Emergence The ADIAF Émergence Grant is a support program for the international professional development of emerging artists and critics living and working in France. It is organized by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) with the support of Catawiki.

Launched in 2022, the ADIAF Emergence Grants is a support programme aimed at emerging artists and art critics living and working in France to help them with their international professional development. This art scholarship is organised by the Association for the International Development of French Art (ADIAF) in partnership with Catawiki (annual grants will be awarded on a individual financial basis of €1,500).

A new feature of the second edition currently being launched : the Emergence Grants are open to students from two art schools : the Villa Arson in Nice and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, whose students or young graduates will be included by their teaching staff in the selection of grant holders.

• A Grant awarded to an “Art Critic and/or Curator (under 40 years old)”, whether individual or collective, of €1,500, selected by the ADIAF Emergence and Catawiki prior to the process ;
• Two grants for “Artists (under 40)”, whether individual or collective, of €1,500 each, awarded by a Jury ;
• Two grants “Art Schools”, wether individual or collective, of €1,500 each, awarded by a Jury on the basis of two pre-selections communicated respectively by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes – Saint Nazaire and the Villa Arson Nice.

This Grant is awarded by a  Jury composed of two members from ADIAF, two members from Catawiki, and one or two prominent figure(s) from the French or foreign contemporary art scene, renowned for their independence and competence. The jury shall gather in the presence of the art critic/curator co-opted by ADIAF and Catawiki. The co-opted art critic/curator will attend as an observer.

Participants :

“Artist” applicants must meet the following criteria :

• Be under 40 years old on the date of submission of the application
• Have a connection with the French art scene : birthplace, study, residence or work location
• The applicant has never received a grant from this programme before
• “Artists’ collectives” are equally eligible as individual “Artists”

Candidates for the “Art School” grant are pre-selected by the art schools’ teaching staff and must meet the following criteria :

• Be a graduate or recent graduate of less than 3 years
• The applicant has never received a grant from this programme before
• “Artists’ collectives” are equally eligible as individual “Artists”

The “Critic / Curator” will be chosen by ADIAF Emergence and Catawiki together. They must meet the following criteria:

• Be under 40 years old at the time of his or her selection
• Have a connection with the French art scene : birthplace, study, residence or work location
• The applicant has never received a grant from this programme before
• Collectives of “Art Critics and/or Curators” are equally eligible as individual “Art Critics and/or Curators”

The organisers will work to promote a diversity of backgrounds, artistic universes, curator’s and critic’s practices and writing styles, as well as foster the renewal of representations within the associations of “Art Critics and/or Curators”

2023 EDITION – IMPORTANT DATES :

• December 9, 2022 : start of application submissions
• April 30, 2023 : closing of application submissions
• Mid May, 2023 : meeting of the jury
• Mid May, 2023 : announcement of the results

All applications (in English or French) must be sent by email before April 30, 2023 on : bourse-emergence@adiaf.com

The application must include the following:

• A  résumé
• A  portfolio
• A  statement acknowledging that you have read and accepted the Terms and Conditions, either included in the email or via a separate letter
• A  statement acknowledging that you have read and accepted the ADIAF Code of Ethics, either included in the email or via a separate letter

Download the terms and conditions HERE

Anne Bourrassé (curator co-opted by the organizers, who will participate in the jury as an observer and lead the virtual conference)

Anne Bourrassé is an independent curator and writer at the intersection of the visual arts and the humanities. She defines new exhibition formats conceived as experiences, frameworks for encounters and exchanges. Concerned with current societal issues, she defends an engaged and inclusive approach to curating. She is currently the director of the artistic programming of the cultural third-place, the Consulat Voltaire in Paris and of the artists’ residence, La Folie Barbizon (77). In 2019, she co-founded the association Contemporaines to fight against gender inequalities in contemporary art, now based in Paris and Marseille. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Sciences Po Paris and studied at Cornell University, USA.

Born in 1991, lives and works in Paris

In 2023, she is invited to a curatorial research residency at Selebe Yoon, Dakar

Coming soon !

Laureates of the 2022 edition of the ADIAF Emergence Grants – CataWiki 

Prosper Legault (artist who competed in the ‘Specialization – Urban Art’ category)

Prosper Legault’s practice is situated on the edge of sculpture and poetry. From the remains of signs or urban furniture gleaned during his wanderings in the cities and suburbs, he produces three-dimensional collages. Prosper’s art transcribes globalization and its drifts, the way capitals digest and mix the objects and cultures from which they come. He introduces an everyday life that is usually not very visible in the exhibition space. In addition, he writes songs, which have been heard on Fip or Radio Nova, two mixtapes have been published under the label Red Lebanese. [Adapted from a text by Charlotte Cosson]

Born in 1994. Lives and works in Paris

Last solo exhibition at the project space of the Ruttkowski 68 gallery in Cologne in January 2022

Shivay La Multiple (artist who competed in the Contemporary Art category)

Through multiple media, the artist creates lines of escape towards new worlds. His research goes from the global to the visceral, from the macro to the micro, from dream to reality, from the physical to the digital. Currently, the artist is shaping an initiatory tale that begins in the Maroni River, then slides along the Congo River, sinks into the Senegal River and crystallizes at the confluence of the Rhone and the Saône. Going up these waters is the way to reach the source of the woody fruit.

Born in 1993. Lives and works between Paris, Nouméa in New Caledonia/Kanaky and the digital sphere.

In post-graduation at ENSBA Lyon. Her work has been presented in Mexico, Shanghai and at CIAP Vassivière.

Rayane Mcirdi (artist who competed in the Contemporary Art category)

“Rayane Mcirdi’s films are based on stories, memories and anecdotes collected from those close to him. He collects, by borrowing some gestures of the ethnographer, intimate words (always located in Asnières-sur-Seine and Gennevilliers, the area he has given himself), before translating them into video. Without ever disguising them, he then stages them, choosing their cinematographic setting, to draw the contours of a vast human mosaic that he proposes to discover in fragments.” Horya Makhlouf

Born in 1993. Lives and works in Paris

Last solo exhibition ‘Le croissant de feu’ at the Centre d’art – Galerie Édouard Manet, in Gennevilliers.

Chris Cyrille (art critic co-opted by the organizers, who participated in the jury as an observer and will lead the virtual conference)

Poet, art critic and exhibition storyteller: “The art critic must also learn to deviate (or de-mission) from the mission he or she has been given in order to create a ‘defining deviation’. His place is not that of the brightness of the white galleries, but that of the night of the workshops. He is the witness of the attesa of a work of art (we say ‘work of art’ to insist on this necessity to give to the artist a worthy status), that of the artist. Chris Cyrille

Born in 1993. Lives and works in Paris

Storyteller for the exhibition “But the world is a mangrove”. Winner of the AICA 2020 Prize. Participates in the podcast “L’esprit critique” of Mediapart.

2022 Jury

Expert
Ingrid Luquet-Gad, journalist and art critic

Ingrid Luquet-Gad is an art critic for the French and English press, in charge of the art section of Les Inrockuptibles, member of the editorial board of Spike Art Magazine and correspondent for Flash Art.

Her theoretical writings, deployed in the long time of essays and texts of catalogs, explore the ontological and epistemological transformations brought by the new technologies, as they are reflected in the magnifying mirror that artists hold up to the present times. She is currently pursuing a PhD in cultural studies and media theory at the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne and the University of Paris 8 Vincennes- Saint Denis, devoted to strategies of autonomy in the art of the 2010s.

ADIAF representatives

Ronan Grossiat, General Secretary

Ronan Grossiat is a consultant in management and a collector. He is the General Secretary of ADIAF.

Ronan is committed to supporting the diversity of the French art scene and its international visibility, outside of market logic and speculation, notably through the production of projects for exhibitions in institutions, residencies or biennials. He has accompanied the launch of endowment funds dedicated to contemporary art and is behind the creation of ADIAF Emergence in 2018.

Ronan is a member of the Contemporary Art Acquisition Group of the Centre Pompidou, has contributed to the Selection Committees of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, as well as to various juries such as DDESSINPARIS / Institut Français, Art Collector Entreprise or FRAC Bretagne Art Norac.

Nicolas Laugero Lasserre, Board Director

Nicolas Laugero Lasserre is director of ICART (the management school for culture and art market) and founding president of Artistik Rezo (Media, Club and Gallery). Member of the board of directors of the ADIAF, he was involved in creating the Young Collectors Department in 2014.

As an exhibition curator specialized in urban art, Nicolas Laugero Lasserre has organized more than 50 exhibitions over the past ten years around the movement, with public and private institutions; in 2019 he will co-author the “Que sais-je” on urban art. Passionate and a collector, his collection is since 2013 in permanent exhibition at the school ‘42’ (founded by Xavier Niel). He is co-founder and artistic director of the urban art center Fluctuart, a floating museum open to all, in front of the Invalides bridge in Paris.

Catawiki representatives

Cyrille Coiffet, Art & Antiques General Manager

Cyrille Coiffet is Global General Manager for the Art and Antiques department of Catawiki, which he joined in 2015 as General Manager France.

Cyrille has 20 years of experience in large companies in the digital sector, and in particular within marketplaces.

Passionate about art, he acknowledges a preference for American Abstract Expressionism and contemporary Chinese photography.

Tatiana Ruiz, Contemporary Art Senior Expert and Curator

Tatiana Ruiz has been an expert in modern and contemporary art for two decades in prestigious auction houses and galleries.

She is fully involved in the research, coaching and management of young international contemporary artists – painters, sculptors, photographers – in order to support them in their development, valorization and promotion.

Observer member

Chris Cyrille, art critic

Kriss, 2022 winner: Poet, art critic and exhibition storyteller.

Storyteller for the exhibition “— But the World is a Mangrovity”. Winner of the AICA 2020 Prize. Contributes to Mediapart podcast “L’esprit critique”.

Protocol:

The art critic must also learn to deviate (or resign), to get out of the mission given to him to create, there, a “determining deviation”. His place is not that of the brightness of the white galleries, but that of the night of the workshops. He is the witness of the attesa of a work of art (we say “work of art” to insist on this necessity to give to the artist a worthy status), that of the artist. Once the unjust moment of the judgment has passed, he can finally devote himself to the encounter.