Art Explora develops in France and abroad programs of artists’ villas whose main objective is to support creation and to reinforce relationships between artists, territories and all kinds of audiences.
In Paris, Art Explora has established a partnership with the Cité internationale des arts to co-construct a biannual residency program for international artists and researchers in Montmartre, just a stone’s throw from the Sacré-Cœur.
About 20 residents, all working on projects questioning the link between arts and science, technology or environmental issues, will be selected every year to participate in two programs:
–a six-month SOLO residency program for artists
–a three-month DUO program designed for a collaboration between a researcher and an artist
For the first edition, 990 applications from 68 countries were received.
25 residents coming from all over the world have been selected by an international selection committe to join the two residency sessions of 2021 in either the SOLO or DUO programs.
The committe members:
-Vinciane Despret, philosopher of sciences, professor at Liège University and the Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
–Christine Macel, general curator for heritage, head of the Contemporary Art and Prospective Creation Department at the Mnam Pompidou Centre in Paris
–Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London
–Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, interdependent exhibition curator, editor and art critic, in charge of cultural programming at the Cité international des arts
–Philippe Vergne, director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal
The selected artists for the first session from March to August 2021:
SOLO:
–Brook Andrew, Australia, project “Alternative perspectives”*
–Mohssin Harraki, Morocco, project “Image interdite/image manquante”
–Hamedine Kane, Mauritania, project “Trois Américains à Paris”
–Maya Minder, Switzerland, project “Green Open Food Evolution”
–Sara Ouhaddou, France, project “Des Autres”
–Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales, Peru, project “Vital infrastructures”*
–Dineo Seshee Bopape, South Africa, project “Vibe: Sa lerole ke kosha”
–Charwei Tsai*, Taiwan, project “Touching the Earth”
–Akram Zaatari, Lebanon, project “Father and son”
DUO:
–Maarten Vanden Eynde & Oulimata Gueye, Belgium & Senegal, project “Ars Memoriae”
–Mélanie Pavy & Sophie Houdart, France, project “Fukushima: reprises”
The selected artists for the 2nd session, from September 2021 to February 2022:
–Chino Amobi, USA, project “EROICA VOL.II”
–Rina Banerjee, India, project “ In the most foreign of gardens grows Democracy”
–Nicholas Grafia, Germany, USA & Philippines, project “ Channel X-one ”
–Liz Johnson Artur, Germany, project “Collecting Evidence”
–Adriana Lara, Mexico, project “Red social”
–Anri Sala, France & Albania, project “ If Wishes Were Horses Beggars would Ride”
–Tomo Savic-Gecan, Croatia & the Netherlands, project “ Untitled 2021”
–Ramaya Tegegne, Switzerland, project “36 chambres par jour”
–Achraf Touloub, France, project “Une fenêtre pour UN monde”
–Natsuko Uchino, Japan, project “Hospitalité et réensauvagement, projection d’un paysage éco social : champignonnière, laboratoire de fermentation, revue du jardin archipel”
–Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, France, project “ Small grains cosmology”
–Monica Narula & Raqs Media Collective, India, project “Who’s more human, then?”
The residency program Art Explora - Cité internationale des arts also includes regular meetings between the artists, art-world profesionnals, associations, but also audiences from all walks of life. These meetings are generally followed by a studio visit and aim at bringing together people who barely have the occasion to meet each other.
This program will host several associations such as:
–Môm’artre, which offers artistic childcare arrangements in popular districts
–Chemins d’avenir which supports students living far away from the large agglomerations
–Les Ateliers Médicis whose aim is to developp meetings between artists and inhabitants thanks to new kinds of artistic voices;
Learn more here.
*Due to the sanitary crisis, Fatima Rodrigo, Charwei Tsai and Brook Andrew, selected for the 1st residency session have to postpone their stay in Paris to 2022. Achraf Touloub and Stéphane Verlet Bottero, initially selected for the 2nd session have joined us in the first session instead.
