About
Contempl’Art is a curatorial platform founded in Paris in 2020 that develops exhibitions and cultural programs connecting artistic practices from the Balkans and France.
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The association was created to build spaces of encounter where contemporary artists can present their work, exchange perspectives, and engage with broader cultural and historical questions that shape the region.
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Rather than proposing fixed interpretations, Contempl’Art approaches curatorial work as a process of raising questions. Through its projects, the platform seeks to create frameworks where artists can articulate their own perspectives and respond to the complexities of the territories in which they work. Exhibitions function as spaces of inquiry: they bring forward issues, tensions, and narratives, while giving visibility to the voices of the artists themselves.
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The platform develops theme-based exhibitions, each structured around a curatorial question. Open calls invite artists to respond to these themes, allowing a diversity of practices and viewpoints to emerge within a shared framework. Around each exhibition, Contempl’Art builds a broader public program that may include conferences, concerts, film screenings, performances, and other forms of gathering that extend the dialogue beyond the exhibition space.
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Between 2021 and 2024, the association developed the LES BALKANNES cycle, a series of three exhibitions dedicated to emerging photographic practices connected to the Balkans. This cycle created opportunities for artists from the region to meet in Paris and in Nantes, exchange on their work, and present their practices to new audiences while developing international networks.
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Today, Contempl’Art continues its curatorial research through the project States of Place. States of Being. This new chapter expands the platform’s exploration of contemporary artistic practices shaped by questions of territory, history, and cultural transformation, while maintaining its central approach, which is creating curatorial frameworks where artists’ perspectives generate dialogue, reflection, and new ways of understanding the spaces they inhabit.
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Emilia Trifunovic & Mathias Michel