Events *

 

* programme remains subject to alterations

 

 

until 06|01

WINTER LIGHTS

Winter programme including public

concerts, Christmas concerts, Christmas market, fireworks (New Year’s Eve), shopping

on sundays.

www.winterlights.lu

 

January – March

CONCERTS DE MIDI

Free Music sessions in the midst of the day between 12.30 and 1.30 p.m. in the heart of the city center. www.lcto.lu

 

 

24|02 – 30|03

PILGRIMAGE TO

THE BLACK MADONNA

The statue of the “Black Virgin”, dating from

the 14^th century, at Luxembourg-Grund is

one of the most important religious object

of devotion and veneration in the Grand

Duchy, particularly during Lenten season.

www.cathol.lu

 

 

Sunday 26|02

BUERGSONNDEG (Bonfire day)

A large wooden cross is set on fire in the

Pétrusse Valley in order to figuratively

“burn the winter”.

 

 

01-09/03

DISCOVERY ZONE – LUXEMBOURG CITY FILM FESTIVAL

The Festival aims to be a platform for discovering films made in/with Luxembourg, offering feature and short films, documentaries and fiction together with one-off events. Throughout the festival, alongside the screenings, audiences can meet the most important figures in the industry.

www.discoveryzone.lu

 

March – May

PRINTEMPS MUSICAL – FESTIVAL DE LUXEMBOURG

The renowned “Printemps Musical” jazz

and world music festival features every

year an innovative series of jazz and world

music concerts and hosts both prestigious

international artists as well as new talents

worth discovering. Concerts take place

in the various venues of the capital city,

depending on style and production, ranging

from the elegant Philharmonie to the

charged club-atmosphere of “den Atelier”,

the Conservatoire de Musique, the Grand

Théâtre and the Centre de

Rencontre Culturel Abbaye de Neumünster.

After 30 years, the festival has now established

itself as a veritable evergreen and

has become an essential institution in the

Luxembourg culture calendar.

www.printempsmusical.lu

 

Highlights 2012 – 30th edition:

 

JASON MORAN, 05.03

 

SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA, 11.03

 

LIZZ WRIGHT, 18.04

 

HIROMI: THE TRIO PROJECT

FEATURING ANTHONY JACKSON (BASS) AND SIMON PHILIPPS (DRUMS),

24.04.

 

ROBERTO FONSECA, 25.04

 

THE AFRO CUBAN ALL STARS, 27.04

 

BRASS BATTLE

BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIC ORKESTRA vs FANFARE CIOCARLIA,

11.05

 

LES FRERES, 21.05

 

23-25|03

INVITATION AUX MUSÉES

Free entrance to the temporary and permanent

exhibitions in the museums of

the “Statermuséeën” (Casino Luxembourg

– Forum d’art contemporain, Musée national

d’histoire et d’art, Musée national

d’histoire naturelle, Musée d’Histoire de la

Ville de Luxembourg, Villa Vauban, Musée

d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM),

Musée Dräi Eechelen).

www.museumsmile.lu

 

 

Easter Monday 09|04

EMAISCHEN

Traditional celebration of Emmaus. Early on

Easter Monday, a motley crowd jostles behind

the Palace of the Grand Dukes on the

small square of the Fishmarket, to buy one

of the small whistling birds – in baked clay –

which are only sold that day.

 

26/04 – 03/06

DESIGN CITY 2012

Design City is mostly concerned with design for its contribution to quality of life, a decisive factor in the locating of companies but also an important element of differenciation and tourist attraction. The project aims to encourage the participation of designers in the conception and enhancement of the city. On this occasion, public space will host the exhibition Index: Award 2011, presenting a selection from the 60 finalists nominated for this big international design prize.. www.mudam.lu 

 

 

28|04 – 13|05

OCTAVE NOTRE-DAME

Traditional Pilgrimage (since 1666) to honour

Our Lady of Luxembourg, the patron

saint. Lasts from the third to the fifth Sunday

after Easter and represents the main

religious ceremony of the country.

www.cathol.lu 

 

12|05

NIGHT OF THE CATHEDRALS

On the 12^th of May the Cathedrals of Luxembourg,

Liège, Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg, Reims and Trier remain

open “overnight” and offer a cultural

and spiritual program with guided tours,

lectures, concerts, moments of prayer and

meditations.

www.cathol.lu 

 

 

19|05

ING EUROPE-MARATHON

LUXEMBOURG

At dusk, in the narrow streets and alleys of

the old town, never-ending rows of spectators

standing on both sides of the course, absolute

pandemonium at Place Guillaume II,

the quiet green parks in the city centre,

small festivals in the exclusive residential

areas. Decide on the day whether to run

the marathon or half marathon! Start time:

6 p.m.

www.ing-europe-marathon.lu 

 

 

26-28|05

ALL AMERICAN FESTIVAL

Colorful musical parades, jazz concerts,

rhythm-n-blues, Mississippi and gospel,

marching bands, and spicy culinary discoveries:

an exceptional event will welcome

you during the Pentecost weekend. An international

open air festival – free for the

public!

www.allamerican.lu

 

 

21|06 – 15|09

SUMMER IN THE CITY

Open air summer campaign in the city of

Luxembourg with free concerts at the Place

d’Armes and the Place Guillaume II, “Fête

de la Musique”, music festivals “MeYouZik”,

“Rock um Knuedler” and “Blues’n Jazzrallye”,

street art festival “Streeta(rt)nimation”,

open air cinema, markets and feasts, exhibitions

and folklore, sports (Gala Tour de France), tourism, and much more.

www.summerinthecity.lu 

 

 

 

 

21|06

OPENING ACT

SUMMER IN THE CITY

and FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE

Music celebration in honour of all various

styles of music. “Knuedler goes classic”

Open-air concert with the Luxembourg

Philharmonic Orchestra.

www.fetedelamusique.lu 

 

 

22|06

EVE OF THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY

The eve of the National Holiday is a gala

occasion for the capital city. A torchlight

tattoo will lighten the streets from 10 p.m.

onwards. Grand fireworks will illuminate

the Pétrusse Valley. Rock, pop and folklore

concerts as well as dj sessions will liven up

the streets, bars and cafés of the capital till

dawn.

www.vdl.lu

 

 

23|06

NATIONAL HOLIDAY

Official ceremonies (military parade, Te

Deum, 101 canon shots etc.).

www.vdl.lu 

 

 

07|07

WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL MeYouZik

Held under the banner of multicultural encounters,

coexistence and tolerance, this world festival mirrors the diversity of Luxembourg

City, a multicultural and cosmopolitan

capital par excellence, home to 63%

of non-Luxembourg residents and a melting

pot of 170 nationalities. “MeYouZik” pays

homage to a reality lived every day, injected

with a zest of conviviality, a dose of openmindedness

and a grain of festive folly.

www.meyouzik.lu 

 

 

08|07

MUSIC FESTIVAL

ROCK UM KNUEDLER

International rock-pop headliners and Luxembourg’s

best rock bands are sharing three

stages in the very heart of the city of Luxembourg

at Place Guillaume II, also called the

“Knuedler”, and Place Clairefontaine. Fans of rock music are spoiled

for choice. Since it began in 1991, “Rock um

Knuedler” has been free to the public, audiences

being as large as 15.000 music lovers.

www.rockumknuedler.lu 

 

 

July

MUSIC FESTIVAL OMNI

The splendid open air square of the Neumünster

Abbey is the ideal location for outstanding

concerts.

www.ccrn.lu

 

 

Mid – July – beginning of September

VISITS OF THE PALACE

OF THE GRAND DUKES

As the town residence

of the Grand Duke, the palace has

unquestionably one of the most beautiful

façades in the city (Flemish Renaissance,

16^th century). Majestical interior and splendid

above stairs (with light design by Ingo

Maurer) can be visited exclusively during

summer. More information in May:

www.lcto.lu 

 

 

19|07

LISZT-HOMMAGE

126 years ago, Franz Liszt made his last

public appearance in Luxembourg in the

actual Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art

contemporain (19.07.1886). Discover an outstanding

musical evening in the authentic

environment!

www.casino-luxembourg.lu 

 

 

21|07

BLUES’N JAZZRALLYE

Every summer, during the Blues’n Jazzrallye,

the lower city suburbs of Grund and

Clausen go completely crazy! 50 jazz and

blues bands from the Grand Duchy and

abroad play dixieland, mainstream, fusion,

boogie woogie up to Chicago blues in all the

pubs and on 10 different open-air-stages!

The rallye drains every year 20.000 music

fans in a total party atmosphere!

www.bluesjazzrallye.lu 

 

11-12|08

STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL

STREETA(RT)NIMATION

It’s well worthwile to take a stroll through

the pedestrian zone. You will encounter

about thymie different mimes, stilters, travelling

musicians, tumblers and crazy fantastic

creatures who will take you to a coloured

fantasy world of poetry and comedy.

Pleasure and good humor will be the order

of the day.

www.streetartnimation.lu 

 

 

23|08 – 11|09

SCHUEBERFOUER

Large funfair on the vast Glacis Square, founded by John the Blind, Count of Luxembourg and King of

Bohemia, in 1340. It continues the tradition of the folk fair. With rollercoasters, giant wheel, traditional

cinema, thrilling games, sweets, candy and luxembourgish specialities.

www.fouer.lu

 

 

06/10

NUIT DES MUSÉES

On the occasion of the “Nuit des Musées” (Night of the museums),

the museums will open their exhibitions

and collections to the public from 6 p.m. until

1 a.m., and entertain visitors on this late

opening with a rich and multidisciplinary

programme of dance and music performances,

live acts aso.

www.museumsmile.lu

 

October – December

CONCERTS DE MIDI

Free Music sessions in the midst of the day between 12.30 and 1.30 p.m. in the heart of the city center. www.lcto.lu

 

October – November

LUXEMBOURG FESTIVAL

On the initiative of the Philharmonie and

the Grand Théâtre, the Luxembourg

Festival will present a programme

with outstanding productions and countless

highlights.

www.philharmonie.lu 

 

November

MUSIC FESTIVAL

LIVE AT VAUBAN

Renowned music festival with a series of  rock, pop and blues concerts in

the capital. “Live at Vauban”

was launched in 1995 when Luxembourg

was European City of Culture.

www.liveatvauban.lu 

 

 

01|12|12 – 06|01|13

WINTER LIGHTS

Winter programme including the Christmas

Market, public concerts, Christmas

concerts, “cortège Saint-Nicolas”, shopping

on sundays.

www.winterlights.lu

 

 

E X H I B I T I O N S

 

 

 

Villa Vauban – Musée d’Art de la Ville de Luxembourg

 

18.11.2011 – 05.03.2012

 

“Art at Any Cost”

Jean-Pierre Pescatore (1793–1855), a bourgeois collector in Paris

at the time of the July Monarchy

 

 

The time between the two French revolutions of 1830 and 1848 is commonly referred to as the July Monarchy. The reign of Louis-Philippe I, nicknamed the ‘bourgeois King’, was characterised by profound political and social changes. It was in this context that the Luxembourg-born banker Jean-Pierre Pescatore decided to establish himself in Paris. In 1839, he moved to an up-and-coming area of the city popular with wealthy bourgeois families and artists, and soon afterwards began collecting art.

 

Throughout the 19th century collecting played an important role in the public life of the rising bourgeois classes. In 1844, Pescatore bought La Celle Saint-Cloud, a castle on the outskirts of Paris, and subsequently started decorating his new property with works of art from his growing collecting, which comprised mainly contemporary painting. Besides artists’ studios and auctions of private (and often aristocratic) collections, the annual Salon de Paris was the main gathering place for art lovers, where the latest artistic trends could be observed.

 

The exhibition Art at Any Cost focuses on the figure of Jean-Pierre Pescatore as a typical example of a 19th-century bourgeois collector. While offering a survey of French 19th-century painting, it also sheds light on the art market of that era. To this effect, the artworks from the Pescatore Collection will be complemented by important works on loan from major collections such as the Musée Carnavalet, the Petit Palais and the Louvre. A selection of works by major artists, among which Gustave Courbet, Eugène Delacroix et Jean-François Millet, will contribute to illustrate the various strands of painting in the 19th century, from Orientalism and history painting to the Barbizon School. The survey will be rounded off with a selection of sculptures from the Pescatore Collection.

 

The last part of the exhibition aims to recreate Jean-Pierre Pescatore’s social environment. A wealthy banker, he was not only interested in collecting art but also indulged into other (costly) pastimes such as growing orchids and collecting books for his extensive library. While these activities were intended to reflect his social status, Pescatore was also a patron of the arts, as witness his foundation and the donation of his collection to his native town Luxembourg, which today sheds a new light on this precious legacy.

 

27.04. – 15.10.2012

 

Brueghel, Cranach, Tizian, Van Eyck

The treasure of the Brukenthal collection

 

The Villa Vauban will be the temporary home of masterpieces from the Brukenthal Collection, one of the most prestigious in Central Europe, which was assembled during the XVIII century by Baron Samuel von Brukenthal. This exhibition brings together the masterpieces by the greatest masters of the Flemish school, including Van Eyck, Bruegel, Memling or Jordaens.

 

 

Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean

 

16.01. – 06.05.2012

 

CONRAD SHAWCROSS

 

 

The interests of Conrad Shawcross are mainly focussed on scientific and philosophical questions. These disciplines combine in his artistic work to create pictures which make complicated connections or fundamental theoretical concepts visible so that people can experience them. The Nervous System, an installation designed for the Grand Hall of the Mudam, is similar to a number of other machines which produce rope and separate it into its individual strands again.

 

 

 

11.02. – 13.05.2012

 

TINA GILLEN

 

The paintings of the Luxembourg artist Tina Gillen present figurative worlds offset by abstract forms. The back-and-forth movement between these two dimensions goes hand in hand with a shrewd balance between a great mastery of the pictorial vocabulary and a certain “slackening” in the execution. The Mudam show, made up of works created specifically for the occasion, will have the theme of the arboretum as its point of departure.

 

 

11.02. – 16.09.2012

 

SARAH SZE

 

Sarah Sze creates ephemeral in situ sculptures, in which a host of everyday objects are painstakingly assembled to form light and fragile structures which invade space. Her works are invariably conceived in response to the architecture of exhibition venues, and invite spectators to move among different scales, ranging from humble to monumental, micro- and macroscopic. Mudam has invited Sara Sze to make a new installation for the Museum Pavilion.

 

 

 

02.06. – 09.09.2012

 

SANJA IVEKOVIĆ

 

Since the beginning of the 1970s, Sanja Iveković, who is familiar to the public for her project Lady Rosa of Luxembourg, has developed a politically committed artistic practice. This retrospective presents a large panorama of the artist’s practice. It is articulated around two central questions related to the Lady Rosa of Luxembourg project and her practice as a whole: the place of women in society and the notions of monument and memory.

 

 

 

Musée national d’histoire naturelle – natur musée

 

15.04.2011 – 26.02.2012

 

IN FULL COLOUR

 

This exhibition shows the full spectrum of colours. Along the varied and interactive circuit featuring coloured rooms, visitors discover how colour is produced, how it is perceived and how it acts. Here colour has to do with physics, chemistry, communication, psychology, aesthetics, biology, mythology, art and craft.

 

 

 

 

Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain

 

 

01.10.2011 – 15.01.2012

 

Found in Translation, Chapter L

 

The title of the exhibition, an antonymous quotation of a well-known English idiom (“lost in translation”), plays on the ambivalence and polysemy of words in English. This can, in fact, be translated into French as “traduction” or “translation”. The common denominator of these two “interpretations” lies in the etymological approach of the term “translation” itself, whose Latin origins refer to the action of carrying/taking something, somebody or oneself out of its normal context (from transfero, translatum). Thus, the concept of translation here, goes beyond any restrictive semantic use, to be apprehended in a wider, metaphorical meaning, like the subtle deliberate shifting of a being, a sign, a practice, a discipline or an area of knowledge, opened up to new perspectives of investigation, research, transmission and perception.

 

 

28.01. – 22.04.2012

 

L.A Raeven – Ideal Individuals

 

Since 2001, L.A. Raeven (*1971) have been developing works of art around the notion of the “ideal individual” that they analyse through videos, photos and drawings. The concept of a perfect beauty and the stakes involved is found in our western society, as much from the side of acceptance and consumerism of these standards as in the mass manipulation by the fashion and media world. The Raeven twin sisters go further than examining standardisation and the dictate of perfection; they also question the notion of the struggle for identity, themselves having lived all their lives with their identical double.

 

 

 

12.05. – 02.09.2012

 

Wesley Meuris

 

Drawings, sculptures and installations by the Belgian artist Wesley Meuris (*1977), present a strongly architectural, or even scientific, character. Things which could, at first glance, appear as devices for presenting works or other artefacts, are, in fact, works of art in themselves. By bringing these mechanisms and demonstration objects to light, Wesley Meuris points at our way of presenting and seeing things. By exhibiting, for example, animal cages left empty or a theme park kiosk, inanimate and reduced to its simplest apparatus, he hopes to show us things which usually escape our view but which, nonetheless, play a primordial role in our daily interpretation of the world which surrounds us. His sculptures and installations are often accompanied by drawings and analytical schemas which strengthen the functional character of these subjects.

 

 

 

 

Musée national d’histoire et d’art

 

21.10.2011 – 02.09.2012

 

Unter unseren Füßen – Archäologie in Luxemburg (1995-2010)

 

ENGLISH : Der Luxemburger Boden birgt bemerkenswerte Spuren der Vergangenheit: sie reichen von der Altsteinzeit bis in die jüngste Geschichte. Die Ausstellung gewährt zunächst Einblick in die Arbeitsweise von Archäologen und Restauratoren. Eine nachgebaute Ausgrabung veranschaulicht die heutigen Grabungsmethoden. Schritt für Schritt läßt sich der Weg archäologischer Objekte verfolgen: von ihrer Auffindung über ihre Bestimmung und Restaurierung bis zu ihrer Präsentation im Museum.

Der zweite Teil der Schau beschäftigt sich – anhand von ausgewählten archäologischen Funden – mit Grundthemen der menschlichen Existenz: Wohnen, Arbeit, Not („Diesseits“) sowie Religion und Grabkult („Jenseits“).
Dazu gehören u.a. die DNAAnalyse der mesolithischen Bestattung von Heffingen-Loschbour, die neuen Ausgrabungsergebnisse im keltischen Oppidum vom Titelberg und seiner römischen Nachfolgesiedlung, der 2008 entdeckte, nun restaurierte Fortuna-Altar aus Dalheim, die mittelalterliche Eisenverhüttung in Peppingen-Genoeserbusch sowie Reste des verschollenen Renaissance-Grabmals des Luxemburger Gouverneurs Claude de Neufchâtel. 

 

18.11.2011 – 27.01.2012

 

Joseph Probst (1991-1997)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg

 

 

27.05.2011 – 26.02.2012

 

“Aarmt Lëtzebuerg”

The history of poverty in Luxembourg

 

The exhibition is to help the visitor to clarify, using the example of Luxembourg, the central question of whether the concept of “poverty“ in its historical definition can still be applied to today’s situation or whether it needs to be reconceived. The exhibition will give every visitor an insightful and value-neutral tour through the historical and contemporary dimensions of the concept of poverty, concluding in self-reflection. In addition the exhibition will bring to light the various facets of social exclusion and move the visitors to reflect on the question whether certain circumstances in our society can be tolerated or need to be repudiated. As in all of its exhibitions, the historical museum combines original artifacts, photos, art, text quotations and spatial noises in a sophisticated intermedial dramaturgy.

 

 

08.06.2012 – 31.03.2013

 

ABC – Luxembourg pour les nuls

 

 

 

T H E A T R E S

 

 

Now operating under the heading Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, the Grand Théâtre and the Théâtre des Capucins have become an unavoidable stop on the touring schedule of many high profile international productions. And yet, the season 2011-2012 also aims to highlight the creativity of local talent, specifically in the vibrant theatre scene. The opera programme is particularly eclectic with great classics, baroque masterpieces and exciting contemporary works all vying for attention. Music theatre has taken a firm place in the programming of the Théâtres de la Ville and next season is no exception; new creations full of poetry and emotions will rival with musical encounters of the more unusual kind. Dance-wise, the usual suspects Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sasha Waltz and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker will share the spotlight with such established artists of the contemporary dance seen as Edouard Lock and Crystal Pite. The programming of the Théâtres de la Ville aims to showcase a large variety of all things dramatic, musical and rhythmic while always applying the same rigorous quality standards  that audiences have come to expect. The new season yet again wants to fulfil those expectations by presenting a menu full of old favourites and new discoveries at the Théâtres de la Ville! www.theatres.lu