Newsletter 2021
OVNi at the hotel
From 3rd to the 5th of December
As part of the Objectif Video Nice festival, OVNi is organising its traditional video art tour in a number of hotels in the city of Nice from the 3rd to 5th of December.
Conceived as a project of « artistic hospitality » the Windsor Hotel, the West End Hotel, the Malmaison Hotel, the Splendid Hotel and the Villa Rivoli Hotel are joining forces in the name of art and open their doors to the public. During a weekend, they invite French and international artists or cultural institutions of contemporary art to use their rooms and other spaces to host contemporary video works.
‘Les rencontres OVNi’ at the Windsor Hotel
© ORLAN, Mise en scène pour un grand FIAT, 1984
In 2021, the « Rencontres OVNi » will be held at the Windsor Hotel in partnership with the Forum des instituts culturels étrangers à Paris (FICEP). Each participating institute will carry a programme from its country and « les amis d’OVNi » a selection of their collection or work.
Featured Artists: ORLAN (Guest artist in the lobby), Estera Tajber (Institut Polonais), Clara Thomine (Centre Wallonie Bruxelles), Valentina et Sandrine (Institut Italien), Mircea Cantor (Institut Culturel Roumain), Marissa Viani et Yanieb Fabre (Institut Méxicain), Anastasija Sosunova (Institut Lituanien), Mike Bourscheid (Institut du Luxembourg), Saliou Diop (La Korsa, Sénégal), Maksaens Denis (Laboratorio Arts Contemporains), Ken Kobland (Argos Distribution), Raphaël Bottiveau (Collection Quemin), Keiko Beckers (Collection Fassyat), Christian Marclay (Collection Lambert), Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien (Caisse d’Epargne), Sarah Meyohas (Prix Opline), Laurent Pernot (Images Passages) et les artistes en résidence: Corine Borgnet, Keiko Courdy, Ittah et Yoda, Nagham Hodaifa.
The ‘Grand OVNi’ prize, supported by the CHE, Centre de Haute Énergie, will be awarded to the winner of these « Rencontres OVNi ». The jury is composed of François Bordry (President of the Lyon Biennial), Martine Bordry (collector), Cécile Debray (Musée de l’Orangerie), François Fauchon (CHE patron), Laurent Fiévet (Artist), Nora Hickey M’Sichili (President of FICEP) and Emma Picard (Artist).
The award ceremony will take place on Saturday 04 December at 8pm at the Théâtre National de Nice in the presence of Muriel Mayette-Holtz.
‘Sud Émergence’ at the West End Hotel and at the Splendid Hotel |
© Liam Witter
Several young video artists from the region Sud were selected following a call for projects launched in 2020, for an unprecedented programme in the rooms of the West-End Hotel and in the fitness room of the Splendid Hotel. The only thing left to do is to look for the intruder at the La Malmaison hotel.
Featured Artists : Benoit Barbagli Madison Bycroft, Antoine Ceunebroucke, Lena Durr, Camille Franch-Guerra, Jeremy Griffaud, Juliette Guerin, Victoria Guinet, Kim Hayoung, Celia Hue, Iris Marti, Marie Pellegrino, Sara Sadik, Agathe Wiesner and Liam Wiiter
The OVNi Emergence Prize, supported by the Caisse d’Épargne Côte d’Azur, will be awarded to the best video selected by a jury including Bertrand Le Bars (President of the PACA Region), Maria Finders (Fondation Luma, Arles), Rebecca François (Curator of the MAMAC – CECAZ), Sylvain Lizon (Villa Arson) Cédric Teisseire, (Director of the Station)
The award ceremony will take place on Saturday 04 December at 8pm at the Théâtre National de Nice in the presence of Muriel Mayette-Holtz.
‘Dédale’ at the Malmaison Hotel |
© Petra Noordkamp
At the Hôtel Malmaison, four works from around the world invite visitors in the hotel’s corridors to forge their own narrative in a series of mazes presented from one room to the next. Agathe Wiesner, selected for the PRix Sud Emergence, joins the exhibition.
Featured artists: Hyewon Kwon, Barbara Visser, Petra Noordkamp, Elisa Giardina Papa and Clémentine Rémy.
Curator: Bérangère Armand
‘Alter Ego’ à l’Hôtel Villa Rivoli |
© Émilie Brout et Maxime Marion
At the Villa Rivoli hotel, ‘Alter Ego’ unveils video and plastic productions around these alternative states of being between science and magic, nature and culture, feminism and ecology, sexuality and art.
Featured Artists : Émilie Brout and Maxime Marion, Yoan Sorin and Iris Martin, the duo Fizz luv: Nelo Gevers and Hayoung Kim, Thom van Rijckevorsel and Christian Viallard.
Curator: Bérangère Armand
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