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Publication date: 2021-04-12

8 top-rated Luxembourg artists

Some artists hold exhibitions in museums in Luxembourg or abroad, receive prizes, participate in biennials, have works that enter important private or public collections… Top 8 of the best-rated living Luxembourg artists currently .

1. Su-Mei Tse

Represented by the Nosbaum Reding gallery.

It is certainly the Luxembourg artist who received the highest international recognition: the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for the Best national participation in 2003. But since this award, Su-Mei Tse has not stopped working and to progress, developing a poetic, refined universe, tinged with philosophical questions, but also with humor. His work cultivates an introspective character, a delicate balance between space, time and openness to the world. A seasoned cellist, music also plays a very important role in his work. Among his many awards, and in addition to the Golden Lion, we note the Monaco International Contemporary Art Prize (2009) and the Edward Steichen Prize (2005). In 2014, she obtained a residency at the prestigious Villa Medici, in Rome. His works appear in prestigious public collections in Asia and Europe. Mudam devoted a monographic exhibition to him in 2017.

2. Tina Gillen

Represented by the Nosbaum Reding gallery.

The work of this painter has not stopped evolving since the 1990s, but Tina Gillen is still interested in the border and the tension that are created between figuration and abstraction, reflecting the complex relationships that are woven. between reality and representation. Often devoid of human presence, his paintings nevertheless bear witness to human activity (houses, roads), as well as landscape elements, most often stylized or fragmentary. Geometric elements are added, which bring another level of complexity to the pictorial construction. Recently, she has been particularly interested in natural phenomena that are beyond human control, which are both a threat and a resource, hollowing out the issue of climate. His work has been the subject of numerous personal (Bozar, Mudam, M Leuven, etc.) and collective exhibitions. She will represent Luxembourg at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.

3. Jean Bechameil & Martine Feipel

Represented by Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery.

This couple of artists have been collaborating for ten years after starting their career solo. Their artistic practice deals with questions of space and seeks to show "the complexity of ideas hidden in the traditional way of constructing space and time", by opening, in a "destructive" way, an alternative perception. The question of modernity, its link with architecture, but also robotics are themes that artists regularly question. Recently, the question of nature has taken more place in their thinking. They represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and were invited by many international institutions (Kunstmuseum Bonn, Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, Triennale de Beaufort, etc.). In 2017, the Casino Luxembourg devoted a monographic exhibition to them. They have just been selected to design a new work for the Toulouse metro (2028).

4. Jean-Marie Biwer

His pictorial works are highly appreciated and collected by many Luxembourg families. A work spanning four decades, in which an attentive look at the world around it is expressed, and crossed by questioning on the role of painting and its relationship to the contemporary world filled with images and stuffed with information. Like a meditative moment, his painting moves away from the frantic pace of life, to underline the intensity of the moment, to offer a space for contemplation. In the monographic exhibition dedicated to him by Mudam in 2020, we were able to discover a painting in multiple formats, often carrying several meanings, with a seductive aesthetic, but which also often turns out to be more threatening. His career was mainly built in Luxembourg, but he also exhibited internationally, notably in 1993 at the Venice Biennale with Bertrand Ney.

(automagically translated from French)

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