On Thursday 31 July 2025, the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg launched an open art competition for a new permanent artwork to be installed in front of its Biotech 2 building on Belval Campus (Esch-Belval).
The competition invites artists from Luxembourg and the Greater Region to propose an artwork that reflects the centre’s research on the brain and its diseases.
The LCSB stated the new public artwork will be a prominent feature of the building’s entrance, a space where“science and society meet”.
The LCSB said that the winning artwork will serve as a visual expression of the LCSB’s interdisciplinary research approach and its commitment to understanding complex biological systems, neurological diseases and the interplay between human health and the environment.
The selected work will replace an existing sculpture and is intended to become a long-term symbol of dialogue between art and science at the heart of the LCSB campus.
Professor Michael Heneka, Director of the LCSB, said: ‟This artwork will become part of our identity, not only as a research centre, but as a place where science is made visible and accessible. We look forward to receiving proposals that translate the beauty and complexity of the brain into artistic form.”
