Born in 1977, Catherine Lorent lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She has exhibited in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg and was awarded the Prix d’encouragement Jeunes Artistes 2005 and the Prix Révélation 2011 by the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture. She also represented Luxembourg at the Prix Robert Schuman in 2011. Winner of the Grand Duke Adolphe Prize in 2021, Catherine Lorent has long been one of the country’s most established artists. Although her studio has been based in Berlin for more than fifteen years, Lorent does not see her life as an artist in a ‘somewhere’, but rather in a ‘universe’ linking post-punk music and contemporary visual arts, following the example of her antics under her musical project Gran Horno and some of her long-term artistic projects such as Relegation, initiated for her occupation of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Biennale in 2013.