Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean

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Exterior view of the museum building with part of the old fortifications
Great hall inside the museum

The Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean , or Mudam for short , is Luxembourg's museum of modern art. It is located on the grounds of Fort Thüngen ( Dräi Eechelen ) on the Kirchberg plateau in Luxembourg City . The Mudam is managed by the Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, with substantial funding from the Luxembourg state. The chairman of the board is Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg .

The architect of the building , which opened on July 1, 2006 , is Ieoh Ming Pei , which is why the museum is popularly known as the “Pei-Musée”. The museum is named Grand Duke Jeans , father of the current Grand Duke Henri .

Emergence

The plans to build a museum for modern art arose at the end of the 1980s when it became clear that there was no platform for such art in Luxembourg. Since Luxembourg was to become European Capital of Culture in 1995 , the Santer government asked the architect Ieoh Ming Pei for a plan for an architecturally outstanding museum building. Fort Thüngen on the Kirchberg plateau was chosen as the location, as Pei liked the idea of ​​combining the old with the new.

The first plans that Pei presented in the early 1990s met with strong opposition: some found the building too big and expensive, others feared that the museum would destroy the remains of Fort Thüngen. Pei was commissioned to develop a plan without the Dräi Eechelen building , and it was assured that a fortress museum would be built in it. In 1996 a bill for the construction of the Mudam was submitted to the Juncker- Poo's government , which came into force on January 17, 1997. Almost exactly two years later, on January 22, 1999, the foundation stone was laid.

The construction of the 88 million euro museum was delayed again by court proceedings, so that the work was not completed until 2006 and the museum was opened on July 1st.

The museum

From 2000 to 2008 Marie-Claude Beaud was director of the Mudam. From 2001 onwards she put the collection together with the help of a commission of experts. The exhibits had been acquired since 1996 and did not build on any existing collection. Most of the exhibits come from Luxembourgish artists or from neighboring countries. There are currently around 230 works by over 100 artists, which are presented on three floors with around 3000 square meters of exhibition space. Many of them are commissioned works that could be adapted to the premises.

In the museum different art genres are shown, ranging from painting, drawing, photography, multimedia, fashion, design, graphics and sound to architecture.

Around 30 artists were involved in the Be the Artists' Guest project, in which they were able to integrate their works.

In the first year after the opening, more than 115,000 visitors were counted, a record for a Luxembourg museum. The Mudam Boutique , integrated in the building, offers a wide range of contemporary art media, postcards and gifts from toys to designer items. The Mudam Café offers a variety of gluten-free vegetarian and vegan dishes.

Successor directors after Marie-Claude Beaud were Enrico Lunghi from 2009 to 2017 and Suzanne Cotter from January 1, 2018 .

Artist from the collection

Alvar Aalto , Marina Abramović , Stephan Balkenhol , Bernd and Hilla Becher , Pierre Bismuth , Sophie Calle , Hussein Chalayan , Claude Closky , James Coleman , Tony Cragg , Richard Deacon , Mark Dean , Wim Delvoye , Stan Douglas , Jan Fabre , Ian Hamilton Finlay , Roland Fischer , Günther Förg , Gilbert & George , Nan Goldin , Andreas Gursky , Thomas Hirschhorn , Fabrice Hybert , William Kentridge , Mark Lewis , Richard Long , Michel Majerus , Christian Marclay , Martin Margiela , Steve McQueen , Bruce Nauman , Shirin Neshat , Albert Oehlen , Blinky Palermo , Philippe Parreno , Grayson Perry , Fiona Rae , Pipilotti Rist , Thomas Ruff , Thomas Scheibitz , Julian Schnabel , Cindy Sherman , Thomas Struth , Wolfgang Tillmans , Cy Twombly , Kara Walker .

Exhibitions

  • Eldorado (opening exhibition), July 1, 2006 - November 20, 2006.
  • Michel Majerus (European Retrospective), December 9, 2006 - May 7, 2007.
  • Tomorrow Now - when design meets science fiction , May 25, 2007 - September 24, 2007.
  • bloom! Experiments in Color Photography by Edward Steichen , July 14, 2007 - September 3, 2007
  • Glenn Ligon : some changes October 13, 2007 - February 19, 2008
  • Mudam Guest House 07: François Boisrond, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci , Pascal Convert, Wim Delvoye , Thomas Demand , James P. Graham, Charles Kaisin, Vera Weisgerber, Simon Jacquard, Yazid Oulab, Jan Wangaard, October 13, 2007 - November 26 2007
  • A propos des lieux d'origine, Portugal Agora (Panorama of Portuguese Contemporary Creativity), December 15, 2007 - April 7, 2008
  • Michel Paysant - Nusquam , December 15, 2007 - April 7, 2008
  • Frédéric Prat , March 6, 2008 - May 26, 2008
  • Out of Storage I - selected paintings from the collection : Rosson Crow , Dominique Gauthier , Peter Halley , Federico Herrero , Jonathan Lasker , Michel Majerus , Jean-Luc Moerman , Frank Nitsche , Albert Oehlen , Fiona Rae , Thomas Scheibitz , Juan Uslé , 6. March 2008 - May 26th 2008
  • China Power Station: Part III : Cao Fei, Chen Qiulin, Chu Yun, Hu Xiangqian, Ji Weiyu, Kan Xuan, Liu Wei , Ou Ning, Qiu Anxiong , Xu Zhen, Xue Tao, Yang Fudong , Zhang Ding, Zhou Tao ..., April 26, 2008 - September 1, 2008
  • Candice Breitz - Be My Somebody , April 26, 2008 - September 22, 2008
  • H Box , May 14, 2008 - June 23, 2008
  • Grayson Perry - My Civilization , June 19, 2008 - September 22, 2008
  • Thomas Scheibitz - about 90 elements / Death in the jungle , June 19, 2008 - September 22, 2008
  • Laurent Pariente , July 3, 2008 - September 15, 2008
  • Nouvelles Formes, Pierre Charpin à Sèvres , October 11, 2008 - November 7, 2008
  • Ettore Sottsass & Sottsass Associati , October 11, 2008 - December 1, 2008
  • John Lurie - Bones are on the Outside , October 11, 2008 - December 8, 2008
  • Go East I - Mudam Collection supported by KBL European Private Bankers , October 11, 2008 - December 8, 2008
  • ELO. Inner Exile - Outer Limits : Götz Arndt, Jean-Marie Biwer, Guest Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, Simone Decker, Stina Fisch, Christian Frantzen, Tina Gillen, Tom Hermes, Paul Kirps, Yvan Klein, Filip Markiewicz (Raftside), Isabelle Marmann, Bertrand Ney, Moritz Ney, Antoine Prum, Dany Prum, Roland Quetsch, Pasha Rafiy , Saskia Raux & Marc Scozzai, Danielle Scheuer, Eric Schockmel, Jean-Louis Schuller, The Plug, Jeanine Unsen, Roger Wagner, Trixi Weis, Vera Weisgerber, Wennig & Daubach, October 11, 2008 - February 2, 2009
  • RRRIPP !! Paper Fashion , October 11, 2008 - December 8, 2008
  • Ena Swansea , October 11, 2008 - February 2, 2008
  • Finns at Venini , October 11, 2008 - December 8, 2008
  • Jochen Gerner - Home , December 18, 2008 - March 2, 2009
  • Laure Tixier - Plaid Houses as part of the Home project , December 18, 2008 - March 2, 2009
  • The Space of Words , February 19, 2009 - May 25, 2009
  • Moving Stills as part of Mois Européen de la Photographie / Mutations II , February 19, 2009 - May 25, 2009
  • Dominique Petitgand. La porte ne s'est pas ouverte (The door didn't open) , February 19, 2009 - May 25, 2009
  • Beyond kiosk. Modes of Multiplication , March 15, 2009 - September 13, 2009
  • Nikolay Polissky. Large Hadron Collider as part of Habiter , May 7, 2009 - September 13, 2009
  • Guillaume Leblon , June 18, 2009 - September 13, 2009
  • Florian Pumhösl , June 18, 2009 - September 13, 2009
  • Out of Storage II. Rythmes , June 18, 2009 - September 13, 2009
  • Jerszy Seymour . Coalition of Amateurs , June 18, 2009 - September 13, 2009
  • Claire Barclay , October 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010
  • Olivier Foulon , October 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010
  • Didier Marcel , October 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010
  • Tomás Saraceno , October 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010
  • Go East II. Mudam Collection supported by KBL European Private Bankers , October 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010
  • Damage Control , 2013/2014

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Overall critical of the building and its creation Werner Sewing : Architecture: Samtener Beton. In: Die Zeit , July 19, 2006. On the architecture of the building The building. The fortress as a metaphor. In: Mudam.lu .
  2. ↑ Petra Mikutta: Luxembourg: Europe sits on the Kirchberg plateau.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Merian .de , September 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / merian.spiegel.de  
  3. ^ Mudam Luxembourg: Suzanne Cotter, new director of MUDAM Luxembourg. Mudam Luxembourg, October 6, 2017, accessed October 23, 2017 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 6 ° 8 ′ 23.6 ″  E