Damage Control. An exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg.

A visit at Mudam is already worth its café alone - for having a homemade quiche, coffee and a piece of tarte or just a book. The French designers Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec helped to create a spacious, open relaxation area in Luxembourg's "Musée d'Art Moderne" where you could easily spend an hour or two before, after or in between an exhibition tour. Until October 12th a visit at Mudam is double worth it as lovers of contemporary and experimental art will travel through half a century of destruction that has many faces: rebellion or protest, spectacle and release or simply recreation and restoration.

Jeff Wall: The Destroyed Room

"Damage Control" shows the work of many international artists such as the photographer Thomas Demand, pop artist Andy Warhol and the Brooklyn born artist Raphael Montanez Ortiz whose "Piano Destruction Concert" impresses right at the beginning of this exhibition. The mix of films, sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs and installations around this rather oppressive matter revives the different facets and levels of damage and destruction - caused by accident or intention, entailing grave consequences or irrelevant ones.

Istvan Csakany's Bernsteinzimmer is a reconstruction of a private atelier made of wood. Chaotic order or orderly chaos? Definitely detached from time and space:

Part of the permanent exhibition is the chapel the Belgium artist Wim Delvoye has made for Mudam. The gothic-inspired spiritual room with stained glass windows contains subversive imagery: kisses, obscene gestures, x-rayed skeletons and human intestines that create a provocative atmosphere.

A nice little way to get yourself involved - by creation - is the word container where visitors can leave an oral love confession of their favorite word(s). The container is emptied once a week and then cut together as a sound installation will for example be presented during the upcoming exhibition "Art & Me" from 8 November 2014.