Announcement of the SAM Prize for contemporary Art 2012

True to its mission of supporting young creativity, Palais de Tokyo is hugely active in promoting emerging artists. Incubator for emerging creators, the modules provide 5 artists residing in France the opportunity to show their work at Palais de Tokyo for two months. 

Victoire Birembaux / victoire@claudinecolin.com

For its 16th edition, Paris Photo will welcome in November, beneath the nave of the Grand Palais, 151 exhibitors (128 galleries and 23 publishers) coming from 22 countries, bearing witness to the vitality of the international photographic scene. This selection has become of increasingly high standard, focussing on the diversity and quality of the artists and the works presented by the gallery owners.

parisphoto@claudinecolin.com

La maison rouge continues its cycle of exhibiting private collections. Starting 20th October, the collection of the Italian couple Giuliana and Tommaso Setari will be shown. They have founded the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art. Here are some of the artists of the collection: Carla Accardi, Luciano Fabro, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ettore Spalletti.

The 39th edition of FIAC will take place from the 18 to the 21st October 2012 at the Grand Palais, in the Jardin des Tuileries and in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Thanks to its qualitative ambition which is reaffirmed year on year and a developed synergy with the most important Parisian institutions, FIAC is positioned as one of the unmissable events of the artworld calendar.  

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Victoire Birembaux / victoire@claudinecolin.com

In the fall of 2012, Gagosian Gallery will inaugurate a bold new gallery space in the north of Paris, at Le Bourget. The unprecedented choice of location in the industrial area of Le Bourget is linked to the discovery of this exceptional space, an industrial building from the 1950s, comprising 1650 square meters (17,760 square feet) on two levels. A mezzanine of 340 square meters (3,660 square feet) overlooks the ground floor, offering the opportunity to exhibit large-scale sculptures, paintings and installations. The gallery has been designed by world-renowned architect Jean Nouvel in collaboration with HW architecture.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

In the fall of 2012, Gagosian Gallery inaugurates a bold new gallery space at Le Bourget in the north of Paris with an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by the renowned German artist Anselm Kiefer. This is Kiefer's first exhibition with the gallery in Paris.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Eloïse Daniels / eloise@claudinecolin.com

As a foretaste of the infernal machine theatre that Markus Schinwald is devising for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux CAPC in the summer 2013, Palais de Tokyo has invited the Austrian artist and Alexis Vaillant - in charge of programming at the CAPC and curator of the exhibition, to present the lodestone of this automated adventure, the pinnacle of the Bordeaux museum’s 40th anniversary program.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

This exhibition reveals to the public, and for the first time, the collection of the Franco-Russian philosopher and diplomat Alexandre Kojève. Organised by philosopher and art historian Boris Groys, this exhibition gathers of more than 1700 postcards collected by Alexandre Kojève and 400 photographs taken during his travels in the 1950s and 1960s, in Sri Lanka, China, India, Iran, Japan, Nepal, Russia and Western Europe. This collection – a “work” in its own right – now held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Nina Ivanoff donation, 2004) demonstrates Kojève’s philosophical thinking, but also his conception and practice of politics.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com