Program

Villa Vauban

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  Villa Vauban

  Workshop for children: Clear to cloudy

  17H00 – 23H00 (Multilingual)

  From 6 years old, for accompanied children from 4 years old. Without registration.

  During this workshop, children discover how the famous English artist John Constable manages to paint the most beautiful clouds, inspiring them to draw a stunning cloudy sky themselves.

   

   

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  Villa Vauban

  Strolling concert: Duo Kiasma

  20H00 | 21H00 | 22H00 | 23H00

  Together, Pierre Fontenelle and Frin Wolter form the Duo Kiasma, boldly traveling across different stylistic horizons by combining the sounds of their respective instruments, the cello and the accordion, in an unclassifiable repertoire. Through their creativity, spontaneity and modernity, these two young virtuosos share their personal vision of the role of the musician in the 21st century.

   

   

   

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  DJ Set: Shacha

  21H00 – 01H00

  Luxembourg-born DJ Duo Shania and Charlotte have been best friends for over 20 years. Two short years ago, they both decided to play music together and share their passion.

  The girls first discovered their love for electronic music in 2017 at a Jet Hangar festival with an all female line-up in South Africa. Shortly after this, they got inspired to start investing time and energy into creating their own sets. Their aim is to spice up the Luxembourgish music scene by introducing more female energy into the city’s nightlife. Living in Madrid and Vienna, they both work on different projects, however, they already had the chance to play at some bigger events in their hometown Luxembourg City, among other events also for Ultraschall Collective.

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  "Coup de cœur" with Fabienne Gorges

  18H00 & 20H00

  Fabienne Gorges was born in Luxembourg. A student in psychology, she developed a liking for spoken word in the United States, where she joined a collective and learned the art of spoken word poetry from scratch. Among other things, she learned how important it is for text, voice, role and posture to be in tune if a spoken word performance is to be successful.

  Fabienne is a fresh and important voice in a fast-moving world that is currently undergoing dramatic changes.She stands for a young generation that is expected to take on several global crises at once: climate, war, pandemic. The young poet takes her audience on a highly emotional journey punctuated by bombastic rhymes and moving words.

   

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  Guided tours of the exhibition 'John Constable’s English Landscapes. Masterpieces from the Tate Collection'

  17H15, 18H30 & 23H00 (FR) | 20H30 (LU/DE) | 22H30 & 24H00 (EN)

  John Constable (1776–1837) is one of England’s most celebrated painters. Together with J.M.W. Turner, with whom he shares a masterly use of colour shades to depict light, he contributed to the flourishing of 19th-century British landscape painting. Constable sought and found his motifs exclusively in his native environment, the county of Suffolk and the surroundings of Salisbury, Hampstead and Brighton. For his large-format paintings he made numerous sketches in the open countryside. Constable also influenced French Romanticism and the École de Barbizon.

   

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  Guided tours of the exhibition 'A stroll through art. European painting and sculpture, 17th – 19th century'

  19H30 (FR) | 21H30 (LU/DE) | 23H30 (EN)

  With more than 100 paintings and 14 sculptures, Villa Vauban’s permanent exhibition takes visitors on a journey through three centuries of artistic creation: from the 17th-century Netherlands to Italian dreamscapes and French painting around 1850. In addition to styles, art periods and numerous masterpieces, there are small formats and miniatures to discover, as well as the spectacular acquisitions of Jean-Pierre Pescatore, benefactor of the City of Luxembourg, on the occasion of the auction of King William II of the Netherlands’ collection in 1850. The great diversity of subjects and artistic styles is conveyed at the beginning of the tour in the form of an immersive video projection that transports visitors into the atmosphere of the paintings they will discover on their stroll through art.

   

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  Thematic guided tours: The Villa Vauban and its sculpture park

  17H30 (LU) | 19H00 (EN), 60 min.

  The Villa Vauban, Art Museum of the City of Luxembourg, is located in the middle of a park designed by Édouard André (1840 - 1911), one of the main landscape artists of his time, and reconstituted in its original form. Discover the park and its sculptures during a guided tour.

   

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  Thematic guided tours: Meet the masters

  21H00, 22H45 & 23H45 (FR)

  Discover the Grand Masters of our collection: Gustave Courbet, Adam Pynacker, Jan Havicksz Steen

   

   

   

   

   

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  Thematic guided tours: Discovery of the casemates in the park of the Villa Vauban

  18H00–19H30 (FR) | 20H00–21H30 (LU/DE) | 22H00–23H30 (EN)

  Remember to bring a small flashlight! The visit begins in the park of Villa Vauban.

   

   

   

   

   

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  Villa Vauban

  Culinary Night

  Ongoing

  Ginger Head Food Truck: Ginger Head is a food truck that serves delicious burgers made with fresh and local products. All our recipes and homemade sauces are elaborated by our Chef to please all gourmets.

  John's Cottage: For a picnic or just a walk in the garden of Villa Vauban, John's Cottage offers typical English cuisine: scones, bagels (vegetarian, salmon or ham) and homemade desserts such as banana bread, cheesecake, biscuits, carrot cake.... Drinks are also available (beer, cider, crémant, champagne, but also natural juices produced in the region.)

  Drinks by "Benoît Claude viticulteurs": Benoît & Claude Viticulteurs, a small, family run winemaker located on top of the vineyards in Remich. For the night of the museum, meet us at the Villa Vauban for a glass of “rouden Fiederwäissen”, a first taste of the 2022 wines.

• Photographic credits

  Photo 1: © Christian Aschman
  Photo 2: © Nicodraps
  Photo 3: Shacha
  Photo 4: Fabienne Gorges, © fvbian.s
  Photos 5-9: © Christof Weber
  Photo 10: © Ginger Head