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Our Story
Our story begins in 2013 when Raphael Gindt came to his grandmother’s house to paint. As the last floor of the house was not really in use, he progressively started installing his studio. A few years after that, when Raphael and Daniel Mac Lloyd were working together, both on their own projects, but helping each other as often as possible, they thought that it would be much easier to have both their studios in the same place.
So, when Raphael’s grandmother moved to a care home and decided to rent the house instead of selling it, Daniel moved his studio to basement of the house in August 2017.
Having both work spaces in the same house and working side by side, the two artists started renovating the rest of the building. The work involved laying floors, tearing down walls and installing a crane in the staircase. In 14 months of hard work in every free minute and lots of night shifts, they turned the very old-fashioned house of the 1950s into a creative space and art gallery designed to their needs and imagination. As a result, the heritage of the old-fashioned grandparent’s house, the city and its history was veiled in a modern, industrial urban art design.
Why “Kamellebuttek”?
(Luxembourgish for candy shop)
Why not any fancy art gallery name with the names of the owners or so, like so many others?
When Daniel was at the post office to send some artworks for an exhibition to Paris, the lady at the desk opened her drawer with the insurance stamps, but there were no left. So, she turned towards her colleague and asked if there were any left in his drawer. He took a stamp, laughed and said: Naturally, there are. We are not a “Kamellebuttek”.
Well, in Luxembourgish there is this saying: “we are not a candy shop” and it means as much as: We are a serious, well organised business and not a “Kamellebuttek”.
Here at the Kamellebuttek, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and our great creative chaos is really hard to organise. So we truly are a “Kamellebuttek”.
Press Kamellebuttek:
- RTL Replay – “No Art on Air” mam Raphael Gindt an Daniel Mac Lloyd, 10. 07. 2021
- RTL Replay – De Magazin, Den Daniel Mac Lloyd an de Raphael Gindt an hir Graffitien, 07.07.2021
- Invitéen am Moies-Magazin: Raphael Gindt an Daniel Mac Lloyd, Radio 100,7 – 24. Jan 2019 – 11:32
- Escher „URBAN ART“-Galerie KAMELLEBUTTEK, Kunterbunter Süsswarenhandel, KULTEsch N. 24, Décembre 2018 – Février 2019, S. 20, 60-63
- Kamellebuttek 2018, Uelzechtkanal, “Et handelt sech beim Kamellebutteck em eng ganz besonnesch Galerie. Op d’Biller en genee sou séissen Ubléck sinn wei den Numm et erdenken léisst gesitt der elo.“, YouTube, 20. 11. 2018
- Françoise Stoll, Philippe Reuter, Von draußen nach drinnen, revue 41, 12.10.2018, S.30-33.
- Paul Huybrechts, Kunst ganz intim: „Kamellebuttek“ öffnet die Türen zur ersten Ausstellung, tageblatt.lu, 1.10.2018
- vhbleu, balade au Luxembourg, le 98 : la galerie Kamellebuttek à Esch – YouTube, 29.9.2018
- RTL introduces Kamellebuttek, RTL|TODAY, 29.09.2018
- Raphael Gindt @ Live! Planet People, RTL Télé, 28.09.2018 (24:38 – 31:20)
- Thierry Hick, Une bonbonnière sans bonbons, Ouverture prochaine d’un nouveau lieu de création: le “Kamellebuttek” d’Esch/Alzette, Luxemburger Wort, 12.09.2018, S. 15
Une bonbonnière sans bonbons– wort.lu - Kamellebuttek – L’ouverture d’un nouvel espace créatif à Esch-sur-Alzette– culture.lu
- Luc Labulle, “Wir sind ein richtiger ‘Kamellebuttek’“, Bruch, Neue Kunstgalerie eröffnet am 29. September, tageblatt 31. 08. 2018, S.26;
Straßenkünstler eröffnen eigene Galerie im Escher Bruch– tageblatt.lu - ArtBox vum Daniel Mac Lloyd– rtl.lu, 15.09.2018
- Luxembourg Times, Art gallery inspiration in Luxembourg, 18.9.2018
Press Konschtschoul:
- Ana Martins, Des cours d’art urbain font fleurir la créativité, l’essentiel, 25.1.2019, p. 10; lessentiel.lu
- Bill Wirtz, Eine Kunstschule für alle, www.journal.lu, 9.1.2019; Lëtzebuerger Journal, 10. 1. 2019, S. 24
- Generator, “… Donieft kommen dann nach de Raphael an den Daniel laanscht, fir hire Projet Konschtschoul virzestellen. Vu Januar u bidden si nämlech gratis Konschtcoursen un. Wat een do alles léiere kann an u wie sech dat riicht, dat verrode si.”, Radio 100,7 – 22/12/18 – 18:12 – 19:30
- Kunstkurse in Esch/Alzette, Von Street Art bis Fotographie, Télécran, 15.-21.12.2018
- La transmission de la créativité sera exercée au Kamellebuttek –
Culture.lu, 04/12/2018 // plurio.net
Impressum
Kamellebuttek is run by Street Art and Murals s.à.r.l.
Raphael Gindt
professional artist, founder and owner
Daniel Mac Lloyd
professional artist, founder and owner


