Jutta Koether: Tour de Madame

Tour de Madame is the first major retrospective dedicated to the painting of Jutta Koether (*1958, Cologne). Long associated with writing, music and performance, Koether’s painterly oeuvre shown in this densely sweeping presentation highlights her pictorial and conceptual approach to painting over four decades. Koether’s painting constantly confronts the conditions of its own production, as a site of reflection on the act of looking and the perspectives such an act might bring to bear according to who is looking, how and when. The exhibition crucially highlights the historical significance of Koether’s oeuvre as a counter-history to the (male-dominated) canons of modernism and post-modernism, and the understanding of painting in our contemporary world as part of a dynamic set of historical, cultural and social relations.

The exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean is organised as three moments. In the West Gallery, a retrospective view of 45 paintings created between 1983 and 2016 is presented in a salon style of double hanging that references collectors’ cabinets, and the memory of the first retrospective exhibition staged by Pablo Picasso in Zurich in 1932. Presented in the East Gallery is the eponymous Tour de Madame, a cycle of 15 paintings made by Koether for the exhibition. In the pavilion gallery, Koether presents her creative universe as a dynamically orchestrated audio-visual environment.

Curators: Suzanne Cotter, assisted by Vincent Crapon

Exhibition design: METAFORM architects
The exhibition Tour de Madame is organised in collaboration with Museum Brandhorst, Munich.
The organisation of the exhibition has benefitted from funding by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

Programme

February 17, 2019, 3pm; 
May 12, 2019, 3pm 
Screenings: 
Mashes of the Afternoon, 2018 
Grand Openings Return of the Blogs, 2012 
By Loretta Fahrenholz

March 13, 2019, 7pm
Screening:
At Eternity’s Gate, 2018 
By Julian Schnabel
Within the framework of Luxembourg City Film Festival.
More information: luxfilmfest.lu

March 27, 2019, 6:30pm
Lecture: Jenny Nachtigall on Jutta Koether

April 3, 2019, 8pm
May 12, 2019, 4pm
Music performances:
Catherine Lorent, The Good Axe 
Solo-Performance with at least three guitars, one axe, voice and percussion

April 10, 2019, 8pm 
April 28, 2019, 3pm 
Screening:
Cézanne : dialogue avec Joachim Gasquet, 1990 (Les éditions Bernheim-Jeune) 
Une visite au Louvre, 2004 
Films de Danièle Huillet et Jean-Marie Straub, France

April 29, 2019, 6:30pm
Lecture: Art Historian and Harvard Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Also on view
Adam Linder: Full Service
February 6-March 3, 2019

Nairy Baghramian, Privileged Points
January 19-September 22, 2019

Mudam Collection
Paintings from the 1980s and 1990s
September 29, 2018-March 31, 2019

Art & Craft
October 5, 2018-March 10, 2019

Stan Douglas, Le Détroit
October 5, 2018-February 24, 2019

Subjects of Life
January 31-September 29, 2019

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean opened in 2006 in a purpose-built building designed by the renowned Sino-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei and located in the Park Dräi Eechelen, overlooking the historic city of Luxembourg. Through its collection, exhibitions, programmes and partnerships, Mudam Luxembourg pursues its mission of presenting the most relevant art of our times.