After Rethinking Nature (2021), Café Crème and EMOP have chosen the theme of Rethinking Identity for their 2023 edition. In this context, the curators Claire di Felice and Yasemin Elçi focus on the process of identity construction, in resonance with the contents conveyed by social networks. neimënster hosts three exhibitions.

Eager to give greater visibility to emerging Luxembourg artists, the organizers have initiated a new formula that proposes, in addition to the individual presentation, the exhibition of some works from the 2023 selection. Called upon to make a proposal in connection with the theme Rethinking Identity, the selected artists express themselves in a relevant and original way by choosing personal contexts and particular situations strongly anchored in their daily life.

• Bruno Oliveira
• Steven da Cruz Gonçalves
• Anna Krieps
• Anne Speltz
• Manon Diderich
• Pit Reding
• Pol Trierweiler

Steven da Cruz's photographs, often presented in baroque settings, speak of a certain malaise of a generation whose view of the body, beauty and social norms is changing.

The baroque character is also found in the works of Bruno de Oliveira, which speak to us in a poetic and autobiographical style of migration and communities. The "Queer" aesthetic links some of the works of these young Luxembourg artists who are not afraid to show their vulnerability. This is the case of Pit Reding who shares his artistic reflections with the ideology of LGBTIQ+ members.

The question of identity in the context of post-colonial and feminist power dynamics respectively is addressed with humor by Manon Diederich in her collage series Postcards from Brussels and Bouchée à la reine.

Another form of humor is found in the series of Anna Krieps who photographs her sister, actress Vicky Krieps, as an astronaut in different situations. This creation of her alter ego in her photographic settings is the result of a long obsession with identifying with the character of the astronaut.

Pol Trierweiler's quest for identity is linked to a return to childhood. The green space of the garden with all its positive memory is for him a way to approach self-reflection and self-identification in a climate of meditation.

From this individualistic preoccupation, we move on to a more social approach through the documentary photography of Anne Speltz who is interested in the other through participative projects that integrate the protagonists while posing the question of identity in a different way.