Villa Albertine Announces Grantees Across Four Major Art Exchange Programs

New York, June 15, 2022 – Villa Albertine, in partnership with FACE Foundation, today revealed the artists and institutions selected for grants across four of its major professional programs. A total of $472,300 will be awarded to help artists based in France and beyond develop new work or present it in over 35 American cities in 2022 and 2023.

Each active in a different sphere of contemporary creation, these four programs —Étant donnés Contemporary Art, FACE Contemporary Theater, FUSED: French US Exchange in Dance, and Jazz & New Music—connect artists and institutions on both sides of the Atlantic with each other and with financial support, in order to strengthen international collaborations, empower up-and-coming artists, and increase access to international contemporary creation in the United States and France.

“This year’s grantees proposed projects that are both artistically innovative and substantively engaged in global issues. I am eager to see what comes of these exchanges, as creators from four different continents present their work not just in New York and Los Angeles but in Pittsburgh, Durham, Lafayette, Minneapolis, and two dozen other American cities,” said Gaëtan Bruel, Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the US and Director of Villa Albertine. “Our deepest thanks to FACE Foundation, the Institut français, the French Ministry of Culture, and each of our partners for their collaboration and support.”

More details about each program and its grantees below. Learn more about Villa Albertine’s numerous professional support programs and opportunities at villa-albertine.org/professionals.

 

Programs and Grantees

Étant donnés Contemporary Art: $119,500 allocated across eight projects

Étant donnés Contemporary Art fosters active collaboration and encourages long-lasting partnerships between French-based visual artists and collectives, and American curators and cultural institutions. Grants support the development and/or presentation of new work.

 

Selected projects:

William Klein

William Klein: YES; Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948-2013

Presented by International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Curator: David Campany

June 3 – September 12, 2022 

Julian Charrière

Julian Charrière: Erratics

Presented by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Curator: Rudolf Frieling

August 6, 2022 – May 14, 2023  

Gwladys Gambie

Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime

Presented by Americas Society, New York, NY

Curator: Marina Reyes Franco

September 7 – December 7, 2022

Tabita Rezaire, Gwladys Gambie, Jérémie Priam

Poetics of Selfhood (Poétique De L’Ipséité)

Presented by Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA

Curators: Audry Liseron-Monfils, Eléna-Lou Arnoux, Éline Gourgues

September 10, 2022 – December 10, 2022

Artist to be announced soon

58th Carnegie International

Presented by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Curator:  Sohrab Mohebbi

September 24, 2022 – April 2, 2023

Julien Creuzet

Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s to Today

Presented by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Curator: Carla Acevedo Yates

November 19, 2022 – April 23, 2023  

Sara Favriau and Marcos Avila Forero

Both Sides of the River

Presented by Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Curator: Dr. Beth Hinderliter

January 31 – March 22, 2023  

Pierre Charpin

Spaces of the Mind

Presented by the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island, NY

Curator: Dakin Hart

August 23, 2023 – January 14, 2024

Etant donnés Contemporary Art is a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States, with support from the French Ministry of Culture, Institut français, Ford Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, CHANEL, and ADAGP. Learn more about the program, grantees, and partners here.

FACE Contemporary Theater: $130,000 allocated across ten projects

FACE Contemporary Theater fosters innovative artistic collaborations in theater, contemporary circus, puppetry, and street theater allocating grants to French or American nonprofit institutions and creators from France, the African continent, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

 

Selected projects:

Théâtre de l’Entrouvert – Elise Vigneron

Anywhere

French-American co-production at Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Chicago IL

June 2022 – February 2023

Compagnie Galmae

C’est pas là, C’est par là

Presented at Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT

September 2022

Compagnie les Hommes approximatifs – Caroline Guiela Nguyen

Fraternité, conte fantastique

Presented at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

September 2022

Marion Siéfert

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Presented at French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York, NY

September 2022

Felwine Sarr

Traces and Liberté, j’aurai habité ton rêve jusqu’au soir

Presented at French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York, NY; Duke University, Durham, NC; Georgia State University-Rialto Theater, Atlanta, GA

September 2022

Compagnie l’Héliotrope – Paul Desveaux, Faustine Noguès, Astrid Bahiya

Angela Davis, a History of the United States

Presented at Princeton University – Seuls en Scène Festival, Princeton, NJ and Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, Holyoke, MA

September – October 2022

Compagnie La Part du pauvre – Eva Doumbia

Autophagies

French-American co-production presented at Ashé Cultural Art Center, New Orleans, LA and Invisible Dog Art Center, New York, NY

March 2023

Compagnie L’Oubliée – Raphaëlle Boitel

Shadows Cast (Ombres Portées)

Presented at PEAK Performances at Montclair State University, NJ; ArtsEmerson, Boston, MA; Williams Centre for the Arts, Easton, PA

March and April 2023

The Camargo Foundation

The Cultural Diaspora #2

Developed in Cassis, France and presented at Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN and more venues to be announced

November 2022 – August 2023

Théâtre Gérard Philipe – Julie Deliquet, Frederick Wiseman

WELFARE

Development support

October 2022 – Summer 2023

FACE Contemporary Theater is a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States, and with the support from The Ford Foundation, Institut français, the French Ministry of Culture, and private donors. Learn more about the program, grantees, and partners here.

FUSED: French US Exchange in Dance: $100,000 allocated across eight projects

FUSED fosters dialogue, strengthens professional relationships, and sparks creative artistry by connecting and supporting leading institutions and contemporary choreographers and performers from France, the African continent, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Grants support the development and/or the presentation of new work.

 

Selected projects:

Q Dance Company – Qudus Onikeku

Re:Incarnation

Presented at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham, NY

June 2022

Compagnie Art Move Concept – Soria Rem and Mehdi Ouachek

Anopas

Presented at Artpark & Company, Inc., Levinston, NY

July 2022

Gisèle Vienne

Crowd

Presented at Dance Downtown LA, Inc (AKA L.A. Dance Project), Los Angeles, CA

October 2022

Ballet de Lorraine

Repertory works of Ballet de Lorraine – Centre Choréographique National (CCN)

Presented at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

April 2023

Compagnie Nacera Belaza

L’Onde

Presented at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH

April 2023

(LA)HORDE – Ballet National de Marseille

Room with a View

Presented at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

Fall 2023

Studio Dimitri Chamblas – Dimitri Chamblas and Kim Gordon

Water and Power 

Development support

2022-2023 Season

Gerard & Kelly

State of

Presented at Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain Nimes, France

December 2022

FUSED is a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States, and with the support from The Ford Foundation, Institut français, the French Ministry of Culture, and private donors.  Learn more about the program, grantees, and partners here.

Jazz & New Music: $122,800 allocated across sixteen projects

Jazz & New Music encourages the creative and professional development of French-based jazz and contemporary music composers, musicians, and ensembles through Creative Grants for new creations and commissions and Touring Grants for US tours.

 

Selected projects for Creative Grants:

Chansons du Crépuscule

L’après-midi d’un Bot

New creation by Hélène Breschand (FR) and Elliott Sharp (US) accompanied by Floy Krouchi (FR) and Zafer Tawil (US)

New York, NY

June 1 – December 31, 2022

Epsilon Spires

Commissioning and Recording New Works in French Electroacoustic Music

New creation by François J. Bonnet (Stage Name: Kassel Jaeger) (FR) and Éliane Radigue (FR)

Brattleboro, VT

April 1–30, 2023

Beyond This Point and François Sarhan

Dreams, and why not?

New creation by Beyond This Point (US ensemble); Adam Rosenblatt (US), John Corkill (US), François Sarhan (FR, Germany), and Jennifer Torrence (Norway)

October 29 – November 5, 2022

Franck Vigroux, Antoine Schmitt and Loïc Varanguin de Villepin

NATCH

New creation by Franck Vigroux (FR), Antoine Schmitt (FR), and Loïc Varanguin de Villepin (FR)

Presented at Gray Area, San Francisco, CA

April 1 – May 31, 2023

Reverso

Reverso reimagines Lili Boulanger, A Composition and Recording Project

New creation by Ryan Keberle (US), Frank Woeste (FR), Vincent Courtois (FR)

Presented by the Jazz Gallery, New York, NY

February 1 – May 31, 2023,

La Compagnie Nine Spirit

Music is my field

New creation by Raphaël Imbert (FR), Alban Moraud (FR), Régis Michel (FR) with guest artists John Boutté (US), Sarah Quintana (US) Dwight Andrews (US) Art Rosenbaum (US), Cary Fridlay (US), and Jon Stickley (US)

New Orleans, LA; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN

March 1 – November 1, 2023

Paul Lay & Ingrid Jensen

New creation by Paul Lay (FR), Clemens Van der Feen (Holland), Ingrid Jensen (US), Nicole Glover (US), and Kendrick Scott (US)

New York, NY and Washington, D.C.

May 1 – June 30, 2023

Josh Hari, Cale Hawkins, Marie Davy and Tiss Rodriguez

Lilt project

New creation by Josh Hari (US), Cale Hawkins (US), Marie Davy (FR), and Tiss Rodriguez (FR)

New York, NY

July 1 – December 1, 2022

Issue Project Room

Leila Bordreuil and Luke Stewart present New Works for Feedback Ensemble with Nina Garcia

New creation by Leila Bordreuil (FR, US) Luke Stewart (US), Nina Garcia (FR), and Feedback Ensemble (US)

New York, NY

September 1, 2022 – May 31, 2023

 

Selected projects for Touring Grants:

The Bridge

Temple of enthusiasm

Marvin Tate (US), Gerrit Hatcher (US), Erwan Keravec (FR), Lia Kohl (US), and Gaspar Claus (FR)

Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; Madison, WI

October 31 – November 16, 2022

Sakina Abdou (FR)

New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL

October 30 – November 13, 2022

Ensemble intercontemporain (FR)

New York, NY; Miami, FL; Houston, TX

March 23 – April 1, 2023

Ecce Ensemble

Next Generation France

Ecce Ensemble (US), Raphaèle Biston (FR), Manon Lepauvre (FR), Sanae Ishida (FR), and Sophie Lacaze (FR)

Worcester, MA; Northampton, MA; New York, NY

January 27 – February 5, 2023

Raymond Boni (FR) & Joe McPhee (US)

Houston, TX; Dallas, TX; Austin, TX; Shreveport, LA

April 24 – May 1, 2023

lovemusic (FR)

Chicago, IL; New Orleans, LA; Waltham, MA; Cambridge, MA

April 11–29, 2023

ONJ – Orchestre National de Jazz

Ex Machina

Frédéric Maurin (FR), Steve Lehman (US), Jérôme Nika (FR), Jonathan Finlayson (US), Chris Dingman (US) + 12 musicians from the ONJ – Orchestre National de Jazz (FR)

New York, NY; Princeton, NJ; Philadelphia, PA

September 29 – October 10, 2022

Jazz & New Music is a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States with support from the French Ministry of Culture, Institut français, SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) and the CNM (Centre National de la Musique). Learn more about the program, grantees, and partners here.