JULIEN HÜBSCH
Part of the public SCULPTURE TRAIL 2025, Luxembourg City
October 15 – November 23, 2025
Julien Hübsch’s artistic practice unfolds within the restless rhythm of the city. Working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and installation, he explores the material traces of human activity and the evolving aesthetics of contemporary vandalism. His work examines how these marks—often fleeting or accidental—are absorbed, erased, or reimagined within the urban landscape.
Engaging with the discourse of post-vandalism, Hübsch navigates the delicate balance between destruction and creation, spontaneity and control. He has developed a language that merges refined composition with the rawness of found materials. Inspired by the accidental compositions of construction sites, signage systems, and temporary structures, Hübsch recontextualizes these forms to expose the overlooked poetry of the built environment.
For the public sculpture trail in Luxembourg City, Hübsch presents UNTITLED (YELLOW CHUTE) or LOOPS, installed at the entrance of the Pont Adolphe, near Hamilius and Casino Luxembourg. The large yellow conduit, assembled from construction debris chutes, coils around a lamppost and rests directly on the ground. Its bright industrial surface contrasts sharply with the muted concrete surroundings, transforming a utilitarian object into a sculptural presence within the city’s daily flow.
By repositioning this familiar element of construction infrastructure, Hübsch invites reflection on the aesthetics of the provisional — the systems that shape and maintain the city yet remain invisible. The piece seems at once dormant and alive, as if it had organically grown around the lamppost, blurring the line between adaptation and intrusion.
Echoing the artist’s wider research, UNTITLED (YELLOW CHUTE) or LOOPS captures a moment of transformation — where the functional becomes poetic and the accidental becomes intentional. It reminds us that the urban environment is a living organism, continuously constructing, erasing, and reinventing itself.
Julien Hübsch (born 1995, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) lives and works between Luxembourg and Germany. He studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, and the Kunsthochschule in Mainz, where he graduated from Shannon Bool’s class. In 2023, he received the Grand Duke Adolphe Prize, awarded by the Salon du CAL & La Cour Grand-Ducale. He was a resident at the Cité des Arts in Paris in 2023 and at the Darling Foundry in Montreal, CA in 2024.