Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil live and work in Brussels. Since 2008, they have developed an artistic body of work that reflects on modernity and how, through industry, technology, architecture and its ideologies, it has transformed our relationship to the world, to space, to time and to each other.
Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil create installations that combine illusion, the imaginary, the unstable and the illogical, within the gridded, controlled spaces of the contemporary world. Sculptors as well as amateur researchers and engineers, with a keen sense of the world’s theatricality and beauty, they create works with a socio-historical, aesthetic, political and technical approach. Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil combine their many skills in a variety of fields – drawing, sculpture, engineering, staging, sound – to produce work that is as formally accomplished as it is strongly committed. Hackers of robotics, the artists reappropriate the fields of technology in a sensitive way through an eminently political gesture: seizing the know-how of industrial robotics to apply it to the creation of artworks that tell a different story of our world.

Martine Feipel studied visual arts at Berlin University of the Arts and Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design in London. Jean Bechameil, meanwhile, has built an extensive career in film set design, collaborating on several productions by Lars von Trier. In 2011, the duo was selected to represent Luxembourg at the 54th Venice Biennale, marking the beginning of their international recognition. Their work has since been featured in major exhibitions and institutions, including the Beaufort Triennale (Belgium, 2012); Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris, 2014); Casino Luxembourg (2017); Hermès (Japan, 2019); HAB Galerie (Nantes, 2020); Museum Voorlinden (Netherlands, 2020); Biennale of Saint-Paul de Vence (2021); Biennale d’Anglet (2021); Hermès (Luxembourg, 2021); Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery (Dubai, 2022); and Mudam (Luxembourg). They also completed a permanent work for the National Library of Luxembourrg. Recent highlights include Traversée de Nuit, a solo exhibition curated by Lydie Marchi at Châteauvert Contemporary Art Center (France, 2023); Coalition, a group show curated by Lauranne Germond at Gaîté Lyrique (Paris, 2024); a library bus design commissioned by Fabien Simode in Maison Alfort (2024); Banlieues Chéries, a group exhibition at the Palais de la Porte Dorée (Paris, 2025); Entre Ciel et Terre; and the Schlassgoart Sculpture Prize awarded in Esch-sur-Alzette (2025). Their works are included in a wide range of public and private collections, such as ATOZ (LU); Centre des Arts Pluriels (Ettelbrück, LU); Commanderie de Peyrassol (Flassans-sur-Issole, FR); DekaBank (DE); FRAC Lorraine (Metz, FR); ING Bank (Amsterdam, NL); MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne du Luxembourg (LU); Museum Voorlinden (NL); London Institute (UK); La Bâloise (Basel, CH); Le Voyage à Nantes (FR); MNHA – Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art (Luxembourg, LU); Luxembourg’s Ministry of Culture (LU); Œuvre Grande-Duchesse Charlotte – Loterie Nationale headquarters (Luxembourg, LU); Simmons & Simmons (London,UK). Feipel & Bechameil are currently showcasing a site-specific installation curated by Mathias Courtet, conceived to mark the Millennium of the city of Caen. The work is exhibited at the historic Hôtel d’Escoville in Caen, France, and will remain on view throughout 2025. In parallel, the duo is developing Orbits Déviées, a permanent robotic installation commissioned for the future Canal Parc Technologique metro station in Toulouse, France, with its inauguration planned for 2027.