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An identity: exhibitions
The École des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes has provided its students with a
great range of experience in exhibition practice for a number of years.
The main building has three large rooms used regularly for exhibitions.
The school also benefits from the city’s substantial art facilities: Carré
d’Art-Musée d’Art contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts, municipal
galleries, etc.
Student exhibitions supervised by the teaching staff are held every year
at various venues in Nîmes, in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and
also elsewhere in France and abroad. These exhibitions make it possible
for the students to handle the hanging and presentation of their own
work in venues with professional contingencies and requirements and
to enhance meetings with the public.
Most of the students also have placements in institutional establishments
(Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Étienne, Centre international
d’art et du paysage de Vassivière, Centre d’art contemporain de Kerguéhennec,
etc.). They thus learn about the technical, conceptual and
administrative issues involved in setting up exhibitions. This enables
both an approach to the professional handling and placing of works of
art and the possibility of learning about the contemporary art scene by
collaborating directly with artists and exhibition curators.
A partnership with Frac Languedoc-Roussillon also makes it possible for
students to gain experience of curating and accompanying exhibitions:
choice of works and themes in the regional collection (Fond régional
d’art contemporain) and hanging and also the design of posters, invitation
cards and press releases and handling guided visits for all types of
public. These operations are sometimes handled at the request of local
authorities, as in recent years with the towns of Béziers and Lunel.
Teaching in the form of lectures or seminars (handled by teachers and
persons from outside the school) extend and deepen knowledge of the
issues involved in exhibitions.
Exhibition: NÉMAUSUS, 20 ANS / 10 POSITIONS at
the ‘Photographie et Architecture’ biennial.
Isacf La Cambre, Brussels, March-May 2008
Exhibition: Objectif Lunel (works belonging to Frac Languedoc-Roussillon).
Espace Louis Feuillade, Lunel, May 2007
Student project for Commemoration Les 20 ans de Némausus.
Nîmes, November 2007.