Demodernising to decolonise: modern art museums in the 21st century

Charles Esche, curator and writer living in Amsterdam, questions the way in which museums of modern and contemporary art are conditioned by their modern and colonial past, and invites us to explore new curatorial strategies and proposals through the example of the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, which he directed for 20 years.

List of successful candidates(FR)


A two-year programme that combines artistic research with the acquisition of professional skills through immersion in a cultural sector organisation (museum, art centre, gallery, publisher, artist's studio, etc.).

International conference organized in the presence of Luce Irigaray on her latest book, The Mediation of Touch, published in March 2024, dedicated to a philosophy and ethics of touch, but also to (the) difference of gender and sexuality, and to contemporary reappropriations of a major feminist philosophical work, still too little publicized in the French-speaking world.

Program from 9:30am to 7pm  

9:30 - 10am : Welcome, coffee and introductory remarks

The next distribution will take place on Monday, May 5, 2025. 

To take advantage of it, the registration link will be sent to students by e-mail and on the school's screens on Friday May 2.
For more information on Cop1 or to find out about distribution points : https ://cop1.fr/

2 to 4pm | Workshop
Matières en errances / matières en questions
On registration 

Emma Bigé and Mabeuko Oberty invite you to dive into Karen Barad's universe, through naps, readings and movement practices.
This will be an opportunity to discover some of the intricacies of the cosmology developed by Barad, within which theories as complex and complementary as those of quantum physics, feminist studies, philosophy, the history of consciousness and gender studies meet.

Warming Up

The artist Wolfgang Tillmans discusses the work process he undertook for the major exhibition he is preparing at the Centre Pompidou for June 2025, Rien ne nous préparait y - Tout nous préparait y, for which he transforms the entire plateau of level 2 into a single installation. He establishes a dialogue between his work and the space of the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Bpi), which he occupies for the occasion, questioning it both as architecture and as a place for the transmission of knowledge.

Call for applications to the SACRe/PSL 2025 doctoral program, open from March 13, 2025 to May 13, 2025 at 4pm (Paris time, UTC +1).

The aim of SACRe is to enable the emergence and development of original projects combining creation and research. This doctoral program, interdisciplinary in spirit, brings together practitioners in the fields of cinema, music, visual arts, theater and design, and theorists who bring into play a close articulation of thought and sensibility.

 

The “Artists & Exhibition Professions” program at Beaux-Arts de Paris launches its call for applications.

Open to around twenty students with 2 years of higher education from the Beaux-Arts de Paris or another school. The aim of the program is to train a year's worth of artists in production, stage management, scenography, mediation and other professions related to the presentation and dissemination of art. The course culminates in a “Filière Artistes & Métiers de l'exposition” diploma. 

The “Fresco & Art in Situation” program at Beaux-Arts de Paris launches its call for applications.

Open to around fifteen artists with 3 years' higher education, holding a DNA, licence en arts plastiques, DNMADE, DNSEP. The aim of the program is to train a group of student artists for one year to create in urban, heritage, rural or natural settings, on a site-specific or large-scale basis. It also provides training in public and private commissions, both historically and in more recent developments. The course leads to a “Fresco & Art in Situation” diploma.