What the flag?!

Location: Place de Metz At the crossroads of the main axis of the city center of Luxembourg, where cars, pedestrians and public transport meet, Marco Godinho installs four flags. Each flag is represented by a coloured gradation that corresponds to a natural element (water, fire, wood and metal) and to a specific direction (north, south,…

Location: Cercle Cité | Place d’Armes In 2022, Julien Hübsch worked on a large-scale installation on the Metzeschmelz industrial site in Esch-Sur-Alzette. This vast industrial landscape was once the reason for families from Portugal, Italy and Ex-Yugoslavia to come to Luxembourg to start a new life.  The artist digitally fragmented pictures of his onsite installation…

Location: Casino Luxembourg | 41, rue Notre-Dame Reza Kianpour’s project plays with the idea of attachment and our relationship: to a nationality, to an identity, to a culture, to a community, to a belief… In the manner of a performance, he stages his image in real size to give the illusion of clinging relentlessly to…

Location: Place des Martyrs  “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.” Rose Schneidermann (1911) Inspired by the contrast between the Place des Martyrs that is marked by the old ARBED building reminiscent of Luxembourg’s industrial past, and the traditional rose garden “Rousegäertchen” situated opposite the building, Stina Fisch’s flags illustrate the…

Location: Place de Paris  “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” Simone Weil (1942) Flags are a nation’s “brand mark” and as such, in history as well as in current times, they have been and can be misused or become subject of positive or negative reinterpretation. They…

Location: LUCA  – Luxembourg Center for Architecture | 1, rue de la Tour Jacob “Men don’t cry. But they should …” Fascinated by the author Jack Urwin and his book BOYS DON’T CRY where identity and masculinity are thematised, this subject served as the inspiration for Sarah Schleich’s latest series of works. Why are people…

Location: Rotondes | 3, place des Rotondes Flags and banners often mark territorial claims and national boundaries. Vera Kox’s flags, on the other hand, depict an imaginary landscape of organic matter woven into industrially patterned ceramic surfaces from the artist’s sculptural repertoire. Lichens, algae, mosses, and fungi are among the first species to grow on…

Locations:LUCA  – Luxembourg Center for Architecture | 1, rue de la Tour JacobCorner avenue de la Liberté / Avenue de la GareSchluechthaus | Porte de Hollerich Safe Space Federation is a mentally driven campaign inviting individuals to build moments of peaceful excitement. It consists of a series of three installations, designed as abstractly defined spaces,…