A Model
Roma Publications/Mudam Luxembourg
A catalogue parallels the exhibition A Model at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.
The museum’s director, Bettina Steinbrügge, conceived this exhibition as a conversation with the ever-evolving contemporary art museum. This publication, with a sweeping essay about the roles museums can take, in theory, in practice and in use, enacts how Steinbrügge engages the artists in the exhibition to sit with this shifting idea. The exhibition uses the format of prologue, body, and epilogue to overlap gestures in the museum space by commissioning major works from artists such as Nina Beier & Bob Kil, Rayyane Tabet, Oscar Murillo, and Claire Fontaine, as well as historical works by Alvar Aalto and Tomaso Binga. Likewise, this book engages designer Julie Peeters, photographer Adrianna Glaviano, and artist Jason Dodge as editors to stage a publication that creates a new exhibition, A Model, between these pages.
This catalogue, with its finish somewhere between a photobook and an exhibition catalogue, is exceptionally beautiful, featuring a meticulously constructed design and a recurring structure.
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Title: A Model
Artist: Bettina Steinbrügge, Jason Dodge
Publisher: Roma Publications/Mudam Luxembourg, 2025
Design: Julie Peeters
Photography: Adrianna Glaviano
Format: Softcover
Size: 220 × 290 mm
Pages: 248
Language: English
Edition: First edition
ISBN: 9789464460759