Conceived by the city of Bordeaux to animate the city’s public spaces, evento is a unique, bi-annual artistic event designed to celebrate both the city and the concept of mobility. Every other year a new edition will be directed by a well-known figure from the world of art and culture. The 2nd edition of Evento focuses on the theme of ‘the city’, and is curated by Michelangelo Pistoletto.

Samya Ramdane / evento@claudinecolin.com

La Fabrique is a new cultural space in Nantes dedicated to contemporary art and specially music and new numerical technologies. Initiated by the City of Nantes, it is part of a wider a new cultural and artistic outreach project, which combines land planning and cultural networking. Its goal is to create a network between the city’s various neighborhoods such as Dervallières, where a first lab which opened its doors in December 2009. 

Samya Ramdane / samya@claudinecolin.com 

The Rencontres d’Arles is one of the leading international photography festivals in the world. The festival has been playing a major part in achieving recognition for photography as an art form since 1970. Every year, the Rencontres d’Arles presents 60 different exhibitions in 20 locations in the town of Arles, South of France.

Directed by François Hébel, this year’s programme will turn the spotlight on Mexico, from the Mexican Revolution to contemporary photography. This will be presented alongside the 10th Anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles Awards, the 30th Anniversary of the New York Time Magazine, and a string of exhibitions including From Here On a new manifesto on photography in the age of the internet, a retrospective dedicated to Chris Marker, a special project by Wang Qingsong, along with an ambitious programme of evening screenings, concerts and events throughout the city of Arles.

The 42nd Rencontres d’Arles will take place from 4th July to 18th September 2011, with the opening week from Monday 4th- Sunday 10th July 2011.

Since 1992, the International Garden Festival in Chaumont-sur-Loire has been providing a unique international platform for landscape design. Every year, professionals, students and garden aficionados are invited to present a project around a specific theme. Around twenty gardens are selected by a jury among over 300 proposals from all over the world. A “free green hand” are also given to artists, architects or celebrities to design a garden. This year, the theme for the 20th edition of the festival will be "Gardens of the Future or the Art of Happy Biodiversity", with a jury presided by the botanist Jean-Marie Pelt, founder of the European Institute of Ecology (1971).

Sandrine Mahaut / sandrine@claudinecolin.com

For a week, the Unknown Siberia festival, organised by the Mikhaïl Prokhorov Foundation, will offer an exceptional panorama of the Russian contemporary cultural scene, for the music, theatre, dance, literature and fine arts fields. Hosted by leading cultural institutions in Lyon, these events will for the most part be exclusively presented in France. The Unknown Siberia festival is one of the key events of the France-Russia Year 2010

For several years now, performance has once more become a widely adopted medium. The goal of the 2010 Printemps de Septembre festival is to analyze this revival: what are the new arenas of performance, and what are the links between them? Where do its new challenges lie? How have artists of our day and age appropriated its essentials? How does it stand up to the limitations of exhibitions and cultural events?

These questions are all the more important because France has not seen any major exhibitions on the subject since 1994. Photographs, videos, objects, installations, sound pieces, and different documents will all be stressing the ‘live’ factor; over and above the initial gesture, it is the form displayed that will be the main object of study.

Press opening : 24 September 2010 at 2:30 pm

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com



The Rencontres d'Arles - Photography is the only leading festival on an international scale to address every audience. Each year, between 50 and 60 exhibitions are held in various heritage sites in the city of Arles, in the Camargue region, one of the most favoured destinations in the South of France.
The opening fortnight will take place from the 3 – 13 July: with exhibitions to visit, symposiums, portfolio reviews, evenings in the théâtre antique and much more.

Exhibitions will be open throughout the summer until the 19 September.

Press conference in  Paris: Thursday 25 March 
Press conference in Arles : Thursday 1 April 

Albane Champey
albane@claudinecolin.com