Opening of the exhibition Ruin Echoes and of the Project Room Graue Strömung - Marta Dyachenko
Opening of the exhibition Ruin Echoes and of the Project Room Graue Strömung - Marta Dyachenko
The Konschthal Esch is opening its new exhibition:
Karl-Heinz ADLER, Bernd & Hilla BECHER, Laurenz BERGES, Robin BIGRET, Bernhard BOES, Peter BUGGENHOUT, David CLAERBOUT, Sven Erik KLEIN, Stefano DE LUIGI, Edith DEKYNDT, Hans-Georg ESCH, Angela FETTE, Zuza GOLIŃSKA, Ben GREBER, Asta GRÖTING, Gregor HILDEBRANDT, Alfredo JAAR, Hiwa K, Barend Cornelis KOEKKOECK, Alexej KOSCHKAROW, Filip MARKIEWICZ, Xavier MARY, Ewald MATARÉ, Gordon MATTA-CLARK, Luc MERX, Radenko MILAK, Lee MILLER, Carsten NICOLAI, Olaf NICOLAI, Andrea PICHL, RECYCLE GROUP, Emmanuel RÉGENT, Julian ROSEFELDT & Piero STEINLE, Jonas ROẞMEIẞL, Thomas RUFF, Michael SAILSTORFER, Gregor SCHNEIDER, Maya SCHWEIZER, Lé SIBENALER, Santiago SIERRA, Klaus STAECK, Philip TOPOLOVAC, Tim TRANTENROTH, Luc TUYMANS, Clemens VON WEDEMEYER
and its Project Room:
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Friday 23 October 2026 from 6 pm to midnight
Ruin Echoes brings together European and international artists around the theme of the ruin, viewed not as a nostalgic relic but as a space for critical exploration. The exhibition approaches the ruin as a site of tension — material, symbolic and political — and examines entropy, that inevitable process of disorder affecting structures, regimes and memories. Through various media (film, sculpture, installation, photography), the artists adopt an analytical approach to the fragmentary, attentive to traces and absences. Ruin Echoes invites us to view ruins not as endings, but as possible beginnings, bearing new narratives and visions of the future.
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Graue Strömung (Hydro) explores the hidden Alzette in Esch-sur-Alzette and the relationships between the city, water and urbanisation. The covering over and channelling of watercourses is a widespread phenomenon in urban development, making way for transport, developments and infrastructure. Taking the Alzette as its starting point, the exhibition examines how these interventions fit into the physical and spatial structure of the city. Soil, iron, concrete and water become the main players in a negotiated topography.
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7 pm: speeches
7:30 pm: DER UNTERGANG
Performance reading with Luc Feit, Martin Engler and Christian Bader
based on the autobiographical essay by Erich Nossack, 1943
8 pm > midnight: DJ set by Rice Krispie
Opening in collaboration with De Gudde Wëllen.
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Free entrance
Details on konschthal.lu
