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“I believe movement is the language of the body.” Artist Igshaan Adams reflects on movement, memory and experimentation. Looking back through what he calls an “archive of failures,” the artist traces the evolution of his weaving practice and the discoveries that emerged through years of material exploration. Adams also speaks about performance as a way of accessing experiences held in the body – creating space for release, reflection and transformation. Throughout the exhibition, weaving, dance and touch become interconnected forms of expression, inviting visitors into a more intimate encounter with the work. @igshaan.adams @hepworthwakefield @arosartmuseum @instant.prod #IgshaanAdams #weaving #exhibition #contemporaryart #mudamluxembourg

Happening today and tomorrow at Mudam! As part of Luxembourg Museum Days 2026, the museum comes alive with free performances, family tours and hands-on workshops for all ages. This afternoon, Mohamed Toukabri’s ‘Every-Body-Knows’ unfolds throughout the museum, transforming its spaces through movement and shifting encounters. Visitors can also join family tours or drop in throughout the day to build architectural forms in clay and take part in interactive workshops inspired by Simon Fujiwara. Free admission all weekend. Mohamed Toukabri, ‘Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday’, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photos: Stef Stessel

This weekend, Mudam opens its doors for the 2026 edition of Luxembourg Museum Days. Join us for two days of free activities across the museum, bringing together performances, family tours and drop-in workshops for all ages. Visitors are invited to experience the museum through movement, making and collective participation. Saturday 16.05 + Sunday 17.05.2026 Mohamed Toukabri: Every-Body-Knows | 16:30 Dancer and choreographer Mohamed Toukabri's performance breaks down hierarchies to create a language shaped by lived experience, unfolding across multiple spaces. Family Tours | 14:00 (LU), 15:00 (EN), 16:00 (FR) Discover contemporary art through playful explorations, designed for children aged 6 and up and their families. Drop-in! Building Your Bank by SUPERFLEX | All day Use clay moulds inspired by Mudam’s architecture and designed by SUPERFLEX to build models of a (cultural) bank for a future collective installation reshaping Mudam’s surroundings. Drop in! My House, my DADA by DADOFONIC | All day A workshop inspired by the works of Simon Fujiwara. Create your own doll which will inhabit a dollhouse, where famous artworks are reinterpreted in the playfuluniverse of DADOFONIC. Free admission all weekend! @mohamed_toukabri @superflexstudio @simon.fujiwara @whothebaer @collectifdadofonic @museumsinluxembourg @museumsmile (1+2) Mohamed Toukabri, ‘Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And- We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday’, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Stef Stessel Luxembourg Museum Days campaign © ICOM Luxembourg (3) Exhibition view ‘Simon Fujiwara: A Whole New World’, Mudam Luxembourg. Photo: Marion Dessard © Mudam Luxembourg (4) © SUPERFLEX (5) © Collectif Dadofonic / Ligue HMC

This weekend: ‘Every-Body-Knows’ A spatial adaptation of Mohamed Toukabri’s recent work, the performance brings questions of movement, visibility and belonging into the space – asking who is allowed to move and under what conditions. Blending dance traditions often kept apart, Toukabri creates a choreography where past and present intersect, and where movement becomes both a form of inquiry and a quiet act of resistance. Mohamed Toukabri | Every-Body-Knows Saturday + Sunday 16:30 –17:30 Free and open to the public! @mohamed_toukabri #MohamedToukabri #choreagraphy #contemporarydance #performance #mudam #luxembourg Mohamed Toukabri, ‘Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday’, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photos: Stef Stessel

A collection in motion. Beginning tomorrow, ‘Dodeka, 12 works for 12 cantons’ brings twelve works from the Mudam Collection beyond the museum walls and into museums, town halls, libraries and cultural spaces across Luxembourg. As the works travel from canton to canton, new dialogues emerge between contemporary art, local histories and the places that host them. Along the way, a public programme of tours, performances, workshops and concerts brings each stop to life. Pick up your map, collect the stamps – and experience the collection across the country. Opening | Dodeka Centre National de Littérature, Mersch Friday, 15 May 18:00-20:00 Exhibition: 16.05 – 04.10.2026 Free entry, book now at [email protected] #exhibition #contemporaryart #mudam #luxembourg (1) Sin Wai Kin, ‘The Universe’, 2023 (2) Su-Mei Tse, ‘Vertigen de la Vida (Dizziness of Life)’, 2011. In collaboration with Jean-Lou Majerus Collection Mudam Luxembourg Photos: Studio Rémi Villaggi – Metz © Mudam Luxembourg (3) Jessica Diamond, ‘I Hate Business’, 1989. Collection Mudam Luxembourg. Donation 2023 – Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann (4) Annette Kelm, ‘Erich Kästner, Das verhexte Telefon, 1931, Williams & Co. Verlag GmbH, Berlin-Grunewald, Illustration Walter Trier’, 2019. From the series ‘Die Bücher’, 2019–2021 Collection Mudam Luxembourg. Photos: Mareike Tocha © Mudam Luxembourg

Final performance tomorrow night. ‘The Fountain’ reaches its last iteration within ‘Casemates’, as Ivan Cheng’s evolving performance series comes to a close. Between script and system, two performers inhabit a public and a private computer – where exchanges unfold in real time, shaped by logic, interruption and chance. What emerges is unstable, responsive and constantly shifting. One last moment to experience the work live before it disappears. Ivan Cheng | The Fountain with Lev Babych and Jeanna Serikbayeva Tomorrow, 13 May 19:00–19:30 Free entry No booking required @ic_ic @levbabych @jeannaserik #IvanCheng #performance #performanceart #contemporaryart #mudam #luxembourg Ivan Cheng, ‘The Fountain’, Mudam Luxembourg. Performance: Lev Babych, Ivan Cheng, Jeanna Serikbayeva. Costumes: Good & Bad. Photos: Eike Walkenhorst © Mudam Luxembourg

Twelve works. Twelve cantons. One shared journey – opening next week. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Mudam launches ‘Dodeka: 12 works for 12 cantons’ – a project that takes the collection beyond the museum and into communities across the country. Presented in local venues, from libraries to cultural centres, each work enters into dialogue with its surroundings, creating new connections between contemporary art and everyday life. An invitation to encounter the collection differently, across Luxembourg. #contemporaryart #mudam #luxembourg (1) Edith Dekyndt, ‘Provisory Object 03’, 2004. Collection Mudam Luxembourg © Edith Dekyndt (2) Wolfgang Tillmans, ‘Mami’, 1994. Collection Mudam Luxembourg. Donation 2000 – From the artist © Wolfgang Tillmans / Photo : Courtesy Galerie Buchholz (3) Michel Majerus, ‘Halbzeit’, 2002. Collection Mudam Luxembourg. Photo: galerie Max Hetzler © Michel Majerus Estate (4) Serge Ecker, Catherine Lorent and Claudia Passeri, ‘sHe is the future’, 2018. Collection Mudam Luxembourg. Photo: © Serge Ecker (5) Wim Delvoye, ‘Cargas 22810’, ‘Combugaz 35238’ & ‘Butaan Van Delft’, 1988. Collection Mudam Luxembourg. Donation 2022 – Donation American Friends of Mudam, Collection Raymond J. Learsy. Photo: Studio Rémi Villaggi – Metz © Mudam Luxembourg (6) On Kawara, ‘One Million Years (Past and Future)’, 2000. Collection Mudam Luxembourg. Photo: Studio Rémi Villaggi – Metz © Mudam Luxembourg

What does the body remember – and who decides how it moves? Mohamed Toukabri’s ‘Every-Body-Knows’ unfolds as a space where movement carries history, identity and resistance. Drawing on street and stage, hip hop and contemporary dance, his choreography breaks down hierarchies to form a language shaped by lived experience. ‘Every-Body-Knows’ is a spatial adaptation of Toukabri’s solo stage work ‘Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday’ (2025), in which he brings these explorations of dance history and of the very conditions of movement to centre stage. Accompanied by the words of Essia Jaïbi, the performance traces how bodies hold memory – what is inherited, what is learned and what is still in motion. Mohamed Toukabri | Every-Body-Knows 16 May + 17 May 16:30 –17:30 In the framework of the Luxembourg Museum Days Free and open to the public @mohamed_toukabri @museumsinluxembourg #MohamedToukabri #choreagraphy #contemporarydance #performance #mudam #luxembourg #lumudays Photo 1: Mohamed Toukabri, ‘The Power (of) The Fragile’. 2021. Photo: Christian Tandberg Dansens Hus, Oslo Photo 2: Mohamed Toukabri, ‘Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And- We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday’, 2025. Courtesy of the artist . Photo: Stef Stessel

What if a bank could be built collectively – and belong to everyone? At the invitation of Mudam, the artist collective SUPERFLEX transforms Park Dräi Eechelen into an open, evolving space for gathering, exchange and play. As part of the first phase of ‘The Bank,’ visitors are invited to take part in a series of hands-on workshops – using clay moulds inspired by the museum to imagine and build their own versions of a (cultural) bank. These collective constructions will gradually inform a permanent space shaped by participation. Drop in, build, experiment – and be part of a project that grows over time. Drop-in! Building Your Bank A series of workshops 16.05 – 12.07.2026: On weekends, 10:00 – 18:00 16.07 – 14.09.2026: Tuesday – Sunday, 10:00 – 18:00 19.09 – 30.09.2026: On weekends, 10:00 – 18:00 Public presentation and conversation by SUPERFLEX: 06.06.2026 | 15:00 – EN @superflexstudio Photo: © SUPERFLEX

What does it mean to be a ‘Self’ today? In the work of Simon Fujiwara, this question unfolds across a range of forms – from video installations to paintings and immersive, themed environments. With humour, inventiveness and rigour, his practice reflects on how identity is shaped in a world mediated by technology and images, asking how we construct a self, what remains authentic and how these notions continue to shift. Holding up a distorted mirror to contemporary life, Fujiwara creates spaces where the contradictions of the present can be examined – at once playful, disorienting and revealing. @simon.fujiwara @whothebaer @sapinx #SimonFujiwara #contemporaryart #exhibition #mudam #luxembourg Exhibition views, ‘Simon Fujiwara: A Whole New World’, Mudam Luxembourg. Courtesy of the artist; Gió Marconi, Milano; TARO NASU, Tokyo; Dvir Gallery Paris, Tel Aviv, Brussels and Esther Schipper Berlin/Paris/Seoul. Photo: Andrea Rossetti © Mudam Luxembourg

“I avoid giving a definitive status to my works,” says Victor Man. “I like the idea of gently penetrating things and keeping a certain distance. If things become too explicit, I add another element which upsets their coherence.” As part of Mudam’s 20th anniversary, we look back at his exhibition, which closed on this day in 2012, where paintings and assemblages unfolded as atmospheric, ambiguous constellations of images. Marked by melancholy and quiet tension, the works brought together references from art history, literature, popular culture and personal memory – forming what the artist described as “zones of turbulence,” where meaning remains unstable and constantly shifting. Rather than offering fixed narratives, each work opened onto fragments of unfinished stories, inviting viewers into a space where the sacred, the erotic and the uncanny coexist. @a.etilice #VictorMan #contemporaryart #mudam Exhibition views, ‘Victor Man’, 11.02 – 06.05.2012 Mudam Luxembourg. Photo 1: Plan B Cluj, Berlin. Photos 2 + 3: Andrés Lejona © Mudam Luxembourg

“Labour is an act of worship and weaving is labour made visible.” — Igshaan Adams In ‘Between Then and Now,’ weaving becomes a language – one shaped by rhythm, repetition and many hands. Drawing on personal memory, spirituality and shared histories, Adams creates layered works that move between textile, sculpture and performance. From monumental tapestries made of cotton, beads and found materials to immersive installations and dance prints, each work carries traces of movement, care and collaboration. Rooted in his upbringing in apartheid-era South Africa, these materials speak to systems of value, while transforming the everyday into something deeply resonant. Step into a world shaped through material, gesture and collective making. @igshaan.adams @hepworthwakefield @arosartmuseum #IgshaanAdams #weaving #exhibition #contemporaryart #mudam #luxembourg Exhibition views ‘Igshaan Adams: Between Then and Now’, Mudam Luxembourg. Photo: Marc Domage © Mudam Luxembourg