BIOGRAPHY
Justine Blau is a visual artist, creating works that explore the various languages and usages of photography, particularly in a vernacular context. She is interested in the role culture plays in shaping an environment or people’s interactions. Many of her works deal with the complex and peculiar relationship humankind maintains with what we qualify as “nature.” She just finalised a film Phusis produced by the Film Fund in Luxembourg and is releasing a book Veil of Nature in fall 2023 with Berlin-based editor K.Verlag.
Blau studied at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London.
CV
2021 JE SUIS UN MORCEAU DE PAYSAGE, Annexe Esch22, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
2020 VIDA INERTE, Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2015 DON’T PANIC, This Is A Harmless Exhibition, CAPE, Ettelbruck, Luxembourg
2014 WHAT COLOUR IS THE RED PLANET, REALLY ?, CNA, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2013 LOS PRIMEROS EMPRENDEDORES, Galerie Toutouchic, Metz, France
2012 LOS PRIMEROS EMPRENDEDORES, Centre d’Art Dominique Lang, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2011 SCHENGENLAND, Aica Kiosk, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2010 THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE CUMANÁN CACTUS, Manchester Piccadilly Station, Manchester, United-Kingdom
2009 SOMEWHERE ELSE, Stables Gallery, Londres, United-Kingdom
2022 RE-RETOUR DE BABEL, Galerie Nei Liicht et Dominique, Lang, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2022 NEW MINETT – DE TERRES ROUGES EN TERRES ROUGES, Compagnie Eddie Van Tsui, Konschthal, Esch-sur Alzette, Luxembourg
2021 RESSAC/RE, WaterWalls Festival, avec Stéphane Ghislain Roussel, Esch-sur-Sûre, Luxembourg
2021 RETHINKING NATURE, Mois européen de la Photographie, Cercle cité, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2019 RÉANIMATION avec Mireille Gros, Ein Ferster imitent der Walt, Murrhardt, Germany
2018 PAYSAGES RECOMPOSÉS, Prieuré de Pont-loup, Moret sur Loing, France
2018 PRIX D’ART ROBERT SCHUMAN, Metz, France
2017 ESPACE SANS ÉCHELLES, DKOLLEKTIV, CNA, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2017 A BAO A QOU, curated by Anthony Lenoir, Bamhaus, Luxembourg
2017 CORRIDOR 2, PACHAMAMA, Insitu, Berlin, Germany
2016 MÉMOIRE VIVE, un projet DKOLLEKTIV, CDMH, Luxembourg
2016 ATELIER D, un projet DKOLLEKTIV, site du Laminoir, Luxembourg
2016 LEAP – ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ARTISTS PRIZE, Rotondes, Luxembourg
2015 THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE CUMANÁN CACTUS, Cité de l’Image, Clervaux, Luxembourg
2015 TOUS LES CHEMINS MÈNENT À SCHENGEN, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
2014 THE PHOTOGRAPHERS, Beetles & Huxley Gallery, Londres, United-Kingdom
2014 THE PROJECT, Galerie Bradtke, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2014 THE WORLD IS BLUE LIKE AN ORANGE, Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2013 SUBJECTIVE MAPS / DISAPPEARANCES, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Island
2013 DISTURBANCES – LANDESCAPES, Mois Européen de la Photographie, MNHA, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2013 LANDMARK: THE FIELDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Somerset House, London, United-Kingdom
2012 DistURBANces, Musa Museum Stadtgalerie Artothek, European Month of Photography, Vienne, Austria
2012 TERRA COGNITA, Noorderlicht Festival, Museum Belvédère, Oranjewou, the Netherlands
2012 EIN ORT, IRGENDWO, HEIMAT-FOTOGRAFIEN, Galerie KH, Berlin, Germany
2012 THE LAND SEEN FROM THE SEA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
2011 TIME AFTER, MKC Split, Split, Croatia
2011 ALT. +1000, Festival de la Photographie de Montagne, Rossinière, Switzerland
2011 EMOTIONS, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg
2011 TIME AFTER, Kortal Gallery, curated by Sabina Salamon, Rijeka, Croatia
2010 STUDIO, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, European Month of Photography, Berlin, Germany
2010 MOVING WORLD, Carré Rotonde, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2023 Résidence à la Fonderie Darling, Kultur Lx, Montréal, Canada
2020 Bourse de la Photographie, CNA, Luxembourg
2018 Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, residency
2018 Bourse de la Photographie, CNA, Luxembourg
2018 Prix Robert Schuman (selection)
2017 Leap Prize Award (selection)
2014 Winterthur Plat(t) form (selection)
2013 Bourse de la Photographie, CNA, Luxembourg
2006 Awards for the Arts, Arts Council England, United-Kingdom
2022 DEEP TIME, Minett Trail, commission with Teisen & Giesler, Fonds de gras, Luxembourg, Minett Unesco Biosphere commission
2022 SÔMA, 1 % commission, Lycée technique pour profession de santé Bascharage, Bascharage, Luxembourg
2019 3,01.013, 1 % commission, Laboratoire national de santé, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2018 FORMES PASSAGÈRES, public art commission, Centre culturel de Dommeldange, Luxembourg
2010 THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE CUMANÁN CACTUS, public art commission, Manchester Piccadilly Station, Manchester, United-Kingdom,
2023 VEIL OF NATURE, Processing Process, K.Verlag, Berlin, Germany
2020 ÉCOLOGIE CULTURELLE ET CULTURES ÉCOLOGIQUES DANS LA GRANDE RÉGION, édité par Sébastian Thiltges and Christiane Solte-Gresser, Berlin, Peter Lang, Allemagne
2017 ÉCOLOGIE CULTURELLE ET CULTURES ÉCOLOGIQUES DANS LA GRANDE RÉGION, Université Belval et Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg
2013 WORKING WONDERS, conférence, Newcastle University, United-Kingdom
2008 Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, United-Kingdom. MA Fine Art Sculpture
2004 Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, EASD, Dnsep
