# yaseminelci.com ## Posts - [Sustainability takes centre stage in Luxembourg’s cultural landscape](https://yaseminelci.com/sustainability-takes-centre-stage-in-luxembourgs-cultural-landscape/): In the wake of the COP30 summit, the Grand Duchy’s artists, architects and cultural institutions are putting climate at the forefront. Across the world, cultural institutions are rethinking their impact as the urgency around climate change accelerates. The recent COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil amplified this reality, reminding governments and civil society that the transition ahead concerns everyone. While attention often focuses on energy systems and industry, culture plays a vital, if sometimes quieter role in shaping understanding and strengthening resilience. UNESCO has repeatedly highlighted culture as an essential ally in climate action. In Luxembourg, this shift is […] - [Hello world!](https://yaseminelci.com/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! - [Climate Elders - COP30, Belém, Brazil (2025)](https://yaseminelci.com/climate-elders-cop30-belem-brazil-2025/): “Climate Elders” installation view, Museu de Arte Sacra do Pará, Belém, Brazil. During the COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil, “Climate Elders“ — a global photography exhibition created by 1in6by2030 in partnership with HelpAge International — opens at Galeria Fidanza in the Museum of Sacred Art (Museu de Arte Sacra do Pará), located within the historic St. Alexander Church complex in the Cidade Velha district. Bringing together the work of photographers from more than 21 countries, Climate Elders highlights the lived experiences of older people whose lives and livelihoods are increasingly shaped by the climate crisis. Each portrait is paired with […] - [The Anonymous Project in Luxembourg](https://yaseminelci.com/the-anonymous-project-in-luxembourg/): The Anonymous Project by Lee Shulman, “In Ictu Oculi”, 2024. Lux Vitae: From Self to Society The Anonymous Project by Lee Shulman Founded by Shulman in 2017, The Anonymous Project collects and preserves vintage color slides from the past 70 years, celebrating everyday moments and untold stories from the pre-digital era. Shulman’s broader practice has earned global recognition through exhibitions like The House at Arles in 2019 and publications such as Mid-Century Memories, named The Times Photography Book of the Year, and Deja View, created with Martin Parr. Shulman is an internationally renowned artist who explores the evocative power of vernacular photography and offers […] - [exp 3](https://yaseminelci.com/exp-3/): Artists: Nichole Sobecki, Kerem Uzel, Andrea Mantovani, Natalya Saprunova, Mathias Depardon. - [Earth Is Not Flat, But Soon Will Be: Climate Stories Near & Far](https://yaseminelci.com/earth-is-not-flat-but-soon-will-be-climate-stories-near-far/): Artists: Nichole Sobecki, Kerem Uzel, Andrea Mantovani, Natalya Saprunova, Mathias Depardon. - [U.S. Artist David Lenz Paints for Inclusion](https://yaseminelci.com/u-s-artist-david-lenz-paints-for-inclusion/): Kindred Spirits, 2019, by David Lenz shows another marginalised group © Photo credit: Collection of the Museum of Wisconsin Art US artist paints for inclusion Renowned US painter David Lenz paints people usually marginalised by society and in an exclusive interview with the Luxembourg Times spoke about his work during a visit to the country where one of his award-winning paintings now hangs. Lenz is dedicated to painting portraits of people with disabilities, as he believes in the inherent interconnectedness of the universe and challenges the way the society reacts to people who happen to be “different”.   “The first painting […] - ["Earth Is Not Flat, But Soon Will Be" Luxembourg, 2024](https://yaseminelci.com/earth-is-not-flat-but-soon-will-be-luxembourg-2024/): Artists: Nichole Sobecki, Kerem Uzel, Andrea Mantovani, Natalya Saprunova, Mathias Depardon. - ["Women on the Move" Photoville Festival NYC, 2021](https://yaseminelci.com/women-on-the-move-photoville-festival-nyc/): Featuring: Amrita Chandradas, Danielle Villasana, Ksenia Kuleshova, Miora Rajaonary, Mridula Amin, Nichole Sobecki, Saiyna Bashir, and Thana Faroq. A team of eight women photographers from The Everyday Projects highlights how modern migration is impacting women worldwide in a project published this year in National Geographic Magazine. - ["Taming Nature" Luxembourg, 2021](https://yaseminelci.com/taming-nature-luxembourg-2021/): In their first exhibition in Luxembourg, Helsinki School artists Sandra Kantanen, Jaakko Kahilaniemi and Riitta Päiväläinen stimulate new discussions around the suffering relationship between humankind and nature in this current epoque called Anthropocene, which forms the theme of the European Month of Photography. - ["A Room of One’s Own" 2023, Luxembourg - Cansu Yildiran, Ofir Berman, Imane Djamil](https://yaseminelci.com/a-room-of-ones-own-cansu-yildiran-ofir-berman-imane-djamil/): The exhibition takes its name from the book A Room of One’s Own written by Virginia Woolf, one of the most remarkable modernist novelists of the 20th century. Woolf talks about the disadvantages of being a woman in the male-dominated art world – particularly in the literary scene – and proposes ways to bring out women’s creativity through stories that oscillate between reality and fiction. - [How the Camera Lies To You, and Why You Don't Care](https://yaseminelci.com/how-the-camera-lies-to-you-and-why-you-dont-care/): Weapons of mass manipulation and their immediate impact are displayed simultaneously. Alison Jackson’s powerful exhibition “Fake Truth” demonstrates that voyeurism does not feed from truth, and its after-taste does not fade even when the subject’s authenticity is revealed. - [How Artists in Turkey are Responding to Violence Against Women](https://yaseminelci.com/how-artists-in-turkey-are-responding-to-violence-against-women/): Regardless of the working definitions of feminism, or whether artists create work that can be identified as or called feminist, women artists in Turkey continue to dissect society and shake the foundations of every “sin” attributed to women since the story of Adam and Eve. - [Mudam hosts 'a series of investigations' in 1960s American art](https://yaseminelci.com/mudam-hosts-a-series-of-investigations-in-1960s-american-art/): Luxembourg’s contemporary art museum Mudam hosts a remarkable exhibition of one of the most influential and controversial American artists of the postwar period, Robert Morris, curated by a close collaborator of the artist who died in 2018. The Perceiving Body demonstrates the radical new ideas that underlie Morris’s early works from the 1960s and 1970s. The sculptor, conceptual artist and writer, born in 1931, was crucial in the development of minimalism, land-art and process art in the 1960s. During this period, conceptual artists had already begun emphasizing the core idea of an artwork over aesthetic or technical concerns. The forefather […] - [Treasures Iraq lost to ISIS in Metz exhibition](https://yaseminelci.com/treasures-iraq-lost-to-isis-in-metz-exhibition/): Treasures Iraq lost to ISIS in Metz exhibition Using food packaging and newspapers as materials, US artist Michael Rakowitz brings back treasures Iraq lost to ISIS – and to Western museums Michael Rakowitz was born in New York out of a Jewish-Iraqi family of refugees © Photo credit: LT archive In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the 4000 year-old poem from Mesopotamia, king Gilgamesh, puts on new robes and a sash after heroically slaying a monster. That’s when the goddess of love and war, Ishtar sees him and falls in love. Ishtar was the Queen of Heaven and the goddess of the […] ## Pages - [Other](https://yaseminelci.com/other/) - [Exhibitions](https://yaseminelci.com/exhibitions/): Exhibition Climate Elders — COP30, Belém, Brazil (2025) During the COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil, “Climate Elders“ — a global photography exhibition created by 1in6by2030 in partnership with HelpAge International — opens at Galeria Fidanza in the Museum of Sacred Art (Museu de Arte Sacra do Pará), located within the historic St. Alexander Church complex in the Cidade Velha district. Bringing together the work of photographers from more than 21 countries, Climate Elders highlights the lived experiences of older people whose lives and livelihoods are increasingly shaped by the climate crisis. Each portrait is paired with a personal message addressed […] - [Articles](https://yaseminelci.com/articles/): © Photo credit: LT archive ArticleTreasures Iraq lost to ISIS in Metz exhibition Descendant of an Iraqi Jewish family forced to flee their country, American artist Michael Rakowitz uses contemporary materials from Arabic culture such as food packaging and newspapers to reconstruct ancient objects that Iraq lost during the war. The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Aj-ibur-shapu), borrows its name from a street dating back to 574 BC which ran through the gate of Ishtar, in ancient Babylon. One translation of the name is “may the arrogant not prevail”. Rakowitz’s work, which he describes as showing “ghosts that have come to […] - [Sample Page](https://yaseminelci.com/sample-page/): This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). 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