The emerging scene at the Institut d’art contemporain
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 fresh projects.
JUDGING PANEL
Artistic direction
- Isabelle Bertolotti, artistic director | La Biennale de Lyon
- Nathalie Ergino, director | Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
- Marilou Laneuville, head of exhibitions | Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
- Isabelle Carlier, director | École supérieure d'art Annecy Alpes
Guest curator
- Alexia Fabre, curator of the 17th Lyon Biennale
Guest artist
- Jean-Baptiste Perret
INTERNATIONAL CURATORS & PARTNERS**
- Mario D’Souza, director of programmes at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India)
- Maja Kolarić, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and curator of the 60th October Salon in Belgrade (Serbia)
- Neringa Kulik, director of the Kaunas Biennial, and Adomas Narkevićius, curator of the 15th Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania)
- Farah Wardani, independent curator and member of the visual arts committee of the Jakarta Arts Council, as part of the E+ mentoring programme by Ellipse Art Projects
- Ruben Arevshatyan, , production director at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Erevan (Armenia), and head of the studio for the study of research-based artistic practices at the ICA’s School of Advanced Studies in Art and Sciences of Art (SASASA)