Jean-Marie Biwer

Lot 7 - Jean-Marie Biwer
Painter from Luxembourg
j-m-biwer.lu
Acrylic on canvas, representing three birch trees in leaf.
Signed and dated 2021 on the lower right.
Dimensions: H: 50; L: 40 cm
Jean-Marie Biwer was born in Dudelange in 1957, currently lives and works in Basbellain, Luxembourg
Since 1980, he has had 50 solo exhibitions in Luxembourg, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands, and has participated in more than 100 group exhibitions in Luxembourg, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, the Czech Republic, Finland, China and South Korea.
He represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 1993. His works can be found in numerous private and public collections, notably those of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Luxembourg, the MUDAM, Luxembourg, the IKOB / Centre et Musée d'Art Contemporain in Belgium where a large solo exhibition of the artist took place in 2011, in the collection of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and in Luxembourg City, at the Luxembourg Embassy in Washington, in the Salle des fêtes of the City Hall of Dudelange. In 2020 the Mudam / Museum of Modern Art will organize a large retrospective exhibition of the artist's work of the last fifteen years.
Some twenty personal publications to date, including a monograph published in 1997 as well as the catalog of the exhibition at Mudam, in 2020. For the series Portraits d'Artistes produced by Samsa Films, Andy Bausch shot a documentary on the artist. In collaboration with the Casino / Centre d'Art Contemporain, Yann Tonnar directed Atelier Luxembourg, a documentary film on four contemporary artists, including JM Biwer.