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Thomas Buswell — Roseau social — Exposition Project Room
New
Ends in about 2 months: November 6, 2024 → January 5, 2025
Thomas Buswell was born in Switzerland in 1998, he lives and works in Paris.
He graduated from the Beaux-arts de Paris in 2024. His work, which he describes as ‘something to live with’, suggests tensions between the state of nature and modern comfort, attraction and repulsion.
Installation, sculpture
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Ėglė Budvytytė — De sang chaud et de terre (Warm Blooded and Earthbound)
Ends in 4 months: September 26, 2024 → February 23, 2025
A major Lithuanian artist on the international scene, Ėglė Budvytytė will present her first exhibition in France at the Frac Île-de-France, as part of the France-Lituanie season. She explores the overlap between the visual and performing arts.
Film, installation, video
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Past
Upcoming
Joséphine Berthou — 11h20
Upcoming
Starts tomorrow: September 26 → November 3
Joséphine Berthou makes fiction films with a strong documentary and musical comedy element. Her films are incorporated into large-scale installations, and consider the roles that each person acquires in a globalized society where information circulates with ever-increasing immediacy.
Film, installation, sound - music...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Joséphine Berthou — 11h20
In 16 days: Wednesday, October 2 at 7:30 PM
Visit artist-curator
Wednesday 02.10.24, 7:30pm
with Joséphine Berthou and Maëlle Dault
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Vieilles coques & jeunes récifs
Past: March 16 → July 21
The body is central to the concerns of sportsmen and women, scientists and artists alike. The works in the exhibition at Le Plateau and Les Réserves question its limits and potential, just as much as the mutations envisaged by science fiction.
Drawing, installation, painting...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Joséphine Topolanski — Satellite Finder
Past: June 5 → July 21
*Joséphine Topolanski directs her practice towards different media (weaving, textiles, ready-made objects, fake and real photographic archives, newspaper articles).*
Her work is rooted in testimonies or state investigations about unexplained space phenomena, and international conferences on the existence of UFOs, e…
Installation, sculpture, mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Na Liu — Les fils chuchotés
Past: April 24 → June 2
h3. Project Room
h4. A partnership with the [1]Bourse Révélations Emerige 2023/ Emerige 2023 Revelations Grant.
Na Liu was born in 1989 in Nanjing, China. She lives and works in Paris.
Storytelling, scenography and symbols run through Na Liu’s work, and are reflected in all the media she explores (painting, d…
Installation, mixed media, video
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Na Liu — Les fils chuchotés — Visite en présence de l’artiste
Past: Wednesday, May 15 at 7 PM
Na liu and Maëlle Dault invite you to an exhibition’s tour.
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Andréa Spartà — Longlife
Past: March 16 → April 21
Andréa Sparta’s discreet installations bring together objects that everyone can recognize, but whose nobility usually escapes our gaze. He likes to quote the artist Agnes Martin: “The wriggling of an earthworm is as important as the assassination of a president”.
Opening : 16.03, 4pm-7pm
Curator : Maëlle Dault
Installation
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Ndayé Kouagou — A Change of Perspective
Past: September 21, 2023 → February 18, 2024
Emblematic of the artists of his generation, Ndayé Kouagou does not establish a hierarchy between his different language-based practices.
Film, performance, mixed media...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Nina Azoulay — Comme un rond dans un carré
Past: January 11 → February 18
À mi-chemin entre une version minimale et amusée du ballet triadique d’Oscar Schlemmer et un faux inventaire des robes aux couleurs de la lune, Nina Azoulay semble nous convier, au Plateau, à la générale d’une petite chorégraphie fantasmagorique, un défilé de mode aux accents fantomatiques.
Installation, sculpture
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Romain Best — Coulissements par frictions
Past: November 9, 2023 → January 7, 2024
The Project Room is the Frac’s new prospective and experimental space, located in the last room of the Plateau. It offers the opportunity to present research, diploma, grant and residency projects to French and foreign artists, preferably from the Île de France region. This reactive and flexible programming is also bu…
Installation, sculpture, mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Parisa Babaei — Is you is, or is you ain’t (my baby)?
Past: September 21 → November 5, 2023
Inspired by her Iranian and French cultures, Parisa Babaei’s work is mainly based on compositions that combine writing in different languages, common and poor materials, and images or objects from popular culture, all of which can be reproduced in completely original ways in a variety of contexts.
Installation, mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Elvire Bonduelle
Past: June 7 → July 23, 2023
Accrochée dans la vitrine du Frac Le Plateau et tournée d’un quart de tour chaque jour, la toile d’Elvire Bonduelle se joue de l’attention flottante des passants. Quelques œuvres l’entourent d’un cadre familier. C’est comme si des enfants venaient d’y jouer.
Installation
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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L’Irrésolue
Past: January 26 → June 25, 2023
Although they are based on a variety of media and techniques, the works of the six artists brought together in the exhibition L’Irrésolue share an appetite for mystery, secrecy, the uncertain and the invisible as much as the unspeakable.
Installation, painting, photography...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
EXPOSURE — Finissage sonore
Past: Friday, June 23, 2023 at 8 PM
Exhibition curator Anne-Lou Vicente and artist Camille Brée invite sound artists Oï les Ox, Detente and Vina Konda.
After five months on show, L’Irrésolue ends in a blur of strange, familiar sounds inh…
Closing
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Judith Hopf — Énergies
Past: September 22 → December 11, 2022
Le Plateau is partnering with Bétonsalon to host a two-part exhibition by Judith Hopf, from September 22 to December 2022. Since the 2000s, the German artist has been making sculptures and films fuelled by reflections on the relationships that human beings have with technology.
Film, installation, sculpture...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Eva Barto — Weak Tongue
Past: May 19 → July 24, 2022
_Weak Tongue_, Eva Barto’s first solo exhibition in a Parisian institution, is a continuation of her research into the notions of assistance, financial support, and their ambiguities.
A changeover will take place from 25th July to 2nd October, in the exhibition _Sharp Smile_*, which will be held at the MACRO in Rome.
Film, installation, performance...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Pooya Abbasian
Past: June 2 → July 24, 2022
Pooya Abbasian est un artiste iranien installé à Paris depuis 2011. Sa pratique mêle photographie, vidéo, dessin et installation. Pour la vitrine du Plateau, il propose une installation composée d’une vidéo et d’une installation.
Mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Bruno Serralongue — Pour la vie
Past: January 27 → April 24, 2022
Pour la vie takes visitors on a journey through portraits of struggling individuals or groups, bearing witness to photographic series initiated by Bruno Serralongue several years ago, to which new productions have been added.
Mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Children Power — Exposition interdite aux + de 18 ans
Past: May 19 → December 19, 2021
À l’occasion de l’ouverture de ses nouvelles réserves à Romainville, le Frac Île-de-France propose en 2021, un projet d’exposition en trois volets autour du thème de l’enfance intitulé Children Power, prenant place dans ses trois lieux, au Plateau à Paris, au Château de Rentilly et dans les Réserves à Romainville.
Mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Bianca Bondi — À la vitrine de l’antenne culturelle du Plateau
Past: March 3 → April 5, 2021
Chaque mois, la vitrine de l’antenne (l’espace culturel et pédagogique du Plateau) accueille un nouveau projet artistique pensé en lien avec les expositions du Plateau. Du 3 mars au 5 avril 2021, le Frac a décidé d’y mettre à l’honneur le travail de Bianca Bondi.
Mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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David Douard — O’ Ti’ Lulaby
Past: September 27 → December 13, 2020
Combining several language registers, everyday objects and materials, from low-tech, popular and mainstream culture, David Douard’s works create shifts in meaning that generate poetry and fiction.
Installation, sculpture
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Ben Russell — La Montagne invisible
Past: June 17 → July 12, 2020
The frac île-de-france presents the first exhibition in France dedicated to the American artist Ben Russell. As an artist, filmmaker, and curator, Ben Russell’s work exists primarily at the site of projection, resulting in an embodied and hallucinatory experience of the documentary image.
Film, installation, performance
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Foncteur d’oubli
Past: September 19 → December 8, 2019
The exhibition gathers artists, designers and architects related to the modernist movement.
Following these 20th century historical avant-gardes in reviewing the premise that the arts are free and design objects are subject to constraints; it presents the fluid nature of the disciplines and draws attention to their similarities.
Architecture, design, mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Foncteur d’oubli — Commissaire de l’exposition : Benoît Maire Scénographie : Ker-Xavier
Past: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9 PM → 7 PM
Plateau-Apéro
Avec cuisine mode d’emplois -- la formation aux métiers de la restauration avec Thierry Marx
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Foncteur d’oubli — Commissaire de l’exposition : Benoît Maire Scénographie : Ker-Xavier
Past: Sunday, October 13, 2019 6:30 PM → 5:30 PM
Visite avec le commissaire de l’exposition Benoît Maire
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Simon Starling — Catherine, Masahiko, Rex et les autres
Past: May 15 → July 21, 2019
Simon Starling has reexamined the history of objects―their forms, value, manufacturing processes and status. He sees this solo exhibition as an opportunity to propose a journey through between a series of recent works and some of his older pieces, always focusing attention on the contexts in which they were produced and shown.
Film, installation, photography...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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La Rivière m’a dit — Exposition collective
Past: January 23 → April 14, 2019
“La Rivière m’a dit” presents a series of works within which nature occupies a prominent place in a variety of ways. Addressing issues regarding nature inevitably leaves us with a rather grim outlook. The impending ecological disaster is becoming a more unbearable reality by the day, while man is still failing to redefine his vital relationship with the world.
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Claire Trotignon — Primo Piano and the left over
Past: March 6 → 31, 2019
Chaque mois, la vitrine de l’antenne (l’espace culturel et pédagogique du plateau) accueille un nouveau projet artistique pensé en lien avec les expositions du plateau, la collection du frac Ile-de-France et ses actions pédagogiques.
Architecture, drawing, installation...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Elad Lassry — Première exposition en France
Past: September 20 → December 9, 2018
h3. Exhibition curator: Xavier Franceschi
The frac île-de-france is presenting the first exhibition in France of the artist Elad Lassry, at Le
Plateau (Paris). Lassry was born in 1977 in Tel Aviv and lives and works in Los Angeles. His
work with photography, film and sculpture explores the production and receptio…
Photography
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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A Study in Scarlet — Exposition collective
Past: May 17 → July 22, 2018
A Study in Scarlet was conceived as a nebula of works revolving around Cosey Fanni Tutti’s artistic legacy, looking at its influences, companions and contemporaries, while crossing various issues or strategies also used in more recent practices: infiltrating an institution or industry, integrating the body into a production line, overturning a norm, etc.
Drawing, publishing, film...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Stéphane Dafflon — U+25A6
Past: February 1 → April 15, 2018
For his first solo exhibition at a Parisian institution, the artist entirely rethinks the various areas at le plateau with an architectural and pictorial dimension, creating a whole new series of artworks encompassing paintings, sculptures and wall stickers. This presentation and these works change our perception of reality through the artist’s sphere of abstraction.
Architecture, painting, sculpture...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Pierre Paulin — Boom boom, run run
Past: September 21 → December 17, 2017
Le plateau, frac île-de-france presents the first monographic exhibition to be dedicated to Pierre Paulin. Comprising of mainly new works, Boom boom, run run continues to express the artist’s interest in language, appearing here in a multitude of forms, from poetry, essay and translation, to prêt-à-porter.
Collage, publishing, installation...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Kaye Donachie — Sous les nuages de ses paupières
Past: May 18 → July 23, 2017
At le plateau frac Île-de-france presents the first solo exhibition devoted to the British artist Kaye Donachie in France. Donachie, who was born in 1970 in Glasgow has developed paintings studded with literary references in which her fascination for real and fictional heroines comes to life.
Drawing, painting
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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SoixanteDixSept
Past: March 11 → July 16, 2017
In 2017, the Centre Pompidou is celebrating its 40th anniversary throughout France. To share the celebration with a wider audience, it will be presenting a completely new programme of exhibitions, outstanding loans and various events throughout the year.
Film, mixed media
Multiple venues
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SoixanteDixSept — Sam’di en famille
Past: 2017-04-29 00:00:00 +0200 → 2017-06-24 00:00:00 +0200
Une découverte de l’exposition à hauteur d’enfant, à partir de jeux d’observation, d’énigmes, de contes, de dessins…
Partez explorer les œuvres des artistes de manière ludique et sensible en famille !
Le Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France propose des visites interactives pour toute la famille afin de partager …
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Film, mixed media
Multiple venues
Visite avec les commissaires des trois expositions du projet SoixanteDixSept
Past: Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 6 PM
Frac ile-de-france, le château / Parc culturel de Rentilly — Michel Chartier, CPIF et Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson
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Performance Day — Une journée de performances au CPIF et à la Ferme du Buisson
Past: Saturday, June 3, 2017
En 2016 La Ferme du Buisson inaugurait Performance Day, un nouveau festival de performance. Considérant l’intérêt grandissant des artistes pour une zone intermédiaire située entre arts visuels et scénique…
Performance
TaxiTram — Visite des trois expositions du projet SoixanteDixSept
Past: Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 2 PM
Frac ile-de-france, le château / Parc culturel de Rentilly — Michel Chartier
CPIF
Ferme du Buisson
Meeting
Journée de réflexion SoixanteDixSept — CPIF et Parc culturel de Rentilly
Past: Saturday, May 6, 2017 9 AM → 6 PM
En 1977, deux femmes, Rosalind Krauss et Susan Sontag, renouvellent de façon décisive, par leurs publications, la pensée de la photographie.
Une journée d’étude publique, conviant chercheurs et artistes,…
Lecture
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Strange Days
Past: January 19 → April 16, 2017
The Strange Days exhibition draws on some of the latest acquisitions made by frac île-de-france and presents a number of pertinent works which create a particularly symbolic landscape of the world as it is, of this world that is constantly announcing strange and worrying consequences.
Film, installation, photography...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Mark Geffriaud — Deux mille quinze
Past: September 22 → December 11, 2016
The film installation at the heart of the exhibition conceived by Mark Geffriaud for le plateau explores our relationship to time. The film consists of footage of two different locations, the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the shores of Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.
Film, installation, sound - music...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Conversations de plateau
Past: Thursday, November 24, 2016 7:30 PM → 9 PM
Des invités échangent et livrent leurs regards sur l’exposition. Avec : Christophe Blanchet (musicien), Sylvain Chaty (astrophysicien), Yann Geffriaud (brasseur), Géraldine Longueville (curatrice), Sébast…
Meeting
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Johannes Kahrs — Then, maybe, the explosion of a star
Past: May 12 → July 24, 2016
The frac île-de-france presents the first major solo exhibition in Paris by Johannes Kahrs, shown at le Plateau. Although his work spans a wide range of techniques, including drawing, video and sound installations, he is probably best know for his paintings.
Painting
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Plateau-Apéro — Nocturne jusqu’à 21h
Past: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 7 PM → 9 PM
Comme chaque premier mercredi du mois, le plateau vous ouvre ses portes jusqu’à 21h et vous offre l’apéro.
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Conversations de plateau
Past: Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 7:30 PM
The guests will interact and deliver their thoughts on the exhibition. With: Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff (art historian), Camille Vivier (photographer) and Philippe Artières (historian).
Meeting
Plateau-Apéro — Nocturne jusqu’à 21h
Past: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 7 PM → 9 PM
Comme chaque premier mercredi du mois, le plateau vous ouvre ses portes jusqu’à 21h et vous offre l’apéro.
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L’Homme aux cent yeux (la grande revue)
Past: Friday, April 15, 2016
This new revue — in a nod to its glorious ancestors of the 30s and to the spirit of the Music Hall — proposes an annual programme of live interventions, open to all kinds of artistic creation (acoustic, filmic, choreographic, etc.), by artists invited to occupy the exhibition spaces.
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De toi à la surface
Past: January 21 → April 10, 2016
The observation that brought the artists of this exhibition together is : the spiritual complement that we give objects belongs to us alone. Thus we are used to objects fulfilling functions other than what their original design intended.
Ceramic, installation, photography...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Plateau-Apéro — Nocturne jusqu’à 21h
Past: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 7 PM → 9 PM
Late opening until 9pm on the first Wednesday of every month.
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Plateau-Apéro — Nocturne jusqu’à 21h
Past: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 7 PM → 9 PM
Late opening until 9pm on the first Wednesday of every month.
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Vitrine : La téléphoniste Céline Ahond a un message pour vous
Past: January 27 → February 28, 2016
For this new window display, Céline Ahond has devised an audioguide around a selection of works from the collection of the frac île-de-france. To listen to the messages she has left for you, please dial the indicated number.
Conversations de plateau
Past: Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 7:30 PM
Special guests unveil their vision of the exhibition.
With : Jean-Philippe Antoine, Géraldine Gourbe and Benjamin Seror.
Meeting
Plateau-Apéro — Nocturne jusqu’à 21h
Past: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 7 PM → 9 PM
Late opening until 9pm on the first Wednesday of every month.
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Haris Epaminonda — Vol. XVI
Past: September 24 → December 6, 2015
Frac Île-de-France is presenting the first solo exhibition in France by Haris Epaminonda at le plateau. Her work comprises mainly films, sculptures and installations that incorporate images and objects borrowed from various origins and epochs, to stage multiple encounters, while cultivating an explicit relationship with the past.
Installation
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Plateau-Apéro
Past: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7 PM → 9 PM
Late openings until 9PM on the first Wednesday of every month.
Visit
Conversations de plateau
Past: Thursday, November 26, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Special guests unveil their vision of the exhibition.
Meeting
Visite avec le commissaire de l’exposition Xavier Franceschi
Past: Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 5:30 PM
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Plateau-Apéro
Past: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 7 PM → 9 PM
Late openings until 9PM on the first Wednesday of every month.
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Plateau-Apéro
Past: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 7 PM → 9 PM
Late openings until 9PM on the first Wednesday of every month.
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A personal sonic geology — Une exposition de Philippe Decrauzat et Mathieu Copeland
Past: May 13 → July 26, 2015
“A Personal Sonic Geology” gathers together the films co-directed by Mathieu Copeland and Philippe Decrauzat since 2012. Stemming from a desire to film sound, capture places, and dive into the subject matter of the process of construction and destruction, these films are screened using a method of projection which incorporates the monochrome screen paintings on exhibition.
Film, installation, painting...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
A personal sonic geology — Conversations de plateau
Past: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Des invités interviennent sur les questions du son, du cinéma et du manifeste, autant de maillons constituant l’exposition. Avec Nicolas Couturier (graphiste, collectif g.u.i.), Maxime Guitton (programmat…
Meeting
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Hospitalités n°5
Past: May 30 → July 5, 2015
For every two years since 2007, Hospitalités has invited the public from the Paris region, whether amateur or connoisseur, to experience original journeys in all those venues taking part; in 2015, visitors will have the luck of exploring the region, each Saturday and each Sunday, from the 30th of May to the 5th of July.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
A personal sonic geology — Visite commissaires avec Philippe Decrauzat et Mathieu Copeland
Past: Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 5:30 PM
A Personal Sonic Geology gathers together the films realised by Mathieu Copeland and Philippe Decrauzat since 2012. Stemming from a desire to film sound, record places, and dive into the process of a mate…
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Hospitalités — Week-end du 30 & 31 mai
Past: May 30 → 31, 2015
This first Saturday is devoted to space: first resting space, then space where sound becomes a visual object and then finally space for wandering and experimentation. On Sunday there will be a trip beginning with a ’breakfast-tray’ at Frac, before pushing north to Gennevilliers, then to the east to Chelles and then to Lilas.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
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Loyality to the Material — Concerts / lectures / performances
Past: Friday, April 17, 2015 7:30 PM → 10 PM
Around a manifesto written by the Swiss artist Guy Meldem, three performances—three celebrations of the voice—punctuate this event. The incorporation of words in the bare spaces of le Plateau are a response to a picture by Peter Halley.
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(un mural, des tableaux)
Past: January 22 → April 12, 2015
As explicitly indicated by its title, the exhibition [un mural, des tableaux] is dedicated exclusively to painting. The exhibition indiscriminately presents paintings from across the very diverse fields of pictorial creation, from the most radical abstraction to the most unfettered figuration.
Painting
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
(un mural, des tableaux)
Past: Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 5:30 PM
A tour with the curator Xavier Franceschi.
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(un mural, des tableaux)
Past: Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Conversations on stage concerning Kaye Donachie’s exhibition. Free on reservation: reservation@fraciledefrance.com.
Meeting
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Point of no Point
Past: December 11 → 12, 2014
Using the stage structure as a template, musician and artist Susan Stenger will produce a ‘score’ inspired by the gallery’s space and temporarily in order to create a personal sonic anthology. Using four separate playback systems, she’ll remix her past, present and future by building up sound strata from a wide range of key influences.
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Aurélien Froment — Montage des attractions
Past: October 2 → December 7, 2014
This programme makes up “Montage des attractions”, Aurélien Froment’s first solo show in a Parisian cultural institution. Curator of the exhibition : Xavier Franceschi.
Architecture, design, installation...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Waywords of Seeing
Past: June 12 → July 27, 2014
“Waywords of Seeing” offers a multiplication of vision through different experiences repositions the body in relation to its image on scientific, psychological and narrative levels.
Mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Visite guidée par les commissaires
Past: Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 6 PM
Guided tour of “Waywords of Seeing” with curators Mathieu Copeland and Philippe Decrauzat.
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Interprète.
Past: March 28 → May 11, 2014
As the first part of a triptych of exhibitions based on the FRAC Île-de-France collection, “Interprète.” brings together a selection of recently acquired works, all having in common the idea of performance. “Interprète.” is in this sense the broad instrument which must be played in order to get the full measure of it.
Installation, sound - music
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Alejandro Cesarco — Secondary Revision (Élaboration secondaire)
Past: December 12, 2013 → February 23, 2014
The work of Alejandro Cesarco, a young Uruguayan artist living in New York, seems to be motivated throughout by the desire to transcribe a certain experience — feelings experienced during our existence, in particular our relation to the Other — and by a continual exploration of the means by which art might account for this experience.
Drawing, film, installation...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Uncoupdedés.net — Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Past: February 14, 2013 → February 14, 2014
Since 2010, the Plateau devises each year a new project of a migrant exhibition, for a closeness audience. For “Abitacollection”, the Plateau has invited Hans-Walter Müller, a pioneer since the 1960s of “architecture in motion”, to come up with one of his famous inflatable volumes to accommodate an exhibition of works from the collection.
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Ryan Gander — Make every show like it’s your last
Past: September 19 → November 17, 2013
The Frac Île-de-France — Le Plateau is presenting Make every show like it’s your last, the British artist Ryan Gander’s first solo exhibition in a Paris institution. Making the most of an extremely effusive imagination, the artist does his utmost to offer us works which tend to re-visit the conceptual art arena, not without wit.
Installation, new media, sculpture...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Une préface
Past: June 5 → July 28, 2013
From made by hand to making images, from “source” images to their usage, from vague ideas to clear images, the artists brought together in this exhibition invite us to understand the unstable dynamic of perception and interpretation that their works sustain, underlining the subjectivity and responsibility of he who exhibits as well as he who observes.
Design, drawing, film...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Hospitalités — Espace Khiasma et Le Plateau / FRAC Île-de-France
Past: Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Visite de l’exposition « Mandrake a disparu » qui énonce une situation paradoxale : ce n’est plus le lapin qui disparaît dans un chapeau, mais le magicien lui-même dont on ne retrouve plus la trace, puis présentation du projet de Julien Prévieux, Datumo !, réalisé en collaboration avec le FRAC Île-de- France / L’Antenne.
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Paint it Black
Past: March 13 → May 12, 2013
En se référant de façon explicite à la musique, Paint it Black se pare d’un ensemble de partitions qui, sur un mode conceptuel ayant historiquement privilégié le noir et blanc dans sa quête d’idéal, viennent scander l’exposition comme autant de possibles refrains.
Drawing, film, installation...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Les fleurs américaines
Past: December 13, 2012 → February 17, 2013
“Once upon a time there was a history known as the history of modern art…” The exhibition American Flowers might begin like a tale whose leading characters would be the various artists, curators, historians, and collectors at the hub of 20th century art, not forgetting works, exhibitions and institutions.
Drawing, installation, painting...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Alfred Barr Jr — Abstract Cabinet and the Modern Narrative
Past: Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 6 PM
In the late 1920s, Alexander Dorner, director of the Landesmuseum in Hanover, and El Lissitzky, an avant-garde Soviet artist, worked together to construct a special room for exhibiting modern art, known as the “Cabinet of the Abstracts”. Through the history of this “Cabinet”, this lecture will follow the development of ideas about art.
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Gertrude Stein — The Making of Americans
Past: Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 6 PM
“The Making of Americans” tells the story of several collections of European modern
art put together by Americans in the first half of the 20th century, starting with the
Salon of Gertrude and Leo Stein where works by Cézanne, Matisse et Picasso were
exhibited together.
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Le Grand Restaurant
Past: September 20 → November 18, 2012
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Le Plateau is holding a solo show of Michel Blazy’s work. The artist uses modest, perishable materials, taken from everyday life, and shows us some of the strange, sumptuous and monstrous things that they contain. Michel Blazy has a predilection for observation, leaving the materials used in the works to evolve over time.
Installation, sculpture, video
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Palu pas pris à ElBulli — The United Patriotic Squadrons of Blessed Diana
Past: Thursday, November 15, 2012 7:30 PM → 8:30 PM
Les « United Patriotic Squadrons of Blessed Diana » investissent l’élevage de moustiques créé par Michel Blazy au Plateau. « Palu pas pris à ElBulli » raconte la nuit de l’Homme à Marrakech, qui, lors de la grande fièvre de la Vallée du Rift, s’écria : « La cuenta por favor ! ».
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Le Plateau : 10 ans !
Past: September 19 → October 3, 2012
Le Plateau, an exhibition space launched in 2002, has since come to the fore of the contemporary art scene in France. Its artistic agenda centres around four annual exhibitions, in the shape of either solo or group exhibitions, enabling new productions as well as the realisation of specific projects.
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Le Mont Fuji n’existe pas
Past: June 7 → July 29, 2012
Legend has it that wherever you are in Japan, you can see Mount Fuji. While in residency at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, we tried to confirm this hypothesis on several occasions. The works exhibited at the Plateau fluctuate between: a collective dynamics based on gestures freed from any productive necessity, an incursion into everyday life.
Film, installation, performance...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Chitti Kasemkitvatana — Conférence
Past: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Chitti Kasemkitvatana proposes a casual talk with Yoann Gourmel & Elodie Royer inside the exhibition Mount Fuji Does Not Exist at Le Plateau. Besides, the second intervention will take place at Parc du Buttes-Chaumont on this date after the talk, if the weather permits.
“More updated info coming early next week”
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Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky — Through somnambular laws
Past: March 22 → May 13, 2012
“Through Somnambular Laws” is Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky’s first exhibition in Paris. The encounter and exchange of different viewpoints shows their fascination for the poetic power of language, through fables, spells and instructions. Various repetitions (of language and gesture) convey thoughts prey to delirium or akin to a daze.
Film, installation, new media...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Le sentiment des choses
Past: December 15, 2011 → February 26, 2012
As the first part of a series of exhibitions devised by Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel, guest curators for the 2011-2012 season, the collective exhibition The Feeling of Things takes as its point of departure the work and spirit of Bruno Munari, “a Peter Pan with the calibre of a Leonardo”, to borrow Pierre Restany’s words.
Collage, design, film...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Alien Theory, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva
Past: September 22 → November 20, 2011
Since 2001, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva have been introducing what they themselves describe as the writing of a “poetic philosophical fiction”. Influenced by science fiction, ethnography and paranormal phenomena, their silent short films question the boundaries of perception through small enigmatic scenarios.
Film, video
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Nul si découvert — Érudition concrète 4
Past: June 9 → August 7, 2011
Nul si découvert/Void if Removed is the fourth and last part of the Concrete Erudition programme. In creating a continuity with previous shows which all question the relationship between knowledge and access thereto, this exhibition takes as its point of departure three stories, in order to broach, in art, the idea of experiences.
Film, installation, painting...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Philippe Decrauzat — Anisotropy
Past: March 17 → May 15, 2011
Philippe Decrauzat is currently revisiting the arena of abstraction and, in particular, Op Art and Kineticism, in order to broaden its range and its different prospects. His approach consists in developing an interest in a repertory of forms and observing their differing developments, before re-appropriating them for himself.
Film, painting, sculpture
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Prospective XXIe siècle
Past: December 9, 2010 → February 20, 2011
Prospective XXIe siècle, réunit, à partir des récentes acquisitions du Frac Ile-de-France, un ensemble d’œuvres qui, de façon très diversifiée, abordent la question de la mémoire. Chacune des œuvres présentées indique une dimension d’écho, de répétition, que le spectateur est invité à expérimenter à son tour.
Film, installation, photography...
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Les vigiles, les menteurs, les rêveurs — Erudition concrète 3
Past: September 16 → November 14, 2010
“Watchmen, Liars, Dreamers” is the third part of the programme “Concrete Erudition” proposed by Guillaume Désanges, a curator invited to devise a cycle of shows at Le Plateau. This cycle challenges the links between art and knowledge, focusing on certain contemporary activities.
Installation, mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
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Charles Avery
Past: May 27 → August 8, 2010
Charles Avery is the author of nothing less than a mythology — The Islanders — to which he has devoted himself fulltime since 2004.
By way of texts, drawings, installations and sculptures, he describes for us an island and an imaginary world governed by specific laws, which an explorer gradually reveals to us.
Drawing, sculpture, mixed media
Frac île-de-france, le Plateau
Corps collector — Vanessa Le Mat
Past: Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Corps collector est une performance déambulatoire pour plusieurs interprètes, reliant la figure du chorégraphe à celle du collectionneur : Le corps envisagé comme collectionneur de sens, de mouvements, de…
Performance
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Prisonniers du soleil
Past: March 11 → May 9, 2010
Prisonniers du Soleil s’articule autour d’une production spécifique de l’artiste américain Corey McCorkle. Celui ci a choisi de focaliser son projet sur le Désert de Retz, un jardin de « folies » architecturales construit au XVIIIème siècle par le comte de Montville, conçu tel un microcosme architectural et paysager…
Photography
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