Luxembourg 1499
Luxembourg
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Wednesday 10am–9pm
“We live in an age where truth is constructed from images, not from facts.”
—Simon Fujiwara
As Mudam celebrates its 20th anniversary, our gaze turns both inward—to Luxembourg—and outward, beyond its borders. Our commitment remains steadfast: honouring living artists, rewriting art history, and critically examining entrenched canons and cultural stereotypes. Looking ahead, we present a programme composed of art-historical encounters, artistic investigations, live events and participatory projects. We envisage the institution as a living, evolving community—one whose practices engage with the urgent cultural, political and sensory questions of our time by foregrounding embodied narratives and collective memory. Our collection is on the move—reaching various regions, thus drawing closer to the people—while reflecting on its foundations and their contemporary significance. To further open the museum to the public, a new collaboration with SUPERFLEX activates Mudam’s outdoor spaces. Additionally, as part of the PIT (Perform Inform Transform) project, we launch a series of participatory performances and an extensive research programme with our European partners. Our upcoming exhibitions and projects weave presence and resonance together as they raise voices, paint visions of alternative futures and reclaim spaces, both public and imagined.
Igshaan Adams
February 10–August 23, 2026
Blurring the boundaries between textile, sculpture and performance, South African artist Igshaan Adams (1982, Cape Town) will present newly commissioned and existing works, including monumental tapestries adorned with beads, chains, rope and ribbons, as well as a new large scale environmental installation, specifically conceived for Mudam, of his dance prints. Drawing on Adams’ own experiences and memories informed by apartheid-era South Africa, the exhibition will feature site-specific suspended sculptures examining the impact of lived experiences on the human psyche, with a particular emphasis on the healing potential of dance and movement. This exhibition is organised by Mudam and The Hepworth Wakefield, in collaboration with ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum.
Simon Fujiwara
March 20–August 23, 2026
Simon Fujiwara (1982, London) will transform Mudam into an immersive world, placing his works within a unique exhibition environment that draws on theme-park design. Bringing together projects spanning seventeen years, this mid-career survey will offer a comprehensive view onto Fujiwara’s practice. Drawing on both personal narratives and cultural phenomena, he reflects on the mechanisms of history, art history and architecture. With disarming humour and critical wit, the work exposes their entanglement with contemporary forms of advertising, entertainment and online culture. This survey will trace the evolution of the artist’s complex visual language, highlighting his distinctive ability to reveal the absurdities and contradictions of the world we inhabit.
Performance series: A journey
Throughout 2026
This series of performances takes the concept of a journey both as method and metaphor, bringing together artists who navigate cultural memory, technological progress and embodied interpretation. A multimedia live piece by Sojung Jun (1982, Busan), commissioned by Performa and co-produced with Asia Society for the Performa 2025 Biennial, anchors the series. Her works shift the axes of time and space, offering sensuous interpretations on modernisation, migration and exile. Ivan Cheng (1991, Sydney)’s time-based commission will unfold as both performance and installation. Cheng’s collaborative practice draws on historical and contemporary texts, together with musical and performative conventions. Guided by questions about human and machinic memory, he weaves together given contexts with processes of meaning-making.
Video Killed the Radio Star: The 1980s and their Cultural Echoes
June 12–October 11, 2026
The 1980s were a decade defined by paradoxes: the gleaming surface of pop culture and the deep fractures of global politics; the rise of new technologies and the slow unravelling of old ideologies; the birth of MTV and the shadow of Chernobyl. The collection-based exhibition Video Killed the Radio Star will explore how the cultural and political transformations of the 1980s still inform the world we live in. Drawing from the Mudam Collection and contextual documentation materials, the exhibition will revisit a pivotal moment in global culture: a time when image overtook voice, access replaced ownership and aesthetics began to mirror power in new ways. It will also examine the evolving perceptiveness and sensibilities of a world moving into a hyper-mediated era. From the Cold War’s final acts to the rise of neoliberalism, the 1980s marked a profound reorientation in the Western world—one that was soon reshaped by the emergence of other cultural forces, shifting the narrative and changing the game entirely.
Japanese Women Artists after 1945
September 25, 2026–February 14, 2027
This first European survey will examine the essential role of women artists from Japan in the global postwar era and across the transformative decades that followed. Focusing on a period of significant social change, the exhibition will offer an opportunity to encounter modes of artistic expression that emerged in Japan and resonated across its worldwide communities. Drawing from the artists’ personal lives, creative resilience and transnational activism, the exhibition will bring together works by Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomie Ohtake, Taeko Tomiyama and Yoshiko Shimada, among many others—some of which have rarely been shown outside of Japan. Organised by Mudam in collaboration with Lenbachhaus Munich, this comprehensive overview will reimagine the development of various transnational art histories from the 1950s to the 1990s through a contemporary lens.
Christine Sun Kim
September 25, 2026–January 10, 2027
Berlin-based, US-American artist Christine Sun Kim (1980, Orange County, California) will create a site-specific installation for Mudam’s Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Pavilion. Her multidisciplinary practice focuses on the visual, social and political dimensions of sound and language. Materialising the world of sound visually—through infographics, musical notations and American Sign Language (ASL)—Kim shares her lived experiences as a Deaf person questioning the power systems and unperceived norms that govern the public and the private space. Her incisive self-devised strategies—laced with lyrical irony—expose entrenched forms of exclusion and amplify perspectives that are too often overlooked.
Ana Vaz
November 13, 2026–April 11, 2027
The films and installations of Ana Vaz (1986, Brasilia) investigate the legacy of histories of colonial modernity and their lasting impact on land and communities. Subverting the rational subject of Western narratives, Vaz’s approach to human, animal and vegetal worlds is an exploration of the potential of what she calls ‘embodied cinema’, in which affects and bodies are at the forefront. For her first major institutional exhibition, a modular environment designed for the occasion will host a constellation of Vaz’s recent film installations—some will premiere at Mudam—as well as events and workshops which will turn the galleries into laboratories for radical pedagogy.
Our sincere gratitude goes to all those who support Mudam’s programme and share our commitment to keeping contemporary culture vibrant and ever evolving.
