Regards Croisés. Through the eye of the collector

With: Wilhelm Schürmann

Framework:

Radio Luxembourg: Echoes across borders   

Luxembourg Art Week

Language: EN

Access: 10€

Free for Students / KULTURPASS

Booking required:

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Spanning artistic practices from the 1960s to today, this exhibition offers a particular focus on sculpture – its relationship to place and space and how it reimagines language as artistic material. Drawing from architecture and everyday objects, the participating artists challenge conventional notions of space and interaction. The selection of materials and processes – from handcrafted to industrialised – creates a dialogue with the history of artistic forms and techniques set against the backdrop of global capitalism. Additionally, selected works from Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann’s private collection expand the exhibition’s scope, playing with scale and self-portraiture.

As part of Luxembourg Art Week, experience this exhibition through the lens of the collector and curator Wilhelm Schürmann.

Biography: 

Wilhelm SchürmannE (1946, Dortmund) first became interested in art in the early 1970s, initially through the history of photography. A photographer and teacher in this field, he co-founded one of Europe’s first photography galleries in 1974. The first acquisition of the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection was by Hans Haacke, which the artist offered in exchange for photographs by Schürmann that Haacke selected for his work Der Pralinenmeister. (1981). This was followed by works by Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Günther Förg. In the early 1990s, the collection turned to American art, with a particular interest in West Coast artists like Jack Goldstein, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon. The collection comprises around 2,000 works from the 1960s to present day, as well as photographic prints from the 1920s to the present. It focuses on social issues and works characterised by their relevance to reality, their openness, or their humour. Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann do not consider their collection to be private property or an object of prestige, but rather an element of cultural value that depends on the public for its existence. In 2025, Wilhelm Schürmann is co-curator of Radio Luxembourg. Echoes Across Borders, a group exhibition presenting works from his collection and that of Mudam.