Sandra Lieners

About the Artist

Based in Luxembourg/France.

Education & Residencies
2025 Casa Lü Sur / Los Pinos | Artist Residency | Visual Arts/Lithography studio | Mexico City | MX
2023 BigCi – Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives | Artist Residency | Visual Arts | Bilpin | AU
2021 Zelena Residenča | Artist Residency | Visual Arts | Gornji Grad | SI
2019 KulturKontakt | Artist Residency | Visual Arts | Vienna | AT
2017 SVA | Artist Residency | Painting and Mixed Media | New York | US
2016 University of Applied Arts | Diploma | w/ honors | Fine Arts/Arts and communication practices | Vienna | AT
2014 Accademia di Belle Arti | Exchange | w/ honors | Painting | Florence | IT

Solo & Duo Shows
2026 Solo Show | Reuter & Bausch | Luxembourg City | LU
2025 Un ciel noué de feuilles et de fer | ALLPA | Brussels | BE
2025 La Calle abre sus brazos de piedra | Casa Lü | Mexico City | MX
2024 Blue Mountains / Red Rocks | Galerie l’Indépendance | Luxembourg City | LU
2023 abstract/extract | Fellner Contemporary | Luxembourg City | Curated by Hans Fellner | LU
2021/22 Interlude - Echos | Ceysson & Bénétière | Windhof | Curated by Maëlle Ebelle | LU
2021 Fragments | Galerija Zelena Residenča | Gornji Grad | SI
2020 Réalités augmentées – New paintings | Fellner Contemporary | Luxembourg City | Curated by Hans Fellner | LU
2019 Bipolar | w/ Roland Schauls | Schlassgoart | Esch-sur-Alzette | Curated by Nathalie Becker | LU
2019 In the now | Valentiny foundation | Remich | LU
2019 Progressive decay | E&Y | Luxembourg City | LU
2018 Beyond the surface | Artikuss | Soleuvre | LU
2017 Françoise Ley & Sandra Lieners | 1535 Creative Hub | Differdange | LU
2016 Myth and Mess | CAPE – Centre des Arts Pluriels | Ettelbruck | Curated by Carl Adalsteinsson | LU
2015 The Unseen | Art cube #2, Chamber of Commerce | Luxembourg City | Curated by Christian Lepsien | LU

Group Shows (selection)
2026 ΙΣΤΟΣ / WEB - Contemporary Artists’ Books | Cercle Cité | Luxembourg City | Curated by Maria Bourbou | LU
2025/26 La forêt. Solitudes et solidarités. | Cercle Cité | Luxembourg City | Curated by Clément Minighetti | LU
2025 KNAF | w/ Reuter & Bausch | Knokke | BE
2025 Summer Show | Galerie Reuter & Bausch | Luxembourg City | LU
2024 Galerie Reuter/Bausch booth | Luxembourg Art Week | Luxembourg City | LU
2024 Décathlon d’Apollon | Château de Montsoreau – Musée d’Art Contemporain | FR
2024 Culture for Future | Galerie Schlassgoart | Esch-sur-Alzette | Curated by Gilles Weidig & Sandra Lieners | LU
2023/24 Bienvenue à la Villa! (2) Recent acquisitions of contemporary art | Villa Vauban – Musee d’Art de la Ville de Luxembourg | LU
2023 Fellner contemporary booth | Luxembourg Art Week | Luxembourg City | LU
2023 Salon du CAL | Tramsschapp | Luxembourg Art Week | Luxembourg City | LU
2023 Open Day Exhibition | BigCi – Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives | Bilpin | AU
2023 8 femmes | Galerie vis-à-vis | Metz | Curated by Bernardo di Battista | FR
2023 Back to the Roots | Konschthal | Esch-sur-Alzette | Curated by Leslie de Canchy, Philippe Lamesch, Ralph Waltmans | LU
2023 50 Joer Lëtzebuerger Konscht | Centre culturel Paul Barblé | Strassen | LU
2023 Inauguration show | Le Mètre Carré | Metz | Curated by Emmanuelle Potier | FR
2022 Colo(u)rs | Fellner Contemporary | Luxembourg City | Curated by Hans Fellner | LU
2022 Salon du CAL | Tramsschapp | Luxembourg Art Week | Luxembourg City | LU (& 2016-2020)
2022 Open Circle | Schlassgoart | Esch 2022 – European Capital of Culture | Esch-sur-Alzette | Curated by Anne Reding | LU
2022 La peinture – une bonne résolution | Galerie vis-à-vis | Metz | Curated by Emmanuelle Potier | FR
2020 KUK Art Room | Kulturkanal, Bâtiment 4 | Esch-sur-Alzette | Curated by Jill Crovisier | LU
2019 Transcultural Emancipation | Fluc | Vienna | Curated by Ursula Maria Probst | AT
2019 White Noise | BKA | Vienna | Curated by Violetta Leitner | AT
2019 (dis)connect | Studio Gredlerstrasse | Vienna | AT
2018 New Painting Luxembourg | Neimenster | Luxembourg City | Curated by Didier Damiani | LU
2018 Art2Cure | Galérie l’Indépendance | Luxembourg City | LU (& 2017, 2016)
2018 Intro – Peinture 2.0 | Konschthaus beim Engel | Luxembourg City | Curated by Marlène Kreins | LU
2017 Triennale jeune création | Rotondes/Cercle Cité | Luxembourg City | Curated by Anouk Wies | LU
2017 Open Studio Show | SVA | 141 west 21st street | New York | US
2017 Kunst als kommunikative Praxis | Galerie Freihausgasse | Villach | Curated by Barbara Putz-Plecko | AT
2015 Artefakte | University of Applied Arts | Vienna | Curated by Franziska Maderthaner | AT
2015 Extra Muros | Cedies/Casino – Forum d’art Contemporain | Luxembourg City | Curated by Christine Walentiny | LU
2015 Die weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau #4 | das weisse haus | Vienna | Curated by Alexandra Grausam | AT
2014 Segno Contemporaneo | Accademia di Belle Arti | Florence | Curated by Massimo Orsini, Marco Raffaele, Vincenzo Ventimiglia | IT
2013 Une affaire luxembourgeoise | das weisse haus | Vienna Art Week | Vienna | Curated by Sandra Schwender | AT
2013 Ich sehe deine Worte nicht in Farbe | University of Applied Arts | Vienna | Curated by Franziska Maderthaner | AT
2013 The Essence’13 | Künstlerhaus | Vienna | Curated by Michael Schulze | AT

Grants, Awards & Shortlists
2025 Recipient | Kultur LX | Support for prospecting, research and career development | LU
2025 Recipient | Artist Residency | Casa Lü, Mexico City | MX
2025 Recipient | Artist Residency | Los pinos, Mexico City | MX
2023 Recipient | stART-up | Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte | LU
2023 Recipient | Kultur LX | Support for prospecting, research and career development | LU
2023 Recipient | Artist Residency | BigCi, Bilpin | AU
2023 Shortlist | Arte Laguna Prize | IT
2021 Recipient | Artist Residency | Zelena Residenča, Gornji Grad | SI
2021 Jury member | Grand-Duc Adolphe Award | LU
2019 Recipient | Biannual artist in residency | KulturKontakt, Vienna | AT
2018 Recipient | Cultural Encouragement Prize | Municipality of Sanem | LU
2018 Recipient | Pierre Werner Award | LU
2017 Nominee | Edward Steichen Award – Luxembourg resident in NYC | LU
2017 Recipient | Artist Residency | SVA, New York | US

Public Collections
2024 Ministry of Culture | LU
2024 Les 2 Musées de la Ville de Luxembourg | LU
2023 BigCi – Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives | AU
2023 BNL – National Library of Luxembourg, Fonds iconographique | LU
2022 Ministry of Culture | LU
2021 Zelena Residenča | SI
2020 Villa Vauban – Musee d’Art de la Ville de Luxembourg | LU
2019 MNHA – National Museum of History and Art | LU
2019 Ernst & Young | Luxembourg City | LU
2018 Municipality of Sanem | LU
2018 MNHA – National Museum of History and Art | LU
2016 Ministry of Culture | LU
2016 Ministry of Foreign Affairs | LU
2016 CAPE – Centre des Arts Pluriels | Ettelbruck | LU
2016 Bernard-Massard | Grevenmacher | LU
2014 Accademia di Belle Arti | Florence | IT
(Private Collections in AU, AT, BE, DE, FR, IT, LU, US)

Talks & Conferences
2025 Artist Talk | From Artist to Artist | AAPL, Luxembourg City | LU
2023 Master Class | Plongée dans la Peinture | Konschthal, Esch-sur-Alzette | LU
2023 Artist Talk | BigCi – Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives | AU
2023 Panel Discussion | Navigating an art practice with the challenges and opportunities of today’s societal context | w/ Sayoko Suwabes, Laura Peña | BigCi | AU
2023 Artist Talk & Workshop | Le Dessin pittoresque | Le Mètre Carré, Metz | FR
2023 Booklaunch & Conference | The Book | w/ Emmanuelle Potier, Fanny Weinquin & Danie Köller/Willems | Ceysson & Bénétière | LU
2022 Artist Talk | Open Circle | Schlassgoart | LU
2019 Conference | The Vienna Residency | Valentiny Foundation, Remerchen | LU
2019 Conference | Visual & Conceptual fragmentation in Painting | Class of Maria Grzinic | Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna | AT
2018 Artist Talk | 125 years of CAL | w/ Chantal Maquet & Chiara Dahlem & David Philipps | Cercle Cité | LU
2018 Conference | Art LX goes Vienna | w/ Max Mertens & Serge Ecker & Catherine Lorent | Casino – Forum d’art Contemporain | LU
2017 Slow Meeting | Luxembourg goes New York | Rotondes | LU

Publications
2024 Blue Mountains / Red Rocks | Exhibition Catalogue | BIL | eng & fr
2024 Ma Collection | Collective publication | Editions Schortgen | fr
2024 Culture for Future | Exhibition Catalogue | id+p | eng
2023 Bienvenue à la Villa! Acquisitions récentes d’art contemporain | Exhibition Catalogue | Villa Vauban | fr
2023 Salon du CAL | Exhibition Catalogue | fr (& 2022, 2020-2016)
2023 Sandra Lieners – The Book | Retrospective Monography | Bakform | eng & fr
2023 10 Years Art2Cure | Exhibition Catalogue | BIL | fr
2023 50 Joer Lëtzebuerger Konscht | Exhibition Catalogue | LAC | fr
2022 Open Circle | Exhibition Catalogue | monogram.lu | fr
2019 Progressive decay | Exhibition Catalogue | Ernst & Young | eng
2018 Art2Cure | Exhibition Catalogue | BIL | eng (& 2017, 2016)
2017 Jetlag/Out of Sync | Triennale Jeune Création | Exhibition Catalogue | eng & fr

Next
Next

Samuel Levy