IESA arts&culture has launched a partnership with the Centre Georges Pompidou as part of the Campus Pompidou program.
For an entire semester, 2nd-year Master in Contemporary Art students worked under the direction of Agnès Violeau, exhibition curator and IESA arts&culture instructor in contemporary aesthetics and exhibition curation.
As part of their course at IESA arts&culture, she coached them on cultural mediation for the audiences visiting the Marcel Duchamp Prize exhibition. This exhibition presents the works of the artists selected for one of the most prestigious prizes in contemporary art.
For this 17th edition of the prize, this year the featured artists were Maja Bajevic, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Charlotte Moth, and Vittorio Santoro. The exhibition runs from September 27, 2017, to January 8, 2018, and is located in Gallery 4 – Level 1.
All the artists produced new works for the occasion, continuing their research. They question the image, the poetics of the archive, and the hidden genealogy of the object as well as of words. On Monday, October 16, 2017, a jury of seven figures: Bernard Blistène, Gilles Fuchs, Carmen Gimenez, Erika Hoffmann, Mao Jihong, Jérôme Sans, and Akemi Shiraha awarded the prize to the artist duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige.
IESA arts&culture Bac+5 Contemporary Art students provided cultural mediation for visitors over two evenings, on December 15 and 22, 2017, from 19:00 to 21:00, as part of this exchange made possible by a partnership with one of the most important institutions dedicated to contemporary art in the world, the Centre Georges Pompidou, which is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year.