Julie Conrad
Julie Conrad, (born in 1988 in Luxembourg where she lives and works), graduated in Art Design from Créapôle Paris in 2012. She gained experience through internships with numerous companies and design studios such as Ferrero, Acer (Paris), MIO (Philadelphia) and Designtree (New Zealand) among others. Interested in mixing craft and industrial production with a penchant for sustainable design, she set up her own studio with a focus on furniture, accessories and space design in Luxembourg City in 2013. Since then, she has won multiple competitions such as the 2021 Luxinnovation circular by design challenge in the interior design category with her project CEGO, which has just been integrated into the VIA incubation programme in Paris, or the 2020 competition for the design of a theatre set, named IS(O)LANDS, for 8 plays about the confinement caused by Covid19. In addition to client commissions, Julie Conrad Design Studio develops lines of self-published objects and furniture. The marriage of material and function, in combination with a narrative approach, is at the heart of her creation.
Adolf El Assal
Adolf El Assal (born in Alexandria, Egypt, lives and works in Luxembourg). He spent most of his childhood between the United Arab Emirates, the UK and Luxembourg. After graduating from Kingston University (UK) with an MA in Directing in 2008, he directed the award-winning short films The Famous Road ... and Manos de Dio. In 2012, he produced and directed his first feature film The Famous Guys. In 2019, Ady released his second feature film Sawah (over 80 festival selections, 23 awards - first Luxembourg feature film on Netflix). He has just co-directed the series Baraki which will be released in autumn 2021 on RTBF in Belgium. Currently, he is preparing his next feature film Hooped (shooting planned summer 2022) as well as the series Finding Rosa (spin-off based on his film Sawah). Ady is also a Berlinale Talent and member of the European Film Academy as well as EAVE and Screen Leaders.
Guy Helminger
Guy Helminger (born 1963 in Luxembourg, lives in Cologne) is a writer. Following studies in German literature and philosophy in Luxembourg, Heidelberg and Cologne, he writes poems, novels, plays, radio plays and screenplays. Winner of several literary prizes, such as the Dresdner Lyrikpreis in 2016, his latest prose includes Die Allee der Zähne. Aufzeichnungen und Fotos aus Iran published by capybarabooks (2018), Die Lehmbauten des Lichts. Aufzeichnungen und Fotos aus dem Jemen published by capybarabooks (2019), and Die Lombardi-Affäre (2020). In poetry Die Tagebücher der Tannen, Rugerup Edition 2018 and the most recent theatre text is Jockey which premiered at Kasenmattentheater (LU) in 2019.
Karolina Markiewicz & Pascal Piron
The collective work of Karolina Markiewicz (born 1976 in Luxembourg, where she lives and works) and Pascal Piron (born 1981 in Luxembourg, where he lives and works) combines film, visual arts and theatre. At the centre is the individual as part of a human community, oscillating between resignation and hope. It is with poetic material that the two artists probe history, interrogating myths in the present while transforming the past into a metaphorical narrative. Their collaboration began in 2013 with the exhibition Everybody Should Have the Right to Die in an Expensive Car. In 2014, they made their first documentary, Les Formidables, which tells the story of five young migrants in Luxembourg. The same year, they created the video blog www.kulturstruktur.com. In 2015, they created the Philoktet project, which includes the eponymous play by Heiner Müller and an exhibition comparing the Greek tragedy with Robert Oppenheimer's atomic bomb. In the same year, they made their second documentary, Mos Stellarium, in which they followed six young refugees in Luxembourg. The video installation of this one, in which different parts of the film are projected simultaneously in order to offer a non-linear reading of the film, represents Liechtenstein at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. Since 2016 they have been creating a film project, consisting of 15 short films, entitled Side Effects of Reality. In 2018, they made the first virtual reality project, Fever , and followed it up with Sublimation, also in virtual reality, selected for the 76th Venice Film Festival in 2019 and accompanied by a live performance with Yuko Kominami and Kevin Muhlen. In 2020, they make My identity is this expanse, also in virtual reality, and their monographic exhibition pfh at the Centre national de l'audiovisuel. In 2021, they release their documentary, The living witnesses in Europe and the United States and create their monographic exhibition Stonger than memory and weaker than dewdrops at Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain.
Karolina Markiewicz studied political science, philosophy and theatre. She is an artist-director.
Pascal Piron studied visual arts. He is an artist and director. Both are teachers.
Simone Mousset
Simone Mousset, (born in 1988, lives and works between Luxembourg, France and England) studied in London between 2007 and 2015, first at Trinity Laban, then at the Royal Academy of Dance and finally at the London Contemporary Dance School. Simone Mousset is a Luxembourgish dancer and choreographer who makes her mark with her singularity and original approach to dance.
She works as a freelance choreographer and in 2018 created her own company Simone Mousset Projects. The company works in close collaboration with Vasanthi Argouin, producer and the artists' house Les indépendances in Paris as well as with Nika Parkhomovskaya, Russian curator.
Patrick Muller
Patrick Muller (b. 1978, lives and works in Berlin) is a Luxembourg-based artist and designer working in the fields of sound art and multimedia installations focusing on interactive systems and experimental design processes.
He develops concepts, creates artistic content and manages projects in the art sector, but also for agencies and industrial clients. Patrick studied in Cologne, Liverpool and Berlin with renowned artists such as Robert Henke (Ableton, Monolake), Sam Auinger, and Karl Bartos (Kraftwerk), among others.
Apart from his artistic projects, Patrick Muller teaches at the SRH Hochschule der populären Künste in Berlin, is the co-founder of the agency *Invisible Design, and is a consultant for oblique.furniture, an award-winning design studio also based in Berlin.
Renelde Pierlot
Renelde Pierlot, who graduated from the Conservatoire Royal de Liège in 2011, is an actress and director.
As an actress she worked in Luxembourg with C. Lorang, M. Muller, T. Dockal, S. Langevin, F. Schmit and A. Simon; in Belgium with P. Bebi and in Germany with U. Günther in Germany.
Renelde Pierlot started directing with the company Les FreReBride(s ), for which she co-wrote and directed the diptych Famille(s), as well as Robert(s), an ecological show in which the audience generates the necessary electricity.
She then created and directed the triptych Voir la feuille à l'envers as well as the show Let Me Die Before I Wake in collaboration with Lucilin at the Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg and Pas un pour me dire merci at the Théâtre d'Esch.