Professional actions

To support artists in the development of their careers and strengthen their links with professional networks, DDA-AuRA develops support, advice and networking actions.
The team also provides professional training and conducts educational and mediation activities to present its editorial work and promote artists to a variety of audiences.

Studio visits — Meet-up

Bruno Silva's studio visit, Les Ateliers, Clermont-Ferrand, 2022

Maxime Lamarche's studio visit, Les Ateliers, Clermont-Ferrand, 2022

Philippe Favier's studio visit, Les Ateliers, Clermont-Ferrand, 2022

Keiko Machida's studio visit, Les Ateliers, Clermont-Ferrand, 2022

Meeting with Mengzhi Zheng, Contemporary Art Center of Lacoux, 2019

Meeting with Aurélie Pétrel, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, 2019

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The inter-regional programme Meet-up of the Réseau documents d'artistes consists in inviting art professionals to meet the territorial artistic scenes. Each year, a tour of workshops and venues is organized in a territory of the region.

These prospecting trips are mainly financed by the dda Network and organized by the teams in the regions. They aim to promote knowledge of the work of artists in national and international professional networks. To reflect the territorial dynamics as a whole, these stays are also an opportunity to meet the managers of structures, visit exhibitions, places of production or diffusion.

Meet-up 2022 - Clermont-Ferrand & Saint-Étienne

— Visiting professionals:

  • Cécile Coudreau, Programming and broadcasting manager in the territory, Frac PACA, Marseille
  • Émilie d’Ornano, Curator, critic, teacher and director of KOMMET, Lyon
  • Marilou Laneuville, Head of the exhibitions department, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
  • Nicolas Raufaste, Co-curator et coordinator, CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Suisse
  • Ariane Réquin, Independent consultant of artistic projects, Lyon

— Artists met:

A.Stella, Atelier BL119 (Grégory Blain & Hervé Dixneuf), David Blasco, Hervé Bréhier, Tom Castinel, Franck Chalendard, Marion Chambinaud, Roland Cognet, Christelle Franc, Audrey Galais, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Maxime Lamarche, Coline Lasbats, Henrique Loja, Emmanuel Louisgrand, Sébastien Maloberti, Zach Mitlas, Johann Rivat, Anne Marie Rognon, Chloé Serre, Léa Stella Lalanne, Bruno Silva, Marjolaine Turpin.

→ See the archive on the website of Réseau documents d'artistes

Meet-up 2021 - Drôme

— Visiting professionals:

  • Émilie Flory, Curator and art critic
  • Emma Legrand, Director of Service Culturel de la ville de Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc
  • Sylvie Vojik, Director of art3 Valence

— Artists met:

Delphine Balley, Bruno Carbonnet, Baptiste Croze & Linda Sanchez, Philippe Favier, Jérémy Liron, Sébastien Maloberti, Samuel Rousseau, Françoise Vergier.

→ See the archive on the website of Réseau documents d'artistes

Meet-up 2020 - Lyon

— Visiting professionals:

  • Lilian Froger, collections officer, Musée d’art et d’archéologie d’Aurillac
  • Stefania Meazza, director of DDA Occitanie, Toulouse
  • David Moinard, artistic director for « Le Partage des eaux » and « Le Sentier des Lauzes » and program mediator of Nouveaux commanditaires in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Ardèche
  • Alessandra Prandin, director of CAP - Art Center of Saint-Fons
  • Yves Robert, deputy director of the Biennale de Lyon
  • Paul de Sorbier, director of La Maison Salvan, Labège

— Artists met:

Jan Kopp, Frédéric Houvert, Simon Feydieu , Lise Roussel, Laurence Cathala, Jérémy Liron, Frédéric Khodja, Sylvie Sauvageon, Fabienne Ballandras, Mengzhi Zheng, Guillaume Perez, Amandine Mohamed-Delaporte, Bruno Silva, Bertrand Stofleth, Jesùs Alberto Benítez, Bertrand Grosol.

→ See the archive on the website of Réseau documents d'artistes

Meet-up 2019 - Ain & Haute-Savoie

— Visiting professionals:

  • François Dehoux, member of L’Assaut de la menuiserie, Saint-Étienne
  • Julia Lardy, coordinator of Ateliers Vortex, Dijon
  • Françoise Lonardoni, cultural service manager, macLYON
  • Isabelle Reiher, director of Cirva, Marseille
  • Carole Rigaut, director of Halle Nord, Genève
  • Giulia Turati, director of La Halle, Pont-en-Royans

— Artists met:

Aurélie Pétrel, Florent Meng, Guillaume Robert, Jean-Xavier Renaud, Karim Kal, Keiko Machida, Marc Desgrandchamps, Marie-Anita Gaube, Mengzhi Zheng, Philippe Droguet

→ See the archive on the website of Réseau documents d'artistes

Meet-up 2018 - Clermont-Ferrand & Saint-Étienne

— Visiting professionals:

  • Sophie Auger-Grappin, director of Micro Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay
  • Xavier Jullien, director of Art Center of Vénissieux
  • Edouard Monnet, director of Vidéochroniques, Marseille
  • Diane Pigeau, responsable of visual arts in 3bisF, Aix-en-Provence

— Artists met:

A.Stella, Atelier BL119, Bruno Silva, Christelle Franc, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Émilie Perotto, Emmanuel Louisgrand, Hervé Bréhier, Roland Cognet, Sébastien Maloberti

→ See the archive on the website of Réseau documents d'artistes

Meet-up 2017 - Lyon & Bordeaux

— Visiting professionals:

  • Fabienne Bideaud, independent curator
  • Richard Neyroud, audience manager, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch & independent curator
  • Denis Pernet, director of Hard Hat, Genève
  • Anne-Lou Vicente, independent curator
  • Marion Dupressy, curator of L’Angle, La Roche-sur-Foron

— Artists met:

Benedetto Bufalino, Eva Taulois, Fabienne Ballandras, Jeanne Tzaut, Julie Chaffort, Marie-Anita Gaube, Mathias Tujague, Muriel Rodolosse, Niek van de Steeg, Olivier Nottellet, Pascal Poulain, Pierre Labat, Sabine Delcour, Sébastien Vonier, Vincent Carlier, Yveline Loiseur.

→ See the archive on the website of Réseau documents d'artistes

Meet-up 2016 - Lyon & Marseille

— Visiting professionals:

  • Nicolas De Ribou, director of POPPOSITIONS, Bruxelles
  • Laura Herman, independent curator, La Loge, Bruxelles
  • Tania Nasielski, commissaire 105 BESME, Bruxelles
  • Pieter Vermeulen, commissaire indépendant

— Artists met:

Jérémie Setton, Patrice Carré, André Mérian, Diane Guyot de Saint-Michel, Pierre-Laurent Cassière, Serge Le Squer, Abraham Poincheval, Baptiste Croze, Jesús Alberto Benítez, Karim Kal, Laurence Cathala, Niek van de Steeg, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Simon Feydieu, Frédéric Houvert, Laurent Pernel

→ See the archive on the website of Réseau documents d'artistes

→ All studio visits of Réseau dda

Interventions

DDA-AuRA carries out various interventions each year within the framework of training, juries, educational or mediation actions. The team is also regularly invited to professional consultations, at regional or national level with the dda Network.

Particularly attentive to the situation of artists and associations in the territory, we wish to contribute, as far as possible, to collective reflections promoting the recognition of the specificities of the visual arts sector and the professionalization of the working conditions of the artistic scene.

Advices

Since 2021, the team has been invited by AC//RA and ESACM Clermont-Ferrand to lead training modules for artists or students from the region.

  • Build your portfolio
    — Artists-Authors support program proposed by AC//RA - Art contemporain en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
    — ESACM - École supérieure d’art de Clermont Métropole

Johann Rivat, exhibition view, Greenhouse, Saint-Étienne, 2022

Critical texts

Recognizing the needs of artists, the DDA Network has developed various actions to support the production of critical content on their work.

The “Points of View” section has thus been developed on the website reseau-dda.org around the invitation of authors to take a transversal look at the works of artists of the various funds.

Monographs are also produced each year with the help of the DDA Network. Artists with a renewed need for writing about their work are put in contact with art critics chosen especially to produce unpublished texts, which feed the online documentation of artists and support their dissemination.
In 2023, DDA-AuRA received support from Fondation de l’Olivier to initiate the production of new monograph texts.

Research

At the initiative of Stéphane Bellin, Senior Lecturer in Information and Communication Science, the work of Documents d’artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the subject in 2022-2023 research projet CréaDOCte led by a team from GRESEC - Université Grenoble Alpes.

Funded as part of the UGA’s policy of supporting teachers and researchers, this project aims to analyse the shift from documentation to communication by targeting the contemporary art sector.