Do you know the story of Ferdinandea, the little island that appeared in the Mediterranean in 1831 and sank beneath the waves just a few months later?
To celebrate the launch of the exhibition “Clément Cogitore: Ferdinandea, l’île éphémère”, the Mucem invites you to preview Clément Cogitore’s installations for the first time in France. The artist will be exceptionally present at the open house, to accompany visitors as they discover the exhibition.
And to find out a little more about the history and imaginary world of Ferdinandea Island, the three curators will be offering flash visits to the public.
The Mucem Bookshop will unveil the exhibition catalog, with a previously unpublished short story by writer and philosopher Tristan Garcia.
It’s an opportunity to arouse your curiosity about this very real fable, while discovering the imaginary world of this mysterious island in a whole new way!
The program
From 4 pm to 9 pm Free admission to the exhibition, musical accompaniment and light refreshments provided by Café du Fort.
Access via the Saint-Laurent footbridge (entrance on the Panier side) from 4pm.
16h, 17h and 19h30 – Flash tours of the exhibition by the curators
Exhibition hall, Bâtiment Georges Henri Rivière, Fort Saint-Jean
Introductory flash sessions by curators Kathryn Weir, Helia Paukner and Enguerrand Lascols
18h – 19h – Meeting with Clément Cogitore
Salle de la place du dépôt, Fort Saint-Jean
An exceptional meeting with artist Clément Cogitore, to explore his work and career in greater depth, accompanied by the exhibition curators.
Biography of Clément Cogitore
Clément Cogitore lives and works between Paris and Berlin. After studying at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains – he developed a practice at the crossroads of contemporary art and cinema. Combining film, video, installation and photography, his work questions the ways in which people cohabit with their images. It is often a question of ritual, collective memory, the figuration of the sacred, and a certain idea of the permeability of worlds.
Clément Cogitore was awarded the Grand Prix du Salon de Montrouge in 2011. In 2012, he was awarded a residency at the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Médicis. S his first feature film, selected for Critics’ Week in Cannes, was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Gan and nominated for the César for Best First Film in 2015. In the same year, he received the BAL Prize for Young Creation. In 2016, he received the Sciences Po Prize for contemporary art and the Ricard Corporate Foundation Prize for contemporary art. In 2018, he won the Marcel Duchamp Prize. After a highly acclaimed short film based on Rameau’s opera “Les indes Galantes”, he is staging it at the Paris Opera in 2019. This staging has summer selected by the New York Times in its list of the ten best operas of the year, nominated best opera production 2019 by the Giornale della Musica and won the Forum Opéra award for Best Production 2019. In 2020, Oper! Awards presented him with the prize for Best Director. In 2022, his second feature film, “Goutte d’Or”, was selected for the Semaine de la Critique à Cannes, Hildegarde, Best Director at LEFFEST in Lisbon and Best Actress at the Hainan Film Festival.In 2023, the film is shortlisted to represent France at the Oscars.
His work is exhibited and presented in prestigious French and international institutions, biennials and public and private collections. He is represented by Chantal Crousel Consulting, Paris and Galerie Elisabeth and Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart.
Do you know the story of Ferdinandea, the little island that appeared in the Mediterranean in 1831 and sank beneath the waves just a few months later?
To celebrate the launch of the exhibition “Clément Cogitore: Ferdinandea, l’île éphémère”, the Mucem invites you to preview Clément Cogitore’s installations for the first time in France. The artist will be exceptionally present at the open house, to accompany visitors as they discover the exhibition.
And to find out a little more about the history and imaginary world of Ferdinandea Island, the three curators will be offering flash visits to the public.
The Mucem Bookshop will unveil the exhibition catalog, with a previously unpublished short story by writer and philosopher Tristan Garcia.
It’s an opportunity to arouse your curiosity about this very real fable, while discovering the imaginary world of this mysterious island in a whole new way!
The program
From 4 pm to 9 pm Free admission to the exhibition, musical accompaniment and light refreshments provided by Café du Fort.
Access via the Saint-Laurent footbridge (entrance on the Panier side) from 4pm.
16h, 17h and 19h30 – Flash tours of the exhibition by the curators
Exhibition hall, Bâtiment Georges Henri Rivière, Fort Saint-Jean
Introductory flash sessions by curators Kathryn Weir, Helia Paukner and Enguerrand Lascols
18h – 19h – Meeting with Clément Cogitore
Salle de la place du dépôt, Fort Saint-Jean
An exceptional meeting with artist Clément Cogitore, to explore his work and career in greater depth, accompanied by the exhibition curators.
Biography of Clément Cogitore
Clément Cogitore lives and works between Paris and Berlin. After studying at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains – he developed a practice at the crossroads of contemporary art and cinema. Combining film, video, installation and photography, his work questions the ways in which people cohabit with their images. It is often a question of ritual, collective memory, the figuration of the sacred, and a certain idea of the permeability of worlds.
Clément Cogitore was awarded the Grand Prix du Salon de Montrouge in 2011. In 2012, he was awarded a residency at the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Médicis. S his first feature film, selected for Critics’ Week in Cannes, was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Gan and nominated for the César for Best First Film in 2015. In the same year, he received the BAL Prize for Young Creation. In 2016, he received the Sciences Po Prize for contemporary art and the Ricard Corporate Foundation Prize for contemporary art. In 2018, he won the Marcel Duchamp Prize. After a highly acclaimed short film based on Rameau’s opera “Les indes Galantes”, he is staging it at the Paris Opera in 2019. This staging has summer selected by the New York Times in its list of the ten best operas of the year, nominated best opera production 2019 by the Giornale della Musica and won the Forum Opéra award for Best Production 2019. In 2020, Oper! Awards presented him with the prize for Best Director. In 2022, his second feature film, “Goutte d’Or”, was selected for the Semaine de la Critique à Cannes, Hildegarde, Best Director at LEFFEST in Lisbon and Best Actress at the Hainan Film Festival.In 2023, the film is shortlisted to represent France at the Oscars.
His work is exhibited and presented in prestigious French and international institutions, biennials and public and private collections. He is represented by Chantal Crousel Consulting, Paris and Galerie Elisabeth and Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart.
