Soil as archive, material and living organism — talk at Nantesbuch

5th Symposium “Wahrnehmung von Böden in Bildung und Gesellschaft” · Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Nantesbuch (Bavaria)


Tide, Past Tense – Sura Pending (detail), 2026

Talk on Monday 26 October, 14:45: “Boden als Archiv, Material und lebendiger Organismus”. The presentation follows a line of research from rock to living soil, through three stations: Wäiss Kaul, the Soft Architecture programme developed with the Kustodie of TU Dresden and soil scientist Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Feger, and Tide, Past Tense, its first phase, completed in South Korea in September.

The symposium brings together artists, soil scientists and educators around new ways of perceiving and communicating soil. It is organised by the Stiftung Kunst und Natur with the University of Potsdam and Commission VIII “Soils in Education and Society” of the German Soil Science Society (DBG).

Tide, Past Tense — booklet and presentation

The booklet and the project presentation for Tide, Past Tense, shown at OhOn, Seoul in September 2026, are now available to download.

The booklet follows the fieldwork along the Korean west coast, at Saemangeum, Sura and Gomso Bay: the wall, the roads that stop, and the last tidal flat inside the reclamation. The presentation gathers the works, the installation and the research behind them. Tide, Past Tense is the first phase of Soft Architecture, a three-year project developed with soil scientists.

Exhibition booklet (PDF) ↓    Project presentation (PDF) ↓

Supported by Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg and the Embassy of Luxembourg in Seoul

Things we left behind

Tide, Past Tense · Soft Architecture 1 · OhOn, Seoul



With Kim Junhak, Suyeon prana kim, Shin Yujin, Lee Seojin, Choi Junwon, Han Sunhee and Franck Miltgen. Talk at 5 pm with Choi Junwon, moderated by Kim Seyeon; opening reception 6 pm.

Soft Architecture I

residency and exhibition @ OhOn Seoul September 2026
@ooooon.kr
with the support of  Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg

ART DÜSSELDORF 2026

LAGE EGAL [BOOTH A15 + S05]
CLARA BAHLSEN
WONKUN JUN
FRANCK MILTGEN
ROBIN WEN
LAGE EGAL [BOOTH A15 + S05] — ART DÜSSELDORF 2026
17 - 19 April 2026
AREAL BÖHLER, Hansaallee 321, 30549 Düsseldorf
with the support of  Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg

Portfolio books out now

200 pages each
with texts by
Florence Thurmes (2016)
Hadelin J. Feront (2018)
Maiko Yamauchi (2019)
Marie-Anne Lorgé (2024)
Franck Miltgen (2017, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Published with the support of the National Cultural Fund, Luxembourg and the Œuvre Nationale

solo show

SOFT MATTER
LAGE EGAL BRUSSELS
5 March 2026 - 4 April 2026
OPENING RECEPTION
SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2026
FROM 2 PM TO 6 PM
LAGE EGAL BRUSSELS [RIVOLI #28]
Chaussée de Waterloo 690, 1180 Uccle/Brussels, Belgium
with the support of  Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg

SENSITIVE CARTOGRAPHIES

ZIDOUN-BOSSUYT PARIS
FEIPEL & BECHAMEIL
ANNE MÉLAN
FRANCK MILTGEN
LUC WOLFF
14 February - 14 March 2026
Opening reception 14 February
from 4 pm to 7 pm
ZIDOUN-BOSSUYT PARIS
51, rue de Seine, 75006 Paris

The Critics' View of Contemporary Architecture in Luxembourg,

OAI & DOM Publishers Berlin
with an essai of the Floater by Tom Ravenscroft (Dezeen)

The Judgement of Cambyses I-III is on view in

CITY VISIONS, A FRESH LOOK AT LUXEMBOURG AS IT WAS, IS AND WILL BE
City Museum, Luxembourg
09.05.2025 > 17.01.2027
cityvisions.lu
citymuseum.lu

Skinned Light @ LAGE EGAL Brussels

SKINNED LIGHT — LAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS #226
ULRIKE BUHL, FRANCK MILTGEN
LAGE EGAL [IXELLES]
 
Rue Saint-Georges 5
 Sint-Joris Straat, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
10 Jan 2025 - 22 Feb 2025

Luxembourg Artweek 2024

/// Booth B07 /// Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery Dubai / Luxembourg / Paris
/// Booth D13 /// LAGE EGAL Berlin / Brussel
/// Booth B07 /// Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery
Skinned Tondo I
peeled and sanded graffiti paint layers, facade material, ø 98cm, 2024
Skinned Tondo II - III
peeled and sanded graffiti paint layers, ø 125cm - ø 80cm, 2024
catalogue
FEIPEL & BECHAMEIL
Kim DACRES
Louis GRANET
YoYo LANDER
Franck MILTGEN
Samuel OLAYOMBO
José PARLÀ
Olivier SOUFFRANT
Awodiya TOLUWANI
Summer WHEAT
/// Booth D13 /// LAGE EGAL
Loop Edition 2-5-10/10
sanded graffiti paint layers on aluminium, nail, frottage ø 30cm, 2023
Muschelwerk Glitsch I - III - V - II,
direct photo print on wood, fabric and aluminium framing, 44,6 x 30,4 cm - 46.2 x 30 cm - 44,2 x 30 cm, 2024
catalogue
and some other small pieces with:
MARTA DJOURINA
TOM FRÜCHTL
MARLEN LETETZKI
FRANCK MILTGEN

Eat the rainbow, young art fans curate the IKOB collection, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, B

25.06.–08.09.2024
link
WDR Beitrag

Quick dive into the work with the

RTL Artbox from 02/03/2024

Peeled & Piled running until 06/04/2024

at Zidoun-Bossuyt Luxembourg

upcoming solo

Peeled & Piled
at Zidoun-Bossuyt Luxembourg
21 February - 6 April 2024

Catalogue launch of the 2022 exhibitions "Solitude publique" at Schau Fenster and "Publicité solitaire" at KIMGO.

February 25, from 6 to 8 pm
Yann Annicchiarico | Serge Ecker | Hisae Ikenaga | Carine Kraus | Filip Markiewicz | Karolina Markiewicz & Pascal Piron | Franck Miltgen | Roland Quetsch | Rémi Tamburini | Arthur Unger

Book launch, 9/02 19:00 Hall C - Mine Cockerill, Centre nature et forêts, Ellergronn, Esch-sur-Alzette

Book title: Wäiss Kaul, Franck Miltgen
Publisher: DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin
Editor: Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History
Concept: Franck Miltgen
Design: Cropmark
Text: Marie-Anne Lorgé, Ben Thuy, Franck Miltgen
Translation: Nadia Benetaud
Hardcover, 198 x 254 mm, 152 pages, english & french, 195 color images

Opening Wäiss Kaul, Escher Shells II, by Franck Miltgen and Serge Ecker, in collaboration with Musée national d’histoire naturelle Luxembourg.

Opening event:
nov. 3th at 18:30
Opening hours:
from 4-22 nov, 13:00-19:00
from monday to saturday
Bunker Bâtiment 4
66. rue de Luxembourg
L-4149 Esch-sur-Alzette

Part 1 of the Wäiss Kaul project clip is up

Wäiss Kaul - Part 1 from Franck Miltgen on Vimeo.

save the dates

Floater, inauguration: 27/06 17:00 basin behind CNA Dudelange
Wäiss Kaul, A Local Coral Reef,  Inauguration 13/07 18:30 Centre nature et forêt Ellergronn, Esch-Alzette
Wäiss Kaul, An Island in Differdange, Opening 20/07 18:30 Fond de Gras, Minett-Park, Hall Paul Würth, Differdange

Solitude publique, SCHAU FENSTER

13.04.22 19-23 Uhr Eröffnung
Performance Yann Annicchiarico
29.04.22 18-22 Uhr Finissage
SCHAU FENSTER Raum für Kunst
Lobeckstr. 30-35 - 10969 Berlin
U8/M29 Moritzplatz
dasarty.com
Publicity solitaire, Project space KIMGO
14.04.22 18-21 Uhr Eröffnung
Performance Yann Annicchiarico
30.04.22 18-21 Uhr Finissage
Project space KIMGO
John-Schehr Str.1, Berlin
Ringbahn Greifswalder Straße, M4 Greifswalder / Danziger
kimgo.de
mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Kulturministeriums

SHELLS IN A WUNDERKAMMER @ CAPE ETTELBRUCK: Running 24/02-20/03

Shells in a Wunderkammer, die Ausstellung von Franck Miltgen im CAPE, zeigt Arbeiten die der Künstler mit Aufnahme-Prozessen geschaffen hat. Die so gesammelten Schalen-Spuren sind geologischer, historischer und trivialer Natur.
Zu sehen sind drei Arbeiten: Henzgrond Panel, eine freistehende Skulptur, Abdruck einer Felsformation im Henzgrond in Rollingen, Gourmangslay Cave, eine Skulpturen Gruppe bestehend aus dem Abdruck einer Höhle in den Felsen der Gourmangslay bei Lorentzweiler sowie einer Video Installation Atlantik Wall Skins bei der 3D Aufnahmen von wandmalerei-überzogenen Bunkerruinen des Atlantik Walls zu sehen sind.
Der Herstellungsprozess der Skulpturen wird im Eingangsbereich dokumentiert. Er hat gleichermassen Impakt auf das Endresultat als der Ort an dem der Abdruck entstanden ist. Diese sowohl dokumentarische als auch fiktionale Vorgehensweise bietet eine gewisse Resistenz dazu, das Dargestellte und Erzählte als gesammelte Wirklichkeit zu missbrauchen.
Thematisch kann die Ausstellung mit den monumentalen Projekten verbunden werden die in diesem Jahr noch entstehen werden. Wäiss Kaul, A Local Coral Reef im Escher Ellergronn als permanente Beton-Skulptur. Später Wäiss Kaul Islands als mobile Holzinstallation in Zusammenarbeit mit dem MNHN, sowie Floater eine bewohnbare Skulptur auf dem CNA-Pomhaus Becken in Dudelange.
Shells in a Wunderkammer

Solo-show announced for early 2022.

Wunderkammer @cape_ettelbruck
Franck Miltgen is setting up an exhibition at Cape which brings together objects that the artist has created through recording and collecting processes. The traces thus obtained testify as much to very ancient realities, such as geological formations, as to realities linked to our contemporary way of life.
Similar to the cabinet of curiosities - this personal collection which prefigures the museum and which proved to be decisive for the development of the concept of the art exhibition - Wunderkammer offers a scenography between naturalia and artificalia which brings together culture, knowledge and beliefs.

Will be build by 2022

Commissioned by OAI and PROSUD
Award winning project for an inhabitable sculpture on the "Red Rock Trail" in collaboration with M3 Architects.
M3 Architects
Le Quotidien article

New Catalogue retracing Apeiron project in Japan

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Luxembourg Art Week with Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery
8-10 Nov 2019
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18 Sep. 18:00 Opening reception
APEIRON Youkobo Artspace Tokyo
22 Sep. Closing reception
19:00 Butoh performance by Sakurai Ikuya
APEIRON Youkobo Artspace Tokyo
24 Sep. 18:00 Opening reception
Catalogue launch
APEIRON Embassy of Luxembourg Tokyo

18/11/2018 - 03/02/2019

PILOTAGE, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, B (group), curated by Jérôme Lefèvre

PÉRÉKOP / YANNY OR LAUREL

with Yann Annicchiarico, Saarländische Galerie, Berlin, D
Exhibition until 26.10.2018

21-24.03.2018 Art Dubai with Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery

Shift III, epoxy resin by stereolithography, lacquer, 93,3 x 70 x 7,3cm, 2017

SPOT public sculpture

Post / Bâtiment Mercier / Luxembourg-Gare
SPOT from Franck Miltgen on Vimeo.