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Romania in France, France in Romania

The France-Romania 2019 Season ended in France on 16 April, and continues in Romania until 14 July 2019. French culture will be showcased there through its visual and stage arts, gastronomy and music...a look back at the highlights from France and a look foward to the opening of the season in...

Updated on 27/04/2022

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba breathe new life into the world of contemporary art: based in Berlin, they design exhibitions and founded the magazine Contemporary And, a demanding print and digital publication whose aim is to “connect cultures”.

Updated on 04/05/2022

N’Goné Fall

N'Goné Fall, the General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, wished to place this ambitious project under the banner of pan-Africanism and collective intelligence.

Updated on 04/05/2022

« Hello world » Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australie

Founded in 2005 in Victoria, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale is Australia’s largest contemporary photography festival. The 2019 edition presents some 200 artists in 80 venues throughout the city, including museums, arts centres, galleries and urban spaces, and offers workshops, seminars...

Updated on 19/09/2019

The opening of a new artists’ residence in Senegal: Villa Saint-Louis Ndar

Its inauguration scheduled for 8 June 2019 will be the starting point for a new artistic and cultural impetus in Senegal and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. A first call for applications was launched in the spring.

Updated on 27/04/2022

Taysir Batniji

At his first personal exhibition in Canada called “Suspended Time,” Palestinian Taysir Batjini reflects on his work and his approach to photography, one of the mediums he enjoys working with alongside video, painting and sculpture.

Updated on 27/06/2019

Diana Marincu

Holding a PhD in art theory and history and artistic director of the Art Encounters Foundation in Timisaora, Diana Marincu is the curator of the exhibition "Persona. Works by Romanian artists” at the Mucem in Marseille.

Updated on 10/05/2019

The Marcel Duchamp Prize is on display in China

This fourth tour of the Marcel Duchamp Prize in China offers a new perspective on the French experience through eyes of the 14 artists recognised by the award. Curator Annabelle Ténèze chose to select the works through the prism of the road, in other words of movement, travel, discovery. Taking as...

Published on 24/06/2019

Miss Azania, Exile is waiting, by Athi-Patra Ruga

In Miss Azania, Exile is waiting, the image of a beauty queen allows the South African visual artist Athi-Patra Ruga to discuss one of his favourite subjects: Post-Apartheid inequalities.

Published on 02/04/2019

Triangle Trade, by Jérôme Havre, Cauleen Smith et Camille Turner (2017)

Momenta 2019 – 16th Image Biennale, Montreal

Under the theme "The Life of Things", Momenta 2019 explores the character of the object translated into images in Montreal from 5 September to 13 October. The backdrop is a consumer society where objects are given dizzying visibility, and accumulated in this way become invisible.

A short...

Published on 09/10/2019

"Watercolors", by Nicolas Floc'h

A multidisciplinary artist, Nicolas Floc’h questions, through installations, photographs, films, sculptures and performances, our era of transition marked by flux, disappearance and regeneration. For the past ten years, he has been conducting research on the representation of the underwater...

Updated on 04/05/2022

The Black Sea, by Petrut Calinescu

The shores of the Black Sea, geographical convergence points and theatre for history, have fascinated Romanian photographer Petrut Calinescu since his childhood. Almost a decade ago, he immortalised them using photographs, bearing witness to society, grouped together in a photographic series...

Published on 25/10/2019

Untitled (Tornado)#3, by Marina Gadonneix

Taken in an American scientific laboratory by the French artist Marina Gadonneix, Untitled (Tornado)#3 is a black and white photographic metaphor for the meteorological phenomenon of tornadoes.

Updated on 07/01/2020

The Cité Internationale des Arts opens its workshops to the public

Around the world in 14 hours? It’s possible at the Cité Internationale des Arts! Embark on this new edition of the Traversées du Marais on 6th and 7th September 2019 and travel to the heart of workshops featuring all kinds of artists: photography, painting, sculpture, writing, music and performance...

Updated on 27/04/2022

Marcel Dinahet – « retour de Fordlândia, Belem Object »

Marcel Dinahet has visited the city of Fordlândia in Brazil with the Suspended Spaces collective on several occasions. Built in 1928 by Henry Ford on the banks of the Rio Tapajòs in the Amazon, this city was designed to enable intensive farming of the rubber required to manufacture tyres. The...

Updated on 09/09/2019