Since their meeting in 2008, photographer Erica Baum and artist-writer Marcelline Delbecq have continued to exchange ideas, each taking an ever-renewed interest in the other's practice.

Over the course of their discussions and joint events at the Malmö Art Museum, the Albertine bookshop in New York and the Fondation Cartier in Paris, an endless conversation has developed, the main threads of which will be taken up in this exchange: how do they look at their surroundings? How do they experience the urbanities of New York and Paris? Why Japan?

Yan Tomaszewski, a 2011 graduate, is the winner of the 15th COAL 2024 Prize

For the work Sequana, which he has been working on since 2020, in homage to the healing goddess of the Seine.

Sculptures inspired by anatomical ex-voto found at the sources of the Seine, wooden body fragments have been sculpted, transformed into activated charcoal and then immersed in the river to absorb its pollutants.

The artist will receive €12,000 and a creative residency at the Domaine de Belval.

The collections department in action!

In preparation for the move of part of the collections to outsourced storage at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the team is working simultaneously on four collections projects (drawings, prints and photographs, antiquarian books and numismatics).

These projects involve dusting, marking, counting and repackaging the works. This colossal task will considerably improve our knowledge of the collections. It is an essential prerequisite for moving works of art in complete safety. It is also an opportunity to rediscover some very fine pieces.

Artist Peng Zuqiang, winner of the Art Explora residency at the Cité des Arts, is interested in the emotional resonance of stories, bodies and language. His work includes films, videos and installations.

Théo Mercier is as much a sculptor as he is a director. By turns explorer, collector, curator and artist, his work lies at the crossroads of anthropology, geopolitics, tourism and landscape.

To coincide with the 8th edition of the Un Week-End à l'Est festival, which this year focuses on the artistic scene in Yerevan, Armenia, a unique dialogue between visual artist Melik Ohanian and film-maker Andrei Ujica highlights a major figure in the 7th art, the film-maker Artavazd Pelechian.

Since their meeting in 2008, photographer Erica Baum and artist-writer Marcelline Delbecq have continued to exchange ideas, each taking an ever-renewed interest in the other's practice.

Yan Tomaszewski, a 2011 graduate, is the winner of the 15th COAL 2024 Prize

The collections department in action!