| 30/06/2006 | Museums & Exhibits | Luxembourg |
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Mudam Luxembourg: public opening on 2nd July 2006
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| Posted by Jhoss Neudorf | |
  Opening exhibition “Eldorado†from 2 July to 20 November 2006 The Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam, in Luxembourg, opens its doors to the public on 2nd July 2006. Directed by Marie-Claude Beaud, this new contemporary art venue will present a programme of temporary exhibitions open to all fields of present-day creation. Conceived by the Sino-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, the new building has a total area of 9 000 square meters with almost 4 800 square meters of exhibition and public spaces. It houses, among other things, an auditorium, a shop and a cafeteria. Mudam is the first contemporary art museum in Luxembourg. Entirely conceived by artists, its vocation is to be attentive to international creation and developments in artistic practices. The main concept of the artistic programme is called “Be the Artists’ Guestâ€. This gives artists carte blanche to think up and create works specific to the gallery’s various activities: collection, exhibition, auditorium, education, café, boutique, reception... This concept gathers new commissions of works for the museum‘s collection as well as making the temporary arrangements for collection pieces under the eye of an artist. Entitled “Eldoradoâ€, the opening exhibition presents, with the participation of over sixty artists, the result of more than five years of research and organization of the “Be the Artists’ Guest†programme. Works from the main collection and new productions are displayed in a rich panorama of contemporary creation: painting, sculpture, installation, sound, video, photography, design, graphic design, fashion, new media... “Eldorado†shows the relationships that the different techniques have with each other and displays their coherence and how they complement each other in relation to themes that the artists transpose in their contemporary works. Mudam keeps a close eye on changes in these practices as part of its duty. Art is the expression of a poetic distance from the world, going beyond the tools which are used - the question of technique no longer matters. LIST OF ARTISTS IN THE “ELDORADO“ EXHIBITION: Marina Abramovic, Serbia-Montenegro Emmanuelle Antille, Switzerland Fikret Atay, Turkey Joe Baldwin, USA Stephan Balkenhol, Germany Vincent Beaurin, France Valérie Belin, France Andrea Blum, USA François Boisrond, France Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec, France Heath Bunting, Great Britain Daniel Buren, France Robert Breer, USA Cai Guo-Qiang, China / USA Jesse Chapman, USA Claude Christ, Luxembourg Etienne Cliquet, France Claude Closky, France Nitzan Cohen, Israel James Coleman, Ireland Marc Couturier, France François Curlet, France Richard Deacon, Great Britain Mark Dean, Great Britain Wim Delvoye, Belgium Frédéric Druot, France Pierre-Olivier Deschamps, France Michel Desvigne, France David Dubois, France Mary Dunning, USA Entropy8Zuper!, USA / Belgium Tullio Forgiarini, Luxembourg Charles Fréger, France Maurizio Galante, Italy, and Tal Lancman, Israel Gaylen Gerber, USA Jack Goldstein, Canada Michelle Grabner, USA Hervé Graumann, Switzerland Konstantin Grcic, Germany Anne-Marie Herckes, Luxembourg Charles Irvin, USA Paul Kirps, Luxembourg Peter Kogler, Austria Mark Lewis, Canada Léa Linster, Luxembourg Eric Maillet, France Jean-Christophe Massinon, France Aleksandra Mir, USA Cercle Ramo Nash, France Bruce Nauman, USA Ott + Stein, Oliver Peters, Germany Albert Oehlen, Germany Philippe Parreno, France Ieoh Ming Pei, China / USA Joao Penalva, Portugal Stephen Prina, USA Tobias Putrih, Slovenia Tyson Reeder, USA Pipilotti Rist, Switzerland Kay Rosen, USA Sam Salisbury, USA Frédéric Sanchez, France Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Spain Joe Scanlan, USA Adrian Schiess, Switzerland Julian Schnabel, USA David Shrigley, Great Britain Sancho Silva, Portugal Thomas Struth, Germany Martin Szekely, France Joël Tettamanti, Switzerland Bert Theis, Luxembourg Laure Tixier, France Su-Mei Tse, Luxembourg Javier Vallhonrat, Spain Didier Vermeiren, Belgium Andy Warhol, USA Nari Ward, USA / Jamaica André Weisgerber, Luxembourg Bill Woodrow, Great Britain B. Wurtz, USA Zhou Yi, China / France Rémy Zaugg, Switzerland Heimo Zobernig, Austria _____________________________________ Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Mudam Luxembourg 3, Park Dräi Eechelen L-1499 Luxembourg Information: t. +352 45 37 85 1 info@mudam.lu www.mudam.lu Press contact: presse@mudam.lu Communication: communication@mudam.lu |
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