On September 16 at IESA arts&culture, 1st-year Bachelor in Art Expertise and Trade students saw their year project come to fruition with the Juvenars-IESA Prize!
Juvenars-IESA Prize 2019
The 2019 Juvenars-IESA Prize rewards two Chinese artists!
Yuqing Wang, 28, is the winner of the Juvenars-IESA Prize, and Liang Fu, 26, is the jury’s favorite!
Yuqing Wang, born in Tianjin, China, moved to France in 2013 to join the École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne in Quimper (EESAB), from which she graduated in 2017. She is now preparing the DNSEP, the National Higher Diploma in Visual Arts, which she has just passed. On Thursday, June 20, eleven artists selected by the Bachelors Art Expertise and Trade coached by Maud Prangey, presented their works to the jury. Yuqing Wang defended her video work "A Conversation." She won people over with this animated film evoking the difficulty of fitting into the customs and habits of a foreign culture.
She receives a grant of 5000 euros, will hold a solo show in the IESA arts&culture Gallery, and will present her work at a contemporary art fair in October in Paris at the time of FIAC.
Liang Fu, 26, presented a monumental installation made of glazed ceramic leaves. This poetic work won over the jury, who wished to reward it with the "Favorite" prize. He will be able to exhibit his work in the hall of the Cultural Innovation Campus during Yuqing Wang’s solo show.
This year, the jury was made up of Colombine Accorsi-Feldman, lead for the Bachelor 1 Art Market, Fabienne Bideaud, exhibition curator, Boris Grebille, director of IESA arts&culture, Mathieu Merlet Briand, visual artist, Bettie Nin, director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain La Traverse, and Maud Prangey, communications manager at IESA arts&culture and project coach for the Juvenars-IESA Prize.
The Juvenars-IESA Prize has supported young artistic creation since 2016. It promotes artists under 30 who do not have a gallery. The winner receives an award of €5,000 and is exhibited for a month in the IESA arts&culture gallery and at a contemporary art fair. The prize is funded through an auction.
The 2018 edition of the prize will take place at the school on June 30. The competing artists will be exhibited in the school’s gallery a week before the prize is awarded. This event is organized by the first-year Bac+3 Art Market students. The class is split in two: one part handles the sale and the other manages the Juvenars-IESA Prize.
Among some sixty applications from all over France, eight artists were in the running: Raphaël Barrois, Marine Clémot, Ladislas Combeuil, Roxane Kisiel, Sylvain Konyali, Émile Orange, Elena Moaty and Swann Ronné. Their works were exhibited in the IESA Gallery throughout the week before the prize was awarded. IESA students were thus able to vote for their favorite!
After each artist presented their competing work, the jury, made up of contemporary art professionals, met to deliberate. After deliberation, they chose the artist Roxane Kisiel for her work "La grande broderie".
Roxane Kisiel is a 26-year-old artist who blends embroidery techniques on paper, fabric and thread with engraving. In doing so she expresses "the fragility and precariousness of this living knowledge, itself subject to annihilation." This young artist often emphasizes works that evoke a contrast between life and death. Before taking part in the Juvenars Prize, Roxane exhibited at the Musée d’Ussel in the summer of 2013 while studying in Brussels. The winner will receive the sum of 5,000 euros, will exhibit in the IESA arts&culture Gallery and will present "La Grande Broderie" at the YIA Art Fair in October 2018.
The students' favorite was awarded to Marine Clémot with her photographic diptych made up of "Hélectrocardiogramme" and "Fumer tue".
Student Work
The students prepare the prize from A to Z: writing and circulating a call for entries to fine arts schools, selecting artists, setting up and composing the jury, organizing the evening by bringing in caterers and music groups while making sure the event runs smoothly. Students may also negotiate partnerships.
This year, sixty artists applied, and the nine nominees were chosen by group vote. The team selected eight artists, trying to represent different artistic media: sculpture, painting, performance, photography.
The jury is made up of journalist and writer Arthur Dreyfus, Renaud Layrac, contemporary artist, Sophie Zénon, photographer, Boris Grébille, director of IESA arts&culture, Maud Prangey, communications manager and project coach at IESA arts&culture, and Mathilde Malaize, student lead for the prize.
Over the year, each student developed different qualities through the role assigned to them within the group. Under the direction of Mathilde Malaize, assisted by Enzo Vinot, who handled overall coordination, the students each distinguished themselves in one or more areas: communication with Leïla Modestine and Émma Vechot, contact and exchanges with the artists by Fantine Manigot and Flore Gay-Heuzey, Qiu Tianjia recruited one of the jury members, Mareen Gantier took charge of filming. Elliot Cyprich and Baptiste Godart handled partnership negotiations with providers. Creativity was not left behind: Lola Iaquinta took care of the graphic design for the communication materials: call for entries, application file, invitation cards. Fiona Robineau notably interviewed Ferdinand Makouvia, 2017 winner, for a video, edited by Qi Zhang, Wenjia Li and Xinrui GU and posted on social media by Eva Lourençot. Finally, drawing with Léa Bonhomme, who created a comic strip illustrating all the stages of putting the prize together.
IESA arts&culture, the international school for culture and art market careers, and more specifically the first-year class of the Bachelor Expertise and Art Trade, are organizing the Prix Juvenars-IESA for the second year in a row. This prize will be awarded to an artist under thirty who practices contemporary art and is not represented by a gallery.
In addition, this year, the second-year students in IESA’s multimedia Master Digital Strategy took part in organizing this event by handling communication and digital strategy.
Out of about a hundred applications, ten artists are in the running to receive the famous prize. These fourteen artists will be exhibited on June 9, 2017 starting at 11 a.m. at the Olympe de Gouges hall, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. A jury of contemporary art professionals (including Isabelle Keit-Prinaud and Guillaume Piens) will select the winner of this second edition.
The winner will receive a trophy as well as a cash prize of five thousand euros. Finally, the winner’s works will be gathered in an e-catalog.
This year, 1st-year students of the Bachelor in Art Expertise and Trade chose to promote young artists by creating the Juvenars-IESA Prize, awarded to an artist under 30 not represented by a gallery. About thirty artists applied and the students shortlisted seven, who will exhibit on July 12, 2016 at La Bellevilloise. A jury made up of a student representing the class, professors and figures from the art market world will choose the winner of this first edition from among them.
To fund this prize, they asked renowned artists to donate a work that will be sold at auction. More than twenty artists responded and committed to this project alongside them. About thirty works will thus be sold on July 12 at 19:30 under the hammer of Pierre Missika, auctioneer, who is hosting one of our students for an internship.
Coached by Sylvana Lorenz and the team of former students of the Professional Master in Art Market, now grouped within the MetaCritkOpéra association, the students were able, through a dynamic approach, to learn how to put together an exhibition and organize an auction! And above all to meet emerging and established artists through a project that should be made permanent!
Come in large numbers to the first edition of the Juvenars-IESA Prize! And for those who wish, the day will end with a party organized by the 2nd-year students of the Bachelor in Cultural Productions and Mediation specializing in music.