Tagging Identity: Graffiti as Expression
Graffiti Workshop
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| What | Workshops |
| Where | Mudam & Parc Dräi Eechelen |
| Related exhibition | Video Killed the Radio Star: The 1980s and their Cultural Echoes |
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| Language | LU/FR/DE/EN |
| Access | Free |
| Booking required | workshop@mudam.com |
Tagging Identity: Graffiti as Expression invites participants to discover the origins of graffiti and its emergence as a cultural movement in the 1980s, exploring its role as a form of identity, visibility, and creative expression.
Through an introduction to graffiti’s visual language and techniques, participants will create a personalised ceramic tile featuring their own tag to take home, while also contributing to a large-scale collaborative graffiti artwork. The collective piece, completed with the invited graffiti artist Jo Malano, will be exhibited as a shared work celebrating the energy, diversity, and collaborative spirit of graffiti culture.
For this activity, participants are invited to wear or bring old clothes that they don't mind getting dirty.
Biography
Jo Malano was born on June 29, 1995, in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. Before turning to art, he spentmany years focused on sports, playing handball. His creative career began around 2013, when he transferred from the Institut national des sports (INS) to the Lycée des Arts et Métiers, where he graduated in 2014 from the “division artistique, section audiovisuel.” It was there that he met many friends who shared his creative interests, an encounter that ignited his passion. From then on, he participated in numerous exhibitions as well as large-scale outdoor graffiti projects. His style defies easy categorization, which is why his biography includes both gallery exhibitions and outdoor work. For example, the group show “Locals” at the Centre d’Art Dominique Lang and Nei Liicht, Dudelange in 2016, the “Exposition de printemps du CAL” at the Tramsschapp, Luxembourg in 2023, or “Fioritura” at the Galerie Schlassgoart, Esch-sur-Alzette in 2024, as well as live painting at the “Nuit de la Culture”, Esch-sur-Alzette in 2019 and “Graffiti am Park”, Hesperange in 2019, and the group exhibition “Metzeschmelz” by CUEVA, Esch-sur-Alzette/Schifflange in 2022. His art blends abstraction and figuration, always seeking a balance—whether between emotions or between forms and colours.
