Centre national des arts plastiques - Cnap

Supporting artists
and arts professionals
Further acquisitions of art pieces, the Centre national des arts plastiques
manages a series of structures designed to support artists and private
organisations (galleries, publishers, audiovisual producers), as well as
contemporary art restorers and conservators, art theorists, critics and
documentary photographers. In this way, the CNAP demonstrates its
partnership with contemporary artistic creation and contributes to the
development and professionalisation of the art scene.
SUPPORTING ARTISTS
Recognising that research is a key component of any artist’s work,
the CNAP encourages practices that do not have an immediate role
in a productive economy. Like any other researcher, an artist develops
through what is often a long process of thought and discovery,
involving intuition as much as method, and which is not always apt
to generate a viable income. The CNAP provides various means of
support at this fragile stage in the artistic process.
FUNDING FOR CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREATION
Twice a year, the CNAP allocates funding to documentary photographers
whose work has been recognised by publication in the press, or,
in certain cases, through professional exhibition. The award, financed
from a special trial production fund that was introduced in 2011,
provides advance funding for the production of a documentary work.
Recent beneficiaries include in 2012 Samuel Gratacap (Immersion(s) – Tunisie)
Marie-Paule Nègre (Conte des temps modernes ou la misère ordinaire – Deuxième génération)
Hélène David (Kerkennah. La Renaissance du bleu) in 2011 Édouard Beau
(Entre Tigre et Euphrate, un défi : Reconstruire) Johann Rousselot (Colères) Laetitia Tura
(Sur les territoires de la Retirada).
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FUNDING OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH
AND ONE-OFF GRANTS
The CNAP makes an annual award to working artists to finance
research or develop a project in or outside France.
Recent beneficiaries include in 2012 Françoise Vergier, Un Continent de plâtre et
de porcelaine à découvrir, France (sculpture) Béatrice Cussol, Mots monstres, France
(painting) Caroline Duchatelet, Aube au couvent de San Marco, lumières florentines, Italy
(film/video) in 2011 Boris Achour, Recherches préalables au projet “Séances”, France,
Belgium, Germany (installation) Jean-François Lecourt, Un Processus de répétition et
d’absence de pensée dans l’instant décisif (photography) Olivier Zabat, Commentaire,
narration et action sur l’image, France, UK (video).
An emergency grant of up to €1,000 can be given to artists who are
experiencing temporary financial difficulties which prevent them from
continuing their work. This funding is additional to any allowance
provided by the State. Applications are examined four times a year by
a committee comprising representatives of professional and administrative
organisations and one other qualified individual.
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Guillaume Greff, Untitled,
Dead Cities, 2012. 120 x 160 cm,
C-print. © Photo Guillaume Greff
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Antoine Agoudjian, Ergen, 2012.
From the Mémoire des Arméniens
series, 2012. 80 x 120 cm.
© Photo Antoine Agoudjian
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