Casino Display

A place of work, of research, of exchanges and orientation, with the aim of encouraging and supporting young creatives. The programme at Casino Display is arranged by Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain.

By agreement with the Ministry of Culture and with the aim of expanding its reach, from February 2021 Casino Luxembourg has taken over managing the programme for the Konschthaus Beim Engel gallery, now known as Casino Display.

In the absence of art schools in Luxembourg and of relatively institutionalised contemporary art, it was vital to create a platform aimed at promoting the freshest creativity and of supporting the young creatives of today and tomorrow.

One of the roles of Casino Display will be to offer orientation for young people, enabling them to familiarise themselves more easily with the range of creative courses on offer in art schools and the variety of opportunities out there. With this in mind, the Casino Display programme particularly envisages encouraging cross-fertilisation between practices and interdisciplinary encounters.

In parallel with this, a talent search will be undertaken throughout the year in the four schools of art with which Casino Luxembourg has forged partnerships (ÉSAL – École supérieure d’art de Lorraine, Metz/Épinal; ENSAD – École nationale supérieure d’art et de design, Nancy; HEAR – Haute École des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg/Mulhouse; HBKsaar – Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken). This talent search and dialogue will be conducted with, at its heart, the possibility for the selected students to exhibit at Casino Display.

Based on a practice-led approach to knowledge production, Casino Display will become a transdisciplinary meeting point where a selected group of art students can rely on the logic of experimentation for the emergence of unchartered knowledge. Students will have the possibility to think with and experiment along professionals of the art world, whilst proposing a space for trying out unfinished ideas, probing freshly sketched concepts, or reversing solid ontologies in favour of more flexible ones. In short, the goal is to create a space where the drive for experimentation encourages knowledge.   

30.09.2024 – 09.05.2025: Echoes and resonances in collective artistic research (Artistic Research Lab)
With Iulia Aionesi, Louis Braddock Clarke, Adele Dipasquaule, Akina Yoshitake Lopez, Jules Maillot
Visiting professor: Alice Twemlow

The new edition of the artistic research lab will be run in collaboration with ENSAD Nancy and HEAR - Haute école des arts du Rhin. It will also mark the start of the transition from the lab to a post-master's programme in artistic research. The post-master's programme will be unique in the Greater Region and will be developed in close collaboration with ENSAD Nancy and HEAR Strasbourg, marking a new stage in the formalisation and recognition of Casino Display's artistic research programme. 

For this academic year of the research lab, we will be looking at the echoes and resonances emerging from collective artistic research. Our ambition will be to transcend disciplinary boundaries by exploring the abstract network of relationships that allow different artistic and research practices to resonate, despite the diversity of methodologies and fields of interest, and to reflect on immaterial unity through collective thought.

Casino Display also offers a six-month artist residency. It is part of the natural evolution and continuous development of the residency programme that Casino Luxembourg has pursued since 2010. The residency at Casino Display is primarily intended as a time of research and dialogue. The outcome of the residency can be an exhibition, but in essence, no finished results are obligatory.

04.09 - 31.10.2024: Max Kreis
In-university residency. In collaboration with the University of Luxembourg

Max Kreis is a German multimedia and technical artist, speaker, and self-taught developer researching on and working with machine learning algorithms, computer vision, and game engines. He works in the medium of installation and video, and is known for producing music videos with AI since 2018.  

In 2024, Kreis worked on the development of the video game Forced Amnesia featured in Mary-Audrey Ramirez' eponymous show.

This project is implemented with the support of the PwC Foundation Luxembourg, under the aegis of the Fondation de Luxembourg

04.11.24 - 28.02.25: Serene Hui

Serene Hui is an artist based in the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Her practice is currently invested in epistemological colonialism for the ways it affects social structures, languages, psychology, and its potential susceptibility for manipulation. Hui’s works are research-focused and multifaceted, engaging primarily with installation, audio and live works, printmaking and text.  

March - August 2025: Sam Krack

Sam Krack is a Luxembourgish artist who takes an interest in images showing ordinary details of everyday life which he then translates into paintings. His approach constitutes a political resistance to the acceleration of time, questioning contemporary issues linked to technology and the circulation of images.  

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