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Contact Clothilde Naudeau [email protected] awarewomenartists.com PRESENTATION AWARE Prizes 2

Women Artists Less Recognised Than Men

The AWARE Prizes for Women Artists were born from the realisation that women are significantly underrepresented amongst the artists celebrated by the awards that mark the art world.

While women are in the majority during their studies in art schools, they make up only a minority of the nominees and winners of the most prestigious contemporary art prizes. Since the creation of awards such as France’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, Britain’s Turner Prize, the Hugo Boss Prize in the United States, and Japan’s Praemium Imperiale, amongst others, women artists represent between just 20 and 30% of selected and promoted artists.

With equality in gender-neutral prizes in mind, certain institutions have chosen to promote the work of women artists through dedicated awards, as seen with the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in the United Kingdom and Germany’s Gabriele Münter Preis. In France, surprisingly, no such a prize existed before the creation of the AWARE Prizes in 2017.

The AWARE Prizes for Women Artists receive support from the Ministry of Culture, the CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture and Élysées Monceau, in partnership with the CNAP, d.c.a national network, Platform and Manuella Éditions.

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Preselection: Awarding the prizes: Calender of the 2021 Edition 4 established women artists are The Outstanding Merit Prize and January 2021: announcement of the nominated for the Outstanding Merit the AWARE Prize are attributed by emerging artists nominated for the Prize and a jury composed of major figures prize 4 emerging women artists are from the art world. The 4 nominators March, 12, 2021: announcement of nominated for the AWARE Prize by present and defend the work of each the winners of the AWARE Prizes for 4 professionals nominated artist before the jury. Women Artists

The nominating committee: Composition of the jury: Support 4 young cultural professionals: art 7 leading cultural figures: directors The 2021 AWARE Prizes for Women critics; art centre, museum, and FRAC of cultural institutions; curators; Artists benefit from support from the directors; curators; educators and/or collectors, art critics and university Ministry of Culture, the CHANEL researchers. professors, both French and Fund for Women in the Arts and international. Culture and Élysées Monceau. Preselection criteria: Artists nominated for the Endowments Outstanding Merit Prize must have The artist who receives the a career spanning 30 years or more, Outstanding Merit Prize receives a confirmed practice that merits a 10,000 euros and the publication of new perspective, and not have already an interview in partnership with benefited from a retrospective in a Manuella Éditions. major international institution, be French or have a strong connection to The winner of the AWARE Prize France. benefits from an acquisition of a work by the CNAP (Centre National The emerging artists nominated for des Arts Plastiques) and production the AWARE Prize must hold a diploma assistance for the realisation of a solo from an art school and/or have been exhibition in an art centre member developing an artistic practice for no of the d.c.a national network (French more than 10 years, not have already association for the development of benefited from a retrospective, be contemporary art centres) and/or one French or have a strong connection to of the FRACs belonging to Platform France. (a grouping of the Fonds Régionaux d’Art Contemporain).

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Barbara Chase-Riboud is the winner of the 2021 Outstanding Merit Prize. NOMINATED BY EVA BAROIS DE CAEVEL Malcolm X #15, Born in 1939 in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA), lives and works in Paris, Rome and Milan. at Michael at Rosenfeld Gallery, New A sculptor, poet and novelist, © Barbara Chase-Riboud with #16, & #17 Barbara Chase-Riboud began her (photo credit:York Grant Delin) artistic training at the age of seven, at Philadelphia’s Fletcher Academy. She was just sixteen when the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York acquired one of her first works. She studied at Temple University and Yale, where she was the first Black American woman to gain a Master’s degree from Yale School of Architecture. She created her first bronze sculptures, and held her first solo gallery shows, in Rome from 1957 to 1959, when she also visited Paris, Egypt, Greece and Turkey, expanding her artistic horizons beyond the Western tradition. She settled in Paris in 1961 and married French photographer Marc Riboud. Her artworks have since been widely exhibited at Barbara Chase-Riboud, The Albino, 1972 (reinstalled in 1994 by the institutions in the US, France, artist as All That Rises Must Converge/Black) Museum of Modern Art, NY © MoMA Barbara Chase-Riboud, Zanzibar Gold, 1972, collection of the Centre Japan, Australia, Germany and National des Arts Plastiques, France, La Verrière (Brussels), 2020 © more. Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès - Exhibition view Barbara Chase-Riboud is also well known for her literary work. She published her first collection of poetry, From Memphis & Peking, to widespread critical acclaim in 1974. Her first novel,Sally Hemings, appeared in 1979. She has published some ten novels and collections of poetry, and has received numerous awards for

her fiction, including the Janet Barbara Chase-Riboud, Poet Walking His Dog, 1994, Africa Rising, 1997, La Verrière (Brussels), 2020 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation Heidinger Kafka Prize. d’entreprise Hermès - Exhibition view

The Institut Giacometti (Paris) will host an exhibition of Barbara Chase-Riboud from October, 2021, 19th to January, 2022, 22nd, curated by Emilie Bouvard.

Barbara Chase-Riboud, La Musica Red Parkway, 2007, bronze with red patina and silk © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, NY Barbara Chase-Riboud, Avatars, La Verrière (Brussels), 2020 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès- Exhibition view

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Gaëlle Choisne is the winner of the 2021 AWARE Prize. NOMINATED BY THOMAS CONCHOU

Gaëlle Choisne (born 1985 in Cherbourg, France) lives and works between Paris and London.

Working with both private and

public international institutions, © Michaël Huard she is engaged in various alternative and collective projects, as well as a number of cultural projects in Haiti. She has presented her sculptural installations on several occasions including a solo exhibition at La Centrale Powerhouse in Montreal, the Galerie Untilthen in Paris, Zacheta in Warsaw, and The Mistake Room in Los Angeles. She has participated in several residencies in France and internationally: OPTICA and Art 3 Valance in Montreal, the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, the Rijksakademie as well as the Atelier Van Lieshout residency in Amsterdam. In 2015 she participated in the Havana Biennial as well as the Lyon Biennial; in 2017, the Sharjah Gaëlle Choisne, If My hands try to says something (slavery Biennial, Beirut Tamawuj Act II and others aventures), 2019, fabrics, green Korean blanket, and the Curitiba Biennial in chameleon wrap, felt-tip pen, printed plastic, butts, coins, Courtesy Gaëlle Choisne, © Photo: Blaise Adilon, Gaëlle Choisne, If My hands try to says something (slavery Brazil. She has also had the © ADAPG, Paris and others aventures), 2019, fabrics, green Korean blanket, opportunity to exhibit her work chameleon wrap, felt-tip pen, printed plastic, butts, in remarkable institutions such coins, Courtesy Gaëlle Choisne, © Photo: Blaise Adilon, as the Musée des Beaux-Arts in © ADAPG, Paris Lyon, the MAMO of the Cité Radieuse of Le Corbusier, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, the CAFA Museum in Beijing, and the Pera Museum in Istanbul.

The galerie Gilles Drouault - galerie/multiples (Paris) is hosting an exhibition of Gaëlle Choisne, until April, 2021, 3rd.

Views of the performance in collaboration with the HOUSE OF NINJA at Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Nuit Blanche 2020, Agence Eva Albarran, sponsored by Mac Cosmétique, © ADAPG, Paris Gaëlle Choisne, Temple of love – Absence, 2019, greenhouse, ceramics, metal, wood, fabrics, gold-plated chains, coins, air humidifier and various materials, Courtesy Gaëlle Choisne, © Photo: Blaise Adilon, © ADAPG, Paris

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Myriam Boulos Sara Ouhaddou Mona Varichon © Antoine Aphesbero Sara Ouhaddou (born 1986 in Myriam Boulos (born in 1992 in Draguignan, France) mainly realises Beirut, Lebanon) emerged from a © Roman Koval installations in collaboration with country fragmented by war that had craftsmen and women. The double Mona Varichon (born Paris, 1989) is to reinvent itself. At the age of culture of Sara Ouhaddou, born in a Franco-Egyptian video artist, sixteen, she started to use her France to a Moroccan family, shapes author and translator based in camera to question Beirut, its her artistic practice as a continuous Paris, currently in residency at the people, and her own position in language. She studied at the Ecole Cité internationale des arts. She Lebanese society. She graduated Olivier de Serres in Paris. She holds a Master’s of Fine Arts from with a master’s degree in questions the transformation of her the Art Center in Pasadena, a photography from Lebanese heritage while confronting Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the San Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. She traditional Moroccan arts with the Francisco Art Institute, and a has taken part in both national and codes of contemporary art in order degree in sociology from the international collective exhibitions, to highlight and put the forgotten Université Paris Descartes. Her including Infinite identities cultural continuities of creation into videos have been shown at The (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), perspective. Renaissance Society (Chicago, USA), Troisième biennale des Sara Ouhaddou is represented by CAPC (Bordeaux, France), u’s photographes du monde arabe Polaris gallery. (Diamond Valley, Canada), (Paris), C ’est Beyrouth (Paris), Berlin Extramentale (Arles, France), Bel PhotoWeek, and Photomed (Beirut). Ami (Los Angeles, USA) and FLAX She received the Purple Lens Award Foundation (Tin Flats, Los Angeles, in 2014, which resulted in her first USA). In Spring 2021, she will solo exhibition in 2015. Her second participate in a group exhibition at solo exhibition took place at the the gallery BQ (Berlin) and presente French institute of Lebanon in 2019. a monographic exhibition by her Today she uses photography to mother, Malak El Zanaty Varichon, explore, defy and resist all forms of at Cocotte, the space of artist Louise social and political domination. Sartor in Treignac, France. She is currently translating the memoires of American artists George and Mike Kuchar, to be published in 2021 by her publishing house Varichon & Cie.

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The winner of the 2021 Outstanding The nominating committee: The jury: Merit Prize Barbara Chase-Riboud chaired by Born in 1939 in Philadelphia (USA). Eva Barois De Caevel Emma Lavigne Lives and works in Paris, Rome and independent curator, art critic and President of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris Milan publisher NOMINATED BY EVA BAROIS DE CAEVEL Thomas Conchou independent curator and mediator for Sophie Auger-Grappin Les Nouveaux Commanditaires of La Director of the contemporary art The winner of the 2021 AWARE Prize: Fondation de France centre Le Creux de l’enfer, Thiers Morad Montazami Gaëlle Choisne art historian, publisher and curator Alexandre Bohn Born in 1985, in Cherbourg (France). Director of FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Lives and works in Paris. Marion Vasseur Raluy Angoulême independent curator and author NOMINATED BY THOMAS CONCHOU Cathia Lawson-Hall The other nominees for the 2021 Head of Coverage and Investment AWARE Prize were: Banking for Africa at Société Générale, collector Myriam Boulos María Inés Rodríguez Born in 1992, in Beirut (Lebanon). Artistic directorTropical Papers Lives and works in Beirut. NOMINATED BY MORAD MONTAZAMI Camille Morineau Sara Ouhaddou Cofounder and director of AWARE, Born in 1986, in Draguignan (France). Archives of Women Artists, Research & Lives and works between France and Exhibitions Morocco. NOMINATED BYEVA BAROIS DE CAEVEL Béatrice Salmon Director of the Centre National des Mona Varichon Arts Plastiques (CNAP) Born in 1989, in Paris (France). Lives and works in Paris. NOMINATED BY MARION VASSEUR RALUY

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The AWARE Outstanding Merit Cahin-caha: a solo exhibition by An original solo project by Prize Publications Hélène Bertin, 2019 AWARE Prize Tiphaine Calmettes, 2020 AWARE In autumn 2019 AWARE launched of a winner Prize winner collection of interviews dedicated to The contemporary art centre Le Creux The contemporary art centre the winners of the Outstanding Merit de l’Enfer in Thiers, France, won Bétonsalon, located in Paris, won Prize, in collaboration with Manuella AWARE’s call for co-production to AWARE’s call for co-production to Éditions. realise the solo exhibition of the 2019 realise the solo exhibition of the AWARE Prize winner. 2020 AWARE Prize winner, Tiphaine The first publication was dedicated Thus they will host a new project by Calmettes. Due to programming to Nil Yalter, joint winner of the 2018 Hélène Bertin until 30 April 2021 delays caused by Covid-19 restrictions, Outstanding Merit Prize, Interview with (date subject to change according to covid the project will take place in 2022. Nil Yalter, published in November 2019. restrictions), curated by director Sophie The discussion was led by Fabienne Auger-Grappin and co-produced by Tiphaine Calmettes will imagine a Dumont, an art historian and critic AWARE . mobile and temporary place installed specialising in the feminist art scene of in public space, in order to create France in the 1970s. Unfolding across the Creux de l’Enfer, welcoming situations in which to the exhibition Cahin-caha proposes a share words and food. vast overview of the artist’s work and research, notably on ceramic techniques, and proposes a journey punctuated by Enhanced visibility for emerging three installations: the children’s garden, women artists the garden of baskets, and that of voices. In 2021 AWARE will strengthen its Cahin-caha thus embodies a living place actions in support of emerging women that invites us to slow down and take the artists nominated for the prize, beyond time to observe, manipulate, read, feel, the support in place for the winners of The second work was dedicated to listen and have fun. the AWARE Prize since 2017. Jacqueline de Jong (Outstanding Merit New partnerships have been developed Prize 2019), a major artist on the Dutch with the Comité Professionnel des and international scene, was published Galeries d’Art (CPGA) and the Institut in November 2020. français, in order to work towards a The interview was conducted by Gallien better visibility of their practices. Déjean, independent art critic and curator. He was also the nominator of The portfolios of the nominated Jacqueline de Jong for the 2019 AWARE emerging artists will be brought to Outstanding Merit Prize. the attention of all CPGA member galleries, with the goal of fostering contact between gallery owners and Fête, 2019, poplar, almonds, sandstone, cotton wool / artists. Cabanon pointu, 2020, pigments, gum arabic, ash / Le chant de la Piboule, 2020 edition, author Hélène Bertin editor Facettte, La Nòvia, graphic design Lionel As part of a collaboration with the Catelan – Exhibition view Institut français, meetings with the nominated artists might be organised as part of the Focus programme for international curators. In April 2021 the book devoted to Judit Reigl (2017 laureate) will be published, followed by interviews with Vera Molnár (joint winner in 2018), Marie Orensanz (2020 laureate) and Esther Ferrer (winner of the Marie-Claire Prize for Contemporary Art in 2014). Sandboxes, flour and ochre paint, 9 ash rakes, set of earthenware dahus, ochre and volcanic sands, 2020 - Exhibition view

This exhibition will later be presented at 19 CRAC – Centre d’Art Contemporain in Montbéliard, France, from 29 May to 22 August 2021 (dates subject to change).

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Eva Barois De Caevel Thomas Conchou Marion Vasseur Raluy

Eva Barois De Caevel is a curator, art Thomas Conchou is a curator and Marion Vasseur Raluy is an critic, publisher and professor of art cofounder of the curatorial collective independent curator and writer history. She regularly participates in Le Syndicat Magnifique alongside living and working in Paris. From conferences and international Anna Frera, Carine Klonowski and 2014 to 2016 she codirected the seminars. Her areas of research are Victorine Grataloup. He is the independent space Shanaynay in feminism, postcolonial studies, the General Coordinator of Societies, a Paris. She has collaborated and body and sexuality, the critic of non-profit structure approved by the worked with a number of female Western-centric art history, as well Fondation de France for the contemporary artists, such as as the renewal of writing and implementation of the project the Angelika Markul, Laëtitia Badaut critical speech. She addresses these Nouveaux Commanditaires (The Haussmann and Mimosa Echard. topics “always keeping in mind the New Patrons). He is the 2020-2021 She is currently writing a book as relationships of power between curator in residence at the art centre part of the Literary Creation continents, countries, people”, and Maison Populaire in Montreuil, an master’s programme at the works to influence them "as soon as association dedicated to popular Université Paris 8 in which she uses a small grip of power begins”. She education and amateur practice, her personal experience of illness to has recently spent her time between where he is currently developing a evoke her relationship to the art the African continent (particularly cycle of exhibitions and events on world. She recently translated the in Dakar where she has long queer artistic practices and collection of poems Bonbons à l’anis collaborated with RAW Material relationalities. by Argentine poet Cécilia Pavón, Company, a centre for art, coedited by Brook and Varichon & knowledge and society) and Europe Morad Montazami Cie (Rosanna Puyol and Mona (Paris in particular). Today she lives Varichon). in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis.

Morad Montazami Morad Montazami is an art historian, publisher and curator. After five years as the Middle Eastern/North African Arts Curator at the Tate Modern in London (2014-2019), he now directs the platform Zamân Books & Curating which develops transnational studies on Arab, African and Asian modernity through books and exhibitions. He has curated the exhibitions Volumes fugitifs : Faouzi Laatiris et l’Institut national des beaux-arts de Tétouan (Mohammed VI Contemporary and Modern Art Museum, Rabat, 2016), Bagdad mon amour (Institut des cultures d’Islam, Paris, 2018) and New Waves: Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School (The Mosaic Rooms, London, MACAAL, Marrakech, Alserkal Arts Foundation, Dubai, 2019-2020).

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Emma Lavigne La Borne (CCCLB) created in 2014 in CAPC Musee d’art Contemporain of President of the Jury the famous village of La Borne Bordeaux, her program at CAPC includes President of the Palais de Tokyo since renowned for its rough stoneware. major retrospectives with significant September 2019, Emma Lavigne Since 2018, she has been the director artists like Judy Chicago, Beatriz studied art history, history and of the contemporary art centre, Le González, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Franz architecture. From 2000 to 2008 she Creux de l'enfer in Thiers (63 Erhard Walther and site-specific projects was curator at the Cité de la Musique Auvergne), founded in 1988. for the nave of the museum with Leonor where she developed a Antunes, Rosa Barba, Danh Vo, among multidisciplinary programme before others. She was Chief Curator of MUAC, joining the Musée d’Art Moderne – Alexandre Bohn Mexico City and Chief Curator at Centre Georges Pompidou as curator of Alexandre Bohn was born in 1970 in MUSAC -Museo de Arte Contemporaneo contemporary art (elles@ Metz (France), he lives and works in de Castilla y Leon, Spain centrepompidou; Danser sa vie; Pierre Angoulême (France). He studied art Parallel to her curatorial work, Mrs. Huyghe; Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster). history, contemporary art and African Rodríguez has organised public lectures She was named director of the Centre and Oceanian arts at École du Louvre and exhibitions around the topics of Pompidou-Metz in 2014 (Warhol and cultural engineering at University printed matter and architecture. In 2005 Underground; Jardin infini; Couples of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. As an she formed Tropical Paper editions, which modernes; Le ciel comme atlier; Rebecca art critic he contributed to many now exists as an active website dedicated Horn-Théâtre des metamorphoses; Yves catalogs and magazines as Revue Noire, to contemporary creation in the Tropical Klein et ses contemporains). Le Journal des Expositions, Verso Arts et region. www.tropicalpapers.org She was curator of the French Pavilion Lettres, Parachute, art press, featuring Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at d'Lëtzebuerger Land, Mouvement. He was the Venice Biennale in 2015, as well as a permanent lecturer at Galerie Camille Morineau Floating Worlds, the 14th Lyon Biennale Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Camille Morineau is the cofounder and in 2017. From 2019 to January 2020 contemporary art center (Paris) from director of AWARE. A graduate of the she invited the artist Kimsooja for the 1999 to 2002. From 2003 to 2006 he École Normale Supérieure and the first edition of Traversées in Poitiers, was advisor for visual arts at Meuse Institut National du Patrimoine, she France. She is currently preparing for District (North East of France). At this worked for twenty years in public the carte blanche dedicated to the position, he was also the Director of Le cultural institutions in France, ten of German artist Anne Imhof. Vent des Forêts, a rural space for which were at the Musée National contemporary art. Since 2007, he is the d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Director of Fonds Régional d’Art Pompidou as curator of the Sophie Auger-Grappin Contemporain Poitou-Charentes. He is contemporary collections. She was After graduating from the École presently a member of the curator of several exhibitions, Nationale Supérieure des Arts administration board of Platform, including the rehanging of the Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art national association of FRAC. contemporary collection under the title (ENSAAMA) in Paris with a degree in elles@centrepompidou, which presented applied arts, Sophie Auger-Grappin uniquely works by women artists from earned a master’s in art history and Cathia Lawson-Hall the MNAM collection. From 2016 to cultural management from the École Cathia Lawson-Hall is Head of Coverage October 2019 she was the director of Supérieure d’Art et de Culture (Paris) and Investment Banking for Africa at exhibitions and collections at the and a post-graduate degree (DESS) in Société Générale. Cathia is also Monnaie de Paris. cultural development from the member of the Supervisory Board for Université de Sociologie in Rouen, Group Vivendi, a world leading French Béatrice Salmon where her research focused on the media company and sits at the Board of Béatrice Salmon has been the director of specific conditions for the creation and Agence Française de Développement the Centre National des Arts production of arts centres in France. (AFD).She has a deep interest in Plastiques since November 2019. From 2000 to 2001, she served as the culture and a passion for contemporary Previously she was Deputy Director assistant to the director of the Fonds art to which she is committed by and Head of the Visual Arts d’Incitation à la Création (FIACRE), a supporting artists from Africa and Department at the General Directorate French government agency awarding African diasporas. A long-time of Artistic Creation, Ministry of grants to artists under the aegis of the collector, Cathia is a founding member Culture (2018-2019); Cultural and Ministry of Culture and of the Acquisition Committee for Scientific Advisor at the French Communication. She next joined the African Modern and Contemporary Embassy in Brussels, Belgium (2013- Centre National de l’Édition et de l’Art Art at the Center Georges Pompidou 2017), Director of the Musée des Arts Imprimé (CNEAI), where she worked (Beaubourg). Décoratifs, Paris (2000-2013), as an exhibition development project Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts officer from 2002 to 2006. María Inés Rodríguez in Nancy (1995-1998), Curator of the From 2008 to 2018, she appointed as Maria Ines Rodriguez has a curatorial and Department of Prints and Drawings, director of Micro Onde, the centre for institutional practice relating to Musée National d’Art Moderne – contemporary art at L'Onde in Vélizy- consolidate the museum as a platform for Centre Georges Pompidou (1992-1995), Villacoublay near Paris. She is the knowledge trough the exhibition, cultural and Inspector of Artistic Creation, founder and former director of the and educational programs. She is Visual Arts delegation, Ministry of artist-in-residence project initiated by currently adjunct curator at MASP, Sao Culture (1988-1992). the Centre Céramique Contemporaine Paulo. Previously, she was the Director of A WA R E PARTNERS OF THE 2021 AWARE PRIZES 2021 Edition 11

The 2021 AWARE Prizes for Women Artists are supported by the Ministry of Culture, the CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture and Élysées Monceau. In partnership with:

CNAP - Centre National des Arts d.c.a - Association française de Manuella Éditions Plastiques développement des centres d’art contemporain

Dedicated to exploring contemporary The national centre for visual arts, creation, at the crossroads of the arts, CNAP, is one of the principal operators d.c.a., the French association for the literature and history, our mission is to of the Ministry of Culture’s policies in development of contemporary art make disciplines interact, to open up the field of contemporary visual arts. centres, is a reference network in the fields, to multiply points of view and On behalf of the state, it enriches the field of visual arts on a national and perspectives in order to better question Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, a international scale supported by the our world. national collection that it preserves and Ministry of Culture and the Institut In ten years Manuella has enriched its promotes through loans and deposits français. Spread across France, its 49 catalogue by some one hundred titles, in France and abroad, partnership members are places of exhibition, mainly in the field of visual arts (artist exhibitions and publications. With artwork production and experimentation interviews, monographs, artists’ books, nearly 105,000 works acquired at the service of nearly 2,000 artists essays on art, exhibition catalogues), from living artists over more than per year and the widest possible but also architecture, fiction, poetry two centuries, this collection is a audiences. Committed to the place of and experimental history. women in their programming, in recent representative collection of the variety www.manuella-editions.fr of artistic trends. years contemporary art centres have An indispensable cultural player, devoted an average of 40% of their CNAP promotes the artistic scene in its monographic exhibitions to women Platform- Grouping of the Fonds diversity and accompanies artists and artists and have welcomed 50% of Régionaux d’Art Contemporain professionals through various forms women artists in creative residencies. of support. It also contributes to the www.dca-art.com development of projects supported by the implementation of dissemination Institut français actions. CNAP and AWARE have agreed on a The 23 Fonds Régionaux d’Art three-year partnership, which begun in Contemporain (FRAC, regional 2019, for the AWARE Prizes for Women contemporary art collections) created in Artists, as well as support for AWARE’s The Institut français is a public 1982 in each region of France are the result documentation centre establishment responsible for cultural of a partnership between the Ministry of Culture and the regions. Anchored in a www.cnap.fr action outside of France. Under the double guardianship of the Ministry for Europe forward-looking approach focused on and Foreing Affairs and the Ministry of emerging creation, their mission is to CPGA - Comité Professionnel des Culture, it actively contributes to France’s build up public collections of contemporary Galeries d’Art diplomacy. Its projects and programmes art. With a total of 32,700 works, this are based on a unique capacity for contemporary heritage is widely deployment through the vast network of disseminated throughout France through cultural services of French embassies, the vast programmes: each FRAC organises Institut français and Alliances françaises approximately 4 exhibitions onsite and 25 present on five continents. off-site in its region each year. The encounter with the works, artists and Since 1947 the Comité Professionnel www.institutfrancais.com des Galeries d’Art has represented creation is accompanied by innovative, professional galleries in France, participatory and accessible mechanisms defending their interests with politicians, for the diversity of the public. Throughout institutional representatives and its history, 49 Nord 6 Est - FRAC Lorraine administrative authorities. It takes part has made support for women artists one of in the drafting of art market regulations its priorities and has become a key element and contributes to cultural policies in its collection. This concern is now favouring the development of the entire widely shared by all FRACs: in 2018 works sector. by women artists represented 57% of the For several years, the CPGA has been FRAC’s acquisitions. involved in major cultural events in order Created in December 2005, the association to build better visibility for art galleries Platform brings together the 23 FRACs – true partners of artistic creation – and around common development and works to develop the French art scene cooperation objectives. internationally. www.frac-platform.com www.comitedesgaleriesdart.com

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2020 2019 2018 Marie Orensanz Jacqueline de Jong Vera Molnár Courtesy Galerie Oniris Joint Outstanding Merit Prize winner © Marie Orensanz. Courtesy School Gallery

Photo © Damian Noszkowicz (nominated by Géraldine Gourbe) Outstanding Merit Prize winner Outstanding Merit Prize winner (nominated by Élise Atangana) (nominated by Gallien Déjean) Nil Yalter

Tiphaine Calmettes Hélène Bertin artiste ’ Courtesy de l Joint Outstanding Merit Prize winner

Photo © Hélène Bertin (nominated by Clément Dirié) Prize winner (nominated by Céline Poulin) Violaine Lochu Photo Rebekka Deubner Prize winner (nominated by Élise Atangana) Photo © Konstantin Lunarine Prize winner (nominated by Géraldine Gourbe)

2017 Judit Reigl Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann Photo © P. BoudreauxPhoto © P. Outstanding Merit Prize winner Photo © William Simon (nominated by Annabelle Ténèze) Prize winner (nominated by Sébastien Faucon)

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Works by women artists have Special attention is moreover AWARE is a non-profit organisation seldom been shown, acquired and paid to the accessibility of quality founded by 7 women with different discussed throughout the 20th information for all. Thematic backgrounds but all driven by century despite them being an courses on major art history the same enthusiasm, including animating force, particularly in subjects, animated series for Margot Mérimée Dufourcq, the avant-gardes. children and podcasts offer Camille Morineau, Nathalie Rigal, It is precisely this lack of entertaining ways to better and Julie Wolkenstein. information that makes the understand and discover the lives valorisation of their work more and works of women artists. AWARE is chaired by Muriel difficult today. Pénicaud, Ambassador, permanent This observation, shared by many In order to widely disseminate representative of France to the art historians and curators, is research on women artists, AWARE OECD, former Minister, and what led Camille Morineau, on the organises symposia, round tables, the scientific comittee by Bruno initiative of the 100% women’s art webinars and seminars in France Racine, Chief Executive Officer exhibition elles@centrepompidou and abroad in collaboration with and Director, Punta della Dogana - held at the Centre Pompidou in universities and museums. It also Palazzo Grassi. 2009-2010, to found AWARE. participates in various fairs and biennials around the world in Restoring the presence of order to increase the visibility and 20th-century women artists presence of women artists (Art in the history of art Paris Art Fair, The Armory Show Archives of Women Artists, Research in New York, etc.). and Exhibitions is a non-profit organisation co-founded and In order to pay tribute both to directed by Camille Morineau, women whose artistic careers curator and art historian, have not been fully celebrated specialising in women artists. and to promote young artistic creation, each year the AWARE Since its creation in 2014, AWARE Prizes for Women Artists are has worked to make women artists presented in partnership with the of the 20th century (and now of the French Ministry of Culture to 19th century) visible, producing one emerging and one established and posting free bilingual artist. (French/English) content about AWARE also gives a voice to women their work on its website. artists not only by supporting their production through open The biographies published online calls for projects, but also through largely originate from the original interviews, as is the case Dictionnaire universel des créatrices for the AWARE Outstanding Merit (Universal dictionary of female winners. creators), published in 2013 thanks to a partnership with the Éditions AWARE publishes its own des Femmes – Antoinette Fouque. documents: events organised by This directory brings together the association, such as symposia women artists born between 1790 and seminars, have become the and 1972 working in visual arts, subject of a book. The transcribed with no limitations on medium or proceedings are accessible in its country. documentation centre and printed on command.

The partnerships developed with Bibliographic resources on museums, universities and art women artists and feminist historians, as well as with sponsors art are available. Certain of and cultural events in France and these resources are available for abroad have also contributed to the consultation by appointment at development of AWARE’s online AWARE’s documentation centre in database, updated weekly with new Paris, which brings together more artist profiles and research than 2,500 references, as well as articles. online.

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1 documentation centre in Paris that brings together 2,500 references related to women artists and feminism

website dedicated to women artists 1 international symposia from the 19 and 20th centuries with: 5 8 study days 720 biographies 19 round tables organised in France and abroad articles, interview and 140 since 2014 in partnership with exhibition reviews featured in the international institutions and online Magazine universities 25 thematic courses for all audiences, notably high school contemporary art prizes dedicated students and/or art lovers 3 to women artists organised in collaboration with the French episodes of the animated series 7 Ministry of Culture and The Armory Little Stories of Great Women Artists, Show in the United States introducing women artists to children aged seven and up publications of interviews podcasts series: Women House and 5 2 and conferences Les grandes dames de l’art -time participant in international An average of visitors 2 45 000 fairs (Art Paris art fair 2019 and per month The Armory Show 2020)

1 international network of scholars specialising in women artists: TEAM Teaching, E-Learning, Agency, Mentoring

1 traveling documentary exhibition on major issues related to women artists

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INSTITUTIONAL FRIENDS OF AWARE AN D PRI VATE President: Catherine Petitgas, SPONSORS collector of Latin American art.

Tania Assaf François Calvarin Bloum Cardenas Roland de la Brosse Belinda de Gaudemar Anne-Françoise Gavanon Khoa Dodinh Katy Graham Debost Marie-Sabine Leclercq Patricia Lemoine Léopold Meyer Christine Poyer Elisabeth Richard Arielle de Rothschild Floriane de Saint-Pierre Dave Stevenson Charlotte Tasset

THE TEAM

Camille Morineau Director PATRONS Marie Chênel (during Matylda Taszycka's maternite leave) Head of research programmes

Anaïs Roesch International development supervisor

Fanny Verdier Digital contents supervisor

Manuela Danescu Administration supervisor

Clothilde Naudeau Address Press, sponsorship and communication With the support of 110, boulevard Saint-Germain manager Maison Veuve Clicquot, 75 006 Paris +33 (0)1 55 26 90 32 Maison founded in [email protected] [email protected] 1772. awarewomenartists.com