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Wim Delvoye: Cloaca 2000-2007
Ever since i heard the endearing and hilarious talk of Wim Delvoye (ha! every single gesture or word from this guy screams “Belgium!”) at ars electronica last September, i’m trying to follow the...
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Mudam, the Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg (part 1)
Mudamis Luxembourg’s very own and very classy museum of modern and contemporary art. I’ve been following their always exciting and bold programme for a couple of years and was very eager to see it but...
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sk-interfaces. The Luxembourg episode
You know how some charmless and dull cities on the continent pride themselves with the title of “Europe’s best kept secret”? I bet Luxembourg wouldn’t dare to pretend to the label. The place is as...
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Exhibition tip – Tomas Saraceno at MUDAM
Tomas Saraceno‘s Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web was the ultimate photo-magnet at this year’s Venice Biennale. No doubt the work he’s exhibiting at...
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Ceci n’est pas un Casino
Stéphane Thidet, Untitled (Je veux dire qu’il pourraît tres bien, théoriquement, exister au milieu de cette table), 2008. Photo: Marc Dommage The title of the exhibition, Ceci n’est pas un Casino (This...
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Que le cheval vive en moi (May the horse live in me)
Art Orienté objet, Que le cheval vive en moi, 2011. Photo: Miha Fras The Casino de Luxembourg has, once again, put up an show worth a trip to the capital of the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Second...
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Second Lives: Jeux masqués et autres Je
Hermine Bourgadier, Dragon Ball Z, 2009 Today more and more people decide to escape reality in order to make up a new identity. Some are donning a “mask” that allows them to express themselves freely....
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Mondes inventés, Mondes habités (“Invented Worlds, Inhabited Worlds”)
The MUDAM museum in Luxembourg has recently opened a remarkable exhibition where artists -who double as thinkers, engineers or architects- get to grips with questions of a scientific and metaphysical...
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A Moroccan hand-crafted copy of a Mercedes-Benz V12 engine
Eric van Hove, V12 Laraki Gear Box, 2015. View of the exhibition Eppur si muove . Art and technology, a shared sphere, Mudam Luxembourg. Photo: Rémi Villaggi, Metz / Mudam Luxembourg There is a truly...
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Arriba! A tropical time capsule in Antarctica
Paul Rosero Contreras, Arriba!, 2017 (détail). Photo by PRC and Narodzkiy Last year, during the Antarctic Biennale, Paul Rosero Contreras installed a kind of tropical time capsule right in the...
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Post-Capital. Art and the Economics of the Digital Age
In 1993, a management professor and sociologist called Peter Drucker published Post-Capitalist Society. The book predicted that the impact of information technology on the labour market would be so...
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Images at Work. A cinematic view on the working class
In 1895, Louis Lumière presented a private demo of what is often called “the first motion picture of cinematographic history”: La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon (usually translated in English as...
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Rayyane Tabet. Weaving together glass, war and dispossession
Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking again and again about Trilogy, an installation by Rayyane Tabet at MUDAM in Luxembourg. I wasn’t planning to write about it but the work is haunting me. I...
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My Last Will. “Besides, it’s always the others who die”
What remains after you’re gone? For most of us, the answer to the question translates into money and material goods that might be passed on to friends and family. Ask that same question to an artist...
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Agnieszka Kurant. Risk Landscape
Many of us think that we inhabit a linear, coherent, anthropocentric world. Agnieszka Kurant rejects this simplistic belief. Today’s world is increasingly being shaped by a multitude of intelligent...
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