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Let’s consider this for a minute: how many women artists are Camille Morineau, there, hiding behind the Great Masters of Art History? co-founder and chairwoman of AWARE How many were forgotten in favour of their male counterparts? Current, Paris-based, director of exhibitions and collections at the

The few women artists we know of today have only just Monnaie de Paris, she has worked recently come to the public’s attention: Sonia Delaunay for twenty years in public cultural waited half a century to be brought out of the shadow of her institutions in France, ten of which husband Robert… Louise Bourgeois was 96 years old when the were at the Centre Pompidou as a curator of the contemporary musée national d’Art moderne – Centre Pompidou held its first collections. She has been the curator of French retrospective of her work… Niki de Saint Phalle enjoyed numerous exhibitions and the hanging a certain degree of fame during her lifetime, but mainly for her elles@centrepompidou (2009-2011) Nanas, despite the fact that her whole body of work was far dedicated solely to female artists from the collections of the musée national more complex… Only in 2005 was Annette Messager the first d’art moderne. She was also the woman to be chosen to represent France at the Venice Biennale, curator of the comprehensive survey also winning the Golden Lion prize that same year… of Niki de Saint Phalle at the Grand Hundreds, thousands of women artists have sunken into Palais in Paris and the Guggenheim Bilbao and of the exhibitions L’autre oblivion simply because their work was neither shown, continent. Femmes, artistes, africaines acknowledged, celebrated in major exhibitions, nor officially at Museum d’histoire naturelle in rewarded. Le Havre (2016) and Women House at Monnaie de Paris (2017-2018). These are the reasons why I created AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions in 2014, so that we could rewrite art history from a more gender-equal perspective. It is high time we place women artists at the same level as their male counterparts by bringing their work into the spotlight.

Camille Morineau

A few dates on the visibility of © Photo : Christophe Beauregard women artists in the 20th century

1 900 1 97 1 First studio for women opens at the Exhibition Where We At. Black Women Less than 20% of solo exhibitions École nationale supérieure des beaux- Artists. 1971 at Acts of Art Galleries in between 2007 and 2014 were devoted arts in France. New York. to women artists at MoMA and LACMA, and 30% at the Whitney 1 91 1 1 972 Museum. European institutions Sculptress Lucienne Heuvelmans is Exhibition Womanhouse organised by show similar numbers, with less the first woman to be awarded the Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, than 20% at the Centre Pompidou Grand Prix de Rome in art. co-founders of the Feminist Art and barely more at Tate Modern Program in CalArts, Los Angeles. 1 953 London, according to the 2015 Exhibition Women in Art at the 1 982 statistics published by Maura Reilly Houston Contemporary Art Museum First retrospective exhibition of in ARTnews. (Texas). Louise Bourgeois at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her first Only nineteen women in 2018 ranked 1 968 retrospective in France occurs only in among the artists with the highest British Bridget Riley is the first 2008 at the Centre Pompidou. worldwide visibility, according to woman to receive the International Artindex rankings. Prize at the Venice Biennale. 1 987 Opening of the National Museum of 1 97 1 Women in the Arts in Washington, Art historian Linda Nochlin writes D.C. the founding article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” in ARTnews.

A WA R E PRESENTATION What is AWARE? 3

Works by women artists have seldom Backed by 4 programmes AWARE is a non-profit organisation been shown, acquired and discussed Who are They ? founded by 7 women from diverse throughout the 20th century despite The AWARE website backgrounds but all driven by the them being an animating force, (awarewomenartists.com) is a same enthusiasm: particularly in the avant-gardes. documentary platform in its own Margot Mérimée Dufourcq It is precisely this lack of information right, complete with illustrated LAW Y ER that makes the valorisation of their biographical presentations of Daphné Moreau work more difficult today. artists, academic articles on ongoing LAW Y ER This observation, shared by many art research, exhibition reviews, and a Camille Morineau historians and curators, is what led section listing current exhibitions CURATOR Camille Morineau, on the initiative featuring women artists, updated of the 100% women’s art exhibition daily. Elisabeth Pallas elles@centrepompidou held at the VIOLINIST Centre Pompidou in 2009-2010, to The creation of a documentation Nathalie Rigal found AWARE . centre AWARE, a resource centre LAW Y ER based in Paris, in partnership with Alexandra Vernier-Bogaert Restoring the presence of universities and the documentation PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 20th-century women artists centres of major modern and Julie Wolkenstein in the history of art contemporary art museums, allows WRITER Archives of Women Artists, Research for the constitution of a documentary and Exhibitions is a non-profit collection of digital publications and organisation founded in 2014. resources aimed at consolidating Faced with the under-representation information on women artists. Six permanent staff members and of women in the art world, AWARE’s a team of volunteers, students, and aim is to balance out the presence of Let’s Talk about Them professionals from major cultural these women artists, these “forgotten In partnership with universities and institutions also contribute to its figures of art history”, in order to museums, AWARE organises round existence. improve their visibility through the tables, symposiums and study days in sharing of free access resources. France and abroad. And the AWARE The organisation promotes an Prizes for Women Artists reward an educational and professional emerging artist and a confirmed approach through partnerships with artist each year. universities and museums. Artists, collectors, institutions, Where are They? historians, students and the general AWARE organises each month public can use the archives to find the museum visits to discover women information they need about artists and their art. women artists of the 20th century. All about Them AWARE’s goal is to encourage the sharing of information on the works of women artists by way of printed publications intended for both the general and specialised public, particularly via the publication of artists’ interviews, the proceedings of the symposiums organised by AWARE every year.

A WA R E PRESENTATION AWARE: a few key figures 4 4 4 symposiums 8 study days 19 round tables organised in France and abroad since 2014 1 A contemporary art award dedicated to women, with the exceptional support of 530 the French Ministry of Culture 530 biographical presentations of women artists published on the website, complete with exhibition reviews and abstracts of research dissertations 2 2 committees: a scientific committee, chaired by Bruno Racine and an editorial committee, chaired by Jean-Pierre Criqui 1,800 More than 1,800 international exhibitions, monographic and collective, of women artists, listed on the website. 4 4 programmes 2,000 More than 2,000 books references on women artists, feminist art and theory, consulted by appointment at the documentation centre 11 11 free visits, accessible to all, organised every year in museums, to reveal the works of women artists 20,000 An average of 20,000 monthly visitors on the website

A WA R E WHO ARE T HEY? A website and a documentation centre dedicated to 20th-century 5 women artists

The website The documentation centre

In order to give more visibility to AWARE’s website is paired with 20th-century women artists and a documentation centre in Paris rewrite a more gender-equal art which had compiled more than 2,000 history, AWARE works towards references – monographs, exhibition the promotion of resources and catalogues, essays, and reviews – on information on women artists around women artists, feminist art and the world, both in French theory. and English. The AWARE website (awarewomenartists.com) is a free- The documentation centre is access work tool which features the currently being developed with organisation’s latest news and gathers donations, exchanges, and information and collective initiatives acquisitions. on the subject. The site also highlights ongoing The documentation centre is open exhibitions organised by museums to researchers and students from in the Exhibitions section, updated Monday to Friday. To make an daily. The Magazine section offers appointment, please contact us at interviews, reports, articles written by [email protected] researchers, and monthly exhibition reviews. The list of publications up for consultation or exchange is available The site’s goal is to encourage and on demand. give visibility to research on Elles. Video recordings, symposium The site is specifically designed as proceedings, and study days a digital resource centre featuring organised by AWARE are accessible to written, iconographic, and audiovisual all online. contents. At the heart of the project, it provides access to an index of The site also enables the public to illustrated biographical presentations follow the organisation’s initiatives of women artists in the field of visual and news, including the Visites du arts, from Camille Claudel to more 8 programmes, symposiums, study recent creators. The interface offers a days, AWARE Prize, and regular keyword research tool (by discipline,

updates on women artists! © Photo : Christophe Beauregard country, period, subject) and the possibility to link the artists to the Address: 110 boulevard Saint-Germain, great movements in art history. 75006 Paris, France 150 150 biographical 700 presentations published 700 books donations on the website every year in 2018-2019 250 250 books acquisitions in 2018-2019

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AWARE, international ambitions...

In the past couple of decades, the An online dictionary of women A scientific magazine with a focus art world has been (re)discovering artists: towards an international by geographical areas how artistic modernity had emerged approach This artists database is completed outside the Western world. Today, most of the artists that are by an online magazine. A thematic If women’s careers have been invisible highlighted on AWARE website come axis is chosen every two years and to in France, Italy or in Canada, what from Europe and North America. this day, the geographical approach about Vietnamese, Congolese or Noting these geographical disparities, has been adopted to publish scientific Argentinian women artists? Their which can be explained by issues of articles on ongoing research. history is all the more complex information accessibility, AWARE to write since that of their male launched in January 2018, a strong counterparts, yet more visible, is editorial campaign towards non- already not very known. Western artists. The ambition of AWARE: Archives of In the course of 2018, out of a total of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions 170 new biographies: is to make visible the 20th-century - 14 artists come from Africa; women artists from all regions of the - 13 artists from Asia; world. This ambition relies on a series of actions: - 4 artists from the Middle East; - a bilingual website (English/ - 10 Latin American artists. French); That is 24% of non-Western artists, - scientific partnerships with foreign which corresponds to an increase of institutions and scholars in Art 85% in relation to 2017. History; The inclusion of women in the historical This way, in 2017-2018 a series of narrative must be accompanied by a - documentation on women artists of articles were published on Africa. geographical inclusiveness. more than 50 different nationalities The period 2019-2020 is dedicated available on our website and at our The proportion of women from non- to South America and 2020-2021 to documentation centre in Paris. Western areas must keep growing in Eastern Asia. this online dictionary which is at the core of AWARE’s project. International Scientific events Several times a year, AWARE organises events such as conferences or study days inviting international speakers.

In 2016 and 2017, two of these events took place abroad, respectively at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon and the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

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… for the creation of an international network and a stronger presence abroad

The AWARE network has built Our research scouts abroad: AWARE’s involvement in solid foundations in France for the AWARE correspondents international contemporary art past 5 years, thanks to consistent The association wishes to invite fairs and biennales partnerships with the Ministry of anyone involved in research on AWARE plans to take part in a Culture, City of Paris, and museums women artists in cities worldwide to number of fairs and biennales around such as the musée national d’Art become AWARE correspondents. the world, with a view to increasing moderne – Centre Pompidou, musée Their role will be to share the visibility of women artists. d’Orsay, and Centre national des information with us and help us set A few partnerships currently being arts plastiques, as well as with major up on-site partnerships. developed include: art history departments at French These correspondents will meet on - The Armory Show, modern and universities. the occasion of a yearly seminar contemporary art fair in New York AWARE’s European reach is also designed to encourage reflection (March 2020) steadily increasing. and discussion on the praxis of - 12th edition of the Mercosur research and to come up with ideas Biennale, Art, feminism and for international development and emancipation, Porto Alegre (April The association is now standing at collaborations. 2020) a turning point in its development, with a mission to provide balanced Symposiums and study days to information about women artists stimulate research and increase around the world. its visibility In order to progress rapidly and as The aim is to develop these meetings faithfully as possible to new findings of highly qualified experts in about women artists generated by geographical areas outside of the research in the field of art history, Western world, based on the location AWARE needs to join forces with of the AWARE correspondents and partners nearby and in other timing of international events, such geographical areas. as biennales. It is no easy task to identify artists, sources of information, and researchers around the world solely from a French perspective. In some areas, the history of women’s art is only in its infancy and researchers in the field need as much support as they can get.

This will be the first time an organisation commits to making the works of women artists more visible The events organised by the on such a scale, with a view to durably association will be filmed or recorded, changing the way we look at art as well as made available in the form history! of written reports (online or printed on demand). These documents will be published on the AWARE website, contributing to the creation of a living, international, and ambitious archive committed to rewriting a more gender-equal and culturally diverse history of worldwide art.

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Visites du 8 WORKSHOP AFRICA 2020 Art fairs and international NOV 2019 | PARIS biennials EVERY 8 OF THE MONTH | ÎLE-DE-FRANCE / First workshop of correspondents FRANCE from the African continent and the THE ARMORY SHOW | - 10 oct 2019 : night visit of the diaspora, specialised in women 5-8 MARCH 2020 | NEW YORK exhibition Katinka Bock. Tumulte à artists. Higienópolis AWARE’S OFFICE AT LAFAYETTE ANTICIPATIONS – FONDATION — D’ENTREPRISE GALERIES LAFAYETTE, PARIS ROUND TABLE AWARE will participate to the - 9 nov 2019 : Käthe Kollwitz. « Je veux 12 NOV 2019 | RUEIL-MALMAISON Armory show with an art tour about agir dans ce temps » Round table about « Femmes et women artists, round tables and AT MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE ET musées, quelles avancées ? » in the CONTEMPORAIN OF STRASBOURG presentation booth of the framework of the exhibition Kehinde organisation. - 8 dec 2019 : TRANS/HUMANCE by Wiley rencontre Jacques-Louis David at — Nil Yalter musée national des châteaux de AT MAC VAL, VITRY-SUR-SEINE Malmaison & Bois-Préau. MERCORSUR BIENNIAL « ART, FÉMINISME ET — CHÂTEAU DE MALMAISON ÉMANCIPATION » | In partnership with Château de Malmaison and 24-25 APRIL 2020 | PORTO ALEGRE Brooklyn Museum Study days, symposiums in Intervention in the framework of the France and abroad — international seminar Contre le canon, art, féminisme(s) et activisme du 18e au INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM METHODOLOGY SEMINAR e 19- 20 SEPT 2019 | PARIS JUNE 2020 | 21 siècle. “Faire œuvre. Making a body of work. Seminar on methodology of — Training and professionalisation of researches about women artist’s female artists in the 19th and 20th exhibitions, as part of the partnership centuries” with Artl@s. AT MUSÉE NATIONAL D’ART MODERNE - PLACE TO BE DETERMINED CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU AND AT MUSÉE In collaboration with the research laboratory D’ORSAY Artl@s (École Normale Supérieure PSL - Labex TransferS, Purdue University) —

LAUNCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF AWARE CORRESPONDENTS JULY 2020 | PARIS PLACE TO BE DETERMINED —

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AUTUMN 2020 | UNITED STATES In partnership with the musée national d’Art moderne - Centre Georges-Pompidou and the « WAS - Women Artists musée d’Orsay Shows·Salons·Societies » about — « Circulation des savoirs sur les artistes femmes (expositions, ROUND TABLE enseignements, publications) » 26 SEPT 2019 | PARIS PLACE TO BE DETERMINED “Which visibility for women artists in In collaboration with the research laboratory today’s world?” as part of the Semaine Artl@s (École Normale Supérieure PSL - Labex des cultures étrangères 2019 organized TransferS, Purdue University) by the Ficep - Forum des instituts — culturels étrangers à Paris. CENTRE CULTUREL CANADIEN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM In partnership with Institut Polonais de Paris, AUTUMN 2020 | PARIS Centre culturel canadien and Ficep International symposium about — women African artists and from the diaspora, as part of Saison Africa 2020. —

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Publications Publication of previously unpublished Special events interviews with recipients of AWARE PUBLICATION Outstanding Merit Prize, in partnership AWARE PRIZES 2020 | PARIS MAY / SEPT 2019 with Manuella Editions. Presentation of the AWARE Prizes for Publication of a special review of Women Artists at the Ministry for Artl@s Bulletin from the symposium PUBLICATION AUTUMN 2019 | AWARE PRIZE Culture. papers “WAS Women Artists Publication of an original interview — Shows·Salons·Societies : collective Interview with Nil Yalter (led by exhibitions of women artists 1876- SAISON AFRICA 2020 | Fabienne Dumont, art historian 1976” (Dec 2017 - Jeu de Paume). JUNE-DEC 2020 specialist of the 1970’s French feminist artistic scene) devoted to Nil Yalter, winner of the Outstanding Merit Award AWARE 2018 (ex-aequo). The book will be published in the same time of Nil Yalter exhibition in Replacing African and Diaspora M AC VA L . women artists in the world history of In partnership with Manuella Éditions art. — In partnership with L’Institut français

PUBLICATION FIRST SEMESTER 2020 | AWARE PRIZE Research and documentation Publication of an original interview dedicated to Judit Reigl, winner of the WEBSITE Outstanding Merit Award AWARE Enrichment of the website with the In collaboration with the programme Artl@s 2017. publication of 150 to 200 illustrated Purdue University and ENS Ulm In partnership with Manuella Éditions biographical texts, research articles, — exhibitions reviews... — PUBLICATION SEPT 2019 PUBLICATION As part of the Saison Africa 2020, Publication of study day papers 2020 | AWARE PRIZE AWARE has offered to position itself “Is performance an area of visibility Publication of the original interviews as the visibility platform for the for women artists ?” (May 2018 - of Vera Molnàr, Outstanding Merit “Focus on African Women” that Beaux-Arts de Paris). Award AWARE 2018 (ex-aequo) and general curator N’Goné Fall included Jacqueline de Jong, winner in 2019. in Saison Africa 2020. In partnership with Manuella Éditions To this end, the association will — promote research events and exhibitions devoted to women artists PUBLICATION from Africa and its diaspora, as well FIRST SEMESTER 2020 as Saison Africa 2020 projects overseen Publication resulting from the two by female African professionals cycles “Art : genre féminin”, (curators, museum directors, etc.) and organised by the students from biographical notes on African women master Sciences et techniques de artists. l’exposition in collaboration with In the framework of Qui sont-Elles? programme AWARE. — In partnership with La Monnaie de Paris and In partnership with the University Paris-Est Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne University DOCUMENTATION CENTRE | PARIS Marne-la-Vallée — — PUBLICATION 2020 Publication of the firstAWARE anthology, gathering fundamental texts about women artists. — © Photo : Christophe Beauregard Enrichment of the fund through donations and acquisition of books (monographs, exhibition catalogs, essays, reviews ...) In the framework of Qui sont-Elles? programme —

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Recurring events Round tables organised by students from the Special events master in curating (Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne) with AWARE, in partnership with La Monnaie de VISITES DU 8 Paris AWARE PRIZES 2019 | 18 MARCH | PARIS EVERY 8 OF THE MONTH | ÎLE-DE-FRANCE / Presentation of the AWARE Prizes for FRANCE — Women Artists at the Ministry for - 8 jan 2019: Ana Mendieta. Le temps et VISITS Culture. l’histoire me recouvrent 25-26 MAY 2019 | PARIS AT JEU DE PAUME, PARIS Jacqueline de Jong is awarded of - 9 feb 2019 : Joana Vasconcelos. I want the Outstanding Merit Prize 2019, in to break free with Estelle Pietzryk, recognition of her exceptional career director of musée d’Art moderne and her recently highlighted work. et contemporain of Strasbourg and curator of the exhibition, followed by the visit of l’Aubette 1928 AT MAMCS OF STRASBOURG - 8 march 2019 : visit of the studio of Sophie Taeuber and Jean Arp at Arp Foundation for the hanging Arp - Taeuber, artistes en couple with Cécile Bargues, art historian ;

followed by the visit Nous ne sommes Renewal of the event “Paris c’est Photo © Farida Bréchemier pas, nous devenons of Ariane Loze at elles”, free visits to discover women Hélène Bertin is the laureate of the Centre d’art contemporain Chanot at artists in the public space around the Prize. Clamart theme “sculpture and architecture”. AT FONDATION ARP AND AT CENTRE D’ART This second edition focused on CONTEMPORAIN CHANOT, CLAMART monumental sculpture and its - 7 april 2019 : A gaze at Women artists links with architecture, in order to in France in the framework of Art highlight the collaboration between Paris Art fair architects and sculptors and the AT GRAND PALAIS, PARIS dialogue between creators and - 8 june 2019 : Une journée avec Marie disciplines. Vassilieff From the façades of palais du Louvre AT VILLA VASSILIEFF, PARIS to cimetière du Père Lachaise, the 2019 edition of « Paris c’est elles » Photo © Farida Bréchemier - 6 july 2019 : Eve Arnold, Abigail has promoted these transdisciplinary — Heyman, Susan Meiselas - Unretouched practices, with the works of famous Women (or not) Women Artists. FAIR IN THE FRAMEWORK OF RENCONTRES DE LA 4-7 APRIL 2019 | PARIS PHOTOGRAPHIE, ARLES In the framework of “Où sont-Elles?” programme In the framework of Où sont-Elles ? programme — - 7 sept 2019 : tour Women, art and power STUDY DAY AT MUSÉE D’ORSAY, PARIS 22 MARCH 2019 | PARIS — AWARE is partner of the study day: “Pas de politique, pas de chien, pas de ROUND TABLE “ ART : GENRE FÉMININ ” femme” - Genres et espaces NOV. 2018 - APR. 2019 | PARIS AT LA MONNAIE DE PARIS A gaze at Women artists in France: - 23 jan 2019: “L’autre... l’homme” In partnership with ENSA Paris Malaquais, 11 on the occasion of the 21st Art Paris with Damien Delille and Pauline Conti - Monnaie de Paris edition, AWARE has presented a Rousseau — critical and subjective overview of the - 6 febr 2019: “Écriture et work of women artists in France from représentations : un regard féminin” STUDY DAY the post-war period to the present 26 - 27 MAY 2019 | PARIS with Sally Bonn, Ekaterina Costa and day. These 25 projects have been AWARE is partner of the study day Marcelline Delbecq selected from amongst the exhibits of around Doris Stauffer: - 13 march 2019: “Regarder l’art après participating galleries. This selection “Tremblez, tremblez... Féminisme, Me too : quel rôle pour la médiation was divided into four themes: sorcières, art et pédagogie” culturelle” with Véra Léon, Florence Abstraction, the Feminist Avant-Garde, AT CENTRE CULTUREL SUISSE Marqueyrol and Anne-Laure Michel Image and Theatricality. - 10 april 2019: “Qu’est-ce qu’un — AT GRAND PALAIS commissariat féministe ?” with Élise In collaboration with Art Paris 2019 Atangana, Tara Londi and Mathilde SUMMER CLASSES FROM 8 TO 12 JULY 2019 | PARIS — Roman « Artistes femmes de la modernité. AT LA MONNAIE DE PARIS De la fin du XIXe au XXe siècle »

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2018 ROUND TABLE STUDY DAY 13 MARCH 2018 | PARIS 14 JUNE 2018 | PARIS

VISITES DU 8 “Journals, spaces of support “Collective exhibitions of women - January: ateliers Chana Orloff for contemporary artists and artists in the 1970s in Europe and north America” - March: exhibition of the nominees transmission of practices. Examples AT TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART for the AWARE Prizes of Sorcières and IAM -Intense Art Magazine”, with Xavière Gauthier In collaboration with the research laboratory AT ARCHIVES NATIONALES, PARIS Artl@s (École Normale Supérieure PSL - Labex (founder of the literary, artistic and - April: Médiations of Susan Meiselas TransferS, Purdue University) feminist magazine Sorcières, 1975- AT JEU DE PAUME, PARIS — 1982), Céline Seror (cofounder and - June: Couples modernes director ofIAM - Intense Art Magazine) MULTIDISCIPLINARY DAY AT CENTRE POMPIDOU METZ and Fabienne Dumont (art historian) 19 JUNE 2018 | PARIS - July: Mary Cassatt, une AT LA COLONIE Cycle “Des femmes dans l’art : impressionniste américaine à Paris In partnership with Sophie Delpeux, HISCA - trajectoires croisées” with Catherine AT MUSÉE JACQUEMART ANDRÉ, PARIS (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Gonnard (journalist, essayist and - Sept: Sabine Weiss. Les villes, la rue, — documentalist at INA), Mélanie l’autre Perrier (choregrapher), Elsa Sahal STUDY DAY (artist), Réjane Sénac (research AT CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS 14 MAY 2018 | PARIS director CNRS at CEVIPOF), Agatha - Oct:Ghada Amer. Cactus painting and “Is performance an area of visibility Essex (masterante), Hélène Gheysens Dark Continent for women artists?” (PhD student) and Adeline Pavie AT CCC OD DE TOURS AT BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS (masterante). - Nov: Les contes cruels de Paula Rego In partnership with the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and the collaboration of AT L’INHA AT MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE, PARIS Beaux-Arts de Paris In partnership with Sophie Delpeux, HISCA - - Dec : Citoyennes paradoxales — (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) AT PALAIS DU TAU - REIMS — In the framework of Où sont-Elles? programme ROUND TABLE 17 MAY 2018 | PIERREFITTE-SUR-SEINE — STUDY DAY “D’autres archives pour une autre 10 OCT 2018 | ROUEN

PRIZES histoire” with : Hélène Marquié “Gender equalities: where do 24 JAN 2018 | PARIS (professor Étude de genre / arts), museums stand?” Presentation of the AWARE Prizes for Camille Morineau (chairwoman of AT HÔTEL DES SOCIÉTÉS SAVANTES, ROUEN women artists. Nil Yalter and Vera AWARE), Julie Verlaine (chairwoman In collaboration with la Réunion des Musées Molnár received ex-aequo the merit of the non-profit organization Métropolitains Rouen Normandie & l’INHA award and Violaine Lochu the prize, Mnémosyne) and Nicole Fernández — by Françoise Nyssen, Minister of Ferrer (general delegate of Centre Culture audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir) ROUND TABLE “ ART : GENRE FÉMININ ” NOV. 2018 - APR. 2019 | PARIS AT MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE AT ARCHIVES NATIONALES, SITE OF PIERREFITTE-SUR-SEINE - 14 nov 2018 : “À la recherche d’une — In the framework of “Aux archives citoyennes ”, lignée pour une scène artistique queer in partnership with 50/50 Magazine, le Haut féministe en France” EXHIBITION AWARE PRIZES 2018 Conseil à l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes 22 JAN - 12 MARCH 2018 | PARIS - 19 dec 2018: “Travaux d’aiguille : Exibition of the nominees for the — d’un art mineur à un art majeur” AWARE Prizes AT LA MONNAIE DE PARIS ROUND TABLE Round tables organised by students from the AT ARCHIVES NATIONALES (HÔTEL DE 24 MAY 2018 | PARIS SOUBISE) master in curating (Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne) “Des vidéastes face au sexisme” with AWARE, in partnership with La Monnaie de — Paris with Marie Docher, photographer and activist and Sophie Laly, movie — VISITS 1-4 MARCH, 2018 | ÎLE-DE-FRANCE director and videographer “Paris c’est Elles” AT GAITÉ LYRIQUE Free visits to explore the works of In partnership with Sophie Delpeux, HISCA - (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) women artists in the public space AT JARDIN DES TUILERIES, AT MUSÉE DE LA — SCULPTURE EN PLEIN AIR, AT THE MONNAIE DE PARIS, QUAI DE CONTI... ROUND TABLE 29 MAY 2018 | PARIS In the framework of Où sont-Elles? programme “Activating the archives and works — of women artists” with Camille Morineau, chairwoman of AWARE AT L’INSTITUT CULTUREL DU MEXIQUE —

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2017 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2014-2016 8 & 9 DECEMBER 2017 | PARIS

PRIZE “WAS - Women Artists ROUND TABLE 31 JAN.–31 MARCH, 2017 | PARIS Shows·Salons·Societies: 7 MARCH - 11 APRIL 2014 | PARIS Presentation of the AWARE Prizes for group exhibitions of women artists, “Artistes femmes / femmes ingénieurs : women artists. Judit Reigl received 1876-1976” une esthétique de la rareté” the merit award and Laëtitia Badaut AT THE AUDITORIUM OF THE JEU DE PAUME AT LAB DE L’INSTITUT CULTUREL GOOGLE Haussmann the prize, by Audrey In partnership with the Artl@s project (Purdue — Azoulay, Minister of Culture and University and ENS Ulm) and in collaboration Communication. with Jeu de Paume WEBSITE Exhibition of works by the eight 8 MARCH, 2015 nominated artists in the windows of Launch of the first version of the the Palais Royal peristyle. website, accessible to all in French — and English: awarewomenartists.com — STUDY DAY 25 FEBRUARY, 2017 | PARIS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM “They create, collect, and support: 19-20 MAY 2016 | LISBON (PORTUGAL) women and the arts since Antiquity” “Penetrable / Traversable / Habitable: AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU Exploring spatial environments by In partnership with the Mnémosyne Association, women artists in the 1960s and 1970s” for the development of the history of women and AT THE CENTRO DE ARTE MODERNA – gender — FUNDAÇÃO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN — In partnership with IHA, FCSH and VISITES DU 8 universidade Nova, Lisbon STUDY DAY - Sept: Hélène Delprat I Did It My Way — 4 MARCH, 2017 | LONDON AT LA MAISON ROUGE, PARIS “Collecting Art by Women” VISITS AT THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY - Oct:Diana Quinby et Marie-Pierre 17-18 SEPT. 2016 | ÎLE-DE-FRANCE In partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery Brunel “Journées du Matrimoine” — AT THE MUSÉE DE L’HOMME, YVONNE ODDON Guided visits about women artists RESEARCH LIBRARY, PARIS in the public collections around Paris VISITS - Nov: Women House AT THE MUSÉE CARNAVALET, THE PETIT- 8-12 MARCH, 2017 | PARIS AT THE MONNAIE DE PARIS PALAIS, THE MAC/VAL, THE MUSÉE D’ART Où sont-Elles ? (Where are They?) MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, … Free visits to learn more about - Dec: Nalini Malani. The Rebellion of In partnership with the H/F Association women artists in public collections the dead. Retrospective 1969-2018 Île-de-France AT THE MUSÉE D’ORSAY, AT THE CENTRE AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS — POMPIDOU, AT THE MUSÉE DES ARTS In the framework of Où sont-Elles? programme DÉCORATIFS,… — INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM — 23-24 SEPT. 2016 | POITIERS (FRANCE) ROUND TABLE “ART : GENRE FÉMININ” “Parent-Elles, Partner, Daughter, WEBSITE NOV. 2017 - AVRIL 2018 | PARIS Sister of…: Women Artists and 15 JUNE, 2017 “De Womanhouse à Women House : la the Ties of Kinship” Launch of an improved version maison, un espace féminin ?" AT THE MUSÉE SAINTE-CROIX of the website and publication of “Espace public & design graphique : In partnership with CRIHAM (Université the printed and digital versions of l’affichage comme moyen de de Poitiers) and the Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers the proceedings of the symposium revendication” “Parent-Elles, Partner, Daughter, “Espace de formation : de l’accès Sister of…: Women Artists and the aux écoles d’art à la reconnaissance Ties of Kinship”. professionnelle” — “Espace muséal: la parité femmes- hommes au sein des institutions ROUND TABLE culturelles” 4 DECEMBER 2017 | PARIS “Espace physique: corps artistique, “Rewrite art history” with art corps manifeste” historian Charlotte Foucher, artist “Espace numérique: la toile comme Agnès Thurnauer, sociologist terrain d’engagement” Christine Détrez AT THE MONNAIE DE PARIS — AT THE INSTITUT NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE DE L’ART (INHA) In the framework of the Cycle “Art : genre féminin”, organised by students from the master in curating In partnership with HISCA, Université Paris 1 - (Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne) with AWARE, in Panthéon-Sorbonne partnership with La Monnaie de Paris — —

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INSTITUTIONAL MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THANK INSTITUTIONS THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR SPONSORS CONTRIBUTION TO THE WEBSITE: In France Archives nationales Adrian Piper Research Archive Artl@s Foundation Berlin Atelier Chana Orloff Alan Cristea Gallery Centre de création contemporain - Alexander and Bonin Gallery Olivier Debré Associazione archivio Carol Rama Centre culturel Canadien Barjeel Art Foundation Centre culturel Suisse Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin Centre Pompidou Metz Cheim & Read Gallery D.C.A - Association française de Corita Art Center développement des centres d’art Estate Barbara Hepworth PRI VATE SPONSORS Ficep - Forum des instituts culturels Esther Ferrer étrangers à Paris Estate de Louise Bourgeois Gaité Lyrique Fondation Hartung Bergman Institut culturel autrichien Gabriele Münter - und Johannes Eichner- Institut culturel Google Stiftung Institut français Gagosian Gallery Institut Polonais de Paris Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre Jeu de Paume Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin La maison rouge Galerie frank elbaz La Monnaie de Paris Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Les Abattoirs, musée - Vallois FRAC Occitanie Toulouse Galerie Hubert Winter PATRONS M AC VA L Galerie in situ Musée d’Art moderne Galerie kamel mennour de la Ville de Paris Galerie Lelong Musée Jacquemart André Galerie Mitterrand Musée national d’Art moderne – Galerie Nathalie Obadia Centre Pompidou Galleria Raffaela Cortese Musée d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie Galerie Xippas Musée Sainte-Croix (Poitiers) Gladstone Gallery Petit Palais Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Platform - Regroupement des Fonds Hauser & Wirth Gallery FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS régionaux d’art contemporain Joan Mitchell Foundation OF AWARE Réunion des Musées Métropolitains Josef and Anni Albers Foundation de Rouen Kiki Kogelnik Foundation chaired by Floriane de Saint-Pierre Lisson Gallery Malborough Gallery Founders members since 2015: Abroad Maria Lassnig Foundation François Calvarin Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Metro Pictures Gallery Thérèse Calvarin (Lisbonne) Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery Bloum Cardenas Whitechapel Gallery (Londres) Tania Mouraud Noël Corbin Valérie Mréjen Luc David UNIVERSITIES Niki Charitable Art Foundation Belinda de Gaudemar In France ORLAN Anne-Françoise Gavanon Beaux-Arts de Paris Pace Gallery Katy Graham Debost École du Louvre Peter Freeman Inc Gallery Marin Karmitz École Normale Supérieure Judit Reigl Marie-Sabine Leclercq ENSA Paris Malaquais Saatchi Gallery Patricia Lemoine Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Benoit Marotte (INHA) Studio Ann Veronica Janssens Léopold Meyer Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Studio Ghada Amer Jean-Luc Petit Université Paris-Est Studio Jenny Holzer Christine Poyer Rufenacht Marne-la-Vallée (LISAA) Studio Joana Vasconcelos Bruno Racine Université de Poitiers (CRIHAM) Studio Judy Chicago Studio Lucy Orta Joined by Tania Assaf, Arielle de Studio Monica Bonvici Rothschild et Catherine Petitgas, Abroad Tatiana Trouvé chairwoman of Friends and Universidade Nova de Lisboa Vancouver Art Gallery Benefactors of AWARE in South Purdue University (West Lafayette, White Cube America IN) Nil Yalter ...

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THE TEAM RESEARCH COMMITTEE EDITORIAL BOARD

Camille Morineau Bruno Racine Jean-Pierre Criqui

CHAIRWOMAN CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Former director of the Centre Georges Curator of the contemporary art collections Pompidou and Bibliothèque Nationale de at the Musées d’Art moderne – Centre Matylda Taszycka France Pompidou, publication director of the HEAD OF RESEARCH PROGRAMMES Cahiers du Musée national d’Art moderne Roei Amit Anaïs Roesh Head supervisor of digital contents at the Valérie Da Costa INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Contemporary art historian and senior Palais lecturer at the University of Strasbourg Fanny Verdier DIGITAL CONTENTS SUPERVISOR Marie-Laure Bernadac Clément Dirié General director of the heritage Art historian, art critic, exhibition curator department, former contemporary art and editorial director at JRP|Ringier Sorana Munteanu / Manuela Danescu supervisor at the Louvre ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR Nathalie Ernoult Emmanuel Coquery Clothilde Naudeau Assistant curator at the Musée d’Art Scientific Director, in charge of the moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou PRESS AND COMMUNICATION MANAGER programming of exhibitions at la Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais Consuelo Crulci-Perrois Caroline Hancock ICONOGRAPHER Independent curator, art critic, publisher, Cécile Debray and translator Chief heritage curator, director of the Julie Sabau musée de l’Orangerie EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Annalisa Rimmaudo Assistant curator at the Musée d’Art Catherine Gonnard Sibylle Vabre moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou Journalist, essayist, and archivist at the INTERN INA Elvan Zabunyan Contemporary art historian, professor at Rémi Labrusse Rennes 2 University, and art critic Professor of contemporary art history, head of the Master’s degree programme in “Médiation culturelle, patrimoine et numérique”, Université Paris Nanterre

Marie Minssieux Library curator of the rare books section at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Camille Morineau Director of exhibitions and collections at the Monnaie de Paris and chairwoman of AWARE

Floriane de Saint Pierre Collector

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