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In 2023, the Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux celebrates its 50 years anniversary. 50 years dedicated to artists, bringing to a local and international audience an innovative programme of exhibitions, performances and educational activities. Reflecting on its history to better look ahead, the Capc has devised a rich programme of events, a publication as well as a major exhibition.
The celebrations will be articulated around two key moments, in June and September 2023.
Kapwani Kiwanga
June 30, 2023–January 7, 2024
Curated by Sandra Patron, director at the Capc.
Following her recent solo exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, Haus der Kunst in Munich, MOCA in Toronto and taking place before the Canadian Pavilion for the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), Kapwani Kiwanga has been commissioned to conceive a new project for the museum’s nave, responding to its multi-layered history. Initially built in 1824 to operate as a bonded warehouse for colonial goods, it started hosting contemporary art exhibitions and performances in the 70s. The then non-profit organisation known as Capc hosted its first exhibition in the Entrepôt Lainé in 1974, one year after its initial founding. Inviting Kiwanga was relevant on at least two levels, as she centers ways of opening histories and spaces to interrogate our shared past, all the while referencing the legacy of minimalist aesthetics, which have been a core part of the Capc’s activity.
50 Years Anniversary Weekend
September 23–24, 2023
To celebrate its 50 years anniversary, the Capc is organising a weekend of performances, conversations, workshops, visits, games, music, and dance, with a set of guests to be announced later this year. Taking over the whole building and running day and night, the programme of events will feed from the institution’s history, exhibitions’ archives and people’s memory to help us witness what is at stake today. At once retrospective, prospective and celebratory, these two days will concentrate the energy of an institutional mid-life crisis, acknowledging that the Capc’s history is also one of a series of crisis.
Publication: Capc 2023–1973—Histoires d’Expositions
Co-edited with Dilecta
Launch: September 23, 2023
The ambition of this publication is to reflect on 50 years of exhibitions which have shaped the Capc’s reputation while questioning the mythical narrative built around the institution. To look at this history from a contemporary standpoint, the Capc has commissioned curator and art historian Eva Barois de Caevel to write a critical essay. Echoing this text, former directors, chief curators and guest curators who all played a part in the institution’s activities have been invited to write on some of their collaborations with artists and ways of approaching exhibitions at the Capc. The gathering of texts and images, conceived by graphic design studio Kiosk, will sketch a micro-history of curatorial experimentations.
Contributions: Didier Arnaudet, Eva Barois de Caevel, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Nicolas Bourriaud, Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Henry-Claude Cousseau, Thierry Davila, Cédric Fauq, Maurice Fréchuret, Anthony Huberman, Hou Hanru, Charlotte Laubard, Catalina Lozano, Alexandra Midal, Alice Motard, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sandra Patron, María Inés Rodriguez, Marc Sanchez.
Upcoming programme
Antéfutur
April 7–September 3, 2023
Curated by Sandra Patron, director at the Capc.
The collective exhibition Antéfutur posits that, amidst the ecological collapse and apocalyptic climate we experience, other scenarios can be formulated. In the face of unavoidable disasters, invited artists draft other worlds, for the present to hold more futures.
Artists: Rebecca Ackroyd, Monira Al Qadiri, Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani, Diego Bianchi, Zach Blas, Camille Blatrix, Dora Budor, Sebastián Díaz Morales, Lola Gonzàlez, Pakui Hardware, Judith Hopf, Cooper Jacoby, Roy Köhnke, Agnieszka Kurant, Olivier Laric, Xie Lei, Basim Magdy, Lou Masduraud, Pedro Neves Marques, Sandra Mujinga, Berenice Olmedo, Joanna Piotrowska, Agnes Scherer, Yuyan Wang, Anicka Yi.
Amour Systémique
April 7, 2023–January 5, 2025
Curated by Cédric Fauq, chief curator at the Capc.
Next in the series “Récit de collection” (collection stories), Amour Systémique focuses on the grid pattern, symbol of order, neutrality and legibility, to question the relationship between systems and subjectivity. On this occasion, artist Sung Tieu has been invited to enter in a dialogue with works from the collection, devise the exhibition’s architecture and produce a new sound piece.
Jean Sabrier, Ce qu’on ne voit pas
April 7, 2023—April 28, 2024
Curated by Alice Cavender, head of exhibitions at the Capc.
The Capc pays tribute to Jean Sabrier (1951-2020), a self-taught and multifaceted Bordeaux-based artist whose retrospective will span five decades of his practice at once polymorph, subtle and poetic. In constant dialogue with the thinking of artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton, Sabrier interrogates our vision and worked towards “a visual practice that cannot be seen”.
Vidéodrame
From April 7, 2023
Artist and author Aria Dean has been invited to devise an architectural intervention for “Vidéodrame”, Capc’s new programme and space dedicated to moving image works. Every month, an artist will be invited to show a one-channel video work. Aria Dean kicks off the monthly video series with her video Suite! (2021).
L’Académie des Mutantes
The never-ending festival of hybrid and live formats returns on March 25 with Singapourean artist and curator Kent Chan’s project If Forests Talk. Accompanied by artists Marjeet Zwaans, Inês Teixeira, Nina Djekić, and Jonathan Castro Alejos, the afternoon will feature music, poetry, songs, and walks, in one of the forests burnt by last year’s fires in Girondes.
On May 5, “L’Académie des Mutantes” will present an evening of performances with artists Socheata Aing, Jean-Charles de Quillacq and Astrit Ismaili in collaboration with FRAC MÉCA and the non-profit organisation Föhn.
Residency programme: Les Furtifs
2023 also marks the third year of our residency program, Les Furtifs, devised by associate curator Marion Vasseur Raluy. This year’s invited artists are Joshua Leon (in conjunction with Fluxus Art Project), Caique Tizzi, Cameron Rowland and Shanta Rao.
Maxime Bichon
October 12, 2023–March, 2024
Curated by Cédric Fauq
Jasmine Gregory
October 12, 2023–March, 2024
Curated by Claire Hoffmann and Marion Vasseur Raluy.
A collaboration with the Centre Culturel Suisse.
Enquiries/press office: Cécile Broqua, cecile.broqua [at] mairie-bordeaux.fr
The Capc is a City of Bordeaux Museum supported by the direction the Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs Office of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The Capc is labeled “Museum of France” and “Centre for Contemporary Art of National Interest”.
Major Patrons: Les Amis du Capc, Cultura, Banque Palatine and CIC
Patrons: Lacoste, Unikalo, Château Haut-Selve, Château de Camensac and Hôtel de Normandie
