Announcing this year’s winning projects
PERSPEKTIVE is a German-French fund for contemporary art and architecture that promotes artistic exchange between both countries. Initiated by the Bureau des arts plastiques of the Institut français Germany, the open call for projects has been announced every year since 2014. An independent expert jury reviewed numerous applications and has selected five projects for 2020:
The Surplus
Organizers: Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche (Paris), Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster)
Participants: Mélanie Bouteloup, Ève Chabanon, Sophie Cras, Cédric Fauq, Philipp Kleinmichel, Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs, Rosanna Puyol, Kristina Scepanski
Dates: January–October 2020
Venues: Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche (Paris), Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster), Kunstakademie (Münster)
The Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche in Paris and the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster present the first solo exhibition of Ève Chabanon in Germany and France, organized in collaboration with the artist. Accompanying these are a series of transdisciplinary events that aim to bring German and French participants together to discuss the role of economics in visual arts. The program represents both the artist’s and the organizing institutions’ interest in event formats that promote communication and the exchange of ideas, such as joint and cross-generational approaches.
Looking Out: Mass Meetings
Organizer: The Performance Agency (Paris/Berlin)
Participants: Juliette Blightman, Caique Tizzi, Alex Housset, Fabienne Audéoud, Samuel Fasse, Xavier Mazzarol, Battle-ax…
Dates: April–October 2020
Venues: various locations in Paris and Berlin (tba)
In collaboration with various entities in Paris and Berlin, the Performance Agency is orchestrating a three-part MASS series in spring 2020 in Paris that brings together artists from France and Germany for performative happenings. The Berlin organization recently opened a second studio in Paris and would like to establish its activities in its expanded home in France and open up new forms of exchange between the two countries: titled Meetings, the series is accompanied by roundtable discussions that flank the event program.
Temple of Love
Organizer: SOCIETES (Paris)
Participants: Gaëlle Choisne, Thomas Conchou, Christophe Machet, Moritz Maria Karl, Marina Stanimirovic, Lukas Wegwerth
Dates: June–July 2020
Venues: gr_und (Berlin), Ecole des Actes (Aubervilliers)
Temple of Love is an ongoing collaborative project by French artist Gaëlle Choisne, which also involves German architect Moritz Maria Karl and French curator Thomas Conchou. Temple of Love seeks to develop artistic, architectural, and educational practices through the prism of social, economic, and environmental considerations and responsibilities. The aim of the project is to develop innovative recycling practices within the framework of an architectural and artistic project, thus raising awareness among citizens.
Critical Zones
Organizer: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Curators: Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel with Martin Guinard and Bettina Korintenberg
Curatorial Committee: Alexandra Arènes, Bruce Clarke, Jérôme Gaillardet, Joseph Koerner, Daria Mille, and the Critical Zones Study Group at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG)
Participants: Alexandra Arènes, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Emanuele Coccia, Matthieu Duperrex, Jérôme Gaillardet, Soheil Hajmirbaba, Pauline Julier, Sonia Levy, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro…
Dates: May–October 2020
Venue: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
As a research and exhibition project, Critical Zones investigates the urgency to bring together skills, knowledge, disciplines, and cultures in order to jointly create a cartography of multiple earths. Over a five-month period, the exhibition simulates on a small-scale the model of a new spatial configuration for the earth and the diversity of life forms living here. The exhibition generates a landscape that allows public audiences to grasp the characteristics of the so-called “New Climate Regime,” a term coined by Bruno Latour describing the situation affecting all living beings worldwide.
The Architecture of the Real in France
Organizer: ARCH+ (Berlin)
Participants: Stéphanie Bru, Françoise Fromonot, André Kempe, Johannes Kuehn and Simona Malvezzi (Kuehn Malvezzi), Anne Lacaton, Éric Lapierre, Anh-Linh Ngo
Dates: October 2020
Venue: ARCH+ Space (Berlin)
In fall 2020, ARCH+ magazine dedicates an entire issue to a younger generation of architects in France who are more closely tied to the rationalist side of French tradition. In order to bring actors into dialogue with each other and to foster exchange with German architectural offices also operating in France, ARCH+ is organizing a public discussion that will shed light on the conditions of architectural production in France.
An independent jury made up of the following German and French experts selected the winning projects:
Eike Becker architect, Berlin
Monica Bonvicini artist and professor, Berlin
Jacques Ferrier architect and city planner, Paris
Hélène Guenin director Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain (MAMAC), Nice
Christina Landbrecht art program director Schering Foundation, Berlin
Jean-Hubert Martin curator, Paris
Further information on the projects is available at: www.fonds-perspektive.de
Bureau des arts plastiques
Marie Graftieaux – Director Bureau des arts plastiques
Stefanie Steps – Project Manager Bureau des arts plastiques
T +49 (0)30 590 03 92 44 | perspektive [at] institutfrancais.de
www.fonds-perspektive.de
