Arts Council Luxembourg selected artist Aline Bouvy and curator Stilbé Schroeder to produce the exhibition at the Luxembourg pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale.
By selecting Aline Bouvy, Kultur | lx and Casino Luxembourg seek, above all, to honour and showcase the artist's 25-year long career. Aline Bouvy has built an international career that has been tremendously consistent in artistic terms whilst also making successfully bold choices that always surprise. Refusing to restrict herself to expected norms or make compromises, Bouvy explores a range of techniques, creating a body of work that is dense and polymorphic, unfolding over time, fed by constant research, individual and group exhibitions, artist residencies and international collaborations.
Casino Luxembourg has followed Aline Bouvy's work for many years, and she has been part of several group exhibitions at the institution. This longstanding relationship, built on mutual trust, was further strengthened through the preparation of her first institutional solo show in Luxembourg, Hot Flashes, curated by Stilbé Schroeder and on view until October 12. Aline Bouvy’s selection for the 61th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is grounded in strong artistic and personal foundations, essential for undertaking a collaboration of this scale.
Born in 1974 in Watermael-Boitsfort (Belgium), Aline Bouvy is a visual artist whose work touches on the universal. Her art acts as a tool for questioning bodies, spaces, and norms, subverting conventions while drawing on a feminist vision. Aline Bouvy studied at the ERG – École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels, then at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Among her solo exhibitions, Cruising Bye at MACS Grand Hornu in Charleroi in 2022 constitutes the largest collection of her works shown to date. Recently, her work has been shown at Triangle-Astérides in Marseille (2024), Kunsthal Gent in Ghent (2021), New Space in Liège (2020), and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2019).
Main Image: Aline Bouvy and Stilbé Schroeder. © Ernest Thiesmeier, 2025