Wanneer? Donderdag 06.03.202519:30 - 20:30

Mudam Talk: a conversation between Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska, Omar Kholeif and Bettina Steinbrügge

Waar? 3, Park Dräi Eechelen, L-1499 Luxembourg Kunst, cultuur & literatuur

Mudam Talk: a conversation between Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska, Omar Kholeif and Bettina Steinbrügge

Deze inhoud is helaas niet in het Nederlands beschikbaar.

Within the framework of the exhibition: Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day

.

In English

Free entry


Featuring new and significant works, this exhibition is the first full scale European survey presenting the collaborative artistic practice of Lubaina Himid RA CBE and Magda Stawarska. Conceived as a performance, the exhibition emerges from a decade-long dialogue between British painter Lubaina Himid (1954, Zanzibar), a leading figure of the British Black Arts Movement, and multidisciplinary Polish artist Magda Stawarska (1976, Ruda Śląska, Poland), whose practice combines moving image, soundscapes and screen printing. In their exhibition Nets for Night and Day, memory unfolds as a score narrated through paintings and drawings, as well as sculpture, silkscreen printing, photography and sound installation. Visitors will find themselves on a journey aboard ships, venturing across carts, ambling into dreamscapes rendered by the artists’ and their collective imagination. At the heart of the exhibition is a newly imagined presentation of Zanzibar (1999–2023). The nine diptychs by Himid composing this ‘series of paintings about a series of journeys’ floatsuspended rhythmically in space and enter in dialogue with a 38-minute sound piece conceived by Stawarska as a ‘libretto’ for the paintings. Each of them, an abstraction at first, present codified clues into Himid’s life. Associated with sound fragments that evoke her personal history, Zanzibar reflects on the multifaceted notions of belonging, loss and memory.

During this conversation, exhibition curator Omar Kholeif and Mudam director Bettina Steinbrügge will examine the work of the artists Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska and offer them a platform to elaborate on their practices. This talk will invite the audience to get a better understanding of their work and stance; and offer the opportunity to ask them questions to dive deeper into the exhibition.


Biographies


.

Lubaina Himid (1954, Zanzibar) has recently had solo exhibitions at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2022); Tate Modern, London (2021); the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2019); the CAPC – musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (2019); the New Museum, New York (2019) and Modern Art Oxford (2017). She has taken part in group exhibitions at the Beaux-Arts, Paris (2024); the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2024); Tate Britain, London (2023); the Sharjah Art Foundation (2021); WIELS, Brussels (2020) and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2019). Her work is held in the collections of institutions such as the Tate, London; Arts Council England; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Lubaina Himid lives and works in Preston (UK).


Magda Stawarska (1976, Ruda Śląska, Poland) has had solo exhibitions at Villa Arson, Nice (2023); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2022); as part of the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (2017) and at the China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen (2017). She has taken part in group exhibitions at the Leeds Museum and Art Gallery (2024); Villa Arson, Nice (2023); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2022); the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2022); WIELS, Brussels (2020) and the 4th International Biennial in Casablanca (2018). Her work is held in the collections of institutions such as the British Library, London; the China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen; the International Print Triennial Society, Krakow; the Tonspur Kunstverein, Vienna; the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana and the International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Alijó. Magda Stawarska lives and works in Preston (UK).


Lubaina Himid and Madga Stawarska co-presented the exhibition Plaited Time/Deep Water at the Sharjah Art Foundation (2023). Their installation Blue Grid Test was presented at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2022) and at Tate Modern, London (2021). In 2020 they took part in an exhibition titled Risquons-Tout at the WIELS, Brussels.


Prof. Dr Omar Kholeif CF FRSA (EG/SU/UK) is an award-winning and best-selling author, curator, cultural historian and broadcaster. Kholeif currently serves as director of collections and senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF), UAE and as visiting professor in critical race in fine art and the creative industries at the Middlesbrugh Institute of Modern Art Research Unit, Teesside University. Initially trained as a political scientist, Kholeif’s career began as a music writer, researcher, and producer of documentaries in the UK broadcast sector. Over the last two decades, they have been vested in leadership roles in museums, galleries, not-for-profits and the public sphere.

The curator of over seventy exhibitions of visual art realised on five continents and the producer of hundreds of visual art and film commissions; Kholeif is the author/co-author or editor of over forty books, which have been translated into seventeen languages. Widely recognised for their prolific and exploratory output, in 2012, Kholeif founded artPost21, a not-for-profit cultural agency that seeks to explore ‘platform culture’ at the nexus of art, technology and social justice.

At Sharjah Art Foundation, Professor Kholeif oversees collection acquisition strategy, conservation practices, research and co-maintains cross-campus oversight, as well as exhibition programming and strategic partnership. Dr. Kholeif has held leadership positions including Manilow Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago; curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London; senior curator at Cornerhouse and HOME, Manchester; curator and department head at Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool; head of art and technology at SPACE, London and founding artistic director, UK Arab Film Festival (now Safar Film Festival), the UK’s only continuing film festival devoted to Arab and African cinema.


Bettina Steinbrügge is director of Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. From 2014 to 2022, she was the director of Kunstverein in Hamburg. She has directed Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, was curator at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse and senior curator and collection director at the Belvedere in Vienna. She has taught at Leuphana University Lüneburg and HEAD in Geneva. From 2014 to 2022 she was Professor of Art Theory at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfbK) in Hamburg. From 2007 to 2017 she was a member of the programme team of the Forum Expanded at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Volgende termijnen
Donderdag 06.03.202519:30 - 20:30

Locatie

Adres: Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
3, Park Dräi Eechelen
L-1499 Luxembourg
Op kaart tonen

Licht und Schatten – ein eigenes Stoffdesign gestalten!

Licht und Schatten – ein eigenes Stoffdesign gestalten!
Meer informatie

A Retrospective

A Retrospective
Meer informatie

Performance | Shoe Field: Our Fate is on Our Feet

Performance | Shoe Field: Our Fate is on Our Feet
Meer informatie

Lunchtime at Mudam

Lunchtime at Mudam
Meer informatie

Lumen-Impressionen – Bilder von der vergänglichen Schönheit der Blumen

Lumen-Impressionen – Bilder von der vergänglichen Schönheit der Blumen
Meer informatie

What's your planet?

What's your planet?
Meer informatie

Land in Motion. Power, People, Landscapes

04.07.2025 - 11.01.2026
Meer informatie

Picturebook Workshop

A workshop for parents of children aged between 0 and 3
Meer informatie

Supports/Surfaces. Notre collection à l’affiche

21.06.2024-23.02.25
Meer informatie


Inhoud geleverd door ECHO - Inlichtingen onder voorbehoud van veranderingen en zonder verplichtingen !

Wenst U uw manifestaties aan te kondigen in de agenda ? Registreer uw manifestaties op www.echo.lu/en/organiser.