Mudam

About

The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (French: Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean), abbreviated to Mudam, is a museum of modern art in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The museum stands on the site of the old Fort Thüngen, on the southwestern edge of the Kirchberg-plateau, in close proximity to many of the European Union institutions based within the city.

First proposed in 1989 and championed by then- Prime Minister Jacques Santer, the location of the future museum was much disputed, until it was agreed in 1997 to use Dräi Eechelen Park and connect the museum to Fort Thüngen. The building was designed by Pritzker Prize -winning architect I. M. Pei, and cost $100m to build. The museum was inaugurated on 1 July 2006 by Grand Duke Jean, to whom the building is dedicated, and opened to the public the following day.

As Luxembourg had no public modern art collection and the museum budget did not allow acquiring a modernist collection, the museum focused on contemporary art – its permanent collection includes works by 100 artists, including: Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Julian Schnabel, Thomas Struth, and Daniel Buren.

Under the direction of Marie-Claude Beaud, in its first year of public opening, the museum achieved a record attendance of more than 115,000 visitors.

The Museum's collections are set out on three floors and include works by many artists and designers such as Alvar Aalto, Marina Abramović, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Pierre Bismuth, Sophie Calle, Hussein Chalayan, Claude Closky, James Coleman, Tony Cragg, San Damon, Richard Deacon, Mark Dean, Stan Douglas, Jan Fabre, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roland Fischer, Günther Förg, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Peter Halley, Thomas Hirschhorn, Fabrice Hybert, Suki Seokyeong Kang, 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, Charles Sandison, Joe Scanlan (artist), Thomas Scheibitz, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cy Twombly and Kara Walker.

- TOMORROW NOW – when design meets science fiction, 25 May 2007–24 September 2007.

- "bloom! Experiments in Color Photography by Edward Steichen " 14 July 2007 – 3 September 2007

- " Glenn Ligon : some changes" 13 October 2007–19 February 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 13 October 2007–26 November 2007

- "A propos des lieux d'origine, Portugal Agora" (Panorama of Portuguese contemporary creation) 15 December 2007 – 7 April 2008

- " Michel Paysant – Nusquam" 15 December 2007 – 7 April 2008

- Frédéric Prat 6 March 2008 – 26 May 2008

- Out of Storage I – chosen 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 – 26 May 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... 26 April 2008 – 1 September 2008

- Candice Breitz – Be My Somebody 26 April 2008–22 September 2008

- Grayson Perry – My Civilisation 19 June 2008–22 September 2008

- Thomas Scheibitz – about 90 elements / TOD IM DSCHUNGEL 19 June 2008–22 September 2008

- Laurent Pariente 3 July 2008 – 15 September 2008

- Nouvelles Formes, Pierre Charpin à Sèvres 11 October 2008 – 7 November 2008

- Ettore Sottsass & Sottsass Associati 11 October 2008 – 1 December 2008