Art Explora reveals the 4 winners of the 3rd Art Explora—Académie des beaux-arts European Award.
On December 14, during the first Arts & Audiences Now! event, a novel opportunity for professionals to meet and exchange views on audience participation and engagement, the jury of the Art Explora—Académie des beaux-arts European Award rewarded 4 winners whose projects are shaping the future of the dialogue between the arts and audiences throughout Europe.
For the first time, the Art Explora—Académie des beaux-arts European Award 2022 was open to all artistic realms from cultural organisations across Europe, ranging from museums to theatres, opera houses to community centres, festivals and art centres. The award was marked by a growing number of applicants, with over 150 (60 in 2021) from 22 countries (10 in 2021).
Applicants were invited to register in one of the following 3 categories:
Category 1—Cultural organisations up to 500,000 EUR annual expenditure
Category 2—Cultural organisations from 500,000 to 2 million EUR annual expenditure
Category 3—Cultural organisations over 2 million EUR annual expenditure
The 3 winners (one from each category) were chosen from an official shortlist of 20 projects, each received a 50,000 EUR grant.
With over 5000 votes online recorded between October 27 and November 9, the general public elected the winner of the Audience Choice Award from the same 20 shortlisted projects.
The 2022 winners
Category 1 Winner—European Theatre Convention (Germany) for the project: “Young Europe IV Writers Lab & Festival”
Creating a new and diverse repertoire: Non-Dominant Voices in European Youth Theatre
Young Europe IV is ETC’s large-scale artistic project, promoting and mentoring 9 emerging theatre authors to write new plays: Diverse stories that haven’t been told or heard enough on stage. The plays will be produced by 9 European theatres and performed in school classes across cities from the UK to Cyprus, and in a festival in Nova Gorica (Slovenia) in Spring 2024.
Category 2 Winner—Centre Chorégraphique de Strasbourg(France) for the project: “Coup de Ballet dans les Musées”
Give young people the opportunity to use dance as a means of making the works of art in museums theirs, and broadening their horizons.
This project was created by David Llari, a CCS associate artist, and initiated this past season with the Strasbourg, Marseille and Williamstown Museums and the FRAME network—all key partners in making this project successful. This collaborative effort—the willingness to provide the project with human and financial resources as well as space and time for educational outreach programmes—allowed this project to have an impact well beyond France.
It should enable young people to conceive the world beyond the boundaries of their neighbourhoods: allowing them to open up to themselves, to others and to the world, through body language, by appropriating cultural venues of excellence in a unique and personal way.
Due to their past and their essence, museums and their collections are the ideal partner for bringing this project to fruition.
Category 3—Fundación Teatro Real (Spain) for the project: “Carroza del Teatro Real Cerca de ti”
A travelling theatre to reach audiences across Spain.
The Carroza of the Teatro Real is a mobile stage which travels all over Spain offering different kinds of opera and classical music concerts. The float is 16 meters long, 5.80 meters high and weighs almost 6 tones. This impressive travelling stage was built on a converted sea container. Inside, it can be adapted to create different settings to suit the needs of a particular performance. This project is specially focused on the cultural territorial cohesion, and it pays particular attention to educational mediation for young audiences and families.
Winner of the Audience Choice Award: Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla (Spain) for the project: “MBASe challenge”
Creative challenges around museum collections for vulnerable children
The “MBASE challenge” is an adventure designed to offer a meaningful experience with art beyond the museum walls for vulnerable children from the ProInfancy Caixa programme. Exploring artworks from different collections and eras, participants are challenged to develop a series of creative tasks rooted in their own observations and responses.
The 2022 jury was made up of leading figures from the world of art, culture and academic research
–Lluis Bonet, Professor at the University of Barcelona
–Sebastien Cavalier, President of SAS Pass Culture
–Astrid de la Forest, Engraver, Painter and Academician
–Tiffany Fukuma, Managing Director at Trans Europe Halles
–Frédéric Jousset, Art Explora’s President-Founder
–Claire Leblanc, Director of the Ixelles Museum
–Muriel Mayette-Holtz, Director of the National Theatre of Nice and Academician
–Catherine Meurisse, Illustrator, cartoonist, comic strip author and Academician
–Laurent Petitgirard, Composer and Permanent Secretary of the Académie des beaux-arts
More information here.
