As a walking exhibition, Capsule will feature works by a diverse array of artists from France, Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, and South Korea. Each activated space will be visible to the public day and night, creating an engaging and accessible art experience. Visitors can explore a curated route showcasing around ten locations in the city center, inviting them to rediscover Luxembourg with a renewed appreciation for its urban landscape.
Each presentation within the Capsule reflects themes of identity, memory, and the interplay between humanity and technology, raising questions about the capacity of art to engage audiences in meaningful discussions surrounding social issues and cultural narratives.
How does the revival of traditional crafts within contemporary art facilitate a dialogue between the past and the present? Additionally, what significance does digital media hold in this context?
By introducing the unexpected into everyday life, Capsule seeks to captivate the attention of passersby and inspire them to explore the city, thereby fostering a vibrant discourse that navigates the complexities of contemporary existence.
French artist Léa de Cacqueray (*1996) integrates ambiguity and indeterminacy into her artistic practice to envision possible futures.
Her sculptures and installations, drawing from divination, robotics, and medical science, cultivate an aura of mystery.
Rather than viewing technology as neutral, de Cacqueray engages with it as a mystical medium that reshapes our perception of reality and future imaginaries.
Her work explores the entanglement of magical belief systems with technology, evoking emotions that challenge our understanding of the animate and inanimate.
The collage-based artistic practice of Swedish artist Jenny Johansson (*1982) encompasses various mediums, including sculpture, painting, video, and music.
Her work interrogates material hierarchies and folk traditions, marked by a DIY ethos and critical reflections on time, labor, and myth.
Johansson’s compositions possess a poetic quality, deliberately contrasting divergent ideas to open new conceptual spaces for rethinking identity and memory, while intertwining craft and digital technologies.
French/Danish artist Victor Cord’homme (*1991) works with animation, installation, sculpture, and painting to envision an urban utopia.
Influenced by his travels, particularly in Southeast Asia, his installations blend personal experiences with artistic forms.
Each piece plays a crucial role in the exhibition, where symbols, motorized objects, and colors portray a world that invites the viewer’s imagination, exploring themes of space exploration and environmental issues shaped by Anthropocene concerns.
The work of Swedish artist Hanna Antonsson (*1991) is grounded in taxidermy, sculpture, and photography.
She engages with the perspective of animals and their symbolism, creating hybrid sculptural-photographic forms.
Antonsson focuses on birds – the birds she uses are found as roadkill – reanimating parts of their bodies as movable electronic components or static sculptures.
Within her artistic practice she investigates the relations between the living and modern industry within her artistic practice.
Iris Helena Hamers (*1988) is a German artist who critically examines the medium of painting.
Through various series, she explores its limits and possibilities, crafting complex visual worlds rooted in her subjective experiences.
Hamers investigates the types of images produced and consumed, addressing the longing for the physical and enduring in an age of overwhelmingdigital consumption, creating coherence within representations that invite prolonged contemplation.
Monty Richthofen (*1995), also known as Maison Hefner, is a German artist who merges performance art with visual media.
He questions the boundaries of poetry and visual art, exploring the interplay between text and image through techniques like painterly text visualization.
His interdisciplinary approach creates immersive experiences that engage audiences with themes of identity, mortality, and the human condition.
Che Go Eun (*1988) is a South Korean artist recognized for her multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and digital media.
Her work delves into identity, memory, and nature, employing both natural and industrial materials.
By focusing on narratives of "forgotten women," she highlights their overlooked stories within contemporary social issues through various artistic forms, including digital collages and VR animations.
Ukrainian artist Viki Berg, currently in Berlin, is renowned for her handmade rugs crafted in a collage style.
Through her creations, she articulates personal experiences while employing tufting to explore her cultural identity.
This ancient technique, historically practiced by her female ancestors, is reimagined in contemporary forms, allowing for a dialogue between tradition and modernity, engaging broader themes of identity and cultural memory.
By Livia Klein
