Art Talk Rewind is a podcast series presented by Luxembourg Art Week, revisiting the talks held during the fair. Partners and their guests explore the key questions shaping contemporary creation and the art market.
David Claerbout's exploration into the technological image amounts to a unique practice merging experimental cinema, video installation, digital animation, and information-based live streaming. At the core of his work is an essential interest in the way we perceive images, creating setups that continuously rearrange the distinction between vision, memory, and hallucination.
In parallel to his comprehensive exhibition Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years, presented at Konschthal Esch (10.2025—02.2026) during the fair, the artist David Claerbout, independent curator Ory Dessau, and Christian Mosar, director of Konschthal address these visual paradigms.
Recorded live at Luxembourg Art Week 2025, and serving as an encapsulated overview of both earlier and recent works from Claerbout's complex oeuvre, the conversation dives into his artistic evolution and our relationship with structural time. The speakers also discuss his latest creative developments, including The woodcarver and the forest, examining how his performative film installations challenge traditional narrative frameworks. By shifting from works simply to be seen to installations designed to be lived with over several years, the talk outlines new sensory possibilities for the contemporary spectator.
In collaboration with Konschthal Esch.
The exhibition Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years took place from October 2025 to February 2025 at Konschthal Esch.
Guest speakers
• David Claerbout, artist
• Ory Dessau, curator and writer
• Christian Mosar, director of Konschthal Esch & Bridderhaus
Biographies
For over thirty years, the work of David Claerbout has focused on a singular and reflective approach to the production, presentation, and perception of images. The fusion of the human and the technological serves as the guiding thread of his practice, running through his images, films, installations, and drawings.
Ory Dessau is an independent curator and writer who has collaborated with major institutions such as the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), the S.M.A.K. (Ghent), and the Moderna Museet Malmö. As the co-curator of this show, he authored the main essay in the monograph dedicated to the artist's work, published by König Books.
Christian Mosar is an art historian, editor, and curator. Since 2020, he has directed the Konschthal Esch Contemporary Art Space and the Bridderhaus artists’ residency, establishing them as key venues for contemporary international creation in Luxembourg.
The 12th edition of Luxembourg Art Week will take place from November 20 to 22, 2026.