Roundtables | Artists or Filmmakers: the moving image in between spaces

Speakers: Aline Bouvy, Laura Lux and Karolina Markiewicz

VENUE: Casino Luxembourg

A joint initiative by Mudam and Casino Luxembourg, Roundtables is a series of pitch presentations and conversations dedicated to the Luxembourg art scene. At the heart of this collaboration, a simple idea: is the idea of gathering around the table to share and discuss. The project aims to facilitate exchanges between artists, curators, and the public in an informal setting.

Each session focuses on one topic and invites guest speakers and team members from both institutions to respond to the question at hand. Following these pitch presentations, the discussion opens to the public in an informal format, encouraging active participation. Attendees are invited to pose their own questions, engage with the topic, and offer different perspectives, creating a space for meaningful exchange and the emergence of networks within the Luxembourg art community.​​

Session 2: Artists or Filmmakers: the moving image in between spaces

This second session will be held as part of the Lux Film Fest (Luxembourg City Film Festival) and will open the debate on the porous boundaries between contemporary art and cinema, from both an institutional and artistic perspective. What does it mean to present a film in an exhibition space? What are the specificities of these two fields in terms of support and production? What are the benefits of navigating between the fields of contemporary art and film, as some artists and filmmakers do?

Biographies:

Aline Bouvy

Aline Bouvy (born in 1974 in Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium; lives and works in Brussels and Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgish visual artist whose work touches on the universal. She studied at the École de Recherche Graphique (ERG) in Brussels and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Her art serves as a tool for questioning bodies, spaces and norms, where feminist vision and subverted conventions come into play. In 2025, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain presented Hot Flashes, a monographic exhibition that brought together works playing on scale and perception, inviting the public to question their relationship to the body, identity and social space. In 2026, she represented Luxembourg at the 61st Venice Biennale. 

Laura Lux

Laura Lux is an independent researcher in film studies with a practice in film programming. She completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2023. Her doctoral research examined how the German essay filmmaker Harun Farocki engaged with the media debates and practices of the West German student movement in his early filmmaking. Beyond her thesis, she has also written on the filmmaker pair Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. Between 2018 and 2023, she has held positions as a researcher and conference organiser for the GSSN project Circulating Cinema and taught film studies at undergraduate level. Her work has been presented at the Institute of Modern Languages Research and conferences including BAFTSS and Visible Evidence. Building on her research in experimental film, she has since worked as a programmer and curator. In 2024, she curated the experimental film exhibition Images at Work .at Casino Luxembourg and a sister screening at the Cinémathèque in Luxembourg. 

Karolina Markiewicz

Karolina Markiewicz holds degrees in political science and philosophy and works as a writer, director, and teacher. In her directing work, she operates both independently and collaboratively, notably with Romeo Castellucci, Silvia Costa, Yuko Kominami, Kevin Muhlen, Ásta Sigurdardottir, Tamiko Thiel, and Pascal Piron. Her films and installations have been selected for various festivals, including the Venice Film Festival. She regularly writes for the weekly d’Lëtzebuerger Land., as well as for journals such as Mouvement or Aware, and for the magazine Salzinsel, which she founded and directed. She is the initiatorof Kulturstruktur Video Talks. She is a member of AICA and serves on the board of the National Theatre of Luxembourg.
 

Visual: © Olivier Hoffmann