Mike Bourscheid —
Thank you so much for the flowers (trailer)
Mike Bourscheid has been selected to represent Luxembourg at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia with the exhibition Thank you so much for the flowers.
With self-effacing playfulness, Mike Bourscheid's costumes, altered domestic objects, musical pieces and performances recount cryptic stories about gender identification, familial inheritance and cultural history. Always, Bourscheid's work seeks to transform traditional understandings of art's role in our daily lives, from our loves to our routine work.
Raised in southern Luxembourg by a seamstress mother and a welder father, Mike Bourscheid often uses performance and sculpture to interweave stereotypes of masculine and feminine labor. Here, the Luxembourg pavilion provides a uniquely hospitable atmosphere for this intimate approach. Each of the pavilion's five rooms unfolds its own enigmatic narrative. Upon entering the pavilion, viewers will pass through a long corridor lined with birch panels and antique wooden cookie molds - a preface to multiple curious tangles of familial and social custom.Curator: Kevin MuhlenAssistant Curator: Stilbé SchroederCommissioner: Ministry of Culture, LuxembourgOrganizer: Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain
The official representation of Luxembourg at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, 2017, is financed by the Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg. The coordination of the project is under the auspices of Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain. With the support of: Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte - Fonds stART-up; SJL Jimenez Lunz Law Firm Luxembourg; Luxembourg - Let's make it happen.