COAL Prize 2021: finalists announced
Ten projects by French and international artists have been nominated for the COAL Prize 2021 – The Forest. The Prize will be awarded on June 16, 2021 to the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, that will reopen its doors after two years of closure for construction work.
In just a few decades, the forest has become both symbol and focal point of the greed, environmental disasters and struggles that are shaking up the contemporary world in crisis. Thirteen million hectares of forests disappear every year, due to increasing agriculture, overgrazing, logging, and urbanization. Entire swathes of forest in the Amazon, Australia and sub-Saharan Africa are burning while others die standing as they suffer the effects of global warming, depriving wildlife of their natural habitats. Forests are vital to the overall balance of ecosystems, but are just as important to human societies, which have for millennia lived directly or indirectly from its resources. Worldwide, people are fighting in defense of these reserves of life and culture and to use them as blueprints for future worlds yet to be built.
The ten artists nominated for the COAL Prize 2021 reveal these woodland riches, to feel and experience the ecological balance of forests, to promote the diversity of beings and cultures that inhabit them, to revive their ancestral knowledge and give birth to new ones, to nourish the movements of resilience they inspire, to act with their protectors and to invent other ways of being together in the woods. All reflect the growing commitment of artists to the environment, as the pandemic helps reveal the scale of the environmental crisis that is causing it.
Three student projects from French schools in the artistic and cultural field are also nominated for the second edition of the COAL Student Prize – Culture & Diversity in partnership with the Réserve Naturelles de France.
Dedicated to the forest, this COAL Prize echoes with the new festival Les Nuits des Forêts, of which COAL is one of the co-founders.
The selection committee was made up of:
Raphaël Abrille, Secretary General of the Museum of Hunting and Nature,
Jerome Poulain, Ministry of Culture,
Christopher Yggdre, Exhibition curator and artistic director of the LAccolade Foundation
Carine Dolek, Exhibition curator,
Loic Fel, President of COAL, philosopher and expert in sustainable development,
Clément Willemin, co-founder of COAL and landscaper,
Lauranne Germond, co-founder and director of COAL.
THE ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR THE 12TH EDITION OF THE COAL PRIZE ARE:
Karin Bolender (United States), Ask the Ghost Tree What Time It Is
Marjolijn Dijkman (Netherlands), Between the Lines
Sara Favriau (France), Je vois trouble longuement, un paysage transitoire
Collective Fibra (Peru), Desbosque : desenterrando señales
Julie C. Fortier (Canada), Résilience et récits
Beya Gille Gacha (France), Ce qu’elle fera de nous
Noémie Goudal (France), Les mécaniques
Vincent Laval (France), À la croisée des chemins
Erik Samakh (France), Zones de bruit
Feda Wardak (France), En-dessous, la forêt
THE 2021 AWARD CEREMONY
The COAL 2021 Prize and the COAL Student Prize – Culture & Diversity 2021 will be awarded on June 16 at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris.
JURY 2021
Frédérique Aït-Touati, CNRS researcher and director
Daria de Beauvais, Exhibition curator at the Palais de Tokyo
Catherine Dobler, Founder of the LAccolade Foundation
Christine Germain-Donnat, Director of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
Paul Jarquin, Founder and President of REI Habitat, President of Fibois IDF
Olivier Lerude, Senior Official for Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Culture
Charlotte Meunier, President of the Réserves naturelles de France
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Head of cultural programming at the Cité internationale des arts
Marc-André Selosse, Biologist, Professor at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris
Joëlle Zask, Philosopher
And Saïd Berkane, Deputy General Delegate of the Culture & Diversity Foundation for the COAL Student Prize – Culture & Diversity
THE PRIZE
The winner of the COAL Prize benefits from an endowment of 10,000 euros allocated by the François Sommer Foundation and COAL, divided into an endowment and a production aid as part of a residency ran by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature at the Domaine de Belval, property of the François Sommer Foundation.
The François Sommer Foundation, recognized as a public interest organization since its creation on 30 November 1966, was founded by François and Jacqueline Sommer, pioneers in the development of humanist ecology. Faithful to its founders’ principles, it works to protect biodiversity within which people have their rightful place, and to promote the respectful use of natural resources and sharing of the wealth of natural, artistic and cultural heritage.
The Domaine de Belval is located in the commune of Belval-Bois-des-Dames, in the French Ardennes. Covering an area of nearly 1000 enclosed hectares, it is mainly forested and traversed by meadows and 40 hectares of ponds. As a true observatory of rurality and wildlife, it welcomes, each year, artists selected for their contribution to renewing the vision of man’s relationship to his natural environment. The Foundation is committed to supporting contemporary artistic creation through the residence at the Belval estate which contributes to the dissemination of the artists’ works to a wide audience. It also puts at the service of creation a network of complementary skills carried by the scientific and educational teams of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and those of the Belval estate. We invite you to consult the charter on the COAL website.
COAL PRIZE 2021 PARTNERS
Since 2014, the COAL Prize has benefited from the support of the Ministry of Ecological Ecological Transition, the Ministry of Culture, the European Union via the European cooperation program ACT (Art Climate Transition), and the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the François Sommer Foundation which allocates the artist’s endowment.
The François Sommer Foundation, recognized as a public interest organization since its creation on 30 November 1966, was founded by François and Jacqueline Sommer, pioneers in the development of humanist ecology. Faithful to its founders’ principles, it works to protect biodiversity within which people have their rightful place, and to promote the respectful use of natural resources and sharing of the wealth of natural, artistic and cultural heritage.
The LAccolade Foundation joins the partners of the COAL Prize
Created in October 2020 under the aegis of the Institut de France, the LAccolade Foundation supports research and artistic creation in all of its forms and in all its forms. It pays special attention to creations, approaches, projects, and actions that are carried by artists in connection with the themes of water, the environment, the fragility of the living and the feminine. It also aims to enhance and promote the female heritage through the legacy of women who have had historical or artistic importance.
The LAccolade Foundation develops creative residency programs, including one in Paris in the heart of the Saint-Germain des Prés district and another in California in the western deserts. These residencies are organized in the form of seasons with guest artists around a research theme. The first season of the residences uses the aphorism of the writer Edouard Glissant: “Nothing is true, everything is alive.”.
The Foundation is also the initiator of an art center in Palm Springs, The Elemental. Located at the gates of the deserts of the West, it develops a program dedicated to artistic expressions and creations linked to the living, the Land and Earth Art. It will be inaugurated in the fall of 2021.
REI Habitat supports the 2021 forest edition
Since 2009, REI Habitat is an ecological real estate development group, specializing in the construction of collective buildings in wood structure. By choosing local wood from sustainably managed forests, by renewing forests through a reforestation strategy, REI Habitat intends to renew the forests as much as cities. REI Habitat is the first PEFC certified and Bois de France certified developer.
Image credits: Camille Plancher, 22-year-old French activist. He carries out acts of civil disobedience by attaching himself to trees at night in order to prevent foresters from accessing logging areas. Bialowieza, Poland. October 2017 © Andrea Olga Mantovani
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