Events

Cercle Chromatique has invited the French Association of Exhibition Curators (CEA) to present "POOL#1 Curatorial practices and eco-design", a day of conferences and discussions on ecological curatorial practices. The event was organised by a team of curators - Madeleine Filippi, Pauline Lisowski, Claire Luna and Bettie Nin, all members of the...

As part of the exhibition L'amitié : ce tremble (Friendship: this trembles), taking place at the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch until 12 May, and at the Crédac in Ivry from 28 April to 13 July 2024. Norwegian artist Marthe Ramm Fortun (born 1978 in Oslo) creates empathetic and meaningful links with her audience through a series of distinct performan...

An encounter between Annette Joseph Gabriel, Sarah Quesada and five Duke University students. Annette Joseph-Gabriel is an author and researcher in the fields of literature, culture and politics. She is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University, where she continues her research and teaches courses on Caribbean and African...

Anahi Alviso-Marino is a political scientist by training and a multidisciplinary researcher working on the hybridisation of social sciences, art and audiovisual practices. She is currently teaching at the Urban School of SciencesPo in Paris, and her current projects focus on the biographical trajectory of monumental sculptures in Kuwait, the U...

An independent curator, lecturer, art critic and novelist based in Paris. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Revue Noire, a journal of contemporary African and non-Western art. He was artistic director of the first Johannesburg Art Fair in 2008, and co-curated the first African pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. He is president...

Nuria Mokhtar Ya Tuways Performance 30 minutes Ya Tuways is a series of letters, a one-way epistolary relationship between the author and a poet who lived between the eleventh and twelfth centuries in the Arabian Peninsula. In a non-linear narrative that moves from the anecdotal to the historical and blurs the boundaries of language and regi...

Artist Apolonia Sokol, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, is known for her political stance on portraiture. During this meeting, she will talk about the film portrait - Apolonia, Apolonia - recently released in cinemas, which director Léa Golb devoted to her over a period of thirteen years.  From her studies at the Beaux-Arts in Paris to ...

Emmanuelle Lainé is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Drawing on the specificity of each exhibition context, Emmanuelle Lainé makes use of the movable and immovable resources of the institution that invites her, with the aim of offering a "method of place" as an interface between the space, the work and the public. Her complex installati...

Artist Vincent Barré talks to his guests - François Barré, Gabrielle Conilh de Beyssac, Sylvain Dubuisson, Gérard Dupaty, Cyril Neyrat and Mathieu Pilaud - about the notebooks he donated to the Beaux-Arts collection in Paris in 2023.  Born in 1948, Vincent Barré is an architect, town planner, visual artist, sculptor, film-maker, actor and tea...

Mohamed Amer Meziane The desert and the underground, The environmental history of Orientalism In many ways, the critique of Orientalism is the founding act of postcolonial studies. Criticised as a colonial system of representation, the question of the contribution of this discourse to the current climate crisis has been less frequently rais...

Estelle Coppolani is a poet, playwright and editor. She works on the literary backgrounds of the Indian Ocean and on the phenomena of poetic recomposition engendered by situations of migration. She writes alone (Couronnées d'oiseaux) or with others (Mais le monde est une mangrovité). She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Edouard G...

Reading of the correspondence between Unica Zürn and Hessie  Copyright: library of the Musée d'art Moderne de Paris  Unica Zürn (Berlin, 1916 - Paris, 1970) The German artist and author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) developed a unique body of work, close to the Surrealist movement.  Her ink and engraved drawings reveal a multiplicity of faces, explo...