Thomas Huber,Vanessa Billy,Sonia Kacem @ Centre Culturel Suisse| Paris

Thomas Huber, Vanessa Billy and Sonia Kacem with exhibitions @ Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris
Thomas Huber: extase (ecstasy)
January 21–April 2, 2017

 

 photocredit: Thomas Huber, Fontaines, aquarelle, 53,5 x 72 cm, 2016 / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Thomas Huber: extase (ecstasy)
Nearly 30 years after his exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Thomas Huber is literally taking possession of the large room at the Centre Culturel Suisse, where his work is wholly focused on the figure of Eros. This exhibition by the Berlin-based Swiss painter is made up of drawings, watercolours and large-scale wall paintings made on-site. “What I want to do is articulate the genius loci, that is to say, the exhibition space, by painting this Eros that connects us all.”.Protuberant and receding domes, constituted by gigantic vulva–fountains, are painted directly onto the walls. Reflectively imaged in these wall paintings, the exhibition space also houses a set of drawings and watercolours. For the artist, this manipulation by means of images offers magical possibilities: the representation of the space acts on the space itself. Huber thus transcends the image of the sexual organs, which are often considered unaesthetic, or even ugly, by giving them an aesthetic form, by making them “beautiful.”. The exhibition is accompanied by an artist’s book, also titled extase, containing a selection of 80 erotic drawings and watercolours taken from the 66 sketchbooks that the artist has used since 1972, and never previously published.
On January 25 at 7 pm, Huber will give a speech, titled Séance, in relation to the exhibition.

photocredit; Thomas Huber, Séance, 2009 / Collection privée, Genève © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Thomas Huber was born in Zurich in 1955. He lives and works in Berlin. The titles of his exhibitions are always carefully chosen. Of his many shows since 1982, the most recent include A l’horizon at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2016) and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (2017); Abyss, a permanent installation for the MONA in Hobart, Tasmania (2017); the major retrospective Vous êtes ici. Thomas Huber est au Mamco, at Mamco, Geneva, in 2012; and La langueur des losanges at Carré d’Art, Nîmes, in 2008. In 1988, the Centre Pompidou hosted his show 7 lieux. Winner of the Meret Oppenheim Prize in 2013, he is represented, among others, by the Skopia gallery in Geneva and Louis Carré & Cie in Paris. His bibliography is currently approaching 50 books.







Vanessa Billy: Dear Life
January 21–February 27, 2017

Vanessa Billy: Dear Life
The works brought together in this exhibition, made mainly using recuperated junk, form an environment that suggests “dirty” liquids of one kind of other: an engine slowly leaking oil, a baby on a “sea” of waste, a net with fluids draining out of it. By getting bodies to interact with this environment, Dear Life evokes human life and its transformations, and questions the notion of life forms in a wider sense. This show by Vanessa Billy revisits what is a regular concern in her work: political ecology, doing so through the circulation and activation/deactivation of energies and resources.
Vanessa Billy (born 1978, lives in Zurich) studied at Cooper Union, New York and the Chelsea College of Arts, London. She has exhibited at the Kunsthalle Saint-Gall; BolteLang, Zurich (2016); c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, Brussels; Limoncello, London (2015); Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2014); Piano Nobile, Geneva (2013); and Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (2011).
image photocredit;  Vanessa Billy;Dear Life, 2016 / Photo: Gunnar Meier
Sonia Kacem:Carcasse
March 4–April 2, 2017
Sonia Kacem: Carcasse
Structures in wood and metal delimit “a world” (as the term is understand in video games) that visitors are encouraged to explore. Carcasse is composed mainly by lines and empty spaces, humorously twisting the idea that the artist is expected to “fill” the space. Sonia Kacem plays games with our perception, shifting between abstraction and fiction. Her bare sculptures sport ambiguous, flesh-like colours and have human given names, like figures in a strange interior.
Sonia Kacem (born 1985, lives in Amsterdam) studied at HEAD in Geneva and is in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2016–17. She exhibited at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, and at Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich, in 2016; at the Kunsthalle Saint-Gall and the T293 gallery, Naples, in 2015; and at Mamco, Geneva, in 2014. In 2016 the AHEAD foundation published a monograph about her work, Sonia Kacem - KIC.

practical information
Centre culturel suisse Paris
32-38, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
F-75003 Paris
+33 (0)1 42 71 44 50
 

Steve McQueen @Galerie Marian Goodman | Paris

Steve McQueen @Galerie Marian Goodman | Paris
January 9–February 27, 2016

"I want to put the public in a situation where everyone becomes acutely sensitive to themselves, to their body and respiration." Steve McQueen
 

 

Steve McQueen , Remember Me, 2016; Acrylic paint on 88 neon borosilicate tubes;

photocredit: Galerie Marian Goodman

Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris is proud to announce an exhibition by Steve McQueen to launch the 2016 season. We present Ashes, his latest film installation, as well as several new works produced especially for this, his fifth exhibition at the gallery. Steve McQueen's latest projects comprise a wall installation formed of 77 dark blue neon lights, each a unique handwritten version of the phrase Remember Me, as well as two sculptural works, Broken Column and Moonlit.
Ashes is an immersive work composed of two films projected simultaneously on either side of a free-hanging screen. First is a portrait of Ashes, a young man from Grenada from where the artist's family also originated. Cracking a mischievous smile and taunting the camera, Ashes is seated at the prow of a boat sailing the Caribbean Sea. The footage was captured during the production of another work, titled Caribs' Leap (2002). Shot live on Super 8 film by the renowned cinematographer Robby Müller, the images illustrate the documentary aspect of McQueen's work.
Ashes's carefree demeanor and apparent freedom stand in contrast to the content of the second film projected on the other side of the screen and shot eight years later in a Grenada cemetery, in contrast to the idyllic postcard pictures of the Caribbean island. "Life and death have always lived side by side, in every aspect of life," said McQueen. "We live with ghosts in our everyday."
The intensity of the piece is derived from the juxtaposition of the two projections (life and death, boundless space and enclosed space) linked by an off-screen voice. McQueen uses a monologue to pull together the threads of a story that are absent from the images. Employing this narrative device, each viewer is rendered a witness to the drama through the oral testimonies of Ashes’s friends.

 

 Steve McQueen, Moonlit, 2016,Rocks, silver leaf 

 photocredit: Galerie Marian Goodman

Born in London in 1969, Steve McQueen has said "I discovered filmmaking, and that was it, a eureka moment. I was 19 years old." In 1993, as he was about to graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London, he showed his first video, Bear, at the Royal College of Art in London. This first video revealed some of the themes that the artist continued to explore in the 1990s, such as the relationship of the body to space. His work was recognized in 1999 when he was awarded the Turner Prize.
McQueen's work has been the subject of many museums around the world, including the National Portrait Gallery in London (2010), the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg (2009), the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1997). In 2009, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. He participated in Documenta X (1997), Documenta XI (2002), and Documenta XII (2007). Most recently, his work was the subject of retrospective exhibitions, at the Art Institute of Chicago (2012) and at the Schaulager in Basel (2014). His last museum exhibition in France was in 2003 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York will hold a new solo show of his work in spring 2016.
Internationally renowned as a filmmaker, McQueen has directed three feature films: Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), and 12 Years a Slave (2014). He won the "camera d'or" award at the Cannes Film Festival for Hunger and the Oscar for the Best Motion Picture for 12 Years a Slave in 2014.


contacts:
Galerie Marian Goodman
79 rue du Temple
75003 Paris
France

Daniel Buren @ BOZAR | Brussels 2016

Daniel Buren. A Fresco @BOZAR Brussels
19.02 - 22.05.2016

The internationally renowned French artist is known for his in situ works, characterised by the
presence of a recurring motif made up of alternating white and coloured stripes. The specific character
and often short-lived nature of Daniel Buren’s works (80% of his works no long exist!) mean a classic
retrospective of his work would have been impossible.

Daniel Buren, Sha-Kkei ou Emprunter le paysage, travail in situ, 

Ushimado (Japon), novembre 1985. Détail. © DB-ADAGP Paris

With this exhibition entitled “A Fresco”, Daniel Buren offers an original solution to this dilemma. The
exhibition has been conceived as a visual and temporal crossing in the course of which Daniel
Buren establishes a dialogue between his work and selected works by more than 70 artists from
the 20th and 21st century. These artists who had a major influence on his own artistic career, from
Paul Cézanne, Fernand Léger to Pablo Picasso, by way of Jackson Pollock and Sol LeWitt to
Pierre Huyghe and plenty more besides.
A specific work, in the form of a film directed by the artist, will provide a major overview of his works from the 1960s until the present day, and more particularly of his ephemeral creations. This multiscreen fresco will made up of be a combination of archive images, film extracts, commentaries and interviews. Daniel Buren will create a work in the Horta Hall, on the fringes of the exhibition circuit. This work will be in relation to the architecture of the Centre for Fine Arts.
A Fresco will be entirely conceived and carried out by Daniel Buren in collaboration with the curator
Joël Benzakin. It is being specifically created for the spaces in the Centre for Fine Arts. This
exhibition promises to be an unmissable milestone in Buren’s work.

Daniel Buren, Les Deux Plateaux, © DB-ADAGP Paris

sculpture permanente in situ, cour d'honneur du Palais-Royal, Paris, 1985-1986. Détail. 

Daniel Buren: short biography
Daniel Buren (1938, Boulogne-Billancourt) is one of the best known and most influential contemporary artists of his generation. Since the end of the 1960s, he has enjoyed international renown thanks to the in situ works he has created all over the world. His interventions are always linked to a specific place or situation, be it artistic institutions, private places or the public space. The majority of his creations are ephemeral but Daniel Buren also has some permanent works to his name which are part of the most prestigious public and private collections. One of the most famous is Les Deux Plateaux (1986), a gigantic 3000 m² installation in the main courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris. He has also taken over, amongst others, the Guggenheim in New York in 2005, the Georges Pompidou Centre, and, more recently, the nave of the Grand Palais for the 2012 edition of Monumenta. There have been more than 2600 Daniel Buren exhibitions throughout the world. He has participated in the Kassel Documenta and the Venice Biennale (where he won the Golden Lion in 1986) on several occasions. In 2007, he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale, by the Emperor of Japan. This award is widely considered to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for visual arts. Since 1967, Daniel Buren has been using a recurrent motif inspired by the awnings of Parisian shops and bistros: alternating vertical white and colourful stripes, each of a width of 8.7 cm. The artist was looking for a sign, a visual tool, capable of creating an impression both inside and outside the museum. The street or any kind of exhibition space have thus become his favoured workplaces, the alternating stripes don’t have any significance other than their relationship with the site in which they have been placed. Indeed it would be a mistake to only consider them in their own right. They are a means of revealing a place and bringing about the necessary shift of gaze as desired by the artist.

A Fresco – The exhibition
This exhibition is primarily built up from the artist’s perspective, of his particular answers to the feasibility – taking into account the demands of his work - of “representing” a crossing, a journey which reveals the relationship he has with his era and the different artistic or cultural trends which affected or influenced its practice. Working in situ, Daniel Buren continues to assert his specificity through the numerous interventions, most of which are short-lived, which make up the majority of his works. How then is it possible to give an account of the wealth of his creations and their relationships with the contexts in which they were created, whether transient or permanent? This simple question was an immediate reminder of the problems raised by the idea of a retrospective and of its impossibility, as demonstrated by his 2002 exhibition “Le Musée qui n‘existait pas" (The Museum that didn’t exist) in the Georges Pompidou Centre.A Fresco seeks to answer these questions in an active, non-chronological and, as so often is the case, surprising manner. Built up around a dialogue between the artist and the exhibition’s curator, Joel Benzakin, the exhibition is based on two major assertions: a ‘collective exhitibion’ and a film. This Daniel Buren exhibition thus constitutes an essential step for a broader understanding of his work, the aesthetic issues that he asserts and the unexpected wealth of his numerous permanent and transient creations, a reminder of which, up until now, was only accessible to us through the numerous publications on offer. This huge ‘fresco’ of works by Daniel Buren will finally enable us to better understand the diversity, intelligence, generosity and importance of his work.

  Daniel Buren.  Around the corner, travail in situ, in « The eye of the storm », 

Guggenheim Museum, New York, mars-juin 2005. Détail. © DB-ADAGP Paris

 A “collective exhibition”
Almost the entire exhibition and the spaces given over to it will be home to a non-exhaustive selection of works by more than 70 artists from the 20th and 21st century, selected and laid out by Daniel Buren. It is a visual and temporal crossing in the course of which Daniel Buren creates a dialogue between his creations and the works he has chosen. In one way or another they have all influenced his own artistic career, from Paul Cézanne, Fernand Léger to Pablo Picasso, by way of Jackson Pollock and Sol LeWitt to Pierre Huyghe and many more besides.
Daniel Buren: “Every choice – both that of an artist and that of a particular work – has been made by following a guideline which hinges on my own artistic career. Here I am speaking in terms of admiration, influence, reconciliation, interrogation, stimulation and projection, by going through the past 150 years of the history of art. All the works represent crucial steps in my artistic practice, none of them are trivial or random, each and every one makes an essential contribution to the exhibition”.
A Fresco - The film
The second major axis of this exhibition is a film by Daniel Buren, both a document and a work in its own right. It is a project which brings together a huge selection of his works, from the very beginning of his career until today, by way of a meticulous selection of images of his works and their context, audio-visual archives from exhibitions, interviews, discussions, extracts from films on Daniel Buren, sound and radio archives, commentaries and up-to-date interviews with personalities from different disciplines speaking about their relationship with Daniel Buren’s works. A film which will be presented as a wall of images which enter into contact with a multitude of both still and moving images, words and sounds; it is the development of an artistic career, seen by the man behind it and simultaneously open to other points of view: by analogy, a real ‘fresco’.
Daniel Buren: “The film which will be entitled: ‘A Fresco’, will be the first attempt to visually express a sort of retrospective, which is as complete as possible, of my work from the 1960s to the present day. As I have already staged more than 2,600 exhibitions, it will not be comprehensive, but will be a reminder of a majority of works that have been destroyed and thus audience enable a coherent perspective and the most complete possible. This film will include archive images and interviews and more recent interviews that have been specially conducted for ‘A Fresco’, film extracts, video extracts, and as many images, sounds, covering more than fifty years of work...”

 

Daniel Buren. Couleurs superposées, Acte II 60', 

travail in situ, Musée Laforêt, Tokyo, octobre 1982. Détail. © DB-ADAGP

Performance ‘Couleurs Superposées’ 23rd of April 2016
Daniel Buren will present the performance Couleurs Superposées at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts during the weekend of ART BRUSSELS (22-24 April 2016). Couleurs superposées was initially presented in Genazzano in Italy, in 1982, as part of a group project called “La zattera di Babele” [The Raft of Babel]. The work is an hour-long public performance, during which paper is pasted up and then torn down. For forty minutes, five actors paste coloured striped paper on the wall, according to the artist’s instructions. The white stripes must be exactly aligned. The spectators see colours and shapes appearing and disappearing as successive layers are added. Then for the remaining twenty minutes, the actors, still directed by the artist, tear off the freshly pasted papers to reveal fragments of the previous layers. The spectators watch the evolution of work on a picture that is never finished and whose successive stages are recorded only in their memory.
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practical information:
dates : 19.02 - 22.05.2016
venue: BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, 
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23 , 1000 Brussels
working time: Tuesdays to Sundays, 10 am > 6 pm 
(Thursdays : 10 am > 9 pm)
Closed: Mondays
Tickets: € 12-10 (BOZAR-friends)
www.bozar.be – info@bozar.be – 0032 2 507 82 00

Paris: ANTHONY CARO`s last Works @ GALERIE DANIEL TEMPLON

PARIS: ANTHONY CARO | Last Works @ GALERIE DANIEL TEMPLON

image : Anthony Caro | Horizon 2012; 

photocredit:Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

SEPTEMBER 6 - OCTOBER 25, 2014
OPENING : SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 2014 FROM NOON TO 8PM

Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris presents an exhibition of recent works by Sir Anthony Caro. The show pays homage to the master of modern sculpture, who died a year ago.
Born in 1924 and knighted by the Queen of England in 1987, Anthony Caro is considered to be one of the greatest sculptors of the last fifty years. A former student of Henry Moore, Anthony Caro constantly re-invented the language of modern sculpture, experimenting with a wide range of different materials. Over the years, his work evolved from the radically abstract line of the sixties to an avant-garde exploration of space, always with a deep-seated artistic freedom.
Last Works, a selection of sculptures from his final two years comprising steel pipes, beams, discs and farm tools, reveal new facets of Anthony Caro’s work. Evolving from his exploration of how people view works in public spaces, the Park Avenue series suggests the movement, speed and horizontality so characteristic of the thoroughfares of New York. The captivating forms of a work such as Horizon condense in a few structured lines the astonishing creativity and boundless energy of an artist who never ceased exploring the language of abstraction.

image : Anthony Caro | Up along 2009; 

photocredit:Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

Sir Anthony Caro’s art has recently been celebrated with major shows at the Tate Britain (2005), Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2011), Chatsworth House and Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the UK (2012), and Venice’s Museo Correr (2013). The artist is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Würth Ersteinn museum in France, which runs until January 2015. Sir Anthony Caro’s work also features in the world’s leading public art collections, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, New York Museum of Modern Art, London’s British Museum, Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art and Ludwig Museum in Cologne.

contacts:
​GALERIE DANIEL TEMPLON
30 rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris 
T : +33 (0)1 42 72 14 10
www.danieltemplon.com

JR @Frieder Burda Museum and in Public Space in Baden-Baden

The Exhibition JR @Museum Frieder Burda ( curated by Patricia  Kamp) and in Public Space in Baden-Baden >> save the dates: March 1–June 29, 2014 

The French artist JR (1983) is one of the most innovative representatives of contemporary art 

on the international art scene. He lives and works in Paris and New York, and he consciously keeps his true identity a secret. He applies his oversized  black-and-white photographs   in   the form of monumental posters to walls worldwide. Thoroughly considering the urban architecture, JR’s work adapts cultural and historical contexts, and the emotional impact finds expression in the faces of the people in his close-up photographs. Based on this idea, the artist has already carried out large-scale projects in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. JR’s most important motivation is interaction with other people. 

His works raise  questions about freedom and identity and in how far art can change people’s perception of  themselves and their environment. However, his  actions   also  draw attention to injustice. Characteristic of JR’s art are the stories he tells with his collages and his talent for bringing together isolated worlds. JR creates relationships. He is a conductor who lends a face to anonymous existences or unrecognized and even forgotten stories. 

In 2011, JR won the TED Prize—the 2007 recipient of the award was Bill Clinton—for his creative visions. 

"My art does not change the world, but I hope it inspires people to change how they look at the world and at other people,” says JR. 

The Exhibition at the Museum 

The exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda is being curated by Patricia  Kamp in close collaboration with JR. Using photographs and videos by the artist, it presents his early and ongoing projects and thus provides a retrospective look into JR’s overall artistic development. 

IT ALL BEGAN WITH A FOUND CAMERA 

JR began his career as a graffiti artist. As an adolescent, after finding a camera in the  Paris Metro he began documenting his jaunts over the roofs and in the tunnels of Paris. He carried out his first large-scale project, PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION, as early as 2004. Following riots in the Paris suburbs, JR put up posters in just these suburbs and middle-class districts of Paris featuring photographs he took of youths during the unrest. These images challenge passers-by  in that they  question the social and media representation of this generation. After the first posters were quickly removed by  the city cleaning service, the city  government soon legalized the project and suggested to JR to apply his posters to public surfaces near the city hall. 

The exhibition in Baden-Baden focuses, among other things, on the FACE 2 FACE project. In 

2007, JR organized the largest illegal photography exhibition ever: he produced portraits in the 

Middle East of Israelis and Palestinians with the same professions—for example, teachers, shopkeepers, sculptors—and posted the enormous photographs on the walls of buildings in the settlements on both sides of the border, including at the border installations themselves. The message is obvious: the hostile groups cannot be distinguished on the basis of their facial expression. 

For WOMEN ARE HEROES, in 2008 JR ventured into the Favela Morro da Providencia in Rio de Janeiro with a bold plan in mind: he wanted to meet the residents and lend a face to those 

who otherwise remain anonymous: the women of the favela. They are those who suffer most 

from drug-related crime, the weakest members of society and yet at the same time its pillars. He 

pasted large-scale posters on the shacks—wall-high black-and-white photographs of eyes and 

faces, close-ups of women from the favela. JR continued the WOMEN ARE HEROES project, 

about which he also shot a film of the same name, in Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, India, and 

Cambodia. 

JR places older people at the center of his project THE WRINKLES OF THE CITY, a generation of urban dwellers who experienced how their cities were transformed during the 20th century and yet go largely unnoticed in the cityscape. After stations in Cartagena, Los Angeles, Havana,and Shanghai, in early 2013 his project took him to Berlin, where he interviewed elderly people, asking them about their memories, and put up posters featuring photographs he had taken of them on walls in Berlin’s urban space. The striking faces and the wrinkles of those he portrayed stand for the checkered history, from World War II to the fall of the Wall, that the people and 

their city have gone through. 

UNFRAMED—The  Project  in Public  Space in  Baden-Baden 

Marseille, Bordeaux, Washington, Sao Paulo, Grottaglie in southern Italy—since 2009, JR has 

traveled far and wide with the UNFRAMED project. For the first time in his career, he does not hang up his own pictures but works of known or unknown photographers.The exhibition presents project photographs of Vevey from 2010 and of Marseille, the 2013 European Capital of Culture. JR visited the residents of the working class neighborhood Belle de Mai, selected hundreds of photographs out of their photo albums, and subsequently posted a good dozen of them in the district between the harbor and the main train station: snapshots from the period of the People’s Front government, old school pictures, photographs of sailors, people on outings, and commuters—all of them are liberated from anonymity and take on new dimensions in urban space. 

Within the scope of the exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda, UNFRAMED is also coming to 

Baden-Baden. As a large-scale project in the city’s urban space, UNFRAMED BADEN-BADEN addresses German-French history and the friendship between the two countries. By putting up posters featuring historical photographs from people’s private photo albums in Baden-Baden’s historic   city   center,   JR   places   the   theme   in   a   new  context.In the run-up to the exhibition,citizens of Baden-Baden were invited to participate and submit their own personal material. The city has always been a link between Germany and France where, after decades of enmity, the reluctant rapprochement between the two countries is palpable. 

* Photo credits of the images JR and Museum Frieder Burda

practical information:

Museum Frieder Burda 

Lichtentaler Allee 8 b 

76530 Baden-Baden Germany

Opening hours: 

Tuesday through Sunday 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., 

closed on Mondays

www.museum-frieder-burda.de

Award for Young Curators 2014

Award for Young Curators 2014 
Deadline: Friday, 14 March 2014

MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo (Spain), 49 Nord 6 Est - FRAC Lorraine, Metz (France), and SFKM, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde (Norway) organize the Award for Young Curators MARCO / FRAC Lorraine / SFKM. 

This award gives participants the opportunity to submit a topic of research and reflection which is of personal interest, and the possibility to bring it to fruition in the project venues at MARCO (first-floor gallery), FRAC Lorraine, and SFKM (mainly the ground-and first-floor galleries).

The proposal must be within the field of contemporary artistic creation and is open to any creative forms. The project may be accompanied or constituted by a program of activities in order to open a new space of reflection regarding the treated topic. In case the project—or part of it—results in an exhibition, it may include works already in the collection of FRAC Lorraine and the collections of SFKM (to be discovered during the residency in Førde).

The curator of the winning project will receive the sum of 6,500 EUR, tax included, as an honorarium. His/her travel expenses (for the residencies and installation periods in the three institutions) will be reimbursed upon presentation of appropriate supporting documents, up to 5,000 EUR, including taxes.

The winning project will have a maximum budget of 20,000 EUR for each venue. It will open in 2015.

All curators born on and after 1974 are eligible to enter the competition. If the entry is a group creation, one person will be chosen from that group to represent it and act as mediator. Curators will not be allowed to participate as artists in the projects. No more than one project per entrant will be accepted. Entries must be previously unpublished and must provide for the participation of two or more artists or contributors.

The jury will select the winning project and two finalists in May 2014. The jury's decision is final. The jury may declare the award void should they consider this necessary. The criteria for evaluating the entries will be based on quality and the originality of the research project.
The jury's decision will be made public before May 15, 2014 and all participants will be notified by email.

Entries must be exclusively and simultaneously submitted, PDF format to the following email addresses info@marcovigo.com, coordination@fraclorraine.org, and curator@misf.no with the subject: "Award for Young Curators." Dossiers received in only one venue will not be accepted. Projects must be preferably written in English, although French, Galician, Norwegian and Spanish languages are admitted. In any case, an abstract (two pages maximum) in English must be included.

Deadline for the delivery of the projects: midnight, Friday, 14 March, 2014.
Dossiers received after this time will not be accepted.

Download the awards comprehensive submission guidelines:
www.fraclorraine.org (Section: Travel / Somewhere Else) / www.marcovigo.com / www.sfk.museum.no

COAL PRIZE 2014 ,PARIS, Open Call

COAL PRIZE 2014 – PARIS
deadline : January 5th, 2014 at midnight

The COAL Prize Art and Environment shows the enormous wealth of responses by artists to current environmental issues. Every year, since 2010, the COAL Prize has publicly recognized ten projects linked to environmental issues, which are selected in the framework of an international call for entries in which hundreds of artists from all over the world participate. One of these artists is given the COAL Prize, with an award of 10,000 Euros, by a Jury of well-known specialists in art and ecology. In 2013 the COAL prize on the theme of Adaptation was awarded to Laurent Tixador for his project « Architecture transitoire ».
In 2014, the theme of the COAL Prize is PARIS. The French capital has a great many environmental and social issues: pollution, energy, urban sprawl, transport, land, erosion of biodiversity, adaptation to the climate change, etc. A creative approach to ecology is emerging in new social organisations, alternative production methods, and collaborative ways of living and working which promote user-friendliness as well as an appreciation of the simpler things in life. Having been for a long time the City of Light, the symbol of industrial modernity and progress, will Paris be able to shine again by embodying ecological post modernity?
In 2014, Paris, one of the major global capitals of culture and creation, is inviting artists to show together the central role that art can play in a sustainable and responsible city. Artists, mostly urban, heirs to the diversity embodied by Paris, are invited to shake up, rethink and reinvent the capital in a multipolar connected world in order to define a fairer and more radiant urban culture, in harmony with nature.
The 2014 COAL Prize will be awarded in Paris on 04th March 2014, at a ceremony attended by the ten selected artists and well-known specialists in art and sustainable development.
Launched in 2010 by the French organisation COAL, the Coalition for art and sustainable development, the COAL Prize is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, and the National Centre of Plastic Arts (CNAP).

Schedule
Application deadline : January 5th, 2014 at midnight.
The COAL Prize will be awarded on February 13th 2014.
The selection committee as the jury will be announced soon.

Selection of entries
Applicants will be judged on the following criteria: artistic value, relevance (understanding of the issues), originality (ability to introduce new approaches, themes, and points of view), pedagogy (ability to get a message across, to raise awareness), social and participative approaches (engagement, testimony, efficiency, societal dynamics), eco-design, feasibility.
Entries by finalists are displayed to promote networking with relevant bodies and authorities, which could facilitate their future realization. The COAL Prize aims to encourage innovative practices. Project proposals can take any form. They have to be new or still in process but not achieved. The COAL Prize award can be a part of a more important funding of the proposed project
Application package
The application should include the following documents, assembled in a single PDF file (the application must not exceed 20 pages):
-A summary and illustrated description of the entry, detailing its artistic aspects and its relevance to the environmental and rural issues ;
- 2 HQ pictures illustrating the project ;
-A note on the technical aspects of the entry, notably in terms of construction and means of production ;
-An estimated budget ;
-A Curriculum Vitae and a portfolio

Submission
All proposals should be submitted to Coal server before January  5th, 2014.
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Art Paris Art Fair 2013

Art Paris Art Fair 2013
Modern + contemporary art + design
Russia Guest of Honour

28 March–1 April 2013
Opening: 27 March 2013

The springtime event for modern and contemporary art in Paris
Held from 28th March to 1st April, Art Paris Art Fair brings together 140 galleries from 21 countries under the majestic roof of the Grand Palais. The fair presents a wide range of modern and contemporary works and is open to all forms of artistic practice including contemporary design. A series of talks and a VIP programme for collectors titled Springtime in Paris will focus on the best of contemporary art and contribute to highlight the role of Paris as one of Europe's leading capitals for art.

A fundamentally new selection
The 2013 selection will bring a very high proportion of new galleries (61 new arrivals this year) and one of the highest levels of foreign participants (43% of exhibitors are coming from outside France). Bosnia, Finland, Russia (with a major representation of 11 galleries), Saudi Arabia, Slovenia and The United Arab Emirates are making their first appearance at the fair.

Art Paris Art Fair is reinforcing its unique identity not only by showcasing both the diversity and the specificity of the artistic scenes from all around Europe, but also by focussing on the art scenes of the East—from Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Russia Guest of Honour
For the first time Art Paris Art Fair is inviting a country as guest of honour. This year it is Russia. A central platform hosts eleven galleries from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-don, and Vladivostok, while 15 or so European galleries are presenting work by their Russian artists. Showcasing work by some 90 artists, Art Paris Fair will offer an exceptional panorama of Russian art: from the Russian émigrés of the 1930s to the non-conformist movements of the Soviet period through to the most contemporary production.

Promises: a new section for young galleries
Art Paris Art Fair launches a new section called Promises devoted to the promotion of recent galleries that have been established for less than five years. Twelve galleries make up the 2013 selection to encourage the discovery of new talent: 16th Line (Rostov on Don), Leonardi Agosti (Sète), Backslash (Paris), Duplex 10m2 (Sarajevo), Edward Cutler (Milan), Lam Art Gallery (Riyadh), Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst (Cologne), NK Gallery (Antwerp), de Roussan (Paris), Vincent Sator (Paris), Trinity Contemporary (London), and XPO Gallery (Paris).
Promises is supported by l'Officiel Art.

Artdesign platform: exploring the relationship between art and contemporary design
Dedicated to the exploration of the links between design and contemporary art, the Artdesign platform brings together a cutting-edge selection of eight galleries which present exclusive pieces produced in a confidential mode by contemporary talents. On show there will notably be sculpture-objects by Hubert le Gall (Mazel Galerie), recent creations by Matali Crasset  (Domeau et Pérès and Slott Gallery), unique pieces by Mattia Bonetti (Cat-Berro Gallery), and jewellery made by artists and designers (Galerie MiniMasterpiece).
The Artdesign platform is supported by IDEAT Magazine.


Practical information
Opening (by invitation only): Wednesday 27 March 2013, 6–8pm

Hours: Thursday 28 March, Saturday 30 March and Sunday 31 March: 11:30–8pm
Friday 29 March: 1130–10 pm
Monday 1 April: 11:30–7pm

Admission: 20Euro / 10 Euro for students and groups
Catalogue: 20 Euro

Travel: For travel arrangements and accommodation, please take advantage of our partnership with Turon Travel, T + 1(212) 925-5453 / apaf@turontravel.com.

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List of Exhibitors 2013 as of 16th January
10 Chancery Lane Gallery (Hong Kong) | 16th Line Gallery (Rostov sur le Don)* | 313 Art Project (Seoul) | A2Z Art Gallery (Ivry-sur-Seine) | AD Galerie (Beziers/Montpellier) | Louise Alexander Gallery (Porto Cervo) | Galerie Alexis Lartigue (Neuilly-sur-Seine)* | ALFA Galerie (Paris) | Analix Forever (Geneva) | Galerie Anne de Villepoix (Paris)* | Arka Gallery (Vladivostok)* | Arte Estampa (Madrid)* | Galerie Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob (Paris) | Backslash Gallery (Paris)* | Galerie Helene Bailly (Paris)* | Baudoin Lebon (Paris) | Galerie Renate Bender (Munich)* | Galerie Christian Berst (Paris)* | Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès (Paris) | Galerie Blue Square (Washington, DC)* | Bodson-Emelinckx Gallery (Brussels)* | Galerie Jean Brolly (Paris) | Cat-Berro Galerie (Paris)* | Galerie Bernard Ceysson (Saint-Etienne/Luxembourg/Paris/Geneva) | Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier (Paris) | Clair Galerie (Munich/Saint-Paul de Vence) | Galerie Claude Bernard (Paris) | Galerie Claude Lemand (Paris)* | Galerie Coullaud & Koulinsky (Paris)* | Galerie Da End (Paris)* | De Primi Fine Art (Lugano) | Galerie De Roussan (Paris)* | Domeau & Pérès (La Garenne Colombes) | Galerie Dukan (Paris) | Duplex 10m2 (Sarajevo)* | Edward Cutler Gallery (Milan)* | Eidos Immagini Contemporanee (Asti) | Erarta Galleries (London)* | Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire (Paris) | Flatland Gallery (Utrecht/Amsterdam) | Gagliardi Art System (Turin) | Galerie Christophe Gaillard (Paris)* | Galerija Fotografija (Lljubljana)* | Galerie Claire Gastaud (Clermont-Ferrand) | Gimpel & Müller (Paris/London) | Gallery Grinberg (Moscow)* | Galerie Guillaume (Paris) | H.A.N. Gallery (Seoul) | Galerie Mark Hachem (Beirut/Paris)* | Galleria Heino (Helsinki)* | Heritage International Art Gallery (Moscow)* | Galerie Thessa Herold (Paris)* | Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna) | Galerie Catherine Houard (Paris) | IFA Gallery (Shanghai) | Ilan Engel Gallery (Paris) | Galerie Imane Farès (Paris) | Inda Galeria (Budapest) | Galerie Iragui (Moscow)* | Galerie Catherine Issert (Saint-Paul de Vence) | J. Bastien Art (Brussels) | Galerie Pascal Janssens (Ghent) | Galerie Jean Fournier (Paris) | JGM. Galerie (Paris) | Galerie Bernard Jordan (Paris)* | La Galerie Particulière (Paris) | Galerie La Ligne (Zürich)* | Galerie Lahumière (Paris) | Lam Art Gallery (Riyadh)* | Laurent Delaye Gallery (London)* | Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst (Cologne)* | Galerie Leonardo Agosti (Sete)* | Gallery Lilja Zakirova (Heusden)* | Galerie Maeght (Paris)* | Magnin-A (Paris)* | Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts (Budapest) | Mam Galerie (Rouen)* | Marina Gisich Gallery (Saint-Petersburg) - Ural Vision Gallery (Ekaterinburg)* | Mazel Galerie (Brussels) | Galerie melanieRio (Nantes)* | Galerie MiniMasterpiece (Paris)* | Galerie Alice Mogabgab (Beirut) | Galerie Frédéric Moisan (Paris)* | Galerie Lélia Mordoch (Paris) | Nadja Brykina Gallery AG (Zurich)* | NK Gallery (Antwerp)* | Nuovo Gallery (Daegu)* | Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris/Brussels) | Oniris - Galerie d'Art Contemporain (Rennes) | Galerie Paris-Beijing (Paris/Brussels) | Galerie Priska Pasquer (Cologne) | Pechersky Gallery (Moscow) | Herve Perdriolle Inde(s) (Paris)* | Galleria Giuseppe Pero (Milan)* | Pièce  Unique (Paris)* | Galerie Placido (Paris)* | Galerie Polad Hardouin (Paris)* | Pop/Off/Art Gallery (Moscow/Berlin)* | Galerie Catherine Putman (Paris) | Galerie Rabouan Moussion (Paris) | RCM Galerie (Paris)* | Revue Noire (Paris) | Galerie Richard (Paris/New York) | J.P. Ritsch-Fisch Galerie (Strasbourg) | Rue Française By Miss China (Paris)* | Sarah Myerscough Fine Art (London)* | Galerie Sator (Paris)* | Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea (Milan)* | SEM ART Gallery (Monaco)* | Semiose Galerie (Paris) | André Simoens Gallery (Knokke) | Galerie Slott (Paris) | Galerie Véronique Smagghe (Paris) | Michel Soskine Inc (Madrid/New York)* | Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve (Paris)* | Galerie Taiss (Paris) | Galerie Tamenaga (Paris/Tokyo/Osaka) | Galerie Tanit (Munich/Beirut)* | Galerie Daniel Templon (Paris) | The Empty Quarter (Dubai)* | Galerie Patrice Trigano (Paris) | Trinity Contemporary (London)* | Galerie Tristan (Issy les Moulineaux)* | GVQ - Galerie Vanessa Quang (Paris) | Várfok Gallery (Budapest)* | Venice Projects (Venise) | Galerie Vieille Du Temple (Paris) | Galerie Vu' (Paris) | Galerie Wolkonsky (Munich)* | XPO Gallery (Paris)* | Galerie Zürcher (Paris/New York)
*new participant


Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

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