Location: Art Talks Area, Luxembourg Art Week
Language: English
Guest speakers:
Nora Cristea, designer and curator
Vincent Schneider, designer and curator
The art market can sometimes appear opaque, or even hermetic. Built on speculation and risk, it exposes both gallerists and artists to strong financial pressure. While some renowned artists achieve high ratings on the art market, emerging artists often face precarious career paths and limited incomes.
Today, new approaches are emerging that help sustain artistic practice and facilitate the circulation of artworks at lower costs — for instance, through the production of art editions and the development of online platforms. These are some of the dynamics reflected in the exhibition €AT, currently on view at Casino Luxembourguntil 15 February 2026.
During this talk, the exhibition curators Nora Cristea and Vincent Schneider will talk about the contemporary challenges around the visibility and dissemination of art, placing the artist at the centre of the conversation. Their curatorial approach consists in supporting artists through studio visits, mentoring, portfolios, publications, and curatorial projects.
Biographies
Nora Cristea teaches a class of post-graduate artists at the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt in Berlin, where she helps them to realise and promote their portfolio through a personal website and other forms of publications. She also supports off-spaces by making their work and exhibitions more accessible to wider audiences through various forms of communication, both via digital and print media.
While working in art galleries as a manager, liaison and registrar between 2015 and 2022, Vincent Schneider co-curated and co-managed on a voluntary basis a nonprofit off-space in Cologne consisting of two large display windows in a subway station. Through his contributions, this space has become a publicly funded exhibition place that has been regularly hosting exhibitions over the past ten years.
