About
Tearjerker A.S.B.L. is an independent, artist-run platform and space in Luxembourg dedicated to unyielding conceptual practices. Operating outside of market constraints, the space prioritizes rapid, agile artistic interventions that respond directly to the contemporary socioeconomic and cultural climate. Tearjerker serves as an incubator for emerging positions, championing raw, experimental output and critical discourse.
The name Tearjerker functions as an ironic over-identification with a term commonly associated with sentimentality and over-emotionality. But rather than producing affect for consumption or catharsis, the platform foregrounds emotional response as a byproduct of structural conditions like precarity, urgency, and instability, that are embedded in the contemporary landscape. The name also tries to resist the neutrality and polish often expected of institutional or market-aligned spaces, aligning instead with practices that risk vulnerability and unresolvedness. In this sense, Tearjerker frames affect as an entry point for conceptual rigor, friction, and discourse that refuses emotional detachment as a marker of seriousness.
The name Tearjerker functions as an ironic over-identification with a term commonly associated with sentimentality and over-emotionality. But rather than producing affect for consumption or catharsis, the platform foregrounds emotional response as a byproduct of structural conditions like precarity, urgency, and instability, that are embedded in the contemporary landscape. The name also tries to resist the neutrality and polish often expected of institutional or market-aligned spaces, aligning instead with practices that risk vulnerability and unresolvedness. In this sense, Tearjerker frames affect as an entry point for conceptual rigor, friction, and discourse that refuses emotional detachment as a marker of seriousness.
TEARJERKER ASBL
14a, Rue des Bains
L-1212 Luxembourg
Alexandra Belokon
Bradley Leonard
Tom Reding