Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain

What Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain does

Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain is Luxembourg's flagship contemporary art institution, founded in 1996 and operated as a private non-profit association under public funding from Luxembourg's Ministry of Culture and oversight by a board that includes both state and civil society representatives. The institution occupies a single venue at 41 rue Notre-Dame in central Luxembourg and is staffed by approximately 17–20 people organised across curatorial, exhibitions, public engagement, conferences, editorial, communication, sponsorship, reception, and technical functions. Its mission is the promotion and support of young contemporary artistic creation, executed through an internationally oriented exhibition programme rather than collecting or conservation. Current and recent exhibitions include Post— (March–September 2026), Notes on Weathering (March 2026–January 2027), and La somme de mon seum (May–September 2026).

The institution's product surface extends well beyond exhibitions. Sub-brands include Casino Display (an off-site workspace, research, exchange, and orientation platform with dedicated coordination), Casino Channel (a multimedia and podcast channel distributed via Soundcloud), FORA (a performance programme), KLIK (children and youth education comprising KLIK Enfants and Young Folks), ArtBookBox (the on-site bookshop and reception), and Art & Business (corporate venue rental). It also runs guided tours, mobile artwork outreach (Oeuvre Mobile), and an international eshop selling artist books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, and the Traces series at price points between €0 and €55. Co-publishing partnerships span European and international institutions (Actes Sud, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, migros museum, Rooseum, FRAC Bourgogne, Hess Art Collection, Serralves, Villa Arson, and others), and an active EU Culture 2000 exchange network (Re:Location 1-7 / Shake) links it to peer centres in Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and France.

The business model is a hybrid of public subsidy and modest earned income. General exhibition admission is free, removing ticket-revenue concentration; paid workshops are priced at €6 per child with discounts for KLIK-Kaart and Kulturpass holders; the Art & Business service is quote-based and directed at corporate clients via dedicated forms; and eshop publication sales range from €0 (Traces issues) to €55 (major monographs). Customer segments span families with children, schools from primary through higher education, young international artists and curators, corporate event clients, and audiences with special needs, reached through a multilingual website, social channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Soundcloud), a newsletter, and direct venue attendance.

Name

Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain

Legal name

Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain

Website

https://casino-luxembourg.lu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain is Luxembourg's flagship contemporary art institution, presenting international exhibitions, performances, publications, and educational programmes for emerging artists, families, schools, and corporate clients since 1996.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Luxembourg

HQ country

Luxembourg

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Exhibition Admission: Free admission to the general public for exhibitions, supplemented by paid workshops for children and young audiences.
2. Workshop Participation Fees: Charge per workshop session (e.g., €6 per child workshop), with discounts for KLIK-Kaart and Kulturpass holders.
3. Art & Business Venue Rental: Private event and business venue rental services combining exhibition visits with lunches, aperitifs, conferences, meetings, and exclusive evenings for corporate clients.
4. Eshop Sales: Sale of artist books, monographs, collective books, artist residencies publications, and Traces series. Prices range from €0 to €55.
5. Publishing: Co-publishing of exhibition catalogs and artist monographs with international partners, generating revenue through book sales.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Casino Luxembourg is a contemporary art institution that presents curated exhibitions of international contemporary art focused on emerging and young artists, along with performance series (FORA), off-site projects (Casino Display), educational workshops for children and youth (KLIK Enfants / Young Folks), guided tours, and a podcast/multimedia channel. It publishes and sells artist books, monographs, and catalogs through an online eshop, and rents its venue to corporate clients via Art & Business for private events and conferences.

Product overview

Casino Luxembourg is a contemporary art institution offering a multi-faceted portfolio of cultural products and services. The core offerings center on exhibitions (main venue shows featuring emerging international artists), Casino Display (off-site projects), and FORA (performance programming). The institution supports its exhibitions with an Eshop selling publications, catalogs, and artist books; provides educational services through Young Audiences workshops and guided tours; and offers venue rental via Art & Business. Multimedia content is delivered through Casino Channel and Podcasts. The organization positions itself as a workplace, research hub, and exchange platform dedicated to promoting young contemporary creation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Casino Display: A workspace, research, exchange, and orientation platform aimed at promoting and supporting young creation
• Casino Channel
• FORA
• KLIK
• ArtBookBox
• Art & Business

Products and services

• Contemporary Art Exhibitions
• Art & Business Venue Rental
• Children's and Youth Workshops (KLIK)
• Eshop Publications
• FORA Performance Series
• Guided Tours and Visits

Quantifiable outcome

• Free admission to all exhibitions
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

23 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Galéria Jána Koniarka (Trnava, Slovakia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBilateral exchange partner in the Re:Location 1-7 European artist exchange program supported by the EU Culture 2000 programme. Co-produced exhibitions and residency exchanges between Luxembourg and Trnava.
• Japan FoundationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporter of Tetsuya Umeda's Shadow of Water performance series (June–July 2026) at Casino Luxembourg.
• Fundatia ArtStudio (Cluj, Romania)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBilateral exchange partner in the Re:Location 1-7 program. Co-produced Re:Location 4 exhibition with Casino Luxembourg.
• Centrul International pentru Arta Contemporana & Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana (Bucharest, Romania)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Re:Location 1-7 / Shake program, co-producing international artistic exchanges and the Shake Night broadcast project.
• Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej Laznia (Gdańsk, Poland)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Re:Location 1-7 / Shake program under EU Culture 2000, co-producing artistic exchanges.
• Halle für Kunst (Lüneburg, Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Re:Location 1-7 / Shake program, co-producing artistic exchanges between European institutions.
• migros museum für gegenwartskunst (Zürich, Switzerland)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Re:Location 1-7 / Shake program, co-producing artistic exchanges under EU Culture 2000.
• O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst (Linz, Austria)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Re:Location 1-7 / Shake and the L'effet Larsen exhibition. Long-standing partner in European contemporary art exchanges.
• Villa Arson – Centre National d'Art Contemporain (Nice, France)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Re:Location 1-7 / Shake program and various co-productions of contemporary art programming.
• Agence luxembourgeoise d'Action culturellecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-publisher of Manifesta 2 (European Biennale of Contemporary Art) alongside Casino Luxembourg.
• Kunsthalle DüsseldorfcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInitiator and co-producer of the Ready to Shoot exhibition (Gerry Schum Fernsehgalerie / videogalerie schum retrospective), co-produced with Casino Luxembourg.
• Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves (Porto, Portugal)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of the Ready to Shoot exhibition (Gerry Schum retrospective), co-produced with Casino Luxembourg and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
• Hess Art Collection AGminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-publisher of The Hess Collection: New Works exhibition catalog.
• Actes Sud (Arles, France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-publisher of Sylvie Blocher – Living Pictures and Other Human Voices catalog.
• Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (Bremen, Germany)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Peter Friedl – Retrospective exhibition.
• Institute for Contemporary Art (Cape Town, South Africa)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Peter Friedl – Retrospective exhibition.
• Le Crédac – Centre d'art contemporain (Ivry-sur-Seine, France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Jean-Jacques Lebel – Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus and Simone Decker – Point of view exhibitions.
• FRAC Bourgogne (Dijon, France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Simone Decker – Point of view exhibition.
• VOX – Centre de diffusion de la photographie (Montréal, Canada)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Confidences exhibition catalog.
• Frac Basse-Normandie (Caen, France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Jean-Jacques Lebel – Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus.
• Villa Tamaris (La-Seyne-sur-Mer, France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Jean-Jacques Lebel – Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus.
• Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art (Malmö, Sweden)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of Nedko Solakov retrospective exhibition catalog.
• RTL Télé LuxembourgminorOthersBroadcast partner for Shake Night live broadcast (09.07.2004) as part of Re:Location 1-7 / Shake project.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève: Geneva contemporary art center with a comparable non-collecting, exhibition-driven model and public funding base. Similar institutional size and international exhibition programming focus.
• Witte de With (Kunstinstituut Melly): Rotterdam contemporary art institute with a comparable focus on emerging artists, exhibitions, and public programming. Comparable scale, public funding base, and curatorial risk-taking approach.
• Kunsthalle Düsseldorf: German kunsthalle focused on contemporary art exhibitions and co-productions. Existing co-production partner; comparable non-collecting institution with a comparable team size and exhibition-driven model.
• Kunsthalle Basel: Swiss contemporary art kunsthalle with a similarly compact team and event-driven exhibition model focused on emerging and mid-career artists. Closely matches Casino Luxembourg's institutional scale, programming philosophy, and non-collecting orientation.
• Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: Zurich contemporary art museum with a similarly curated exhibition program and international co-production orientation. Already a Re:Location program partner; comparable as a publicly-supported, non-collecting contemporary art venue.
• Villa Arson – Centre National d'Art Contemporain: French national contemporary art center combining exhibitions, residencies, and educational programming. Already a co-production partner of Casino Luxembourg; comparable in mission, scale, and public funding model.

Broad incumbents

• Palais de Tokyo: Paris-based contemporary art center combining exhibitions, performances, and public programming for diverse audiences. Larger in scale but shares the non-collecting, event-driven, free-admission contemporary art mission.
• Centre Pompidou-Metz: Regional French contemporary art institution with a similar public-museum operating model and rotating exhibition programming. Comparable as a publicly funded venue relying on touring co-productions and diverse audience engagement.
• Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean: Luxembourg's flagship modern and contemporary art museum, sharing the same city and overlapping curatorial mandate for contemporary art. Comparable as a publicly funded national contemporary art institution, though larger in scale and with a permanent collection focus.

Others

• FRAC (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain) Network: Network of publicly funded French regional contemporary art collections that co-produce exhibitions with smaller kunsthallen including Casino Luxembourg. Indirectly comparable as publicly funded contemporary art ecosystem partners.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/casino-luxembourg-forum-d-art-contemporain
• Instagraminstagram.com/casinoluxembourg

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Profiles10 records

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