Autumn exhibitions 2022

Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean is presenting three exhibitions this autumn 2022.

Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness
September 24, 2022–March 5, 2023
Exhibition and performances

Known for his sonic installations and performances, Tarek Atoui privileges a sensory approach along with an investigative process that embraces history, anthropology, ethnology, and musicology. He considers sound to be a catalyst for human interaction leading him to collaborate with other musicians, as well as researchers and musical instrument makers. The exhibition Waters’ Witness is based on the ongoing project I/E Atoui initiated in 2015. Drawing upon research made in collaboration with field recordists in various harbours, Atoui uses sound, material, object and instrument to document the human, ecological, historical and industrial realities of coastal cities such as Athens, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Porto and Beirut. Waters’ Witness was conceived by Tarek Atoui and produced by the Fridericianum in Kassel in cooperation with the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto and Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. 

A series of performances is programmed around the exhibition.
December 4, 2022, 3pm: Yann Leguay and Tarek Atoui
February 12, 2023, 3pm: Tomoko Sauvage
March 5, 2023, 3pm: Alan Affichard

Curators: Joel Valabrega and Sarah Beaumont

Sung Tieu: Civic Floor
October 8, 2022–February 5, 2023
New commission

Sung Tieu works in a range of media producing exhibitions that draw upon extensive research. Her works of sculpture, drawing, text and sound consider questions of governance, civic responsibility and justice, analysing mechanisms of state control. Making reference to art history, and in particular to minimalism and the deployment of the grid, they highlight the translation of ideologies within industrial design and architecture and the prevalence of abstraction as an organising force. Civic Floor will present a new body of sculpture and wall-based works, which are accompanied by sound. The exhibition considers questions of space and volume, both in terms of their fundamental role in art-making as well as in the design of carceral spaces and bureaucratic systems.

Civic Floor is produced in partnership with MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin, Lethbridge, Canada.

Curator: Michelle Cotton, assisted by Clémentine Proby

Face-à-Face
October 8, 2022–April 2, 2023
Moderne Galerie/Mudam Luxembourg: Two collections in dialogue

Face-à-Face (Face to Face) is the result of a collaboration between the Moderne Galerie—Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken and Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, two major museums in the Greater Region and the European scene. The fruitful dialogue between the museums’ collections highlights the particularities of each institution, whose histories go back to the 1920s and 1990s respectively.

Curator: Marie-Noëlle Farcy, assisted by Vanessa Lecomte

Also on view 
Tacita Dean through February 5, 2023
Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil: Garden of Resistance through January 9, 2023
25 years of the Mudam Collection through May 29, 2023

Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean promotes creativity, visionary thinking, openness and cultural participation for all. Like Luxembourg itself, Mudam is situated in Europe but has a global and outward-looking vision. Mudam is committed to a more inclusive and more responsible world in which museums play a leading role in the transmission of our cultural heritage to future generations.

Our mission is to collect, conserve and present the most relevant contemporary art of our time and make it accessible to a wide audience. Through its exhibitions, publications, and artistic and educational programmes, Mudam fosters research and dialogue while giving special attention to the changing nature of art and its production across the world.