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.

The Artistic Research Lab is a European Post-Master’s programme that fosters collective, transdisciplinary artistic research through an experimental and process-driven framework. It offers emerging artist-researchers a platform to explore new methodologies, engage in collaborative inquiry, and rethink traditional notions of authorship and knowledge creation. Operating in a para-academic and para-institutional mode, the Lab emphasizes deceleration, open-ended exploration, and the evolution of artistic practices over the production of finished works. Throughout a series of research weeks, the program provides financial support for participants’ projects, access to technical facilities, and the backing of an international network. 

This Post-Master programme is a collaboration between Casino Display, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Nancy, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, Haute École des Arts du Rhin, and Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten. 

This year, the theme chosen for the research laboratory is ‘folds’. Folds as a critical and narrative tool.

Participants: Inès Hosni, Mona Young-eun Kim, jae Park, Matilde Gazeau Frade, Seunghyun Park

Partner schools: École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre (La Cambre - Brussels, Belgium), Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR - Strasbourg/Mulhouse, France), Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK – The Hague, Netherlands), École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Nancy (Ensad Nancy, France) 

Research weeks:

29.09 – 03.10.2025
17.11 – 22.11.2025
26.01 – 30.01.2026
23.02 – 28.02.2026
20.04 – 24.04.2026 ​
25.05 – 30.05.2026

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.

The university residency, the result of a collaboration between the University of Luxembourg and Casino Display, is part of the latter's mission to offer artists opportunities to further their artistic practice and research. Following the success of the first edition, the programme is expanding to strengthen its local roots while opening up to an international dimension. The idea is to offer a tailor-made residency, combining two months of work in Luxembourg – at Casino Display and the University – followed by an international phase at another research or academic institution. This second stage will allow the artist to develop their projects, broaden their horizons and immerse themselves in new artistic and academic networks, while strengthening the links between Luxembourg and the international scene.  

Continuing its commitment to supporting contemporary creation and fostering exchange between young artists and cultural institutions, Casino Display is launching a new edition of its international residency programme. This initiative aims to build bridges between Luxembourg and other artistic contexts, while providing artists with a space for experimentation and research.

For the 2025–2026 edition, the residency will host Céleste Thouin, recipient of the research residency award at Casino Display, granted during the 2025 Biennale de la Jeune Création in Mulhouse. Céleste Thouin’s practice spans writing, sound, and video, operating at the intersection of reality and fiction. With this new collaboration, Casino Display continues to highlight the connections between artistic practices, research, place, and collective narratives.

Conceived as a period of research, the residency will allow Céleste Thouin to develop a project rooted in sensitivity, in dialogue with both the local and international contexts. Their work explores narratives of making—whether artisanal, artistic, or agricultural—and their relationship to labor, effort, landscape, and friendship. Through sonic, written, and visual forms, the artist investigates how everyday gestures can become poetic and political expressions.

The artist is currently conducting research into wool and spinning as a material that connects, preserves memory and transforms. By exploring its uses in rural and artisanal practices, the artist questions how this living material links the acts of care, work and creation. 

About Céleste Thouin

There is the wind, the sun, the rain; time, work and the hand; moments of togetherness and the intimacy of rest. 

A 2023 graduate of HEAR, Céleste Thouin has mainly produced sound, written and video works. Between a desire for memory and a pleasure in fiction, she develops narratives of artisanal, artistic and agricultural creations in order to reveal relationships to work, effort, life and the friendships that emerge. His poetic research is never dissociated from theoretical and political thought, landscape, history and archives.

Partners:  

Biennale de La Jeune Création 2025  

City of Mulhouse – Cultural Department 

Photo: excerpt from the film Le Chant du Causse © Céleste Thouin

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Casino Display
1, rue de la Loge
L-1945 Luxembourg