TEN ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 COAL PRIZE – OCEANS
THE SHORTLISTED ARTISTS
COAL PRIZE 2022
OCEANS
Ten projects by French and international artists are nominated for the COAL 2022 Oceans Prize. Three student projects from French schools in the artistic and cultural field are nominated for the third edition of the COAL Student Prize – Culture & Diversity in partnership with the Reserves Naturelles de France.
In 2022, the COAL Prize is dedicated to the oceans. This geographical, dreamlike and political horizon, a cultural as well as a natural heritage and a breeding ground for the imagination, is the basis of the global phenomena that make our planet habitable. It is also the cradle of economic and commercial life. The transformation of the oceans in the face of climate change is a real challenge both for taking action and for raising awareness of sometimes elusive processes.
The ten artist projects nominated for the 2022 COAL Prize reveal the ocean’s riches to as many people as possible and imagine new concrete actions to revive resilience with the worlds of water.
THE TEN ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 COAL PRIZE ARE:
Brandon Ballengée, (United States), Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf
Benessere, (International collective), Benessere del Bacino Scolante nella Laguna di Venezia
Julien Berthier, (France), Accrétion Minérale / Sculptures
Antoine Bertin, (France), Voice of Tiny Gods
Marina Gioti, (Grece), Sounding the Silent World
Hélène Gugenheim, (France), La veillée, et autres rituels océaniques
Pam Longobardi, (United States), Ocean Gleaning: Giving Agency to Ocean through Plastic interpretation
Kasia Molga, (United Kingdom/Poland), How to make an Ocean
Capucine Vever, (France), Dunking Island
Michael Wang, (United States), Microbial Seas
See the three artists nominated for the COAL Student Prize – Culture & Diversity 2022
COAL PRIZE CEREMONY 2022
The COAL 2022 Prize will be awarded on June 8, at the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris.
AWARD
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 Museum of Hunting and Nature at the Domaine de Belval, property of the François Sommer Foundation.
JURY 2022
Bruno David, President of the National Museum of Natural History
Mark Dion, Artist
Catherine Dobler, Founder of the LAccolade Foundation
Marc Feldman, General Administrator of the Orchester National de Bretagne
Christine Germain-Donnat, Director of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
Hélène Guenin, Director of MAMAC, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice
Elsa Guillaume, Artist, Winner of the 2015 Ocean COAL Prize
Olivier Lerude, Senior Official for Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Culture
Léo Marin, Director of Galerie Eric Mouchet and Curator of The Possible Island
Anne-Marie Melster, Co-founder and Managing Director of ARTPORT_making waves
Charlotte Meunier, President of the Nature Reserves of France
Romain Troublé, Managing Director of the Tara Ocean Foundation.
COAL PRIZE 2022 PARTNERS
The COAL Prize benefits from the support of the European Union via the European cooperation program ACT (Art Climate Transition), the Ministry of Ecological Ecological Transition, the Ministry of Culture, the French Biodiversity Agency, the LAccolade Foundation, the Surfrider Foundation Europe, The National Orchestra of Brittany 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.
LAccolade Foundation’s main goal is to support, promote and encourage artistic creation. It paysspecial 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 feminism. It also aims to enhance and promote the heritage, that is to say the legacy of women who have had historical or artistic importance.
The French Biodiversity Agency is responsible for the protection and restoration of biodiversity in France and overseas. The agency acts for the preservation of living beings in aquatic, terrestrial and marine environments thanks to the expertise of its 2 800 agents, including 1 700 environmental inspectors. This public establishment also works by mobilizing a set of actors, decision-makers and citizens around biodiversity: State, local authorities, associations, companies, scientists, farmers, fishermen, hunters, practitioners of nature sports, actors from the world of art and culture…
THE COAL PRIZE IN A FEW WORDS
Created in 2010 by the COAL association, the COAL Prize has, in eleven years, become a vector for identifying, promoting and disseminating artists who, throughout the world, testify, imagine and experiment with solutions for transforming territories, lifestyles, organizations, and modes of production. Together, they help make the changes visible, to build a new collective narrative, a new imagination, a developing common heritage, a positive, optimistic and necessary framework so that everyone finds the means and the motivation to implement the essential changes towards a more sustainable and fairer world.
COAL, created in France in 2008 by professionals in contemporary art, ecology and research, mobilizes artists and cultural actors on societal and environmental issues and supports the essential role of creation and culture in raising awareness and implementing concrete solutions. Through the COAL Prize, international cooperation actions and more than fifty exhibitions and regional cultural projects, COAL is the first French player to promote the emergence of a new culture of ecology.
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Image credit : Mark Dion, Fisheries (2016) © Simon Vogel
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