The Mudam Akademie is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth.
A cycle designed and taught by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel.

A violinist, musicologist and art historian by training, Stéphane Ghislain Roussel is an independent stage director, playwright and exhibition curator. He is Artistic Director of the multidisciplinary creative bureau PROJETEN (Luxembourg). He is the author of numerous conferences and lectures at various art schools and universities in Germany, France and Italy, as well as seminars on the relationship between the arts. He curated the exhibition Opéra Monde, la quête d’un art total at the Centre Pompidou Metz in 2019-2020. He recently directed the diptych of operas Zu unseren Schwestern, zu unseren Brüdern at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and his latest play Luonnollisesti (naturally, in Finnish) at the Escher Theater.

Programme

23.10.2024
18:00 – 19:00 | LU
19:30 – 20:30 | FR
The desire for total art. A short history of artistic multidisciplinarity
In conjunction with the exhibition Xanti Schawinsky: Play, Life, Illusion

06.11.2024
19:00 – 20:00 | EN
Sensitive technologies
Mudam Akademie in conversation with Cécile B. Evans
In conjunction with Radical Software: Women, Art, Computing 1960–1991

18.12.2024
18:00 – 19:00 | LU
19:30 – 20:30 | FR
Creations from the future. Can art predict what’s to come?
In conjunction with the exhibitions Agnieszka Kurant: Risk Landscape and Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991

22.01.2025
18:00 – 19:00 | LU
19:30 – 20:30 | FR
Pop culture and subversion. Artworks that set your teeth on edge
In conjunction with the exhibition Cosima von Bonin: Songs for Gay Dogs

19.02.2025
18:00 – 19:00 | LU
19:30 – 20:30 | FR
Image et temporality : photography as a medium to resurrect the past
In conjunction with the exhibition Lisa Oppenheim: The little gallery that caught the light

12.03.2025
19:00 – 20:00 | EN
Change the course of art history. When painting becomes activism
Mudam Akademie in conversation
In conjunction with the exhibition of Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska

09.04.2025
18:00 – 19:00 | LU
19:30 – 20:30 | FR
Pushing the boundaries of the real. Video production and the Asian scene
In conjunction with the exhibition Ho Tzu Nyen. Time & the Tiger

30.04.2025
18:00 – 19:00 | LU
19:30 – 20:30 | FR
Reconnecting with all living things. The new paths of Land Art
In conjunction with the installation The Living Pyramid by Agnes Denes and in collaboration with LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden

11.06.2025
19:00 – 20:00 | EN
The art of collecting
Mudam Akademie in conversation
On the occasion of the Schürmann donation

02.07.2025
18:00 – 19:00 | LU 
19:30 – 20:30 | FR
Visual Music. Music in contemporary art
In conjunction with Susan Philipz’s installation The Lower World, in collaboration with LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden, and to announce the exhibition Andrea Mancini & Every Island: A Comparative Dialogue Act.

Mudam Akademie Practical Information
Wednesday night:
Double session:
Luxembourgish: 18:00 – 19:00 | French: 19:30 – 20:30
A single session as part of the conversations:
English: 19:00 – 20:00

To Sign Up
Complete cycle: mudam.com/rsvp-akademie-24-25
Auditors: visites@mudam.com; +352 453785-531 or directly at the museum’s reception

Fees
Cycle of ten conferences: 100€ | 50€ with the Mudam à 2 Card | 25€ Kulturpass
Auditors, per conference: 10€ | 5€ with the Mudam à 2 Card
Free for students and under 21-year-old

Certification
The Mudam Akademie conference cycle is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth. A certificate will be awarded upon participation in a minimum of 70% of the classes.