Programme 2025

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean is pleased to announce its 2025 exhibition programme. It includes the first major museum show in Europe for Ho Tzu Nyen, a comprehensive retrospective of Eleanor Antin, new commissions by Agnes Denes and Susan Philipsz, alongside a large-scale exhibition from the Mudam Collection. It also features new works by Lisa Oppenheim, Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska and SUPERFLEX, a performance by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, as well as Mudam’s contribution to the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 by Andrea Mancini and Every Island.

In 2024, Mudam placed the museum itself at the centre of its reflections, examining its architecture, exhibitions, collection and role as a contemporary art museum in the twenty-first century. In 2025, our focus is on the making of art itself. Inviting a wide range of artists whose practice responds to history, to art movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and their foundations, Mudam presents an opportunity to reflect on the development of artistic creation and its influence on current discourses in art and culture.

Time & the Tiger presents a mid-career survey exhibition of Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen. His captivating video installations examine the history, realities and fictions embedded in Southeast and East Asian cultures, while invoking and unravelling themes of precolonial and colonial myths, European Renaissance painting, modernist narratives and cinematic representations of the present.

American artist Lisa Oppenheim encounters history by searching for the lost and invisible in a new production for Mudam. Mons. Steichen explores the visibility of archives through contemporary art, taking as point of departure the work of Luxembourg-born photographer Edward Steichen and his visionary ideas on the relationship between art and commodity culture, predating Andy Warhol by several decades.

Later in spring, long-time collaborators Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska will present an exhibition comprising of painting, poetry, language and sound to examine personal history, memory and migration in a moving dialogue. Himid’s work, instrumental to the British Black Arts Movement of the 1980s and awarded with the Turner Prize in 2017, is central to the continued expression and recognition of Black creativity in Great Britain.

Aachen-based art collector Wilhelm Schürmann will co-curate the New Collection Display in collaboration with Mudam. Following the donation to Mudam Collection by Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann with the support of the members of the Cercle des collectionneurs of the museum in 2023, this exhibition will focus on works by pioneering women artists created in the 1990s and 2000s.

The fall will be marked by a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to American conceptual artist Eleanor Antin. Since the 1960s, Antin has created a body of work that explores history, contemporary culture and identity from a feminist perspective. A poet and actress prior to becoming an artist, Antin integrates language, character, costume and voice into her photographs, films, sculptures, performances and installations.

Spanning two floors of Mudam, this immersive exhibition highlights Antin’s longstanding commitment to broadening the boundaries between disciplines and the influence of her expansive oeuvre on younger generations of artists working today. 

Andrea Mancini and Every Island’s highly acclaimed project A Comparative Dialogue Act for the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 premieres in Luxembourg in an adaptation that further explores the collective’s fascination with sound and performance within the context of Europe.

The European premiere of a new performance by Mexican artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, co-produced with TONO Festival, will take place during the Luxembourg Museum Days. Described by the artist as a ‘poetry fountain’, the performance will involve artists working with text, music and dance.

Mudam also proudly presents two large-scale installations in the framework of LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden, an international open-air exhibition that will take place in Luxembourg from May to October 2025. Hungarian-American artist Agnes Denes, in collaboration with local gardeners and schools, will build a sustainable pyramid in Mudam’s adjacent Park Dräi Eechelen. Additionally, she will plant a tree and bury a time capsule for future generations. Scottish artist Susan Philipsz will present a sound installation in a 900-metre-long tunnel running underneath the city, the Aquatunnel, where Circe and Sirens will enchant visitors.

In 2025, Mudam will offer a broad educational and outreach programme to strengthen its connections with schools and institutions in and around Luxembourg. These efforts enhance Mudam’s role in creating new partnerships with local communities, institutions and stakeholders. Mudam additionally will extend its activities beyond its building by rethinking its outdoor spaces and role in the neighbourhood. For this, the Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX will imagine a new outdoor installation. This inclusive participatory project will result in a meeting space for all generations.

Exhibitions

Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger
February–August 24, 2025
The exhibition Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger is organised by Singapore Art Museum and Art Sonje Center, Seoul, in collaboration withthe Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Lisa Oppenheim: Mons. Steichen
February–August 24, 2025

Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day
March 7–August 24, 2025
The exhibition Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day is organised by Sharjah Art Foundation and Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.

Eleanor Antin: A Retrospective
September 26, 2025–February, 2026
The exhibition Eleanor Antin: A Retrospective is organised by Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.

Andrea Mancini and Every Island: A Comparative Dialogue Act
September 26, 2025–February 2026

Mudam Collection

New Collection Display
April 4, 2025–January 2026

Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press: Nude Wing
April 4–August 24, 2025

Tiffany Sia—Baloise Art Prize 2024
August 29, 2025–January 2026

Performance

Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
May 17 and 18. 2025
The performance is co-produced with TONO Festival, Mexico City.


Collaborations

Agnes Denes: The Living Pyramid
Susan Philipsz: The Lower World
May 7–October 18, 2025
Agnes Denes: The Living Pyramid and Susan Philipsz: The Lower World are presented in collaboration with LUGA—Luxembourg Urban Garden.