Marking the fifteenth anniversary of Mudam Luxembourg, Freigeister. Fragments of an art scene in Luxembourg and beyond presents the work of fourteen artists from Luxembourg and of different generations. A diverse selection of works across the mediums of photography, painting, installation, film, sculpture, printmaking and performance art presents a thoughtful and engaged picture of contemporary society.

Many artists who originate from or live and work in Luxembourg remain closely connected to another country. In a country where border crossings are part of a daily routine, this diversity and openness is a valued part of the local culture. The contemporary art scene in Luxembourg has shown itself to be conscious of the challenges associated with transforming a small but economically successful country that is seeking to reconcile its identity and future.

Freigeister takes its title from a concept defined by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (b. Röcken, 1844; d. Weimar, 1900), who described der Freigeist as: “a free spirit who thinks differently from what, on the basis of his origin, environment, his class and his profession, or on the basis of the dominant views of the age, would have been expected of him.” (Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, 1878). According to Nietzsche, one must become “untimely” and remain “a stranger” to one’s time, in order to question it. The exhibition takes this condition of estrangement as a starting point to draw connections between an otherwise varied set of artistic approaches and concerns.

Conceived as a platform for exchange between artists, curators and other specialists, the exhibition is developed through a programme of encounters and discussion-based events that will reflect this interdisciplinary, discursive process. It includes a special project developped by the artist Daniel Wagener with Mudam Publics.

Freigeister follows Mudam’s programme of exhibitions dedicated to the work of contemporary artists from Luxembourg. They include ELO: Inner Exile – Outer Limits (2008), Atelier Luxembourg – The Venice Biennale Projects (1988–2011) (2012), and the recent retrospectives devoted to Su-Mei Tse (2017), Bert Theis (2019) and Jean-Marie Biwer (2020).

Freigeister will be accompanied by a catalogue presenting the work of the artists in the exhibition and reflecting the lines of research and exchange that accompanied its preparation.

Artists: Yann Annicchiarico, Laurianne Bixhain, Aline Bouvy, Marco Godinho, Sophie Jung, Catherine Lorent, Filip Markiewicz, Karolina Markiewicz & Pascal Piron, Claudia Passeri, Daniel Reuter, Nina Tomàs, Daniel Wagener, Jeff Weber

Curators: Sarah Beaumont, Marie-Noëlle Farcy, Christophe Gallois, Clément Minighetti

Exhibition Design: Polaris Architects

Artists: Barbara Cassin, Valérie Jouve, Ismaïl Bahri, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Émeric Lhuisset, Marco Godinho

Curator: Julie Fabre

The Boghossian Foundation presents the second edition of the Limited Edition Art Fair, celebrating the limited edition printed image, from 23 to 25 April 2021.

Created in 2020, the Limited Edition Art Fair seeks to provide an opportunity to the general public to acquire offer art works of various kinds –  offset prints, engravings, lithographs, serigraphs, ceramics, photographs – all produced in limited series.

Following the successful the first edition, art lovers are once again invited to discover the works of Belgian and international artists, both emerging and with established reputations. At once multiple and authentic, the limited edition makes their work available to a wide art-loving public.

For a weekend, international publishers, specialist galleries and essential Belgian institutions like the CIVA Foundation (Brussels) and the Centre de la gravure et de l’image imprimée (La Louvière) will take over the Villa Empain. One section will also be devoted to the abundant production of twenty or so former artists in residence of the Boghossian Foundation.

PARTICIPANTS

Institutions, publishers and galleries: Alice Gallery, Ars Belga, Baronian Xippas, Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, CIVA, Éditions Bruno Robbe, Galerie Félix Frachon, Gallery Fifty One, Irène Laub Gallery, JAP, La Patinoire Royale – Galerie Valérie Bach, LMNO, Meessen De Clercq, Roven.

Artists in residence: Zeina Abirached, Anastasia Bay & Julien Saudubray, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Thomas Bernardet, Pauline Bonnet, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, David Brognon & Stéphanie Rollin, Elina Brotherus, Gregory Buchakjian, Julien Chatelin, Adrien Cicero, Samuel Coisne, Pablo Cots, Geraldine De Groote, Jolien De Roo, Alexis Galissaires, Marco Godinho, Bruno Hellenbosch, Maria Kassab, Harold Lechien, Gabrielle Lerch, Leo Luccioni, Marine Pagès, Thomas Perino, Amanda Riffo, Stéphanie Saadé, Romain Zacchi.

More: Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium

Photo: Gérard Kieffer

Artists: AICANON & Karen Paulina Biswell, Lena Marie Emrich, Marco Godinho, Constantin Hartenstein, Jil Lahr, Zora Mann, Filip Markiewicz, Simon Mullan, Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Grit Richter, Finja Sander, Eric Schumacher & Wolfgang Tillmans

Curator: Gilles Neiens

More: Grimmuseum

Une œuvre de Marco Godinho, prêtée par le Frac Provence Alpes-Côte d'Azur à l’occasion de Proxémie, la 12e édition des Arts Ephémères en 2020, continue d’être exposée dans l’espace public.

L’œuvre sera présentée sur le rond-point Charles Haddad dans le 10e arrondissement de Marseille.

L’inauguration de l’installation se fera le 9 avril 2021, en présence de Lionel Royer-Perreaut, Maire des 9e et 10e arrondissements de Marseille et des partenaires.

Un événement à l’initiative de la Mairie Maison Blanche 9/10 en partenariat avec Ville de Marseille Aix-Marseille-Provence Métropole Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur et Galerie Hervé Bize

–

Marco Godinho
Sans titre (drapeaux transparents), 2007-...
Drapeaux en organza transparent, mâts
150 × 255 cm chacun
Nombre de drapeaux, présentation et dimensions variables

Ed. 1/3, Collection Frac Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
Courtesy de l’artiste et de la Galerie Hervé Bize, Nancy

Les drapeaux en organza transparent remettent en question le contexte social, économique et politique dans lequel ils sont placés. Par leur aspect incertain et détaché de tout symbole reconnaissable, ils laissent apparaître une dimension universelle de l’instant présent, redéfinissant constamment l’instabilité et la précarité de la condition humaine dans notre monde. Métaphore de la non-appartenance à un territoire donné, le projet a été réactivé plusieurs fois à différents endroits et pays. Ainsi, lors de la Biennale de Lyon en 2017, la version présentée consistait en douze drapeaux faisant référence aux douze étoiles du drapeau de l’Union Européenne.

Plus d'infos : Les Arts Ephémères

Photo : Lolita Perez

Artistes et scientifiques vous donnent rendez-vous chez GoodPlanet pour présenter et commenter les projets artistiques, fruits de leur collaboration dans le cadre de la résidence d’art de Maritima01.

Maritima 01 est un projet d’art contemporain promouvant la protection de la Méditerranée et ayant pour vocation de se dérouler dans l’ensemble des pays du bassin méditerranéen. Son objectif principal : sensibiliser le public aux défis environnementaux qui affectent la Méditerranée tout en contribuant à la production et à la diffusion de nouveaux projets artistiques contemporains.

Une projection-rencontre inédite en présence de Elena Posokhova, fondatrice du projet Maritima01 ; Yann Toma, artiste & chercheur ; et les artistes Enrique Ramirez, Marco Godinho et Talor Smith.

Maritima Video Program, Valencia, October 1-5

"There is great power in the indeterminate" — Cy Gavin

 The word Mediterranean translates literally as “in the middle of the earth”. The Mediterranean Sea had been a cradle of great empires and rich cultures a source of myths, legends, art and discoveries for more than three millennia — and to this day it continues to shape relationships between people.

​It is an entity that has a life of its own — it breathes, changes its shape, changes its state - from utter serenity to ardent storms. It is a microcosm full of mysteries, incredible creatures and fascinating processes.

​Over many centuries we have ravenously consumed and exploited the resources of the sea through overfishing, plastic pollution, concreting of the coast and other man-made processes. This is now a planetary-scale threat.

​The Mediterranean represents only 1.5% of the earth’s surface, but it encompasses almost all the potentially catastrophic issues the planet is facing. The exhibition “Mare Nostrum: fragile vita” and the Maritima project shed light on the activity of contemporary artists and scientists who study current problems, research newly discovered species and the threats they are facing, and try to find solutions. We want to draw public attention to the environmental problems of the Mediterranean region and to the importance of investigating mysteries of the sea.

​“Two billion years ago, cyanobacteria oxygenated the atmosphere and powerfully disrupted life on Earth,” says former New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin. “But they didn’t know it. We are the first species that has become a planet-scale influence and is aware of that reality. That’s what distinguishes us.”

Artists: Fermín Jiménez Landa, Mariagrazia Pontorno, Enrique Ramírez, Sena Başöz, Anna Raimondo, Kalie Granier, Yann Toma, Xsenia Dranysh, Marco Godinho.

ASTI is proud to present to the public this original and unique collection of 16 postcards with 15 shots of the installations forming part of the works of Marco Godinho's art project Forever Immigrant. The Forever Immigrant frescoes, created in situ in different places around the world, bear witness to this.

BUY HERE

SEE MORE HERE

Photo: Gérard Kieffer

Ed. by Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg and Marco Godinho

Published on the occasion of Marco Godinho’s exhibition Written by Water at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Luxembourg Pavilion, Arsenale, 11.05 – 24.11.2019

Text(s) by Léa Bismuth, Sally Bonn, Thierry Davila, Paul di Felice, Cristophe Gallois, Hélene Guenin, Béatrice Josse, Marco Godinho and an illustrated biography by Keong-A Song

Graphic design Marco Godinho with Studio Manuel Raeder

English/French
304 pages, softcover, 21 x 28 cm

Published by Hatje Cantz
ISBN 978-3-7757-4814-8

"It is no longer we who cross the land, the border, the sea; they are the ones who cross us."

Marco Godinho’s exhibition Written by Water was an all-the-more impressive research how we move today in a world engaged with current migration issues and its relation with the sea. Written by Water is a geopoetic odyssey that takes the reverse path of today’s migratory routes across the Mediterranean, the cradle of modern society and birthplace of founding narratives that underpin our common heritage. The documentation of the exhibition is accompanied by seven essays, which are just as thought-provoking and a wide range of singular works and recent exhibitions of the last fifteen years.

Le studio des écritures #12 : Marco Godinho

Le studio des écritures est un programme d’émissions pour la radio DUUU

« l’écriture est un geste d’incertitude »

Ce douzième entretien du Studio des écritures s’est déroulé le vendredi 10 avril 2020 par Skype, pendant la période de confinement, entre Marco Godinho chez lui au Luxembourg et Sally Bonn chez elle à Paris. Le travail de Marco Godinho se déploie sous formes de vidéos, d’installations, de dessins, de performances et d’écritures. Il s’intéresse aux déplacements culturels, géographiques et à la traversée des frontières. Il pratique un art nomade en travaillant à échapper à toute forme d’enfermement ou d’appartenance : à un territoire, à une langue, à une nation et à une désignation artistique. La pratique de l’écriture y a une part déterminante.

Le studio des écritures est une série d’entretiens réalisés par Sally Bonn avec des artistes qui ont une pratique d’écriture. L’entretien se déroule dans l’atelier de l’artiste, en présence des œuvres, dans l’espace de travail et porte sur sa pratique des mots : sa nécessité, sa place en regard de la pratique plastique, ce qui s’y joue, comment cette pratique s’inscrit dans le quotidien de l’artiste, comment concrètement l’artiste écrit, à quel endroit de l’atelier, à quel moment, avec quelle régularité… est-ce un espace d’exposition de soi, de réflexion sur le travail, de compréhension, de retour sur soi… la relation que l’écriture a avec la lecture… avec d’autres textes d’artistes, ou la littérature, la philosophie, la théorie en général et la théorie de l’art, l’histoire de l’art, la critique d’art…

Sally Bonn est maître de conférences en Esthétique à l’Université de Picardie, critique d’art et commissaire d’exposition. Elle dirige la collection d’écrits d’artistes Les Indiscipliné.e.s aux éditions Macula. Son dernier ouvrage : Les mots et les œuvres est paru au Seuil en 2017.

Jingle de l’émission composé à partir d’un fragment d’une pièce sonore de l’artiste Benjamin Laurent Aman.

Representation of the world is a practical and scientific necessity, both in the past and still today; one which allows us to comprehend our geography, whether it is near or distant, and which provides a source of reverie, inviting us to dream of travels and the fantastical.

The first explorers discovered unknown worlds, thus allowing their pictorial translation. The cartography was meant to be completed, filled in with details from compiled information, and according to the meaning one wished to convey. Maps indeed represent reality, but interpret it by creating an image from multiple, more or less reliable elements. Our representation of the world is constantly evolving. Current technologies render it extremely precise, helping us see the world differently. Nevertheless, this translation into a two-dimensional surface, this fattening out, is an artifice; from the moment they take shape, maps are a testament to an artistic concern which is added to their navigational function.

Contemporary artists are also captivated by world maps, which many of them reinvent and transform. The artists find each map’s potential – not only geographical but also political, poetic or utopian. The map is, to a certain extent, an inevitable form from which all sorts of geographic deviations stem, but it is also the pretext for a reflection on the state of the world, or a space for imaginary projections. It is illusion and reality all at once. Maps reinterpret a truth, and transform it. This undoubtedly explains why so many artists have showcased maps in their work, each in their own way, thus making the world flat.

Completed by a selection of ancient maps and literary translations, the exhibition brought together more than thirty contemporary artists from across the world. It was testament to the recent interest artists have developed for a revisited Mapping according to their own aesthetic research. Some have developed numerous works on this theme, such as Marcel Broodthaers and Mona Hatoum, whereas others have periodically found world maps through their research, like Alighiero Boetti with its series of Mappa, or Wim Delvoye who conceived a new installation for this exhibition, just to name a few. The exhibition reunited around a theme rich in meanings, the map being for the artists a pretext for all sorts of comments on contemporary society, power relations, ecology, conflicts, etc.

Artists: Malala Andrialavidrazana, Art and Language, Yto Barrada, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Mircea Cantor, Claude Closky, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Wim Delvoye, Erik Dietman, Éric Duyckaerts, Charles et Ray Eames, Ólafur Eliasson, Öyvind Fahlström, Philippe Favier, Luigi Ghirri, Marco Godinho, Shilpa Gupta, Andreas Gursky, Mona Hatoum, Bernard Heidsieck, Emilio Isgrò, Nelson Leirner, Sol LeWitt, Cristina Lucas, Rudi Mantofani, Vik Muniz, Aung Myint, Iván Navarro, Rivane Neuenschwander, Marwan Rechmaoui, David Renaud, Chéri Samba, Qiu Zhijie.

Curator: Alfred Pacquement

SEE MORE HERE

Book edited by Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg and Marco Godinho

Published on the occasion of Marco Godinho’s exhibition Written by Water at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Luxembourg Pavilion, Arsenale, 11.05 – 24.11.2019

Size: 115 x 215 mm / Pages: 144 / Author: Marco Godinho / Contents: Haikus, colour photographs / Language: English / Edition: 1000 / Price: 15 EUR / ISBN 978-99959-30-93-6

BUY HERE

Book edited by Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg and Marco Godinho

Published on the occasion of Marco Godinho’s exhibition Written by Water at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Luxembourg Pavilion, Arsenale, 11.05 – 24.11.2019

Size: 135 x 215 mm / Pages: 96 / Author: Keong-A Song / Contents: Texts, b/w illustrations / Language: French / Edition: 1000 / Price: 15 EUR / ISBN 978-99959-30-94-3

SEE MORE HERE