“Through the elliptical blue” Seoul 2024
Exhibition: Colors Shapes Movements at DDP Design Center Seoul
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Everything precious is fragile, pavillon du Bénin, 60e Biennale de Venise
6 January 2025Vue de l’exposition « Everything precious is fragile », pavillon du Bénin, 60e Biennale de Venise, 2024.
Moufouli Bello, Egbè Modjisola (installation)
Chloé Quenum, l’heure bleue (installation)
Ishola Akpo, Iyalode,
Romuald Hazoumè, ÀSE
Chaque vie est une histoire, Palais de la Porte Dorée
6 January 2025Carte blanche to 13 artists on the Palais
Like a human being with a singular destiny, the Palais de la Porte Dorée has had a multitude of lives over the course of almost a century. Those who have visited it have tasted its fruits, sometimes tasty, sometimes bitter. The winds of history have changed names and intentions, but generation after generation, artists and their work have been called upon to symbolise the successive identities of this institution, which has often been transformed in line with changes in consciousness.
This is how Jean de Loisy, invited for a carte blanche exhibition, described the Palais de la Porte Dorée. In response to this invitation, he teamed up with curator Raphaël Giannesini to invite 13 international artists from a wide range of backgrounds and generations to take over the Palais’ historic spaces and explore its spirit through in situ creations.
The guest artists will take over this very special place and, together with the people who are most affected by it – those who work there or simply visit it – they will invent works for this singular monument that activate its meaning and memory. Most of the sculptures, drawings, films and installations produced for this exhibition were conceived with the participation of users of the Palais-Musée-Aquarium.
The resulting series of commissions is an original contemporary art trail, punctuated by works that are often monumental and imbued with spirituality.
Artists
Charlie Aubry, Katinka Bock, Seham Boutata, Claude Closky, Teresa Fernandez-Pello, Juliette Green, Mathieu Abonnenc, Aung-Ko, Amalia Laurent, Nge Lay, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Vivien Zhang.
With the collaboration of users, staff and visitors to the Palais de la Porte Dorée.
Commissariat
Jean de Loisy
Raphaël Giannésini
Christine Piquéras
Cécile Vermorel
Mondes Nouveaux
7 March 2024Since 2022, as a part of recovery plan France Relance and under the leadership of the Ministry of Culture, the “Mondes Nouveaux” calls for interests inquired 430 artists from every artistic field to reconsider our common perceptions, and the way we’re inhabiting the world.
In cooperation with the Conservatoire du Littoral – Coastal Conservatory, and the Centre des Monuments Nationaux – National Center for Historic Monuments these projects are now displayed on the whole territory, in metropolitan and overseas France.
Eva Albarran agency has accompanied thirty projects, mostly intended for public and natural spaces, from their conception to their realization.
Villa Hegra, Al-Ula
7 March 2024Villa Hegra is a Franco-Saudi institution focusing on artistic and cultural programmes in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia. The institution will be housed in a building designed by French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, which due to open in 2026, to accommodate artist residencies and a cultural centre.
To begin building the identity of the future institution and to position it on the international artistic and cultural scene, Saudi, French and international creative talents have been selected and invited by curators and artistic directors.
Since June 2023, we have been working with the teams at Villa Hegra and the Royal Commission for Al-Ula to promote this artistic institution by putting in place a pre-opening programme that includes :
– invitations to artists, commissioned works and performances
– lectures, podcasts
– film-concerts
– as well as educational and scientific workshops for children
To achieve this, Eva Albarran’s agency is working closely with and coordinating a number of partners, including the Beaux-Arts Institute, Hopscotch, le Forum des Images, Les Petits Débrouillards, Craft, ICC and many others!
Un Été au Havre 2024
6 March 2024In Le Havre, the summer season is a time for an ambitious encounter with art, heritage and culture, revitalised each year by new works of contemporary art that Un Été Au Havre delivers to the public space from late June to mid-September.
The adventure of Un Été Au Havre began in 2017 to mark the 500th anniversary of the founding of the city and its port.
Initiated by Jean Blaise, the event is now under the artistic direction of Gaël Charbau. See you this year from 22 June to 22 September 2024 !
La Contemporaine de Nîmes
5 March 2024The Nîmes Triennale 2024, known as “Contemporaine” and directed by Anna Labouze and Keimis Henni, is set to be a major new contemporary art event. Under the theme “A new youth”, this first edition explores the dynamics of contemporary youth and its links with the past through the notions of heritage and transmission.
The programme includes a major multidisciplinary exhibition, “La Fleur et la Force”, featuring 12 pairs of artists in different venues. There will also be six special events devoted to the living and performing arts. At the same time, three artists’ houses will serve as meeting places for the artists, encouraging creative exchanges and dialogue with the public. Finally, a programme of associated events, devised in collaboration with some fifteen of Nîmes’ cultural players, will offer a variety of events and artistic encounters.
Each project presented as part of the Triennale has a participatory dimension, inviting the people of Nîmes to get involved in its creation and become an integral part of this collective artistic experience.
Christian Marclay, Partitions graphiques, Centre Pompidou
10 August 2023Carte blanche for Christian Marclay, echoing the exhibition dedicated to him, with a concert based on his visual and musical works.
Un Été au Havre 2023
8 August 2023For this seventh edition of Un Été au Havre, Gaël Charbau takes over from Jean Blaise as artistic director. He has gathered around fifteen works by artists from different backgrounds and medium. Most of them are visible in public spaces, but sometimes they are more immaterial and spreads across the city, putting Le Havre and its quick changes into perspectives.
This program is the first of four seasons of Gaël Chabrau artistic curatoring, from 2023 to 2026: “Beyond an “art path in the city”, I wished for art to travel itself through the city and across, like a thrill. In order for it to crosses the borders between private and public spaces, extends to new neighborhoods, and delicately spill over the summer season”.
Nuit Blanche 2023
8 August 2023For the very first time, Nuit Blanche 2023 held in June 3rd. This summery period inspired Kitty Hartl, a fresh artistic director, to come up with a program highlighting the Seine and its canals.
Following a path along the river and its docks, the public could discover various installations and join sporty and joyful moments.
Based on the movie Fitzcarraldo, by Werner Herzog, Kitty Hartl wanted to make a fantasy come to life for the night, a brand-new world where the parisian landscapes became another kind of nature, filled by strange and mysterious creatures.