Uncompromising, often daring choices, a coherent yet polymorphous artistic body of work. That’s how we might define the work of Aline Bouvy (born in 1974), who has just been chosen to represent Luxembourg at the next Venice Biennale in 2026. She will be supported by Casino Luxembourg and Kultur LX to bring to bring her project to fruition.

The artist lives and works between Belgium and Luxembourg, exploring a wide range of media including sculpture, drawing, photography and sound. She likes to question our relationship with the body and space, provoking ambiguous experiences that are both attractive and repulsive. Marianne Derrin writes of her work: “While her works contain a strong sensory charge linked to identity and taboos, the history of bodies, both male and female, is summoned up in their latent and sexual, domestic, intimate and political relationships. By revisiting the slow utopian trajectory of a culture in the process of turning away from the dominant models of patriarchy and heteronormativity, the libido, freed from all morality and without judgement, deposes the bodies that embody the authority of a society that monitors and locks up our bodies. This exposure of the world under surveillance allows her to subvert both the aesthetic and political codes of power and domination in order to destabilise our reference points.”

The Venice exhibition will be curated by Stilbé Schroeder, and will follow a solo exhibition planned for the Casino in 2025. The institution, which has been following and presenting Bouvy’s work for many years, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026.

A new feature of the upcoming Biennial is that a selection of artists will be able to receive support as they discover the Biennial, and there will be opportunities for discussion with the winning artist and international curators.

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