{"id":64503,"date":"2025-02-13T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-arson.fr\/programmation\/agenda\/exposition-becoming-ocean\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:08:37","slug":"becoming-ocean-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/programmation\/agenda\/becoming-ocean-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Ocean Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ingo Niermann\rWith Anna Mar\u00eda Mill\u00e1n, Roman Bayarri, Ville Haimala, Franziska Aigner and Dan Bodan\rSea Lovers, 2020\rSingle-channel video installation, color, sound\r19 min 40 sec\rCommissioned by TBA21\u2013Academy\rStill: Courtesy the artist<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Nicolas Floc\u2019h, La Couleur de l\u2019Eau \u2013 La Seine, 2024 et Structures productives, r\u00e9cifs artificiels, 2013-2014 \u00a9 Beno\u00eet Fougeirol<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Christian Sardet et les Macronautes, Le ballet du plancton, 2020 \u00a9 Beno\u00eet Fougeirol<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Antoine Bertin, Conversation M\u00e9tabolite, 2022 \u00a9 Beno\u00eet Fougeirol<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Simone Fattal, Pearls [Perles], 2023\nSept perles en verre de Murano souffl\u00e9, grav\u00e9es \u00e0 la main. Commissioned by TBA21\u2013Academy. Collection. TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.\nInstallation view: Thus waves come in pairs: Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & \u00c1lvaro Urbano. Ocean Space, Venice Italy, 2023 \u00a9 Gerdastudio<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Seba Calfuqueo, Ko ta mapu ngey Ka (Water is Also Territory), 2022\nInstallation. Single-channel video of the performance at C3A – Roberto Ruiz. TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Diana Policarpo, CiguaTales, 2022\nStill: CiguaTales. TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Samuel Bollendorff, Les Larmes de Sir\u00e8nes (s\u00e9rie), 2024 \u00a9 Beno\u00eet Fougeirol<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Max Hooper Schneider, Sand-Writing Crater, 2024\nInstallation view, Max Hooper Schneider, LYSIS FIELD, Pansori \u2013 a soundscape of the 21st century, 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2024. Image courtesy of the Artist and Gwangju Biennale.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Allan Sekula, Lottery of the Sea, 2006\nSingle-channel video installation, color, sound 179 min. TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection. Still: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Armin Linke\rPhotoessay related to the \u201cProspecting Ocean\u201d project, 2016-2017\rProtest against deep-sea mining project in the Bismarck Sea, Karkar Island, Papua\rNew Guinea, 2017\rInternational Seabed Authority ISA, manganese nodule, Kingston, Jamaica, 2016\rAlfred Wegener Institute AWI, laboratory HGF-MPG Group for Deep- Sea Ecology\rand Technology, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2017\rTwenty-Second Session of the International Seabed Authority Assembly ISA, Kings\rton, Jamaica, 2016\rNorwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Department of Marine\rTechnology, Trondheim, Norway, 2016\rSeries of lambada prints\r150 x 200 cm, 157 x 206.6 x 4 cm (framed); 50 x 60 cm, 53 x 63 x 4 cm (framed); 50 x 60 cm, 53 x 63 x 4 cm (framed); 50 x 60 cm, 53 x 63 x 4 cm (framed); 50 x 60 cm, 53 x 63 x 4 cm (framed); \rCommissioned and produced by TBA21\u2014Academy\rThyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection\r\rInstallation view: Down to Earth. Klima Kunst Diskurs unplugged, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany\rPhoto: Eike Walkenhorst, 2020 | \u00a9 Berliner Festspiele\/Immersion<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo\rSin t\u00edtulo (Barco Carguero), 2016\rHand-painted wood bulk-carrier ship\r70 x 11.7 x 15 cm\rThyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection\rPhoto: The artist, 2016<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Susanne M. Winterling, Glistening Troubles, 2017 TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Courtney Desiree Morris. Her Words do not Fall on the Ground [Ses paroles ne tombent pas par terre], 2023 Collection TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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St\u00e9phanie Comilang, Diaspora ad Astra, 2020\nCommissioned by TBA21\u2013Academy with the support of the Institut Kunst HGK FHNW<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Janaina Tsch\u00e4pe, Dormant Chloeia, 2024 TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Robertina \u0160ebjani\u010d, Echoes of the Abyss \u2013 Toxic Legacies Of Oceanic Ecologies, 2024 \u00a9 Beno\u00eet Fougeirol<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Ziggy and the starfish, 2016-2022\nTBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection. Still: Courtesy from the artist.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Laure Winants, Synesth\u00e9sie Oc\u00e9anique, 2024 \u00a9 Beno\u00eet Fougeirol<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Sonia Levy, We Marry You O Sea as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion, 2023\nCommissioned by TBA21\u2013Academy with the support of the S+t+ARTS initiative of the European Commission and the European Marine Board ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ programme. Still: Courtesy SEPOline.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Kapwani Kiwanga, Hour Glass #2, 2022\nTBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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Pierre calcaire remplie de fossiles \n176 x 362 x 120 cm \nCollection TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n

Opening Wednesday, May 7, 2025 \u2013 7:00 PM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From May 8 to August 24, 2025, Villa Arson, TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and Tara Ocean Foundation present Becoming Ocean: a social conversation about the Ocean, a major exhibition exploring the main challenges facing the Ocean in a choral way. More than 20 international artists are taking part in the exhibition, to be held at the Villa Arson, through critical and documentary approaches as well as more sensory, poetic or speculative expressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is part of the program for the Nice Biennial of Arts and the Ocean<\/a>, organized by the City of Nice as part of the United Nations Conference on the Oceans (UNOC3) to be held in Nice from June 9 to 13, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Artists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Allora & Calzadilla, Antoine Bertin, Samuel Bollendorff, Seba Calfuqueo, Stephanie Comilang, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Simone Fattal, Nicolas Floc\u2019h, Max Hooper Schneider, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sonia Levy, Armin Linke, Courtney Desiree Morris, Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo, Ingo Niermann, Diana Policarpo, Christian Sardet et les Macronautes, Robertina \u0160ebjani\u010d, Allan Sekula, Janaina Tsch\u00e4pe, Laure Winants, Susanne M. Winterling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Becoming Ocean<\/em> reflects on our understanding and ignorance of the Ocean and its future. It is a manifestation of the values and methods shared by the participant institutions to bring from the art perspective and through its uncountable forms, an open social conversation about the ocean challenges that we all face as a planet and our opportunity to rethink our connection with the Ocean and act differently for its preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past few decades, art and artists have been actively working to foster an understanding of climate change from the perspective of Nature. Art has played (and still plays) a crucial role in translating abstract and complex planetary phenomena, as well as large-scale systemic global changes, into narrative imagery, first-person storytelling, and Indigenous perspectives, helping us to name and experience these challenges. Artists have stepped beyond their studios and traditional workspaces to collaborate with experts, policymakers, and scientists, forging a shared horizon where we can strive for a genuine encounter with nature and its interests. Artists\u2014coming from diverse backgrounds and contexts\u2014have been inventing exercises and gestures that address the rupture caused by colonial and capitalist greed, paving the way for the birth of a new history. A history defined by better choices and a deeper connection to the mythical dimensions of the ocean, whose echoes reach our present from ancient times. The purpose of Becoming Ocean <\/em>is to immerse ourselves humbly in these meaningful approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming Ocean <\/em>will feature artworks from the TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection and from the Tara Ocean Foundation\u2019s artists-in-residence program as well as a collaboration of the Schmidt Ocean Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curators<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Guenin, Co-curator \u2013 Nice Biennal of Arts and the Ocean
Chus Mart\u00ednez, Associate Curator \u2013 TBA21 Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary
S\u00e9bastien Ruiz, General Secretary \u2013Tara Ocean Foundation
Marie-Ann Yemsi, Director \u2013 Villa Arson art center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From May 8th to August 24th 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening hours: open to the public every day except Tuesday, from 2pm to 6pm (2pm to 7pm in July and August).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admission is free and no reservation is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address: Villa Arson, 20 avenue Stephen Li\u00e9geard, 06100 Nice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside areas (gardens and terraces) and exhibition rooms are largely accessible to people with reduced mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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