“French Artists in the US: Current Trends and Future Perspectives”
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(c) “Orisons” by Marguerite Humeau, 2023, curated and produced by Black Cube, A Nomadic Art Museum. Photography by Julia Andréone and Florine Bonaventure. Images are courtesy of the artist and Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum.
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges-Pompidou
Petite salle, Level -1
Paris, France, 75004
Saturday, October 19, 2024 | 3:30 - 4:30pm
To mark the 30th anniversary of its flagship visual arts program, Étant donnés, Villa Albertine and its partners, Centre Pompidou and Quotidien de l’Art will host an international roundtable discussion on artists from the French visual arts scene in the US.
Featuring:
- Julia Halperin, New York-based journalist, art critic and author of the upcoming Étant donnés report,
- Thomas Hirschhorn, artist, first laureate of the Marcel Duchamp Prize and jury for the 2024 edition,
- François Quintin, Director of Collection Lambert, Avignon,
- Mariane Ibrahim, international gallerist with locations in Paris, Mexico City, and Chicago,
- Stephanie Seidel, is Monica and Blake Grossman curator, ICA Miami (Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami),
- Rafael Pic, Editor-in-Chief of Quotidien de l’Art (moderator).
The discussion will be followed by a guided tour of the Marcel Duchamp Prize exhibition, led by curator Jeanne Brun, Deputy Director of the Centre Pompidou. One of the four nominees for the prize will be invited to take up a residency at Villa Albertine.
Étant donnés is organized by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation with the exclusive sponsorship of AXA, in partnership with Institut Français, French Ministry of Culture, French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, and ADAGP.
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided during the event.
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Julia Halperin is a journalist and art critic, currently editor-at-large for CULTURED.
She writes a monthly column for The Art Newspaper on American museums and contributes to major publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Financial Times. In 2020, she co-authored the Burns Halperin Report with Charlotte Burns, the largest study tracking equity and the representation of women in the art world, which has since become a key indicator of inclusivity. Julia Halperin previously served as the museums editor for The Art Newspaper and was editor-in-chief of Artnet News from 2017 to 2022.
Thomas Hirschhorn is a Swiss artist living and working in Paris.
Hirschhorn rejects exclusive and elitist aesthetic criteria, such as quality, in favor of dynamic principles like energy and coexistence. He creates sprawling installations from ordinary materials that engage the senses, raising questions about aesthetic value, moral responsibility, political engagement, consumerism, and media spectacle. He is particularly known for a series of monuments dedicated to great philosophers such as Spinoza, Bataille, Deleuze, and Gramsci. Among his many accolades are the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2000), the Joseph Beuys Prize for Research (2004), the Dutch International Association of Art Critics Prize (2007), and the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2011).
Mariane Ibrahim is an international gallerist.
She founded her eponymous gallery in Seattle in 2012 before relocating it to Chicago in 2019. Continuing her global expansion, Ibrahim opened a European space in Paris in 2021, followed by another in Mexico City in 2023. The gallery has hosted acclaimed exhibitions, highlighting both established and emerging artists, with a significant focus on the African diaspora, including artists such as Amoako Boafo, Yukimasa Ida, Peter Uka, Zohra Opoku, and Raphaël Barontini. In 2021, she was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Among her notable distinctions and roles are the Prize for the Presents Section at The Armory Show in 2017, her current position as a member of the selection committee for The Armory Show, her involvement with the Visionaries Council of Performa Arts, and her membership in the Art Dealers Association of America.
Stephanie Seidel is Monica and Blake Grossman curator, ICA Miami (Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami).
Since joining ICA Miami in 2016, Seidel has curated a number of exhibitions, including the survey “Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight” in collaboration with 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, the co-curation of solo presentations “Judy Chicago: A Reckoning” and “Chakaia Booker: The Observance” as well as major retrospectives for Thomas Bayrle and Allan McCollum. Additionally, she has curated the first museum solo exhibitions for artists Tomm El-Saieh, Diamond Stingily, and Janiva Ellis, and organized exhibitions for Ellen Lesperance, Anthea Hamilton, Claudia Andujar, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Edward and Nancy Kienholz, and William N. Copley. In 2019 she organized the symposium “They Failed to Remember Us: Expanding Intersectional Feminisms.”
Rafaël Pic is the editor-in-chief of Quotidien de l’Art.
A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics, Rafael Pic has worked in publishing at Masson and in consulting at DAFSA. He became the editor of Muséart before contributing to the creation of the print weekly and the website Artaujourdhui.info with Jacques Dodeman in 2001. Since 2006, he has coordinated over a hundred special issues for Beaux-Arts.
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Albertine Foundation
Previously known as FACE Foundation, Albertine Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In close partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and its arts institution Villa Albertine, Albertine Foundation promotes artistic, literary, and educational exchange and collaboration between creative professionals from both countries thanks to corporate, foundation, and individual support.
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Institut français
The Institut français is responsible for France’s international cultural program. Supervised by both the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and by the Ministry of Culture, it promotes French culture abroad through cultural exchange initiatives. Operating in a space where the arts, intellectual exchange, cultural and social innovation, and linguistic partnerships interact and intersect, it is also responsible for promoting the French language and the sharing of works, artists, and ideas all over the world. The Institut français is one of Villa Albertine’s main French partners.
Ministry of Culture
The French Ministry of Culture aims to make the major works of humanity— and especially those of France— accessible to the largest number of people possible. As such, it maintains a policy of conservation, of protection, and of development of all components of French cultural heritage. It promotes the creation of works of art and of the mind, and the development of art practices and education. It further contributes to cultural initiatives outside of France, and to initiatives relating to the establishment of French cultural programs throughout the world.
French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs works to represent, defend and promote the interests of France and French nationals in all areas in foreign countries and international organizations.
ADAGP
Founded by artists in 1953, the ADAGP represents 170,000 authors worldwide, in all disciplines of visual art, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, graphic novels, street art, video art, digital art, architecture and more… At the heart of an international network of 50 partner organisations, the ADAGP collects and distributes royalties, protects artists and fights to improve authors’ rights. Today, it is the world’s top society of authors in the visual arts. Eager to place creativity at the heart of the world, the ADAGP encourages the creative scene by initiating and/or financially supporting projects to highlight visual arts and promote them on a national and international scale.
ADIAF
The Association for the International Diffusion of French Art brings together 300 collectors of modern art who are fully committed to the creativity quest. It was created in 1994 with the ambition to highlight the flourishing creativity of the French artistic scene and to promote the French art scene throughout the world. ADIAF has created in 2000 the Prix Marcel Duchamp which is awarded annually to one among four shortlisted artists either born or residing in France and working in the field of visual arts. Organized since its founding in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, this seminal art Prize is considered today one of the most relevant vectors of information on contemporary art in France.