Mudam Akademie: Making art today: materiality, gestures, and narratives | LU

An invitation to immerse yourself in the world of modern and contemporary creation.

The Mudam Akademie offers an introduction to modern and contemporary art, showing how artists of the past and the present act as inventors of aesthetic universes, as well as catalysts and interpreters of major societal events.

In direct dialogue with Mudam’s wide-ranging exhibition programme, this lecture series demonstrates that the museum seeks to be an open space that remains attentive to the world’s transformations. Accessible to both, newcomers and more experienced audiences, the Mudam Akademie aims to make art history approachable for everyone.

The Mudam Akademie is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education, Children and Youth.

This series is conceived and led by Fanny Weinquin.

Session 2 – 19.11.2025 
Making art today: materiality, gestures and narratives 
In dialogue with Radio Luxembourg: Echoes across borders 
Since the 20th-century avant-gardes, artists have expanded their material palette and, with it they haveoverturned hierarchies and conferred critical meaning to their medium. Through contemporary approaches such as expanded sculpture, this session explores how gestures, materials and forms convey social, ecological and political worlds. 

Biography

Fanny Weinquin is a Belgian-Luxembourgish art historian and independent curator, whose practice unfolds at the intersection of heritage, contemporary creation and societal issues. Trained in Brussels and Bologna, she has worked in Belgium, France, Estonia and Luxembourg, where she will join the curatorial team of Villa Vauban in 2025. Shaped by a hybrid cultural identity and a cross-border perspective, her curatorial approach explores the connections between memory, sensitive ecologies and exhibition contexts.