01 Introduction
“Mobilized around the current French scene and its international influence, the ADIAF created the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2000, which has become a reference in the field of visual arts. For several years now, the emerging scene has been integrated into the cultural mediation program that the ADIAF offers to its members in order to reach out to artists of the younger generation. I am pleased that our partnership with Catawiki allows us to go further and launch annual grants to support this emerging French scene, the breeding ground of tomorrow’s art.”
Claude Bonnin, President of the ADIAF
France is one of the richest international scenes in the visual arts sector. Its large pool of artists is supported by a network of very committed private, public and associative actors across the country.
Initiatives contributing to helping the scene in France to export have developed over the past 20 years: The Marcel Duchamp Prize initiated by ADIAF in 2000, and its program of international exhibitions; The increased presence of museum institutions outside France, and first and foremost the Centre Pompidou, a long-standing partner of ADIAF; A new dynamism of French art residencies abroad, Villa Medici (IT), Casa de Velázquez (ES), Villa Kujoyama (JP), Villa Albertine (US); and numerous initiatives by young generations of artists and curators who go beyond our borders.
ADIAF and Catawiki are, through different and complementary stories, engaged in the international development of the French art scene. In 2022, they chose to join forces to engage alongside new generations of artists and curators by creating the ‘ADIAF Emergence Grant / Bourse ADIAF Emergence’.
02 What are the ADIAF Emergence Grants?
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.
Starting in 2022, annual grants will be awarded on a individual financial basis of €1,500. These Grants will be offered to emerging talents to enable them to develop their artistic projects and gain visibility.
- A Grant awarded to an “Art Critic and/or Curator (under 40 years old)” whether individual or collective, selected by the ADIAF and Catawiki prior to the process. €1,500 award
- Grants for “Artists (under 40)” whether individual or collective, awarded by a Jury. €1,500 award each.
– One “contemporary art” category
– One “arts specialisation” category (urban art – 2022 and the year after photography), alternating every year.
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.
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”.
“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”
03 Applying for the ADIAF Emergence “Artists 2022” Grants 1st edition
All applications must be sent by email before 30 April 2022: bourse-emergence@adiaf.com
The “Artist” application can be submitted in French or English and 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
- The desired category: “Contemporary Art” or “Urban Art”.
2022 Edition – Important dates :
- December 16, 2021: start of application submissions
- May 2 at 2pm, 2022: closing of application submissions
- May 4, 2022: sending of the 2 consolidated lists of candidates to the Jury
- May 9, 2022: meeting of the jury
- May 12, 2022: announcement of the results
2023 Edition – Important dates :
- mid December, 2022: start of application submissions
- early May, 2023: closing of application submissions
- early May, 2023: sending of the 2 consolidated lists of candidates to the Jury
- mid May, 2023: meeting of the jury
- mid May, 2023: announcement of the results
ADIAF EMERGENCE GRANTS – CATAWIKI 2022
The “Artists” Winners
- Will co-author with Chris Cyrille, art critic / curator chosen by ADIAF and Catawiki, a text about their artistic project
- Will take part in a one-hour virtual “Art Critic/Artists” conference focused on their projects. Organised by ADIAF, it will be widely publicised
- Will be promoted: on ADIAF’s website ,social networks and newsletter and in the editorial content section of Catawiki’s website
- Will each receive a grant of €1,500
“ART CRITIC/CURATOR” EMERGENCE GRANT
The winner
- Will co-author a text with the winning artists about their artistic project
- Will take part in a one-hour virtual conference “Art Criticism / Artists” organised by ADIAF
- Will be promoted: on the ADIAF website and social networks, in a newsletter and in the editorial content of the Catawiki website
- Will receive a grant of €1,500
04 Terms and conditions
Download the terms and conditions HERE
05 Laureates
2022 Winners
Critic/Curator
For the first edition, the organisers chose the young critic Chris Cyrille who will interact with the artists, and be present in the jury panel as an observer.
Kriss 2022 Winner: Poet, art critic and exhibition storyteller. Storyteller for the exhibition “Mais le monde est une mangrovité ”. Winner of the AICA 2020 Prize. Contributor to Mediapart’s “L’esprit critique” podcast.
Protocol:
The art critic must also learn to deviate (or disengage himself/herself) from the mission he/she has been given in order to create here and now a “decisive deviation”. His/her workplace is not in the brightness of the white cube galleries, but in the nightly atmosphere of the studios. He/she is the witness of the birth of a work of art (we speak of “work of art” to emphasise the need to give the artist a dignified status), the one by the artist. Once the inevitable moment of judgement has passed, he/she can finally devote himself to the encounter.
Artists :
Prosper Legault (urban Art)
Shivay La Multiple (contemporary Art)
Rayane Mcirdi (contemporary Art)
06 Jury
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, Administrator
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.