ARTAGON.IV – Heading East!
Fourth edition of the international exhibition of art school students.
Presented at Magasins généraux, it brings together 32 artists from 16 art schools located between Paris and Moscow, and selected by an international jury.
12 October – 11 November 2018
Every day, 12.00–21.00
Opening night and performance programme: Friday 12 October, 18.00–23.00
Magasins généraux
1 Rue de l’Ancien Canal
93500 Pantin – Greater Paris, France
Metro 5 : Église de Pantin
Free admission
WARNING: the exhibition contains some artworks that may offend the sensibilities of visitors
Heading East!
After France in 2015 (ARTAGON.I), Switzerland and Belgium in 2016 (ARTAGON.II), and Western Europe in 2017 (ARTAGON.III), the journey heads East.
Last spring, an international jury made of 25 artists and art professionals visited 16 art schools located between Paris and Moscow to meet their students. They travelled across Eastern France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Two students have been selected in each school.
Spread over 1000 sqm, the show highlights the works of these young artists based in Europe and coming from around the world. The students were mostly born after the fall of the Berlin Wall, grew up with the internet, and are now facing the issues shaking today’s societies: gender fluidity, boundaries and identities, the role of women, queer culture, globalisation, new technologies and overwhelming consumerism. The exhibition will take us into this generation’s stories, struggles, visions and quest for meaning.
Curated by Anna Labouze & Keimis Henni
Production ARTER
Visited Art Schools
FRANCE
École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC)
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD)
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA Paris)
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (ENSBA Lyon)
Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg (HEAR)
BELGIUM
École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre, Brussels (ENSAV La Cambre)
SWITZERLAND
University of the Arts, Bern
École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL)
AUSTRIA
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
CZECH REPUBLIC
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
SERBIA
University of Arts, Belgrade
ROMANIA
University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca
POLAND
Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow
University of the Arts, Poznań
UKRAINE
National Academy of Fine Arts, Kiev
RUSSIA
Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow
Jury
Silvia Ammon & Clément Delépine – Directors, Paris Internationale, Paris
Valentin Carron – Artist, Martigny, Switzerland
Blanche de Lestrange – Deputy Director, FIAC, Paris
Aurélie Deplus – Head of Artistic Patronage and Director of the Art Collection, Société Générale, Paris
Zoran Erić – Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Lev Evzovich – Artist, AES +F, Moscow
Anne Imhof – Artist, Berlin
Michał Lakota – Gallerist, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw
Snejana Krasteva – Curator, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Balthazar Lovay – Artistic Director, Fri Art / Kunsthalle Freiburg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Christine Macel – Chief Curator, Musée national d’art moderne − Centre Pompidou, Paris
Boris Mikhaïlov – Photographer, Berlin & Kharkov, Ukraine
Michal Novotný – Director of the Center for Contempoary Art FUTURA, Prague
Emmanuel Perrotin – Gallerist, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez – Curator, Paris
Mihai Pop – Gallerist, Galeria Plan B, Berlin & Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Estelle Pietrzyk – Chief Curator, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Renaud Sabari – Founder and President, ARTER, Paris
Marinko Sudac – Collector and Founder of the Avantgarde Museum, Zagreb
Evgeny Svyatsky – Artist, AES +F, Moscow
Thibaut Wychowanok – Editor-in-Chief, Numéro art, Paris
Daniela Zyman – Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna
Exhibited Artists
Ismail Alaoui-Fdili – École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy
Alexander Brodarsky – National Academy of Fine Arts, Kiev
Collective CHAVKI: Aram Abbas, Kim Bradford, Charlotte Nicoli & Joseph Perez – École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
Charlotte Cherici – Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg, France
Jean Claracq – École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
Bogdan Čontoš – University of Arts, Belgrade
Hélène Cottet – Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg
Ophélie Demurger – École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon
Théo Ghiglia – École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris
Hélène Hulak – École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon
Yuliya Kyrychenko – National Academy of Fine Arts, Kiev
Sarah Lévy – École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre, Brussels
Ula Lucińska & Michał Knychaus – University of the Arts, Poznań
Paul Mittler – Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Albina Mokhryakova – Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow
Julie Monot – École cantonale d’art de Lausanne
Kate NganWa Ao – University of the Arts, Poznań
Dunja Ožegović – University of Arts, Belgrade
Alma Lily Rayner – Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Marco Rigoni – École cantonale d’art de Lausanne
Ann Rotaenko – Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow
Stefanie Schwarzwimmer – Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Sina Schöpf – University of the Arts, Bern
Andrei Sclifos – University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca
Hamid Shams – École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris
Michał Soja – Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow
Anca Stătică – University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca
Naoki Stylanos Karathanassis – École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre, Brussels
Anouk Ursin – University of the Arts, Bern
Ondřej Vicena – Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Jisoo Yoo – École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy
Adam Zduńczyk – Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow
Partners and Board
“ARTAGON.IV – Heading East!” is realised with the support and participation of the art schools, jury members and Artagon’s partners: Société Générale, ARTER, French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Île-de-France Region, FIAC, Paris Avant-Première, BETC, Magasins généraux, HISCOX, Art Services | Groupe BBL, ADAGP, Aesop, KATAPULT, Atelier Berger Milà, HORS-CADRE, Le Géant des Beaux-Arts, Numéro art, Nova, Les Inrockuptibles, Point contemporain, Artaïssime and L’Observatoire de l’art contemporain.
The project benefits from the advice of the Artagon Board members: Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Chantal Crousel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mohamed Bourouissa, Catherine David, Jennifer Flay, Elena Filipovic, Sandra Hegedüs, Eugénie Lefebvre, Antoine Lévi, Jessy Mansuy-Leydier, Pierre Oudart, Nelson Pernisco, Mario Pfeifer, Gea Politi and Emmanuel Tibloux.