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12 May 2012 – 2 September 2012
Opening: Friday 11 May 2012

Wesley Meuris : R-05.Q-IP.0001

Drawings, sculptures and installations by the Belgian artist Wesley Meuris (*1977), present a strongly architectural, or even scientific, character. Things which could, at first glance, appear as devices for presenting works or other artefacts, are, in fact, works of art in themselves. By bringing these mechanisms and demonstration objects to light, Wesley Meuris points at our way of presenting and seeing things. By exhibiting, for example, animal cages left empty or a theme park kiosk, inanimate and reduced to its simplest apparatus, he hopes to show us things which usually escape our view but which, nonetheless, play a primordial role in our daily interpretation of the world which surrounds us. His sculptures and installations are often accompanied by drawings and analytical schemas which strengthen the functional character of these subjects.

Curator: Kevin Muhlen

15 September 2012 – 9 December 2012
Opening: Friday 14 September 2012

Making of – Atelier Luxembourg

Over the last few years, a lot of exhibitions and initiatives have been dedicated to young, emerging, Luxembourgish artists, often offering them excellent exhibition platforms accompanied by substantial catalogues. For this reason, we believe that, in the framework of Atelier Luxembourg*, to offer an umpteenth exhibition on young contemporary art would be, at least concerning the Casino Luxembourg, superfluous, and that it would not bring anything more to our artists.

On the other hand, a more pertinent question would be: apart from the works of art presented in the exhibitions, what do we really know about our artists’ work? Faithful to the goal that the Casino Luxembourg sets itself, which is the development of the “forum” aspect based on creation and production, Making of takes an interest in the artists first of all, and in their working environment, by transforming our institution halls into artists workshops. The invited artists thus work on the spot at Casino Luxembourg in order to make it their creative workspace and to develop their work there.

The opposite of a “best of” which would present “newcomers” of contemporary art in Luxembourg, Making of divulges the artists’ work behind the scenes, time spent in the workshop, and the creative process, transforming the Casino into a real “contemporary art forum” during a project.

Curator: Kevin Muhlen

* Atelier Luxembourg is an exhibition project which takes place within different cultural venues in Luxembourg.

8 December 2012 – 6 January 2013
Opening: Friday 7 December 2012

Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert

In close relation with the aesthetic and conceptual work that they develop, the artists, Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert, will present a series of sound and video installations in the historical cellars of the Casino Luxembourg. With a will to move away from the “white cube”, the artists take full possession of the cellars in order to mix their own images with the underground architecture of the ancient, bourgeois Casino.

Curator: Kevin Muhlen