Casino Luxembourg is offering a guided tour, with the language adapted to the group, as part of Luxembourg Art Week to discover their ongoing exhibitions:
- €AT, Nora Cristea, Vincent Schneider, Contemporary Artist Things – CAT (curators), commissioned by Kevin Muhlen
- Theater of Cruelty, Agnes Gryczkowska (curator)
If you would like to take part, please register with Casino Luxembourg and indicate which tour you are signing up for: visites@casino-luxembourg.lu
€AT
During the lockdowns of the Covid pandemic, Nora Cristea and Vincent Schneider, designers and curators based in Berlin, co-developed the online arts platform CAT (Contemporary Artist Things), with the aim of spotlighting and supporting the emerging contemporary arts scene. By hosting the exhibition €AT, Casino Luxembourg is choosing to transpose this curatorial initiative into an institutional space, offering a new level of visibility to the artists involved.
€AT subtly highlights the underlying economic dimension of the speculations on the international art market, as opposed to social impact approaches. This project brings together the work of fifty international artists in a large catalogue of limited-edition artworks available for purchase at affordable prices. Each piece, whatever its format, becomes the medium of a unique experiment at the intersection of art, design and pop culture.
Theater of cruelty
Discover the exhibition Theatre of Cruelty during a one-hour guided tour, and immerse yourself in the radical vision of experimental theatre conceived by the French artist Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), from whom the exhibition takes its name.
Through theatre, performance, sound, painting, sculpture, video, and installation, the works of Ed Atkins, Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard, Tobias Bradford, Romeo Castellucci, Pan Daijing, Tadeusz Kantor, Liza Lacroix, and Michel Nedjar enter into dialogue with Antonin Artaud’s diaries and rarely seen drawings.
The works on display refuse narrative comfort; they are unsettling and disturbing, embodying existential melancholy, ruptured language, the force of gesture, and the primal energy that Antonin Artaud envisioned.
To enter is to step between curtains, to inhabit the “coulisses de l’être” – the backstage of being: an inverted space where masks fall and the theatre of cruelty unfolds. Here, the visitor is not a spectator but a participant, absorbed in the ritual, surrounded by traces, voices, theatrical machines, totems, and spectres.
Location: Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain
41, rue Notre-Dame
L-2240 Luxembourg
