February 11–December 31, 2022
Bordeaux
France
As we’ve just opened Eva Koťátková’s exhibition My Body is not an Island, we embark on an exciting year of programming in 2022, a crucial time for Capc leading up to the 50-year anniversary of the institution, founded in 1973.
A series of events is taking place within The Moonfish Club in the coming month (with Hugo Brillet, Nikhil Vettukattil and Flo*Souad Benaddi) culminating in a closing weekend on March 26–27 with performances and readings by Ludovic Beillard & Angélique Aubrit, Claudia Pagès and Kevin Desbouis. In parallel, on March 26, we are gathering philosopher Norman Ajari, curator and publisher Rosanna Puyol and economists Örjan Sölvell and Albin Skog around Olu Ogunnaike and his exhibition Crumbs for a series of conversations.
2022 also marks the second year of our residency programme, Les Furtifs, devised by associate curator Marion Vasseur-Raluy. Invited artists are The Mycological Twist (Eloise Bonneviot and Anne de Boer), Phung-Tien Phan, Niklas Taleb and Harilay Rabenjamina. Inhabiting Capc’s residency flat, they will each spend two months in Bordeaux and inform the programme through exhibitions and performances.
Eva Koťátková: My Body is not an Island
February 11–May 29, 2022
Curated by Sandra Patron (Director)
Eva Koťátková’s commission for the nave of Capc unravels 21 stories of unruly and vulnerable bodies. Through the careful scattering of crates, soft and metal sculptures as well as texts, Koťátková’ displays a landscape where night workers, mermaids and bushes coexist, shaping a playground for revolutionary futures. The core of the exhibition is a fish head within which the audience is invited to lay down to listen to the 21 stories in French, Czech and English, which are otherwise read outloud by performers every Sunday, activating all components of the exhibition. Public programme accompanying the exhibition includes a lecture by artist and researcher Marie Preston and a talk by biologist and etholog Chloé Laubu.
Hypernuit
April 14–August 28, 2022
In collaboration with Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA
Curated by Sandra Patron (Director of Capc) & Claire Jacquet (Director of Frac) with Anne Cadenet (Head of collection—Capc) and Karen Tanguy (Head of collection—Frac)
Base sous-marine (Bordeaux)
For the first time in the history of the two institutions, Capc and FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA present a joint exhibition of works from their respective collections. This dialogue, motivated by a longstanding—albeit little-known—conversation between the two collections, takes place at the Base sous-marine (submarine base) in Bordeaux, built during the Second World War. This architectural context is the trigger to treat the exhibition as a blackbox, the container of forgotten and erased memories, and invite the audience to dive into Hypernuit.
L’Académie des Mutantes
May 5–22, 2022
Curated by Cédric Fauq (Chief curator) with Marion Vasseur-Raluy (Associate curator—Residency Programme) and Sandra Patron (Director)
Conceived as a never-ending festival to test out the hypothesis that our DNA can be informed by the experience of art, L’Académie des Mutantes (the Mutant Academy), is the new live programming strand of Capc. With no fixed temporality or permanent location within the museum, the academy will manifest following invitations to various practitioners (from musicians to choreographers, fashion designers to writers, filmmakers to performers). For its launch in May, the academy will stage a 3-week programme of events including performances by Lukas Hofmann, Sgaìr Wood and Thomas Teurlai (with sci-fri writer Alain Damasio), an experimental video game by artists in residency The Mycological Twist as well as a collection presentation by Feyfey Worldwide (full programme to be announced soon).
The circumstances of Anka Ptaszkowska (working title)
June 23–December 31, 2022
In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN)
Curated by Maria Matuszkiewicz and Sara Martinetti (Guest curators)
Anka Ptaszkowska, born in 1935 in Warsaw, played a major role in the French and Polish artistic scenes of the second half of the 20th century. Critic, galerist…she emboddied many parts but always refused labels tied to a single profession. In 1966, she is one of the co-founders of the experimental Folksal gallery in Warsaw where she became a close collaborator and friend to artists Henryk Stazewski, Maria Ewa Łunkiewicz-Rogoyska aka Mewa, Edward Krasiński and more. In the early 1970s, she moves to Paris and meets Daniel Buren and Michel Claura. She initiates Galerie 1-36 as well as Vitrine pour l’Art Actuel. The exhibition will revolve around a scenario in 30 scenes written by Anka Ptaszkowska for an unrealised film project. Within a display conceived by Olivier Goethals, exhibited materials will include artworks, photographs, writings and sound spatialised by musician and composer Cengiz Hartlap.
Upcoming programme also includes an exhibition by artists in residency Phung-Tien Phan & Niklas Taleb (June 23–September 18, 2022) curated by Marion Vasseur-Raluy; as well as a terrace commission by Abbas Zahedi (June 23–September 18, 2022), an ambitious exhibition looking at the relationship between art and the funfair titled Barbe à Papa (Fall 2022) and an architectural intervention by artist and writer Aria Dean for a new space and programme dedicated to moving image called Videodrame (Fall 2022), all curated by Cédric Fauq.
The Capc musée d’art contemporain is a museum of the City of Bordeaux.
Museum patrons
Honorary patron: Château Haut-Bailly
Founding patron: Les Amis du CAPC
Patrons: Château Haut Selve
Press
Cécile Broqua, T +33 (0)5 56 00 81 70 / c.broqua [at] mairie-bordeaux.fr
