Artagon IV — L’exposition internationale des étudiants en école d’art — Les Magasins généraux — Fair — Slash Paris

Past: October 12 → November 11, 2018

ARTAGON offers each year an international encounter for art schools students, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the City of Paris, Société Générale, patrons and partners.This event, a true world premiere, takes the form of a collective exhibition of 45 art students selected by an international jury within 15 invited art schools.

For this third edition, the jury is chaired by Hans Ulrich Obrist and made of 25 artists and personalities from the creation world. Jean-Jacques Aillagon, former French Minister of Culture, has been its Honorary President since the first edition.

Last spring, jury members has been divided into delegations in order to visit the 15 participating art schools in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. They have selected 3 students in each of them in the occasion of a visit of studios or a specially organized exhibition.
The 45 selected students exhibit at the Petites Serres in Paris, former industrial building of 1500 sqm. The exhibition, curated by Keimis Henni & Anna Labouze, ARTAGON’s founders and curators, is punctuated by the hyper-contemporary themes tackled by these young artists from all over the world: Love and spleen at the age of digital and social media; Transgender and transhumanism; Immigration, regulation and borders; Identity and faith; Environmental protection, return to nature and quest for happiness.

Participating art school

FRANCE
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts Lyon (ENSBA Lyon)
École supérieure d’art et de design Marseille (ESADMM)
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts Paris (ENSBA Paris)
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs Paris (ENSAD Paris)
École nationale supérieure d’arts Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC)

UNITED KINGDOM
Royal College of Art London (RCA)
Slade School of Fine Art London

GERMANY
Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK Berlin)
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

BELGIUM
École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre Brussels (ENSAV La Cambre)

SWITZERLAND
Haute école d’art et de design Geneva (HEAD Geneva)
Hochschule der Künste Zürich (ZHdK)
ITALY
Accademia di Brera Milan
Accademia Albertina Turin

SPAIN
Facultad de Bellas Artes Madrid

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