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Mélanie Matranga — • — •
Past: September 21 → December 22, 2018
Through this solo exhibition named by a silent and unpronounceable title, Mélanie Matranga challenges the language and its limits. Perceived as a prison whose walls widen to the measure of vocabulary that we use, the language remains always limited, as the time, space or bodies.
Collage, design, drawing...
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Les Siestes électroniques à la Villa Vassilieff #2 — Playlist for a Parisian art center
Past: Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 3:30 PM
While we spend most of our time listening to “individualized” playlists depending on our “moods”, how can we propose a playlist adapted to a collective listening within a contemporary art exhibition ?
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Sophie Podolski — Le pays où tout est permis
Past: April 21 → July 7, 2018
Villa Vassilieff presents the first exhibition dedicated to the Belgian artist Sophie Podolski in Paris, following its presentation at WIELS, Brussels earlier this year. Her work is emblematic of a time marked by sexual liberation, anti-psychiatry and a disenchanted youth.
Drawing, film, graphic design...
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Akadémia : Performing Life
Past: January 13 → March 24, 2018
The exhibition will look at narratives and themes springing from the Akademia, a community and a school established by Raymond Duncan, American dancer and artist, and co-ran by Aia Bertrand. It existed between the 1920s and 1970s in Paris, offering free courses in dance, arts, and crafts.
Dance, publishing, installation...
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Punascha Parry — Samit Das
Past: October 14 → December 23, 2017
The exhibition examines the visual vocabulary of Indian modern art in an attempt to re-evaluate the idea of modernism through the lives, works and destinies of Indian artists in Paris. Samit Das combines his works with those of Indian artists who have stayed or lived in Paris and whose trajectories remain ignored or unknown.
Drawing, publishing, installation...
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La Permanence
Past: September 19 → 30, 2017
For several years, Koki Tanaka has been assembling temporary collectives revolving around activities that try to make visible situations usually ignored in our daily lives. During his residency in the frame of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, Villa Vassilieff becomes a “permanence” opening up to artists, curators, researchers…
Architecture, film, installation...
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Sous couvert du contrôle des ressources — Ndidi Dike
Past: July 1 → 22, 2017
Ndidi Dike’s work focuses on the way pre & post colonial histories and legacies of resource control have been shaping the African continent.
While in residency at Villa Vassilieff in the framework of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, she explores under represented narratives stemming from the African continent and its global diaspora.
Mixed media
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Pan Yuliang : un voyage vers le silence
Past: May 20 → June 24, 2017
The research and the exhibition form a polyphonic orchestra that not only echoes Pan Yuliang’s unique trajectory between modern and traditional China, the national and the transcultural, but also situates her constructed biography and artistic achievement within contemporary motives, detours, and universe.
Mixed media
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Symposium Autohistorias
Past: May 26 → 28, 2017
The Autohistorias symposium will be a moment of reflection regarding the role of arts institutions in a world tormented by nationalist polarizations, a world shattered by new borders and debates on identity that further separate individuals from one another.
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Une histoire parmi d’autres — Les mondes de l’art au Yémen
Past: April 15 → May 6, 2017
By tracing both personal and collective trajectories to question the role of the artist in Yemeni society, _One of Many Stories_ seeks to restore the multiple art worlds in contemporary Yemen.
Mixed media
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Une histoire parmi d’autres — Le Yémen aujourd’hui
Past: Saturday, April 22, 2017 3 PM → 6 PM
This round-table discussion aims at addressing one of the elements that underpins the exhibition _One of many stories_: Yemen’s current war situation.
Since the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, the military offensive conducted by the Houthis against Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government has been intensifying in …
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Tell me the story of all these things, beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.
Past: January 14 → March 18, 2017
“Tell me the story of all these things” borrows its title from “Dictée”, a novel written in 1982 by artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Addressing issues of displacement, migration, and exile, a constellation of texts and artworks revolve around Pernod Ricard Fellow Sojung Jun’s videos.
Design, publishing, film...
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Demain est une île — Tomorrow Is An Island
Past: October 4 → December 23, 2016
“Tomorrow Is An Island” is a project by artist Jason Wee that speculating on deep time, the fate of ‘crisis’ as a frame of knowledge, and the exchanges between bodies and cities.
Mixed media
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Open Studio avec Ernesto Oroza
Past: November 17 → 19, 2016
Cuban artist, designer and writer Ernesto Oroza opens the door of his studio to share the outcome of his research and the works produced during his residency in Paris with the Pernod Ricard Fellowship. Items from his collection of objects transformed by Cuban citizens for alternative uses will be displayed alongside pirate cuban films.
Architecture, design, publishing...
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Nostalgia Cuba — Une soirée de projection avec Ernesto Oroza
Past: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 8 PM → 10 PM
Cuban artist, designer and author Ernesto Oroza, in residency at Villa Vassilieff with the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, will present two films rarely seen in France, around the cult figure of cuban film-maker Waldo Fernandez, aka “Marakka”, whose practice is based on piracy and the appropriation of images.
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Ouverture de la Villa Vassilieff — Exposition inaugurale Groupe Mobile
Past: February 13 → July 2, 2016
Villa Vassilieff will open its doors with an exhibition entitled Groupe Mobile, gathering some sixty international artists and researchers.
Ceramic, film, installation...
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Looking for power: images du Bouddha, un cas d’études cambodgien — Atelier et rencontre avec Erin Gleeson
Past: Saturday, June 11, 2016 5 PM → 6:30 PM
This workshop will revolve around the figure of a dismembered Buddha, held at the Guimet Museum in Paris, a figure which embodies a series of issues related to the constitution of ethnographic collections, the construction of a euro-centric view of their objects and colonial museology development, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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The sentient body: silver and split — Rencontre avec Sonia Khurana
Past: Saturday, June 11, 2016 11 AM → 12:30 PM
Discussion and meeting with artist Sonia Khurana, currently on show in the exhibition Groupe Mobile. The questions and enquiries Khurana brings to her work acts as a prompt for the viewer to problematize a definition of ‘the body,’ its materiality and to question precisely the definition of the sentient body.
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Voisinage — Une après-midi de rencontres et performances
Past: Saturday, April 30, 2016 3 PM → 7 PM
Samedi 30 avril, les étudiants de cinquième année du département Design et Espace de l’Esaaa (Ecole supérieur d’art de l’agglomération d’Annecy) vous donnent rendez-vous à la Villa Vassilieff pour vous proposer leur projet VOISINAGE. Un témoignage de leurs explorations du quartier de Montparnasse.
15 Paris 15
15 Paris 15
Falguière
Montparnasse – Bienvenüe
Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 7 PM
Admission fee
Free entrance