Vita – Catherine Lorent

Catherine Lorent
Born in Munich (D)
Works in Luxembourg & Berlin (LU)(DE)

Education

2007 – 2010
Promotion (PhD) in Kunstgeschichte
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg / Université du Luxembourg (DE/LU)

2004 – 2006
Master 2 in Kunstgeschichte
Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (Frankreich)

2002 – 2004
Studium der Geschichte
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (Deutschland)

1998 – 2003
Studium der Malerei
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe (Deutschland)

Grants

2024 Bourse Francis André
2021 Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe
2011 Prix de révélation, Ministry of Culture Luxembourg
2005 Prix d’encouragement Jeunes Artistes, Ministry of Culture Luxembourg

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Penguin Paradiddle, Galerie im Glockenhof, Lüneburg (DE)
2024 Insignia, Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg
2023 FEAST, with Ugo Li, Galerie Reuter Bausch, Luxembourg (LU)
2022 EXPLORER, Galerie Schlassgoart, Esch/Alzette (L)
RELEGATION_via, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (D)
2021 Pia Fraus
2019 Call of the Wild, with Nora Tapper, Finnish Artspace Toolbox, Berlin (D)
2018 RELEGATION_flexus, bb15, Linz (A)
MARITIMI MORES, Polarraum, Hamburg (D)
TRANSITUS IMMOBILIS – Der Untergang des Abendlandes, with Serge Ecker, Wiener Art Foundation, Wien (AT)
2016 RELEGATION Doom Spectrum, Galerie Tore Suessbier, Berlin (D)
Kölner Doom RELEGATION, Artothek Köln (D)
QUERELLE, with Burkhard Driest, Artloft Berlin (D)
2015 Seeschlacht/Cruise & Callas, Berlin (D)
Dix/Lorent, Ts-ArtProjects, Berlin (D)
D.O.O.M dedicatio orientis occidentis musicae, MUDAM Luxembourg (LU)
D.A.T.E dedicatio artis turbantis eternalis, Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg (LU)
Catherine in Dialogue with Paul Thek, Krome Gallery, Luxembourg-Berlin (LU/D)
2014 Antiqua licia Vincula Acquilae, Märkisches Museum Witten
RelegationDelegationDoomConstellation, Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (D)
2013 Relegation, Luxembourgish Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia
Réminiscences réactivées, Galerie Gourvennec Ogor, Marseille (F)
2012 Séismes, Fischerundfischer, Berlin (DE)
Acedia, Centre d’art Nei Liicht, Dudelange (LU)
Zensierte Reminiszenzen, CAPe, Ettelbruck (LU)
2011 Catholic Block, Invited by Nicole Bianchet, De Willem 3, Vlissingen (NL)
2009 Be my guest, invited by Claudia Passeri and Michèle Walerich, EXIT 07, Luxembourg (LU)
2008 Barocco in Bocca, KFA Galerie, Berlin (D)
2007 Le Cerveau et la souris, Showroom Berlin (D)
Resurrection Baby – Life is splendid, Agence Borderline, Esch s. Alzette (LU)
2001 Galerie 19 Rouge, Luxembourg (LU)

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2026 The Window / Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg (LU)

2025 Kaminski und seine Freunde (Contemporary Duisburg)
Group show at Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, Luxembourg (LU)

2024 Jenseits von Eden, Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin-Leipzig, Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin (D)
Metalmorph, Schaufenster, Berlin (D)
Le nouveau Biedermeier, TICK TACK, Antwerp, Belgium (B)

2023 Un été en papier, Galerie Reuter Bausch, Luxembourg (LU)
Material, Scotty, Berlin (D)

2022 Es wären es meiner drei, Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin-Leipzig, Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (D)

2021 Freigeister, MUDAM, Luxembourg (LU)

2020 Void and Sound, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg (D)

2019 LISTEN TO THE IMAGE LOOK AT THE SOUND, Kai10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf (D)
VOIX, Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin-Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (D)
Magnetic deviation, with Robert Lasseni, Marc Soisson, Wawrzyniec Tokarski, Viart, Vianden (LU)

2018 Die Jahrhundert Bar, MNW Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin-Leipzig, Ventilator, Berlin (D)
Transitus Immobilis, with Serge Ecker and Claudia Passeri, Luxembourg Art Week (L)
Ignition, MNW Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin-Leipzig, Turps Gallery, London (GB)
Beyond the moon, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (D)
Painting XXL, MNW Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin-Leipzig, Ausstellungshalle, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt a. M. (D)

2017 Farbauftrag, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (D)
Painting XX, Kunsthalle, Lüneburg (D)
Pissing in a River, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin (D)
Under Influence, Galerie Dukan, Leipzig (D)

2016 Passion: Fan Behaviour and Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

2015 Passion: Fan Behaviour and Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunsthaus im KunstKulturQuartier, Nürnberg
InterNationArt, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia (HR)
Transformation, Galerie DinaRenninger, Munich (D)
Alptraum, Salon De Lirio, Goa (IN)

2014 Paper Works, TS art projects, Berlin (D)
Painting was a lady, Wonderloch Kellerland, New York (US)
Emotional Rescue Shows, Berlin
Optima Mihi in Chartis, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich (CH)
Grooving Images, TS art projects, Berlin (D)

2013 Utopia, Berlin (D)
Slug Bait, Bel Etage, Berlin (D)
Abendland, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg (D)
Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter, Berlin (D)
Luxus Loft, Re-Rotterdam (NL)
Dawn of the Hermetics, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin (D)

2012 Play Together, Kunstraum Sellemond, Vienna (A)
Painting was a lady, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Wonderloch Kellerland, Wiener Art Foundation, am Schauplatz, Berlin/Kassel/Vienna (D)(A)
Luxus Loft – September Issue, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin (D)
Cognitio Ars Phobiae, The Wand, Berlin (D)
Artists merchandising art, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin/Hamburg/Los Angeles/Paris/Vienna (D)(USA)(F)(A)
Luxus Loft, Rotterdam (NL)

2011 Labskaus, Künstlerhaus Gängeviertel, Hamburg (D)
Inne anner room, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin (D)
Cercle artistique Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg (LU)
Jardins d’amis, Invited by Caroline Bittermann, Immanence, Paris (F)
Prix Schumann, Cercle, Luxembourg (LU)
Train Fantome, Galerie Cruise & Callas, Berlin (D)
La Vallée Patibulaire, Rote Insel Berlin (DE)

Publications and Curatorial Projects (Selected)

2024
The Rise of Nazi Culture in Luxembourg and the Aryanization of Jewish Property: The Multiple Facets of Germanization 1940–1944, co-authored with Blandine Landau, Revue d’Histoire de la Shoa 2024/1 (No. 219)

2023
Sonja KMEC / Catherine LORENT / Jean REITZ, Chasing Away Winter: A Study of the Custom of “Buergbrennen” in Luxembourg and Its Evolution Since the 1970s, in Hémecht. Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte 75 (2023), 4

2019
Heroines of Sound, Left Handed Amazona, the book for the Heroines of Sound Festival, Berlin

2017
Curatorial collaboration on REPERES/État de l’art public au Luxembourg, exhibition and book by the Association des artistes plasticiens Luxembourg

2015
Curator of the traveling exhibition Navigare Necesse est, Schaufenster, Raum für Kunst, Berlin

2014
Co-curator of the exhibition project Emotional Rescue Shows, Stuttgarter Platz, Berlin
Co-author of the catalog Claus Cito – Catalogue Raisonné, published by the Agence Luxembourgeoise d’Action Culturelle

2012
Publication of the dissertation Nazi Art and Cultural Policy in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 1934–1944, published by Kliomedia, Trier 2012 / ISBN 978-3-89890-173-4

2011
Co-curator of La vallée patibulaire, Rote Insel, Berlin

2010
Co-curator of the exhibition d’gelle Fra (Monument du Souvenir), Luxembourg, Agence Luxembourgeoise d’Action Culturelle
Organized the exhibition Pentagonade at the Gallery in the Government District / The Forgotten Bar, Berlin

2007–2010
Dissertation on Nazi Art and Cultural Policy in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 1934–1944, supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg

2005
Contribution to the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg – Combine Paintings, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VOICE OVER
Die Stimme als physisches, künstlerisches und sozialpolitisches Instrument
Editor: Veronika Witte
Publisher: Artbear Books, Berlin
ISBN: 978-3-946957-0

FREIGEISTER
Mudam Luxembourg
Curators: Clément Minighetti, Sarah Beaumont, Marie-Noëlle Farcy, Christophe Gallois
Essays by: Magali Nachtergael, Jean Portante, Nathalie Roelens, Carole Schmit & François Thiry
Publisher: DCV Berlin, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-96912-065-1

VOIX
MalerinnenNetzwerk Berlin-Leipzig
Authors: Mona Horncastle, Jeannette Stoschek, Ijsbrand van Veelen
Edited by: Alfred Weidinger
Publisher: Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, E.A. Seemann Verlag, 2019
ISBN: 978-3-86502-424-4

RELEGATION
Catherine Lorent, La Biennale di Venezia
Authors: Clément Minighetti, Conny Becker
Published by: MUDAM Luxembourg, 2013
ISBN: 978-2-919923-21-2

PASSION – FAN BEHAVIOUR AND ART
Authors: Christoph Tannert, Thilo Bock, Valie Djordjevic, Raimar Stange, Peter Wawerzinek, Anja Löbert
Publisher: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2015
ISBN: 978-3-941230-45-3

ACEDIA
Réminiscences censurées
Catherine Lorent
Gallery: Nei Liicht
Authors: Ludwig Seyfarth, Conny Becker
Published by: Ville de Dudelange, Luxembourg, 2012
ISBN: 978-2-9119993-26-0

REPÈRES – The State of Public Art in Luxembourg
Published by: aapl Luxembourg, 2017
ISBN: 978-99959-0-309-1

Die nationalsozialistische Kunst- und Kulturpolitik im Großherzogtum Luxemburg 1934-1944
Author: Catherine Lorent
Published by: Kliomedia, Trier, 2012
ISBN: 978-3-89890-173-4 (Publication of the dissertation)

SOUNDWORK

GRAN HORNO
(Modern Music Science)
Multi-instrumental Sound Installation and Composition

HANNELORE
(Heavy Metal Improvisations)
Featuring Tom Früchtl (Guitar), Catherine Lorent (Drums/Vocals)

ART CRITICS ORCHESTRA
Featuring Raimar Stange (Bass), Andreas Schlaegel (Drums/Vocals), and Micz Flor (Guitar)

Selected Sound Performances

2025
Hannelore, Gasthaus WATT, Berlin, Germany
Hannelore, with MONZEN at Wild at Heart, Berlin, Germany

2024
Hannelore, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany
AAXT, Collaboration with Theater Rumelange, Spektrum, Rumelange, Luxembourg

2023
Hannelore Empathie II, Lobe Block, Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany

2022
Hannelore Record Release, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

2021
Paradice, Hannelore, Mudam Luxembourg
Gitarrung, Ortstermin, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

2019
Void and Sound Performance, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg
Beethoven Performance, “Listen to the Image – Look at the Sound,” Kai 10, Düsseldorf
Participation in the Weissensee University Orchestra during 48 Stunden Neukölln
The GOOD AXE, Solo Performance as part of Jutta Koether Exhibition “Tour de Madame,” Mudam Luxembourg
Volksbühne Grüner Salon, Hannelore (Tom Früchtl, Catherine Lorent), goo goo g’job (Raimar Stange, Andreas Schlaegel, Catherine Lorent, Tom Früchtl)

2018
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Hertzangst, Multimedia Installation by Tracey Snelling, Berlin, Germany

2017
Gitarrung – The Old Way, Solo Performance with 7 Guitars and Percussion, Voice, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany

2016
Kölner DOOM, Artothek Köln, Space for Young Art
Kunstwerke Berlin, One Night Stand #7 / Invited by L’oiseau présente, featuring Hertzangst

2015
DOOM dedicatio orientis occidentis musicae / MUDAM Luxembourg with Martin Eder (Electric Guitar), Natasa Gehl, and Steve Kaspar

2014
Relegation Delegation Doom Constellation, Association for the Promotion of Art and Culture at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany

2013
RELEGATION, 55th Venice Biennale, Luxembourg Pavilion, featuring 13 Electric Guitars, 3 Pianos, with Natasa Gehl (Accordion) and Martin Eder (Electric Guitar), Italy

2012
Acedia, Galerie Nei Liicht, Dudelange, with Natasa Gehl (Harmonium)
Réminiscences censurées, CAPe Ettelbruck, Solo Performance, 4 Pianos, Electric Guitar, Voice

Albums

2024
RELEGATION SOUNDS
Vinyl in double gatefold featuring the soundtrack and songs from the RELEGATION project at the Luxembourg Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale.

2022
GRAN HORNO / HANNELORE Paradice
Split Record vinyl in double gatefold with a curatorial text by Ludwig Seyfarth.

2015
GRAN HORNO Hymni

2011
GRAN HORNIO Songs of Hyde & Seek
GRAN HORNO Resurrection Baby (Catherine Lorent 2007–2008)

COLLECTIONS

MUDAM Luxembourg
MNHA Luxembourg
Ville de Dudelange Luxembourg
Musée d’Histoire Luxembourg

Press/Reception (Selection)

2026

Online/Print: Telecran, No. to be added soon

2024

2023

2022

Print: Art for Eyes and Ears, Telecran, No. 45/2022, pp. 4, 16 ff.
Online: From Art to Music, Musical Drama by M. Freerix RBB Berlin Brandenburg – Reboot FM
Online: Decadence and Exaggeration – Taz
Online: Crookit Dreams, Richard Sylvarnes New York – Reboot FM

2021

Online: Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe Award for Catherine Lorent – Wort

2020

Online: Terre des Femmes, Contribution for the Charity Art Auction, International Women’s Day

2019

Print:
Michael Stoeber’s contribution to the exhibition “Listen to the Image – Look at the Sound”, Kunstforum International, Vol. 262, Düsseldorf.
Online:
- Kunstforum International
- WDR Scala NetzKultur

2018

Print:
Einblick 718, Tageszeitung, April 5, 2018.
Online:
- Art Magazine

2017

Print:
Portrait in: 128, Berliner Philharmoniker, Europa und die Musik, March 2017, p. 18.
Online:
- Art Berlin

2016

Print:
Kunstforum N° 243, postdigital 2, p. 287.
Artmapp 3–4, 16, Raimar Stange on Catherine Lorent and Michel Majerus, the Neopop generation from Luxembourg.
Online: