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¡ Viva Villa! Biennial - 2022 Edition
12.11.2022 - 12.02.2023
November 12, 2022 to February 12, 2023
Collection Lambert en Avignon
Curators: Victorine Grataloup and Stéphane Ibars
ON THE PROGRAM :
INAUGURAL WEEKEND
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 AND SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
Performing arts program and exhibition free of charge, no advance booking required.
→ Discover the inaugural weekend program
PROFESSIONAL DAY
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 9:00 A.M. TO 7:30 P.M.
Three round tables organized in partnership with Région Sud
→ Discover the Professional Day program
→ Register for the day
→ Follow the round tables live
Created in 2016 on the initiative of the Académie de France à Madrid – Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto and the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, the ¡ Viva Villa! festival was born of a joint desire to offer a regular rendezvous in the form of a joint event for the three institutions. Presented in France, this event brings together the artists, creators and researchers hosted by these three French establishments, all located abroad.
Now held every two years as a biennial event, it offers a glimpse of the diversity of our residents’ work, with proposals that break down the barriers of aesthetics and encourage dialogue between different disciplines.
Once again this year, ¡ Viva Villa! aims to get practitioners talking from the place of their practice, by presenting their work in the form of a multi-disciplinary group exhibition, a live performance program and a publication.
Entitled Ce à quoi nous tenonsthe 2022 edition refers to the text by ecofeminist philosopher Émilie Hache, Ce à quoi nous tenons – Propositions pour une écologie pragmatique, published by Éditions La Découverte in 2011.
The question of ecology occupies a central place in this edition of the festival insofar as it is invested by contemporary creators and researchers, often thought in conjunction with feminisms, the question of struggles, and more broadly in relation to the emergence of new moral and political experimentations.
The question of hospitality (for artists in residence, but also for audiences of cultural institutions) is also at the heart of the ¡ Viva Villa! artistic project.
The exhibition opening will be followed, again at the Collection Lambert, by a rich program of concerts and performances, and then by a professional day organized in conjunction with the Région Sud: a forum enabling artists to meet with cultural structures to pursue their artistic and research projects initiated during their residency.
→ Discover the artist profiles for the 2022 edition
Visual identity for the 2022-2023 biennial © Léna Araguas and Alaric Garnier
Photographs © Franck Couvreur
The commissioners
Victorine Grataloup is a curator and researcher, co-founder of the artistic exchange, research and translation platform Qalqalah قلقلة (with Virginie Bobin) and of the curatorial collective Le Syndicat Magnifique (with Thomas Conchou, Anna Frera and Carin Klonowski).She studied art history and theory at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), Humboldt Universität (Berlin) and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she now teaches art economics, and worked at Palais de Tokyo, KADIST, Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche and Cneai before becoming a freelance curator. Her work is transdisciplinary and collaborative, at the intersection of artistic, political and social issues.
In 2020-2021, she is the recipient of a curatorial research grant from the Centre national des arts plastiques with a project on acquisitions by artists from the Maghreb, Mashreq and Arabian Peninsula, and works in parallel with École des Actes, an experimental cultural micro-institution working across languages from the situation of Aubervilliers and Seine-Saint-Denis.
Stéphane Ibars joined the Collection Lambert team in 2006, initially developing communications, cultural programming (symposia, conferences, film screenings, meetings, readings, concerts, music festivals), the place of dance-performance and various partnerships with regional, national and international cultural structures. He then became one of the curators and is currently the associate artistic director.
At the same time, he teaches contemporary art history, aesthetics and the history of countercultures at various universities (Nîmes, Montpellier, Avignon) and at the École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, and is developing an independent curatorial activity through which he questions the links between contemporary art and countercultures. His objects of study are: the emergence of the new American avant-garde in the 1960s-1970s and its influence on the art of the last 40 years; the New York alternative scenes of the 1980s-1990s; feminist artistic practices; the relationship between contemporary art scenes and countercultures. Some exhibitions at the Collection Lambert: Je reflèterai ce que tu es (l’intime dans la Collection Lambert) ; De leur Temps 6, Collectionner au XXIe siècle (ADIAF), Basquiat Remix (Basquiat, Picasso, Matisse, Twombly) ; Miryam Haddad, Le sommeil n’est pas un lieu sûr; Various Days (Delgado + Fuchs, Zimoun) ; Francesco Vezzoli, Le lacrime dei poeti (Francesco Vezzoli looks at Cy Twombly, Louise Lawler, Giulio Paolini) ; Claire Tabouret, Les veilleurs; Knusa / Insert Coins (Cindy Van Acker, Christian Lutz) ; Mémoires sauvées du vent (Jeunes diplômés des écoles de Marseille, Arles, Avignon) ; Amos Gitai, Chronique d’un assassinat annoncé; Lawrence Weiner, De l’autre côté du fleuve; as well as hangings of the collection.
