Event tips for Luxembourg’s cultural scene in March: a bold selection of feminist, queer, decolonial, and environmental themes, aligned with dei aner's values and showcased this month in some of Luxembourg’s leading institutions.
02.03.2025
We are organising a workshop in preparation of the 8th of March!
We’ll discuss why face coverings are used in political actions and the legal situation in Luxembourg and beyond.
After that, we’ll get hands-on and sew cagoules for the demo—whether you want to make your own or decorate a pre-made one, there’s a spot for you!
Bring your ideas, your rage, and maybe a snack to share
Free admission
Sunday 2nd of March, 14:00-18:00, Rainbow Center
19, rue St. Esprit, L-1475 Luxemburg
04.03.2025
The Panafro book club will be collaborating with the City bibliothèque for a special event in March, focused on Nancy-Kabylie by Dorothée-Myriam Kellou.
In this very personal book, she explores her past. With a French mother and an Algerian father, she is a blend of two cultures. Her father, however, remained silent for a long time about his culture and his past. During the Algerian war, led by France in its former colony, the French army emptied entire villages, often difficult to access, to cut off any support for the National Liberation Front (FLN). Over 2.35 million Algerians were forced to settle there. Among them was a 10-year-old boy called Malek, Dorothée’s father. Through this book, she reopens a traumatic chapter in her father’s life, which they will try to heal together in order to rediscover each other.
Dorothée-Myriam Kellou is a journalist, writer and film-maker. She uncovered in the French newspaper Le Monde in June 2016 the scandal of the French company Lafarge indirect funding of the Islamic state group during the war in Syria.
Free admission, registration required
Tuesday 04.03.2025, 18h030, Auditorium Cité, 3 Genistre, L-1623
04.03.2025
Can we farm differently to preserve our planet? The documentary Intensif follows the daily lives of Bernard, Gwenaël and Christian, three Walloon organic farmers. For several years now, they have been working without synthetic chemical pesticides, creatively meeting the challenges of arable farming: unpredictable weather, pests, diseases and undesirable plants. Despite these obstacles, their commitment to organic farming has enabled them to reinvent their profession and rediscover true agricultural happiness.
The screening will be followed by a debate on sustainable farming alternatives.
Free admission
Tuesday 04.03.2025, 19h00, Rotondes
06.03.2025
Mudam Talk: a conversation between Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska, Dr. Omar Kholeif and Bettina Steinbrügge (19H30 - 20H30)
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’ float suspended 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.
Free admission
Thursday 06.03.2025, 19h00 - 22h00, Mudam
07.03.2025
At the end of each season comes a new one: this cyclical renewal embodies the essence of spring and this year's theme. ‘Rebirth’ goes beyond the simple process of death and rebirth, revealing a new state of existence shaped by transformation. What forms can emerge through metamorphosis?
Contemporary art, a reflection of its times, is confronted with a frenetic pace of societal, cultural, ecological and technological change. How do artists reflect these upheavals and propose alternative visions for the future?
Rebirth can take the form of an evolution of identity after a phase of introspection, physical healing, a new chapter in life, biological cycles or creative reinvention. In this way, mutation over time embodies the potential for vast artistic interpretations. Rather than aiming for a defined result, these changes invite a free and expressive plastic language.
‘Rebirth’ invites us not only to explore the cycles of renewal in contemporary art, but also to revisit the interconnections between past, present and future
Free admission,
Friday 07.03.2025, 18H00 - 19H30, Tramsschapp - 49, rue Ermesinde - L-1469 Luxembourg
08.03.2025
As part of the Sensorial Symphonies performances, Elisabeth Schilling is organising an exhibition at the Grand Théâtre, which will run from September 27 to October 2, 2025 under the name Botanical Beats. The exhibition will be created a.o from this workshop where participants share their plant-related stories. These stories will be written by Ian De Toffoli and transformed into short dance performances by emerging dancers.
We’ll discuss questions like:
Which plants are meaningful to you?
Are there flowers or trees that hold deep meaning for you, and why?
Do you have a favorite flower that has accompanied you for years? Along with Elisabeth Schilling, who will share insights from her two years of research on plant life and culture, these workshops offer a deep dive into the fascinating world of plants.
Participation is free and open to everyone!
Free admission, booking required
Saturday 08 March 2025, 14H00, Grand Théâtre
09.03 + 21.03.2025
Join us for a special guided tour through Villa Vauban’s permanent exhibition, where we invite you to explore classic artworks through a queer perspective.
Delve into the hidden stories and alternate readings of 17th- to 19th-century masterpieces, as we reinterpret portraits, genre scenes, and landscapes with an inclusive outlook. While our collection may not explicitly feature artists known as queer today, these pieces can be appreciated from diverse viewpoints, revealing new dimensions of identity, beauty, and connection.
Highlights include Dutch Golden Age works, Italian dreamscapes, and French masterpieces by Jan Brueghel the Younger, Canaletto, and Eugène Delacroix. Through this lens, each piece invites us to question and celebrate the richness of personal expression across time.
Join us to experience art history with fresh, inclusive insights.
Included in the entrance fee
Sunday 09.03.2025, 14H00 (EN) + Friday 21.03.2025, 19H00 (FR), Villa Vauban
12.03.2025
In this talk, art historian and curator Christine Eyene will discuss the emergence of the British Black Arts movement from the late 1970s and early 1980s to its global resonance today. Revisiting its history, from its inception by artists including Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper, Donald Rodney; the distinct feminism of Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Houria Niati, Marlene Smith; the BLK Art Group and Pan-African Connection; Sankofa Film and Video Collective, Black Audio Film Collective and more, this conversation will delve into some of the most innovative and radical art of its time.
Through images, texts and sound, Eyene will explore the themes, iconographies and creative processes that have informed a generation of British artists of African, Caribbean and South Asian heritage whose practice and discourses continue to be at the forefront of a more inclusive art scene in a thought-provoking manner. The presentation will anchor some of those seminal art pieces within the socio-historical context in which they were created. It will also highlight their dialogues and convergences with the arts that came out of African American cultures, especially during the civil rights movements, and places of struggle for independence such as South Africa during apartheid.
This talk will provide multiple entry points for a cross-cultural reading and appreciation of artworks that continue to have an impact in the shaping of art history and popular culture on a global stage.
Dr Christine Eyene is an art historian and curator. She is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool. She holds a PhD in History of Art from Birkbeck, University of London. From 2012 to 2022, she worked with Lubaina Himid CBE RA on the Making Histories Visible project at the University of Central Lancashire.
Price: 10€, reductions available
Wednesday 12.03.2025, 19H00 - 20H00, Mudam
18.03.2025
Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.
Free admission
Tuesday 18.03.2025, 19H00, Rotondes
23.03.2025
Words are often underestimated - whether in everyday life, in public spaces or in art. In this workshop, we will make language visible and tangible. Inspired by the curatorial experimentation Boogie, at Casino Luxembourg, we will write our poems and explore how text can be set in motion. Using sound, image and video material, we will then transform our words into poetic video works that capture the rhythm and energy of Boogie,. The resulting lyrical videos will then be presented in the exhibition.
Bob Reinert has a degree in communication design and has been performing regularly on international slam and reading stages since 2014. In 2016, he partook in the German-speaking U20 championship and German-speaking championships. Since then, he has regularly organized and moderated slams with the Géisskan Kollektiv and given workshops at public institutions. Since 2020, he has repeatedly combined his profession - design and art respectively - and his hobby - words - in physical art projects.
Price: 10€, reductions available
Sunday 23.03.2025, 10H00 - 13H00, Casino Luxembourg
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