Reding

My Home Is My Castle

Based on concepts of shelter and intimacy, the exhibition My Home Is My Castle considered how the notion of home defines both personal identity and shared experience. Staged in 2006 in the gallery space of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) and its surrounding park, it gathered a series of newly commissioned works questioning the very concept of belonging in today’s world.With Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Götz Arndt, Stephan Balkenhol, Jean-Marie Biwer, Leo Copers, Gaston Damag, Alain Declercq, Damien Deroubaix, Michel François, Frédéric Gaillard, Tina Gillen, Ann Veronica Janssens, Hubert Kiecol, Martin Kippenberger, Seb Koberstädt, Claude Lévêque, JeanChristophe Massinon, Myriam Mechita, Moritz Ney, Panamarenko, Roland Quetsch, Assan Smati, Walter Swennen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Roger Wagner
Curated by Alex Reding

Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo!

Taking its cue from the eponymous novelty song in the 1950 Disney film Cinderella, this travelling exhibition showcased seven young artists from New York who explored the notion of enchantment. Drawing on Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, graffiti, advertising, comics and digital culture, their works turned everyday imagery into something extraordinary, highlighting the playful, provocative spirit of a new generation of artists. The show toured in 2006 to Bielefelder Kunstverein and Mannheimer Kunstverein in Germany, and onto Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg.With Daniel Davidson, Tilo Kaiser, Tricia Keightley, Dan Kopp, Giles Lyon, Mark Dean Veca, Jin Meyerson
Curated by Gene Wagner