2025 edition
The 2025 Robert Schuman Art Prize is being organised by the City of Metz and the École supérieure d'Art de Lorraine (ÉSAL). The works of 16 artists selected by the curators of each of the QuattroPole cities will be exhibited. The exhibitions will run from 13 November 2025 to 11 January 2026 in three locations in Metz: Galerie Octave Cowbell, the ÉSAL gallery and the Arsenal Jean-Marie Rausch exhibition gallery.
Luxembourg
As part of the 17th Robert Schuman Art Prize, four artists have been selected by the coordinators Liliana Francisco and Steven Cruz (La Concierge ASBL) to represent Luxembourg City in the Greater Region's foremost art award.
At the request of the City's two municipal museums, the two Luxembourg coordinators selected the artists based on their consideration of a question: In today’s world and at a time of ever greater individualism and social disconnection, how can art reaffirm the importance of emotions, personal experiences and human connection? The works of these artists, which all share a highly contemporary aesthetic, engage in a dialogue with the tensions of our time: social alienation, the search for identity, latent dystopia and the illusion of a reality shaped by our perceptions.
The selected artists also embody Luxembourg's "multiplicity": its considerable cultural diversity, and its cosmopolitan and multilingual character.
Bruno Oliveira, born in 1993 in Portugal, lives and works in Luxembourg
Project: Sanfins
The artist revisits his childhood in the Portuguese village of Sanfins, explores what is absent from it and imagines what could have been. His video installation is presented as an immersive journey. The work questions the notion of uprooting, the abandonment of rural spaces, the fragility of legacies and the challenges of constructing an identity between two cultures.
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Jil Lahr, born in 1991 in Luxembourg, lives and works in Hamburg
Project: Das Haus ist mir ein Traum
The artist brings together everyday items, found objects, and natural and personal elements to create simple, original installations – in this case a dome made of orphan socks. She questions what our eye chooses to leave out, and what these omissions say about us. Her universe merges reality and illusion while creating atmospheres that are simultaneously perfect, troubling and full of memories, with personal, cultural and spiritual connections.
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Maïté Seimetz, born in 1995 in Luxembourg, divides her time between Paris and Luxembourg
Project: Decepticles
The artist questions the shifting boundary between art, design and technology by creating a series of anthropomorphic and absurd pieces of furniture that are both functional and disconcerting. Seimetz offers a critical reflection on the role of objects in our lives and their emotional and symbolic potential, and explores the possibility of an "artificial connection" between the human and the non-human. Seimetz's work blends science fiction with medieval fantasy while her furniture pieces become narrative agents inspiring critical thought on solitude, collectivity, materiality and the future.
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Zoriana Tymtsiv, born in 2006 in Ukraine, divides her time between Antwerp and Luxembourg
Project: Beneath the Surface: The Skin We Wear, the Skin We Share
The artist focuses on the skin, not as a border but as a shared surface: a symbolic territory where our identities, behaviours and social legacies are negotiated. Depicting nude bodies painted without distinct outlines, skin stretched like rugs, and faces of watching and imitating children, she questions our tendency to shape ourselves by mimicry and offers a rare, lucid perspective on the human condition.
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