Roundtables

With: Andrea Mancini, Su-Mei Tse, Marco Godinho

Moderated by: António Pedro Mendes (Mudam), Stilbe Schroeder (Casino)

Language: EN

Access: Free

Booking required:

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Roundtables .is a programme created by Mudam Luxembourg and Casino – Forum d'art contemporain, designed to be a friendly space for discussing contemporary art. Our shared objective is to demystify contemporary art, encourage dialogue and foster an environment conducive to genuine interaction.

Each session focuses on a specific topic, with guest speakers and team members from both institutions responding to the question at hand. Following the pitch presentations, the discussion is opened up to the public in an informal format to encourage active participation. Attendees are invited to ask their own questions, engage with the topic and share different perspectives, fostering meaningful exchanges and the formation of networks within the Luxembourg art community.

Artists’ experience of a Biennale

This first session focuses on the artist’s perspective and subjective experience of participating in a contemporary art biennial. What does the preparation process entail? What impact can such an event have on an artist's career? What does it mean to represent Luxembourg in a context such as the Venice Biennale? The conversation will also examine the various spaces and venues that artists have worked in over time, including the evolution and relocation of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Biographies:.

Andrea Mancini (b. 1989) is a Brussels-based, Italian Luxembourgish artist and musician. His work explores the intersections of sound, space and materiality, transforming overlooked materials into resonating, performative surfaces. Using sensorial mediums, sculptural and spatial interventions, he creates environments that invite active engagement and embodied listening. His installations blur the boundaries between architecture, sound and presence – spaces that respond to movement, vibration, and proximity. Whether activated by himself or others, they become sites of sensory tension, dialogue and shared experience, challenging how we inhabit and perceive the built world.

Since the early 2000s Su-Mei Tse (b. 1973, Luxembourg) has developed an oeuvre that is informed by her training in visual arts and music as well as by her cosmopolitan European and Asian background. Her deeply poetic videos, sculptures and installations reveal the unfolding of time and the subjectivity of experience. Much of her work is concerned with acoustics, but, rather than as a recurring theme, she uses sound for its distinctly evocative aspects and as a prism through which she contemplates the world.

The artistic works of Marco Godinho (b. 1978, Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal), a Luxembourger with Portuguese roots, often have a personal, poetic and philosophical dimension. The artist not only questions concepts such as time, travel and memory, but also encourages us to perceive what all too often escapes our attention. With subtle sensitivity to the expressiveness of the elements he uses, Godinho creates metaphorical works whose imagery responds to our desires and dreams.