Mudam Akademie 2024/2025

To Sign Up:

Complete cycle: mudam.com/rsvp-akademie-24-25

Auditors: visites@mudam.com;  352 453785-531 or directly at the museum’s reception

Fees:

Cycle of ten conferences:

100€ | 50€ with the Mudam à 2 Card| 25€ Kulturpass

Auditors, per conference: 

10€ | 5€ with the Mudam à 2 Card

Free for students and under 21-year-old

Immerse yourself in the world of modern and contemporary creation.

The Mudam Akademie invites you to discover modern and contemporary art, by recounting how the artists of yesterday and today are inventors of aesthetic universes, as well as catalysts and interpreters of the major societal issues of our time. In direct resonance with Mudam’s exhibitions and its wide-ranging programme, this series of lectures shows that the museum is a place open to the world and its transformations. The Mudam Akademie aims to make art history accessible to everyone, whether they are beginners or more experienced visitors.

The Mudam Akademie is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth.

A cycle designed and taught by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel.

A violinist, musicologist and art historian by training, Stéphane Ghislain Roussel is an independent stage director, playwright and exhibition curator. He is Artistic Director of the multidisciplinary creative bureau PROJETEN (Luxembourg). He is the author of numerous conferences and lectures at various art schools and universities in Germany, France and Italy, as well as seminars on the relationship between the arts. He curated the exhibition Opéra Monde, la quête d’un art total at the Centre Pompidou Metz in 2019-2020. He recently directed the diptych of operas Zu unseren Schwestern, zu unseren Brüdern at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and his latest play Luonnollisesti (naturally, in Finnish) at the Escher Theater.

Programme

23.10.2024

18:00 – 19:00 | LU

19:30 – 20:30 | FR

The desire for total art. A short history of artistic multidisciplinarity

In conjunction with the exhibition Xanti Schawinsky: Play, Life, Illusion

From the end of the 19th century to the present day, artistic disciplines have become increasingly permeable to one another. Correspondence, synaesthesia, total art and transdisciplinarity have gradually become generic terms and paths of exploration for artists. This is an opportunity to discover some of the key moments in these interactions, and their links with renowned art schools such as the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College.

06.11.2024

19:00 – 20:00 | EN

Sensitive technologies

Mudam Akademie in conversation with Cécile B. Evans

In conjunction with Radical Software: Women, Art, Computing 1960–1991

Exploring video, acting, digital media and sculpture, Cécile B. Evans has developed a body of work that questions the importance and value of emotions and the way in which they circulate and are used in society. This meeting will explore the different facets of her work, showing that the use of new technologies in art does not mean the disappearance of sensitivity.

18.12.2024

18:00 – 19:00 | LU

19:30 – 20:30 | FR

Creations from the future. Can art predict what’s to come?

In conjunction with the exhibitions Agnieszka Kurant: Risk Landscape and Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991

Since the beginning of art history to the present day, the visionary capacity of artists has often been demonstrated. Is art always a mirror of its time? Or does creative work have the gift of anticipating current changes? These are just some of the questions we’ll be exploring in this talk. This is also an opportunity to revisit some of the great moments in the history of art, looking at terms such as modernity, contemporary, aesthetic revolution...

22.01.2025

18:00 – 19:00 | LU

19:30 – 20:30 | FR

Pop culture and subversion. Artworks that set your teeth on edge

In conjunction with the exhibition Cosima von Bonin: Songs for Gay Dogs

19.02.2025

18:00 – 19:00 | LU

19:30 – 20:30 | FR

Image et temporality : photography as a medium to resurrect the past

In conjunction with the exhibition Lisa Oppenheim: The little gallery that caught the light

12.03.2025

19:00 – 20:00 | EN

Change the course of art history. When painting becomes activism

Mudam Akademie in conversation

In conjunction with the exhibition of Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska

09.04.2025

18:00 – 19:00 | LU

19:30 – 20:30 | FR

Pushing the boundaries of the real. Video production and the Asian scene

In conjunction with the exhibition Ho Tzu Nyen. Time & the Tiger

30.04.2025

18:00 – 19:00 | LU

19:30 – 20:30 | FR

Reconnecting with all living things. The new paths of Land Art

In conjunction with the installation The Living Pyramid by Agnes Denes and in collaboration with LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden

11.06.2025

19:00 – 20:00 | EN

The art of collecting

Mudam Akademie in conversation

On the occasion of the Schürmann donation

02.07.2025

18:00 – 19:00 | LU 

19:30 – 20:30 | FR

Visual Music. Music in contemporary art

In conjunction with Susan Philipz’s installation The Lower World, in collaboration with LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden, and to announce the exhibition Andrea Mancini & Every Island: A Comparative Dialogue Act.

Mudam Akademie Practical Information

Wednesday night:

Double session:

Luxembourgish: 18:00 – 19:00 | French: 19:30 – 20:30

A single session as part of the conversations:

English: 19:00 – 20:00

To Sign Up

Complete cycle: mudam.com/rsvp-akademie-24-25

Auditors: visites@mudam.com;  352 453785-531 or directly at the museum’s reception

Fees

Cycle of ten conferences: 100€ | 50€ with the Mudam à 2 Card | 25€ Kulturpass

Auditors, per conference: 10€ | 5€ with the Mudam à 2 Card

Free for students and under 21-year-old

Certification

The Mudam Akademie conference cycle is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth. A certificate will be awarded upon participation in a minimum of 70% of the classes.