2019 programme

Lafayette Anticipations is pleased to announce its programme for 2019.

After its maiden flight, the foundation puts women at the heart of its second year with a programme that revives a modernist dream of multiple disciplines working together. Throughout the year, design, music, visual art and fashion will combine influences to create a venue that is constantly moving, changing and embracing the new.

January, 25, 26 & 27
Closer Music, pop anticipations
Festival
Closer Music, a new festival in Paris, sets out to reinstate architectural space at the heart of musical performance. By exploiting every possibility of the Lafayette Anticipations building, over three days it will enable audiences to see, hear and feel multiple forms of live performance that override boundaries between disciplines and experiences.
With Tirzah, Robert Görl (D.A.F), Pan Daijing, Easter, Jessica Slighter, Stine Janvin, Céline Gillain,… + workshops
Curator: Etienne Blanchot

February, 21–April, 28
Atelier E.B, Passer-by
A common interest in the history of motifs and retail display inspired designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie to form the Atelier E.B fashion label. The exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations follows a first staging at the Serpentine Galleries in London, in autumn 2018. Content has been reconfigured for the Paris context, with new works spread over two floors. Atelier E.B has also reimagined the gallery’s central space using original elements from the (now defunct) Art Nouveau staircase of Galeries Lafayette department store. 

February 21–April 28
Camille Blatrix, Fortune
For this exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, his first large-scale show in Paris, Camille Blatrix was invited to occupy the top level of the glass exhibition tower, designed by Rem Koolhaas. This transparent space overlooking the surrounding rooftops has something of a penthouse feel, where power and opulence have reached their limit, and must be replaced by other conquests, a possible redemption, or a spiritual, mystical quest. 

May 16–19
Kaleidoscope x Lafayette Anticipations
Festival
Lafayette Anticipations teams up with Kaleidoscope, the Milan-based magazine of contemporary art and visual culture, for a four-day festival of encounters, workshops, concerts and performances on the theme of “collaboration.”

June 7–September 8
Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius is one of international design’s most influential figures. Working from her JongeriusLab in Berlin, the Dutch designer’s theoretical, experimental and empirical research explores themes such as the visual impact of colours, and the materials used to produce everyday objects. Throughout summer 2019, visitors to the foundation will find it transformed into a giant textile mill. The building’s performative qualities will be put to use as the mobile platforms become a vast, constantly shifting loom.

September 16–22
Echelle Humaine
Dance festival
For the second year running, the Echelle Humaine (Human Scale) dance festival resonates with the structure of the building and with the people who fill its spaces. Its aim is to forge connections, and to use the building’s singular perspectives to experiment with new types of human relations, and different ways of seeing, perceiving and being with others.
Curator: Amélie Couillaud
with Festival d’Automne à Paris

October 10–January 5
Katinka Bock
Katinka Bock’s sculptures, performances and installations are directly related to an investigation of the surrounding physical and material conditions, and of the environment’s historical, social and political dimensions; as such, they result from her experience of a given place. Bock’s interest in space and dimension is reflected in the hypotheses she formulates prior to the sculpting process, and by her questioning of our preconception of a space, its persistence in time, and how it becomes altered through use. For Lafayette Anticipations, she has imagined a spectacular installation that takes up the entire exhibition tower.

Dates are subject to change.