L'installation "No More Reality" de l'artiste Philippe Parreno sera fermée du 17 au 23 février 2025.
Conference,
Workshop
Symposium: Tales of Superstition and Magic
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Danai Anesiadou
Danai Anesiadou was in residence at LUMA Arles from September to December 2025.
Danai Anesiadou is an artist who is active in the adjoining spheres of performance, installation, collage and sculpture. She crafts theatrical settings where high and low culture dips in cinema, deep politics and metaphysics. Monumental prop-ornaments are pulled back into function as transformative sculpture: heavy jewels, up-cycled in energy and up-scaled in size. The language/energy of the work is mercurial like a puberty in Exorcism.
Her work and performances have been shown at Documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens), WIELS (Brussels), EMST (Athens), Kunsthalle Basel, 5th Berlin Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris), M HKA (Antwerp), Witte de With (Rotterdam), DRAF (London), RCA (London), Etablissement d'en Face Projects (Brussels), Kiosk (Ghent), LUX/ICA Biennial (London), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), Swiss Institute (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Casa Luis Barragan (Mexico DF) among others.
Danai Anesiadou works and lives in Brussels. She studied at KASK Ghent and DasArts in Amsterdam.
Yuna Visentin
Yuna Visentin studied at the École normale supérieure, Paris, is an associate professor of literature, and hosts and facilitates feminist writing workshops. After several years teaching and researching the relationship between literature and Jewish philosophy, she published a novel and an essay on the reproduction of systemic oppression in schools. She published her third book in 2024, Spiritualités radicales: Rites et traditions pour réparer le monde with Éditions Divergences. In this essay, prefaced by Myriam Bahaffou, she examines the emancipatory political reconfigurations made possible by relationships with the invisible, exploring in particular her experience of the Jewish tradition. Her independent research is ongoing, focusing on radical and anarchist Jewish traditions, Jewish feminisms, and ecofeminist and decolonial thought and struggles—and everything that circulates between these worlds.
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Donatien Grau
Donatien Grau, a scholar, editor, author, and museum executive, has published widely on the arts and culture of the Roman Empire, on nineteenth– and twentieth–century literary and art history, as well as on contemporary art and culture, dedicating numerous publications to museums and their thinking. Over the years, he has remained a close friend and collaborator to artists across disciplines, while retaining a practice of classical philology. He is the author of "The Age of Creation" (Sternberg, 2013); "The Transitory Museum", with Emanuele Coccia (Polity, 2019); and "De Civitate Angelorum" (Yvon Lambert, 2022). He is the editor-in-chief and artistic director of "Alphabet magazine", as well as the chair of the Pierre Guyotat estate and the head of contemporary programs at the Louvre.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup : The Kitchen Show” in 1991, he has curated more than 350 shows.
Obrist’s recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) The Athens Dialogues (2018), Maria Lassnig: Letters (2020), Entrevistas Brasileiras: Volume 2 (2020), and 140 Ideas for Planet Earth (2021).
Martin Guinard
Martin Guinard is curator at LUMA Arles. With a background in visual arts and art history, he has worked on several interdisciplinary projects dealing with ecological mutation in collaboration with Bruno Latour. He was the curator of the Taipei 2020 biennial entitled "You and I don’t live on the same planet" and is currently working on its reiteration at the Centre Pompidou Metz (opening in November 2021). He co-curated the exhibition “Critical Zone” at ZKM, Karlsruhe (2020-2021) and the exhibition “Reset Modernity!” (2016). He also directed two workshop platforms continuing the research initiated in the exhibition Reset Modernity! in Shanghai (2017) and Tehran (2017-2018). These two projects took place respectively as part of 2116 Seeds of time, directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yangwoo Lee at the Himalaya Museum (2017), and then at the Pejman Foundation and Tehran University, in collaboration with Reza Haeri.
Saodat Ismailova
Saodat Ismailova is a filmmaker and artist from Uzbekistan who came of age in the post-Soviet era and has established her artistic career between Paris and Tashkent. Interweaving rituals and dreams within the tapestry of everyday life, her films investigate the historically complex and multilayered culture of Central Asia. She graduated from Tashkent’s State Institute of Arts and Culture and Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing. She founded the DAVRA research collective in Central Asia in 2021. In 2022, Saodat Ismailova participated in the 59th Venice Biennale, presented new work at documenta 15, and received the Eye Art & Film Prize, Amsterdam.
Nicole Edelman
Nicole Edelman is a historian and Honorary Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.
Her work focuses on fields that have been sidelined by political, scientific or religious power, and on knowledge that has been obscured or forgotten by historians.
Her books include Voyantes, guérisseuses et visionnaires en France (1995) and Les Métamorphoses de l'hystérique (2003).
Marine Benoit
Marine Benoit is a journalist who has been the Archaeology and History editor at Sciences et Avenir magazine since 2019. She previously worked for Le Monde and France 24. She is also the host of a podcast, In Tenebris, and author of a book of the same name published by Payot. Both explore seemingly paranormal phenomena from a scientific angle.
Tanya Luhrmann
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural, and the world of psychosis. She was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, received a Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. She is the author of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft (1989), When God Talks Back (2012), How God Becomes Real (2022), and is currently at work on a book entitled Voices. She has published over thirty op-eds in The New York Times.
Madison Bycroft
Madison Bycroft (they/them, b. 1987 in Tarntanya, Adelaide, Australia) lives and works in Marseille and is the tutor of the FKA Critical Practices group at Artez, in Arnhem, Netherlands. Bycroft is a graduate of the University of South Australia (2013), the MFA program at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2016), and was a fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome (2024). Working with video, sculpture, and performance, Madison Bycroft’s current interests extend into forms of reading and writing, expression, and refusal. The politics of illegibility and legibility are explored through language and material, asking how “sense” is framed by historical contexts, biases, and structures of power. Bycroft is interested in how we might reimagine “reading” (in its expanded sense) and understanding, not as goal-oriented towards accomplishment, but as a relationship that hovers and makes space: opaque, errant, fractured, and floating.
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Ekow Eshun
Ekow Eshun is a writer and curator. Described by Vogue as “the most inspired - and inspiring - curator in Britain”, his acclaimed exhibitions include In the Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery, and The Time Is Always Now, at the National Portrait Gallery, a major study of the Black figure and its representation in contemporary art. He is the author of books including Black Gold of the Sun (2005), Africa State of Mind (2018), and in September 2024 The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them.
Theaster Gates
Theaster Gates lives and works in Chicago. Gates creates work that focuses on space theory and land development, sculpture and performance. Drawing on his interest and training in urban planning and preservation, Gates redeems spaces that have been left behind. Known for his recirculation of art-world capital, Gates creates work that focuses on the possibility of the “life within things.” Gates smartly upturns art values, land values, and human values. In all aspects of his work, he contends with the notion of Black space as a formal exercise – one defined by collective desire, artistic agency, and the tactics of a pragmatist.
Gates has exhibited and performed at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (2018); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018); National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA (2017); Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (2016); Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2013); Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy (2013) and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (2012). He was the winner of the Artes Mundi 6 prize and was a recipient of the Légion d’Honneur in 2017. He was awarded the Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2018, as well as the Urban Land Institute, J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development.
Gates is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College. Gates also serves as the Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to the Dean. Gates is Director of Artists Initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College Museum of Art and the 2018/2019 Artist-in-Residence at the Getty Research Institute (GRI).
Hannah Black
Hannah Black was in residence at LUMA Arles from september to december 2023.
Hannah Black is an artist and writer based between NYC and Marseilles. Recent shows include “Bad Timing” at Den Frie, in Copenhagen, and “2020” at Fitzpatrick Gallery, in Paris. She is the author of two small books, Tuesday or September or the End (2022) and Dark Pool Party (2016). She is represented by Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery in Berlin and Arcadia Missa in London.
Tom Eccles
Tom Eccles joined the LUMA Arles Core Group of international advisors in 2007, and was appointed Co-Artistic Director in 2019. Tom Eccles is also Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in the United States, where he also oversees the exhibitions and programs of the Hessel Museum of Art (since 2005). He was previously the Director of the Public Art Fund in New York City (1995-2005). Eccles has been a curator for the Park Avenue Armory since 2007 and has organized numerous public projects, exhibitions and talks programs within the United States and internationally.
Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler lives and works in New York. Born in 1957, he graduated from the California Institute of the Arts and collaborated on early works with artists such as Mike Kelley.
His museum exhibitions include Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2014); Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2013); ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2012); Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2001); Whitney Museum, New York (2000); and Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (1998). In addition to participating in prestigious group exhibitions such as Documenta VIII and IX, Oursler’s work is included in many public collections worldwide, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Osaka, Japan; Tate Gallery, London; and Van Abbemuseum.
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