Julien Hübsch: Daring to think big

We first noticed Julien Hübsch two years ago at a performance by Sheebaba, his duo with Nina Bodry. The concert took place as part of the Cueva exhibition in a huge, largely empty and no longer used industrial hall on the Metzeschmelz site.

The two musicians wore white overalls, applied a kind of war paint to their faces, stoically walked through the audience and performed an exciting mixture of new wave, cold wave and no wave, topped off with a long noise part – the whole thing is pretty impressive. Afterwards, we buy an EP by the duo entitled "bruit", even in the "bootleg version", hand-written and numbered: 14/20. Maybe one day it will become valuable.

We only realised later that Hübsch also does other things and had already been making a name for himself as an artist for a few years, after we had seen him a few more times with Sheebaba.

Among other things, the 29-year-old is the 2023 winner of the Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe, won the sponsorship prize at the eighth Biennale for Contemporary Art in Strassen in 2015, was nominated for the Robert Schuman Art Prize and the Edward Steichen Award, and last year spent an artist residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris. His works can be found in the collections of the capital's museums, the National Library, the City of Dudelange and the City of Esch, as well as the Ministry of Culture.