Art Talk – Performance Curator

Location: Art Talk Area, Luxembourg Art Week

Language: English

Guest speakers: 

Léon Kruijswijk, Performance Curator of Mudam Luxembourg

Némo Flouret, Dancer and Choregrapher, Conservatoire national supérieur de Paris and P.A.R.T.S

Looking ahead to his performance at Mudam, Flouret will have a conversation with Léon Kruijswijk – the museum’s Performance Curator. They will reflect on the creation of this body of work and its system, and discuss group creation and site specific practice, while situating performance making in the context of today.

Biographies

Léon Kruijswijk is currently the Performance Curator at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. Previously, he served as curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and has worked as a freelance curator and writer. Rooted in visual arts, Kruijswijk’s curatorial practice spans dance, performance, experimental music, literature, and film, while navigating themes on queer and gender theory, art and politics, and institutional critique. During his tenure at KW Institute, he curated large- scale performances by Alexis Blake, Michele Rizzo, and Billy Bultheel & James Richards, and co-curated exhibitions featuring artists such as BLESS, Coco Fusco, Luiz Roque, Sung Tieu, Oraib Toukan, and Miloš Trakilović. As an independent curator, he has frequently collaborated with Göksu Kunak, as well as contributing for various art platforms and artist publications, including those of Edith Dekyndt and Jaanus Samma.

Némo Flouret, Dancer and choreographer trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur of, Paris and P.A.R.T.S., Némo Flouret works at the crossroads of disciplines, gathering groups of artists together in a multiplicity of spaces. From post-industrial relics with 900 Something Days Spent in the XXth Century (2021) to outdoor and theater stage with the group work Derniers Feux (2025) to Antti Lovag's utopian architecture with Dance Parc(2024) or Forêt (2022), a performance co-created with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker as part of the Festival d'Automne for the Denon wing of the Musée du Louvre, Flouret's work questions how people and space converse through horeography and performance. Némo Flouret's projects have been presented in various contexts and festivals such as Festival d'Avignon (FR), Seoul Performing Art Festival (KR), Berlin Tanz Im August (DE), Bozar Brussels (BE), Tai Kwun- Hong Kong (HK), Watermill Center (US), La Ménagerie de Verre (FR), amongst many others.

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