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Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg

A biennial incentive supporting emerging European talents in the field of contemporary art. The prize was first awarded in 2005.

The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg is a tribute to the life and work of Edward Steichen, born in Luxembourg in 1879. The prize honors Steichen's artistic achievements as a photographer and curator, as well as his commitment to advocating the arts and nurturing new talent. The Award was created in 2004 to mark the 125th anniversary of Edward Steichen's birth in Bivange, Luxembourg. The official a

nnouncement was made by Luxembourg Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research, Mr François Biltgen, on January 24th 2005 in Clervaux, coinciding with the anniversary of another remarkable event: the opening of Steichen's milestone exhibition The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, in 1955. It will be bestowed for the 4th time on November 24th 2011. The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg is conceived as a cross-cultural, artistical and educational bridge between Luxembourg and New York, the city which would become the home of Edward Steichen.

19/08/2026

The award ceremony of the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg is just around the corner, marking the close of another two-year cycle supporting emerging European artists.

The new laureates will be announced on the night, continuing a partnership between Luxembourg and New York that goes back to 2005, through a residency at ISCP.

Our newsletter keeps you close to this journey. Discover the residents’ projects, follow their paths between Luxembourg and New York, and read exclusive interviews.

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Photos: © Marianne Villière, © Clio Van Aerde

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10/08/2026

Michèle Walerich is a curator whose work spans exhibitions, collections, research and writing, focused on decorative arts, design and visual culture.

She recently joined the Department of Decorative Arts at the Musée national d’archéologie, d’histoire et d’art (Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart), where she co-curated the exhibition ‘Vu Lilien a Linnen’, on the interwoven and porous fields of Arts and Crafts in Luxembourg at the turn of the twentieth century. Previously she was Head of Photography at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA - Centre national de l'audiovisuel), where she curated exhibitions including ‘The Bitter Years – Steichen Collections’.

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07/08/2026

Clément Minighetti is part of this year’s jury for the Edward Steichen Award. He joined Mudam Luxembourg in 2000, became Curator of the Collection in 2004, and led the museum’s exhibition program as Chief Curator from 2007 to 2024.

Recent exhibitions he has curated include Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Fly In League With The Night (2022), Rayyane Tabet’s Trilogy (2023), and, as associate curator, Cosima von Bonin’s Songs for Gay Dogs (2024). Since June 2024, he has been working as an independent curator based in Luxembourg.

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24/07/2026

Melinda Lang is part of this year’s jury for the Edward Steichen Award. Melinda Lang is Director of Programs and Exhibitions at ISCP in New York, the institution that hosts our laureates during their residency.

Her curatorial work includes shows at the Whitney Museum, where she curated ‘Andrea Carlson: Red Exit’ and contributed to exhibitions such as ‘Edward Hopper’s New York’ and ‘Calder: Hypermobility’. She has also worked at the Guggenheim and MoMA, and writes for publications including the Brooklyn Rail.

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29/06/2026

More than ten years ago, Luxembourgish artist Sophie Jung, who lives and works between Basel and London, received the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg, in 2013.

Jung works across sculpture, installation, performance, video and text. Sophie Jung practice is deeply rooted in language, using puns, double meanings and verbal slippages to open unexpected connections between objects, stories and ideas.

In 2023, she presented Reifiction at Diana Gallery in Milan. The exhibition brought together new sculptures and installations alongside a series of early analogue photographs taken in 2009 and 2010, before Jung shifted her focus toward sculpture and performance. By revisiting these works after more than a decade, she explored the relationship between photography and her later practice, both shaped by an interest in overlooked objects, forgotten spaces and the multiple meanings things can carry.

The exhibition offered a rare opportunity to trace the origins of Jung’s artistic language and demonstrated how her interest in ambiguity, narrative and transformation has remained central throughout her career.

The exhibition came several years after Jung’s residency in New York, supported by the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg.

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22/06/2026

Clio Van Aerde presents her solo exhibition “working hard on working less” at Gallery Escher Theater Escher Theater Ville d‘Esch, curated by Danielle Igniti Ods Queen. The exhibition runs from 14 May to 30 June 2026, Tuesday to Saturday, 2pm to 6pm.

The series brings together sculpture, installation and painting, developed within the framework of Clio Van Aerde’s research project WORK IT, which investigates functional movement and the relationship between bodies, tools and labour. The work continues to expand following the Dissident Brooms residency at KULTURFABRIK ASBL in Esch-sur-Alzette in March 2026.

On 24 June at 4:30pm, Clio Van Aerde will host a guided tour through the exhibition.

© Emile Hengen Emile Hengen

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17/06/2026

The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg supports two emerging European artists every two years, giving them the means to live and work abroad. ✨

Each laureate spends time in residence at ISCP in New York, immersing themselves in the city’s international art community and building connections beyond Luxembourg.

Our newsletter follows that journey closely: studio updates, reflections from the artists, and interviews along the way.

👉 Subscribe via the link in our bio or here www.tinyurl.com/subscribeESAL

ISCP The Estate of Edward Steichen

17/06/2026

The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg supports two emerging European artists every two years, giving them the means to live and work abroad. ✨

Each laureate spends time in residence at ISCP in New York, immersing themselves in the city’s international art community and building connections beyond Luxembourg.

Our newsletter follows that journey closely: studio updates, reflections from the artists, and interviews along the way.

👉 Subscribe via the link in our bio or here tinyurl.com/supportESAL

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10/06/2026

Marianne Villière () is currently in residence at La Maison Forte (). Together with Nicolas Pasquereau (), she is presenting Motifs de rencontres: L’art des abordages, running from 1 to 21 June. The project brings together two artists whose practices share an interest in participatory forms, alternative pedagogies, and attention to the present moment.

“Today, what are we raising a glass to?” Visitors chose their answer on a label attached to a drink, toasting to friendship, to social justice, and more.

01/06/2026

Ten years ago, Max Pinckers received the Edward Steichen Award.

His practice sits at the boundary between documentary and staged fiction. Rather than positioning himself as a neutral observer, Pinckers affirms his presence in the work. He frames and directs the world around him, raising questions about what we accept as real and how photography constructs that reality.

Since 2015, has continued developing his practice across a range of projects, taking him to Thailand, the United States, North Korea, and Kenya, among others. In each case, he has questioned the objectivity of documentary photography, expanding his image-making to include performance, restaging, and other subjective perspectives.

One of those projects is 2020-MMXX, made in Rome during the pandemic. Commissioned by the Capital of Rome, the work uses multiple cameras firing simultaneously to photograph the same staged scene from different angles. Each perspective reveals something the others cannot. There is no single privileged view, no decisive moment. Time, in Pinckers’s hands, is layered and overlapping rather than fixed.

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