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As part of the Rethinking Identity program of the European Month of Photography, the jury of Café Crème asbl, in collaboration with the City of Luxembourg, has selected the following three candidates from the winners of the Révélation(s)Portfolio-Plateforme 2023 call: Manon Diederich, Pol Trie...
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‘Sleeping With Books’ blurs the boundaries between civil rights struggles and collective dreaming. Taking the form of a photographic dreamscape, it mingles the intimate moments of sleep, unconsciousness and awakening with ideas of freedom. The “sleeping” books dwell on the ...
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Photography is by default the most direct means to capture the seen, the direct encounter, or a first impression. So, it seems almost contradictory to conceive an exhibition in which this particular artistic medium seeks to go beyond the mere physical appearance and reveal the cracks in the carefu...
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​​In the current selfie culture, the selfie is a powerful means in which the capacity of self-depiction and self-deception are, respectively, commercially viable opportunities and the mainstream strategy for building a sense of belonging. The acceleration of image production as a daily practic...
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A festival that celebrates everyday life and urban testimonies through the eyes of photographers – Storytelling in street photography, photojournalism and documentary photography. In 2023 the festival will for the first time feature its new name Light Leaks Festival. The rebranding will clar...
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The exhibition Dayanita Singh. Dancing with my Camera is organised by the Gropius Bau in collaboration with Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, the Villa Stuck, Munich and the Serralves Museum, Porto. It is presented on the occasion of the 9th edition of the European Month ...
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The MNHA is once again taking part in the European Month of Photography, a biennial event which will be focusing on the theme of “Rethinking Identity” this year. Rimbaud’s famous quotation “Je est un autre”, taken from a letter he wrote to Paul Demeny in 1871, refers to the poet ...
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The five selected artists for the 2023 edition exhibit photo and video works that explore themes of identity and raise thought-provoking questions. Their works often transcend the two-dimensional frame of the image, inviting the viewer to engage in an immersive and experiential encounter with the ...
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Formative experiences — from childhood to motherhood — are key to the construction of a woman’s identity. In her book The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir eloquently states that “one is not born, but rather becomes a woman”.[1] For girls, building one’s own identity necessarily i...
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Eager to provide emerging Luxembourg artists with greater visibility, the festival managers have initiated a new formula which offers, alongside the public viewing of a portfolio, an exhibition of selected works from the 2023 edition. The selected artists were asked to consider the topic of Rethi...
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I have been photographing the Portuguese of Luxembourg for nearly twenty years, in the public space, in cafés and during popular festivals, picturing parades, café atmosphere or intimate moments of daily life most of the time in a casual way. I enjoy to watch my fellow citizens with a compassi...
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révélation(s)-portfolio review is a public event where local artists or foreign residents of the neighbouring regions ( Germany, Belgium, France ) introduce themselves to an international jury of experts. Unlike the classic “portfolios reviews”, a restricted number of artist – ...
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The exhibition takes its name from the book A Room of One’s Own written by Virginia Woolf, one of the most remarkable modernist novelists of the 20th century. Woolf talks about the disadvantages of being a woman in the male-dominated art world – particularly in the literary scene ̵...
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As part of the 9th European Month of Photography, with the theme of Rethinking Identity, the Casino Luxembourg Art Forum is showing an exhibition called “Bodies of Identities” that explores the complex questions around identity in contemporary society. Nowadays, identity issues ̵...
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@Jeff Weber, Image Storage Containers 2023 en attenteIn a series of six photographs, artist Jeff Weber documents the restoration process undertaken on the large “Ivy Mike” hydrogen bomb test photo, carried out by Studio Berselli of Milan as part of a general restoration of The Family of Man be...
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French artist living and working in Brussels, Raphaël Lecoquierre (born in 1988) develops a practice intimately linked to the photographic image, both its specific material properties and its suggestive power, which he manipulates with the help of experiments and unique processes. Begun in 2010,...
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In the exhibition space at the foot of the tower, Luxembourgish artist Mike Bourscheid will present a photographic series inspired by the water tower’s architecture, playfully re-interpreting its pillared structure in human shape. The interior of the former water tank will host the artist’...
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Rethinking Nature initiated in 2021 an exhibition cycle curated by EMOP partners, which continues today with the topic of Rethinking Identity. Of considerable scope and with major implications under all circumstances, the theme is more relevant than ever for conte...
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Impermanence Horizons is a series of images created between 2015 and 2023, having as a common denominator the ephemeral aspect of forms, bodies, environments, landscapes, materials, and moments in time. The images chosen and their association – combined and recombined on th...
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The photos produced by artificial intelligence are a fusion of data, algorithms, and automated learning. The algorithm is fed with a large amount of photographic data, from which it learns to reproduce a visual style. Several images are then combined into one. The machine then learns to manipulat...
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For the hanging at the Reuter Bausch Gallery, Christian Aschman reconsiders his project on Tokyo made in 2014, the images of which were first published in “The Space in between“, an artist’s book published in 2015 and edited by Théophile’s Papers*. Varying the way he exhibits his ...
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Born in New York in 1950, living and working in South Africa for nearly 40 years, Roger Ballen is one of the world’s most remarkable, and critically acclaimed photographers of the 21st Century. Throughout his career, Roger Ballen has pursued a singular artistic goal : to give expression to the h...
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The exhibition presents a selection of photographs from the series Higher Self, developed through Cristina Nuñez’s participatory methodology The Self-Portrait Experience (SPEX). All works have been produced in Luxembourg over the last two years during workshops aimed in particular at local yout...
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Among the many contemporary artists who consider the possibilities of using their bodies and performance as a medium of creation, ORLAN stands out with her proficiency in multiple practices. Questioning representations of art, gender, sexuality, and the self, this internationally renowned artist h...
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For her first exhibition in Luxembourg, Isabelle Ferreira presents “O salto” at the Nosbaum Reding gallery. In Portuguese, O salto means jump and designates, in everyday language, the jump across borders, which thousands of Portuguese tried at the risk of their lives in the 1960s to flee dicta...
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In 1955 Edward Steichen designed The Family of Man for the 25th anniversary of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The exhibition will draw the world into the museum and enter the history of photography, for its ambition, its international success and its enthusiastic as controversial re...
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The 2022-2023 season showcases the talent and diversity of six contemporary photographers living or working in Luxembourg. Bruno Oliveira’s documentary and personal vision of the Cap Verde islands, displayed in the market square, contrasts with Veronique Kolber’s series of American st...
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Marking the 50th anniversary of Edward Steichen’s death, this exciting project showcases the work of two eminent contemporary artists, Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (*1959) and Belgian visual artist Hans Op de Beeck (*1969). The striking Im Wald (2020) series by the Dutch photographer Erwin Ola...
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As they doused the flames at the last blast furnace in Esch-sur-Alzette’s Esch-Belval district, they also extinguished a pivotal era in Luxembourg’s industrial history. Gone it is; but not forgotten, thanks to Yvon Lambert’s photographic homage, his “Derniers Feux”, to the lost world of ...
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Noémie Goudal, Observatoire IX Noémie Goudal’s work explores the relationship between the natural and the artificial, science and imagination, construction and invention. Through her creations, she questions landscapes from different points of view, as if to elaborate a way of looking. Fascina...
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Whether the images come in black and white, are positives or negatives, this series is above all an invitation to follow the artist’s footsteps in a singular meandering. The photographs of Armand Quetsch, caught in a slow and repetitive flow, taken close to his home with an almost automatic gest...
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If we focus on the career and life choices of Eric Poitevin, it’s easy to deal in clichés: his rooting in the Lorraine region and the Meuse countryside, his successful career in the Fine Arts, a Villa Medici laureate, education in Paris, etc. But this reading of his career would not do justice...
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Tito Mouraz, Fluvial, #41 The Fluvial series creates an analogy between erosion and vision, based on visual analogies between human bodies and other types of bodies, organic and inorganic. Just as the currents bend tree trunks and shape mineral blocks, which these images depict almost as land art ...
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As part of their international collaboration, the photo festivals FOTO WIEN, EMoP Luxembourg, FetArt-Circulation Paris and IMAGO LISBOA present a slide show of photos on the theme of “Rethinking Nature”.
Among the 168 submissions from 74 countries, the works of around 110 artists were selected, edited and arranged for the “Rethinking Nature” slideshow. The participating photographers and artists are proof that the photographic medium plays a special role in the effort to understand the current relationship between man and nature. The “Rethinking Nature” slideshow combines a wide variety of observations of nature that illustrate, filter and provide an analysis of the ambivalence that exists in our understanding of nature today. On the one hand, nature is seen as a place of peace and desire, on the other as subject to destruction and increased exploitation.

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Sandra Kantanen, Untitled (jellyfish 2), 2015 Inka & Niclas, 4KultraHD_II (Tropical ) Danila Tkachenk...
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Tkachenko Paolo Verzone ( Agence Vu ) Ny-Ålesund arctic base. Portrait of Sébastien Barrault Research adviser Read more

Révélation(s) / Portfolio – Plateforme – Luxembourg est un lieu où artistes émergents et experts de photographie contemporaine peuvent se rencontrer. Il a été créé par Café-Crème Asbl et l’Université du Luxembourg dans le cadre du Mois Européen de la Photographie au Luxembourg. I...
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When I made Road Works in July 1997, in the Picos de Europa, I discovered an unsurfaced road that led me to wonder whether it would be possible to cross the Iberian Peninsula without driving on asphalt. Over the following years I travelled around Spain looking for routes that I recorded on a GPS...
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On Friday, April 21th, the collective “Street Photography Luxembourg Asbl” (SPL) invites everybody to attend its fifth “Slide Night” to be held in the Buvette on the site of the Rotondes- Luxembourg Gare. The public will be able to view the works of the twelve photographers...
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“Portraits under surveillance” presents the work of six artists / photographers who are part of “Looking for the Clouds” a joint photo project initiated by “EMOP association” (European Month of Photography), which includes various photo institutions from 8 Europ...
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CONTES D’IMAGES The season “Contes d’images” opens a diversified discourse on storytelling in images. The photos draw on both imaginary and real potential. The work might be dissociated from all rational and predefined logic. Photography reflects several realities that encourage individual...
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Les nuages écoutent-ils ? C’est la question que pose Serge Ecker à travers son projet Do clouds listen. «J’ai choisi d’adopter un point de vue en élévation, comme lorsque je m’interroge sur les frontières, l’espace transitoire et l’entre-deux. Première exposition consac...
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Instead of dealing in reassuring images and their illusory consolations, Cédric Delsaux prefers to reveal the poisonous beauty of darkness, hidden in our imagination as much as in our daily life. Whether he speaks about industrial excesses, delusions of grandeur or uncertain dreams, he elaborates...
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A true treat for the eyes is currently on view at the Clairefontaine gallery in Luxembourg: still life photographs from concentration and inner peace, which are printed with precious platinum palladium on a high quality Gampi paper. Ryuji Taira is a quiet observer, he loves nature and loneliness. ...
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The starting point for “dystopian circles/fragments all along …” was a journey leading from Brussels, the political epicentre of Europe, to the far-flung shores of Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island in the Mediterranean Sea which has gained notoriety as a key point of entry for refuge...
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Among the general public, artists and critics alike, The Family of Man gave rise to both celebration and controversy. Today the exhibition has achieved legendary status in the history of photography. The brainchild of Edward Steichen was created as a reflection of humanity and aimed at forging clo...
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In his film project Home to go, Adrian Paci has inspired himself from his personal experience to deal with collective history in projects that highlight the consequences of conflicts and social revolutions, revealing how identity is conditioned by the socio-economic context. In 1997, Adrian Paci e...
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The photographs of this exhibition refer historically to very different conflicts: Its the trenches of the first world war that are the subject of Jonathan Olley’s photographs. Henning Rogge is spotting the remaining craters of the Second World War in the German provinces. What these works have ...
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Dalston Anatomy is a visual ode to Dalston, as a unique place where different cultures merge together in a celebration of life, diversity and unstoppable energy. I felt compelled to capture this place at its rawest and most beautiful state, with all its flaws and smells before it too is transforme...
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In this work, Alexandra Catiere confronts absence, a presence that can no longer be, in a state of instability where different times overlap, merge and interweave. Her photographs are devoid of present. They invite us to distance ourselves from our everyday, which has suddenly become too trivial ...
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Contemporary photography considers past events – be it the wars of the last century or the more recent conflicts and social tensions – not with the eyes of a journalist or historian. It has, of the Second World War or the pre-war period, a vision that combines fascination and distancing. O...
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DISPARITION(S) rassemble des œuvres qui explorent les frontières entre réalité et fiction, qui sillonnent les différentes stratégies de survie que nous pouvons être amené à déployer quand la réalité est insoutenable ou trop dure à affronter. Qu’elle soit physique ou social...
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Absence of Subject by Michael Somoroff (*1957) is a poignant homage to the legendary German photographer August Sander’s (1876-1964) monumental work People of the 20th Century. It is a thoughtful and passionate meditation on memory, imagination, human resilience and creativity – presented for ...
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The artists duo M+M (Marc Weis and Martin De Mattia) mark the conclusion of their video cycle 7 Tage (7 Days) with the eponymous exhibition at Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain. The series of seven film installations began in 2009 and the films were created one after the other over ...
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Giacomo Costa uses digital technology to generate futuristic urban landscapes. The products are fantastic and apocalyptic images that draw their aesthetics from the field of science-fiction, where architecture plays a fundamental role. Pulverised landscapes and detached structures housing anonymou...
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The beginnings of amateur photography in Luxembourg are somewhat uncertain. Apart from a few rare daguerreotypes, to our knowledge, the first photographs taken in Luxembourg date from the second half of the nineteenth century. It was only in 1894 that the Circle of Luxembourg Amateur Photographer...
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Since the 1990s Arno Gisinger develops a multidisciplinary form of artistic expression that combines photography and historiography. Inspired by the German way of thinking of the Interwar period and the methodologies of the Nouvelle Histoire, his projects offer a contemporary reinterpretation of t...
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Asserting that any visual memory is relative, personal or historical, the exhibition avoir lieu explores the concept of memory as images of foresight. It unfolds as a two-way road evoking historical and current events, backwards and yet to come, while still ongoing. A short circui...
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Là s’en vont les seigneuries est né d’un souvenir de l’écrivain Alice Becker-Ho. Été 1970, un voyage dans l’Espagne franquiste vers un rendez-vous qui conduit deux couples à un singulier périple en Vieille Castille, dans la province de Soria. Quelque part, au bout d’une pi...
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Le projet explore la mémoire collective du secteur primaire du Luxembourg pour y extraire et en préserver les histoires extraordinaires que certaines fermes ont générées et que leurs habitants y ont vécues. Le but est de donner à ces moments vécus une voix, une forme et une matérialité ...
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Laurianne Bixhain, born in 1987, artist and photographer. She lives and works in Luxembourg and Leipzig. During the fifth edition of the European Month of Photography, she will show her works at the new Kiosk of International Art Critics Association Luxembourg. This new space, characterised by its...
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Atlas Italiae est un atlas de regards inédits lancés, on devrait dire photographiquement déclenchés, par Silvia Camporesi sur deux ans et qui racontent l’âme du paysage italien et l’identité d’un pays qui est en train de changer, malgré la crise . L’expositi...
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Les architectes ne conçoivent pas que des maisons, mais aussi « des relations, des contacts entre leurs habitants, un ordre social ». Depuis plusieurs années déjà, l’artiste berlinoise Andrea Pichl s’intéresse à la production en série en architecture assez fréquemment méprisée e...
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Le titre de l’exposition décline en deux mots l’objet des travaux de François Méchain. Il est donc question d’espace et d’humain. Les deux se conjuguent dans la confrontation qui se joue à chaque fois à travers l’in situ et les contingences de la commande. L’artiste ne répète ja...
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