Nuit blanche 2022 at Villa Medici

17 November 2022

Installations, screenings, performances

Thursday 17 November 2022
6pm – midnight
Free event, advanced booking required

Curator: Saverio Verini

With :

Samir Amarouch, Mounir Ayache, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Hortense de Corneillan, Lorraine de Sagazan, Dorothée Dupuis, François Durif, Sivan Eldar, Marion Grébert, Bocar Niang, Lasseindra Ninja, Liv Schulman, Anna Solal, Sarah Vanuxem, Ariane Varela Braga, Laura Vazquez.

Camille Zuri de Souza, Naomi Maury, Mónica Mayer, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga.

With the participation of: Marta Badalamenti, Eleonora Claps, Sokhema di Croce, Pablo Cuevas, Berardo di Mattia, Azzurra Fiume, Cecilia Michieletto, Greta Michieletto, Dayo Ninja, Rigs Ninja, Rio Ninja, Jewel Ninja, Clyde Ninja, Angelica Simeoni.

After a 2021 edition that attracted nearly 5,000 visitors, the Nuit Blanche returns to Villa Medici on Thursday 17 November to honour the work of the sixteen fellows, as well as of a resident and a guest artist of the French Academy in Rome. From visual arts to stage direction, via art history, cinema, musical composition, literature or choreography, the dialogue between artistic practices is at the heart of this highlight of the cultural season.

An event dedicated to contemporary creation, the Nuit Blanche takes visitors on a nocturnal stroll through the gardens and historic spaces of Villa Medici, some of which are open to the public on a temporary basis. Many artistic projects have been designed in close connection with the history and architecture of Villa Medici, encouraging a dialogue between heritage and contemporary creation.

The circuit is an opportunity for Rome’s public to meet the fellows who began their one-year creative and experimental residency at Villa Medici in September 2022.

The Nuit Blanche offers a sample of their research in a variety of forms – visual works, exhibitions, sound productions – and thus provides a space for the development of their residency projects over time, with the support of curator Saverio Verini.

Between the poetic and political dimensions, Nuit Blanche 2022 also gives pride of place to video projections and live performances, in keeping with the ephemeral and vibrant nature of the event.

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The artists

The 2023-2023 fellows:

Samir Amarouch, Mounir Ayache, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Hortense de Corneillan, Lorraine de Sagazan, Dorothée Dupuis, François Durif, Sivan Eldar, Marion Grébert, Bocar Niang, Lasseindra Ninja, Liv Schulman, Anna Solal, Sarah Vanuxem, Ariane Varela Braga, Laura Vazquez.

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The resident winner of the Occitanie-Médicis 2022 Prize Naomi Maury, the winner of the Culinary residence Zuri Camille de Souza and the guests artists Mónica Mayer and Fabiola Torres-Alzaga.

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The curator

Saverio Verini is the Nuit Blanche curator. The Nuit Blanche is the first step in a year-long process during which Saverio Verini will work alongside the fellows of Villa Medici until their end-of-year event in the summer of 2023.

As curator of contemporary art exhibitions and events, Saverio Verini has cooperated with numerous institutions such as the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi, the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, the MACRO, the American Academy in Rome, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. He is currently coordinating exhibitions at the Memmo Foundation in Rome. He is a contributor to the magazine Artribune, and the author of several critical texts.