Jeune création internationale, the product of a unique partnership between French institutions, brings together the Lyon Biennale, the Institut d’Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne, macLYON (the Lyon museum of contemporary art) and an art school in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, which this year is the École Supérieure d'Art Annecy Alpes (ESAAA).
Ten up-and-coming artists — five each from the regional and international scenes — have been invited to devise a project for the 17th Lyon Biennale. The mix of institutions — with intersecting territories, shared networks and exposure to a variety of audiences — offers the young artists tremendous visibility.
For this latest edition, the regional artists were selected via a call for projects open to all artists with a link to Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The international selection, however, was made through invitations extended to curators and in conjunction with other biennials and cultural institutions. The strong emphasis on making new work gives the artists the possibility create new projects.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
- Isabelle Bertolotti, for the Lyon Biennale
- Nathalie Ergino, for the Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
- Marilou Laneuville, for the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
INVITED CURATORS
- Ruben Arevshatyan, production manager at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Yerevan (Armenia), head of the research-based artistic practices studio at the School of Advanced Studies in Art and Sciences of Art (SASASA).
- Isabelle Carlier, Director, École supérieure d'art Annecy Alpes (France)
- Mario D'Souza, Program Director, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India)
- Alexia Fabre, curator of the 17th Lyon Biennial
- Maja Kolarić, director of the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art and curator of the 60th October Salon Belgrade (Serbia)
- Neringa Kulik, director of the Kaunas Biennial, and Adomas Narkevićius, curator of the 15th Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania)
- Jean-Baptiste Perret, artist (Jeune création internationale 2019)
- Farah Wardani, independent curator, member of the Visual Arts Committee of the Jakarta Arts Council, as part of Ellipse Art Projects' +E mentoring program.
