Lieu : Art Talks Area, Luxembourg Art Week
Langue : English
Guest speakers : David Claerbout (Artist)
Ory Dessau (Independent Curator and Writer)
Christian Mosar (Director, Konschthal Esch & Bridderhaus)
On the occasion of the solo exhibition Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years at Konschthal Esch, a special talk will bring together artist David Claerbout, guest curator Ory Dessau — author of the main essay in the book dedicated to the artist’s work published by König Books — and curator Christian Mosar.
This conversation offers an in-depth exploration of a body of work that profoundly questions our perception of time, image, and memory. Blending experimental cinema, video installation, digital animation, and live streaming, Claerbout has developed a singular practice at the intersection of visual and sensory experience. The discussion will notably focus on his latest creation, The woodcarver and the forest, a performative and evolving work conceived to unfold over several years.
Biographies
Belgian artist David Claerbout, a leading figure on the international contemporary art scene, has been developing for over thirty years a singular and reflective approach to the production, presentation, and perception of images. The fusion of the human and the technological is the guiding thread of his practice and runs through his images, films, installations, and drawings. His exhibition Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years, presented at Konschthal Esch from October 18, 2025, to February 22, 2026, offers an unprecedented overview of his work and marks his first solo exhibition in Luxembourg.
Ory Dessau is an independent curator and writer. He has collaborated with major institutions such as the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), the S.M.A.K. (Ghent), and the Moderna Museet Malmö. In 2024, he curated City of Refuge III by Berlinde De Bruyckere at the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore as part of the 2024 Venice Biennale, as well as Out of this World: Blinky Palermo, Robert Grosvenor & Luc Tuymans at the Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum. His writings are regularly published in Art Review, Flash Art, Mousse Magazine, Metropolis M, and Glean. As an editor of numerous books and catalogues, he has worked with publishing houses such as Hatje Cantz, König Books, and MER.
Christian Mosar is an art historian, editor, and curator. He actively contributed to Luxembourg’s cultural years (1995 and 2007) and was appointed Artistic Director of the Esch 2022 project in 2018. Since 2020, he has directed the Bridderhaus artists’ residency and the Konschthal Esch Contemporary Art Space, where he has presented major solo exhibitions such as Ego-Tunnel by Gregor Schneider (2021), Anachronisms by Deimantas Narkevičius (2022), and TEKTONIK by Titus Schade (2024), as well as several group exhibitions, establishing the Konschthal as a key venue for contemporary creation in Luxembourg.
