From January 30 to February 19, the exhibition “Dans mes mains, dans mes rêves même” was held at the Patio Opéra, a project brilliantly carried out by Master 1 students in marketing and distribution of contemporary artworks, coached by the artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou.
Congratulations to the students of the Master 1 in Marketing and Distribution of Contemporary Artworks who produced, under the guidance of Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, a beautiful group exhibition of ten contemporary artists at the Patio Opéra in Paris. After four months of preparation, the opening night allowed everyone to see the quality of their work.
Halida Boughriet, Nidhal Chamekh, Arnaud Cohen, Johan Creten, Arianne Foks, Fabrice Hyber, Lucie Lanzini, Eric Madeleine, Laurent Pernot, Massinissa Selmani, ten contemporary artists, often with already international careers, let themselves be won over by our students' project to bring to life the exhibition “Dans mes mains, dans mes rêves même.”
The opening night was a chance to see how far they had come between defining the exhibition theme and bringing it to life. The artists present unanimously acknowledged the students' work of listening and reflection: they worked in small groups around each artist to choose the work to exhibit and to put the artist’s vision into words in a text for the catalog.
IESA arts&culture would particularly like to thank the artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, represented by the galleries Transit (BE) and Rabouan-Moussion (FR), who agreed to lead this year’s seminar on exhibitions and this professional case study. By inviting many curators and critics, he allowed students to enrich their thinking about exhibitions. By helping them get in touch with recognized artists, he gave them a first experience of exhibition curation with a high-quality project.
Concept, writing, scenography, communication, mediation, organization and administration, working with artists… for the contemporary art students, this first experience of producing an exhibition from A to Z was a way to apply all of their first-semester courses to a real project and to prepare to build their own personal project, with which they will complete their program in the 2nd year of contemporary art.