Since its founding in 1970, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg has played an active role in public life in the Grand Duchy. In the mid-1980s, it commissioned the renowned Cologne architect Gottfried Böhm to design its new bank on the Kirchberg Plateau. With that, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg became an important influence paving the way for how Kirchberg looks today, with its impressive buildings belonging to banks and the EU institutions, as well as venues for art and culture like the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM) and Philharmonie Luxembourg.

Open and communicative in its design, and bearing the unmistakable hallmark of the Pritzker Prize-winning Böhm, the new building became the centre of Deutsche Bank Luxembourg’s cultural activity. Built of steel, glass and concrete, the structure has become synonymous with the firm’s social engagement.

In creating its own collection, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg followed the initial approach to art employed by Deutsche Bank AG – since the late 1970s, it has exhibited paintings, gouaches, watercolours, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures by artists from German-speaking countries. With works by the likes of Georg Baselitz, Imi Knoebel, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Fernand Roda, Cornelia Schleime, Katharina Sieverding and Michael Wesely, the collection of Deutsche Bank Luxembourg continues to shape the atmosphere of its Kirchberg building to this day. Displayed in the light-flooded bank, the works acquire a unique and unmistakable quality.

In addition to building its collection, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg has regularly hosted sizeable art exhibitions since 1993. These have shown a review of the oeuvres of particular artists in the collection, or presented ongoing trends in contemporary art. With this ambitious agenda, including 40 temporary exhibitions, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg has brought its staff, clients and visitors nearer to contemporary art, and has graced the foyer of its building with a fresh aesthetic time and again.

Every two years since autumn 2006, numerous banks and related institutions in Kirchberg have opened their doors to the public during an event known as Private Art Kirchberg. From the very start, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg has been among them. Private Art Kirchberg illustrates the sociocultural responsibility attributable to the companies that populate Kirchberg, and serves to anchor the district as a site for culture, with Place de l’Europe at its centre.

From autumn 2026, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg will be moving to new premises near the Luxembourg airport. Private Art Kirchberg 2024 is therefore a final opportunity for art lovers in Luxembourg to view the bank’s impressive architecture and parts of the collection. In autumn 2024 the foyer of the bank will house the exhibition Benjamin Katz Delphi heliotroph. Eine Skulptur für die Deutsche Bank Luxembourg SA. The five-tonne, nine-metre bronze sculpture was first unveiled to invited guests in late March 1993. The exhibition in autumn of this year will be one more opportunity to take in the sculpture’s striking details.