EXHIBITIONS

Galerie Liberté presents “Grande Liberté » by Dante-Goods and Bads

10.10.-24.12.2025

“For our upcoming exhibition at Galerie Liberté in Luxembourg, we reimagine our furniture through the lens of automotive aesthetics. Every piece is transformed – refinished, recontextualized, and ready for the podium. A race staged inside a gallery. An ode to precision, speed, and untamed beauty.

Seats are upholstered like car interiors, referencing different eras of driving culture. Surfaces are lacquered in high-gloss automotive paint.

Everything is collectible. Everything is intentional. Ultra-customized, meticulously finished, and open to personalization.

These aren’t just objects.
They are contenders.
They want to compete.
They want to win.”

Aylin and Christophe

As the exhibition title 2016–2025 suggests, this presentation brings together 16 distinct works — seating, tables, lighting, and tapestry — spanning different times and collections within Rooms Studio’s practice.

Each piece is carefully curated to reflect the studio’s work in terms of chronology and materiality, while also drawing attention to contrasting feelings and attitudes — monumentality vs. fluidity, fragility vs. solidity. 

The exhibition as a whole showcases the richness of materials — wood, stone, cast aluminum, metal, beeswax, and textile — each chosen for its raw, tactile presence.

The installation is set to present various aspects of Rooms Studio’s practice — sculptural, narrative-based furniture and spatial thinking. Cultural identity, along with Georgia’s layered architectural and design history — from archaic and medieval to modernist and transitional present — runs as a leitmotif throughout their work.

Sculptural pieces are placed in conversation with one another: the heaviness of cast aluminum is offset by the softness of fluffy blankets, blending Eastern and Western motifs in quiet tension and balance.

With "Précieuse", Axel Chay frees himself from the codes of contemporary design to explore a new approach to the object. Neither simple furniture nor traditional sculpture, each piece is thought of as a jewel, revealing a precious and timeless dimension.

"Précieuse" is the result of in-depth research into the harmony and essence of materials. It is a subtle encounter between mineral and metal, where onyx, agate, marble and selenite mingle with aluminum structures. –Axel Chay

From February 7 to April 30, 2025, visitors will have the opportunity to discover unique and unpublished pieces from this series, alongside some emblematic works from Axel Chay's permanent collection.

Luxembourg’s Galerie Liberté debuts with the “Ore” group exhibition

The new collectible gallery and specialized design showroom, the first of its kind in the city, opens with a showcase highlighting its astute understanding of experimental yet refined contemporary design culture.

Bringing together internationally recognized talents Paris-based Wendy Andreu, New York’s Umberto Bellardi Ricci (UBR Studio), and Lisbon-based French duo Studio Haos, the Ore group exhibition inaugurates Luxembourg’s first collectible gallery and specialized design showroom, Galerie Liberté. On view from 12 October to 15 January 2025, the show includes recently completed limited-edition, serial, and one-off furnishings and accessories that allude back to the Western European nation’s deeply rooted and globally impactful industrial heritage: the production of steel long integral to the construction of skyscrapers and other structures around the world.

While UBR Studio principal Bellardi Ricci, who was raised in Luxembourg, shrewdly implements the refractive qualities of metal in monumental luminaires, Studio Haos riffs on mechanized production in “crafted” metal tables and armchairs with unexpected proportions. Through extensive hands-on research, Andreu seeks to find innovative uses for long-established craft techniques as well as industrial materials like steel. Widely mined in the region, ore is the mineral from which most metals are derived and, like these practices, transcends borders. Operating in different parts of the world and often away from their countries of origin, all three exhibiting studios are able to distil the various sources of inspiration they’ve encountered in refined yet distinctive designs.

“These talents exemplify the best in contemporary craft-led design and the ability to reinterpret age-old artisanal techniques in new and relevant applications,” says Galerie Liberté founder Françoise Kuth. “Our focus on craft production, a certain knowledge and set of skills, rather than traditional industrial design is how we hope to differentiate ourselves as a gallery and showroom. This also ensures that the tightly curated selection of bold designs we plan to exhibit are idiosyncratic and not replicated by others.”

Works on view for the inaugural exhibition will include Studio Haos’s Aluminum Coffee Table and Armchair; select pieces from UBR Studio’s Spira, Mano, and Luca collections; Andreu’s Aircraft Table, Staple Console, and 8 Legged Stool On Wheels. The showcase of her tapestries reveals that the Ore exhibition’s guiding theme can be expressed in more nuanced ways, with unexpected processes and materials other than metal.

It’s opportune that Galerie Liberté should be located in a 1915 Art Nouveau building when considering the theme behind the inaugural Ore exhibition. The proponent of this historicist yet early Modern architecture and design style sought to mitigate rapidly advancing industrialization through much more controlled craft processes and bespoke applications; a preoccupation shared by the show’s three exhibitors.

Written by Adrian Madlener