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Le Consortium is a
contemporary art Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...
center based in
Dijon Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eas ...
founded by Xavier Douroux & Franck Gautherot, among others, from the association Le Coin du Miroir (The Corner Mirror). The center was run by Douroux, in collaboration with Gautherot and
Eric Troncy The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, Eirik, or Eiríkur is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Nor ...
. In 1982, The consortium was awarded the
Art Center Art Center may refer to: * Arts centre, a type of community centre that focuses on the arts * Art Center College of Design, a college in Pasadena, California {{Disambiguation ...
label, and moved to an old appliance store in downtown Dijon and in 1983, Le Coin du Miroir, À La Limite and Déjà Vu joined and became a single entity. In 1991, Le Consortium expanded by moving to a factory on the outskirts of Dijon. In 1996, Troncy joined Le Consortium as co-director and in 2000, Kim Seung-duk joined as co-curator and director of international development. In 2009, Le Consortium launched an office on Hoxton Street in
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, directed by Sophie Claudel and in 2011, a new building was opened, designed by Shigeru Ban


Organization


Contemporary art center

The objectives of Le Consortium are the production and exhibition of contemporary works, the enrichment of the public heritage in this area, the promotion, diffusion and training to art and today's thinking. Le Consortium is also in a process of reflection and experimentation in cultural engineering and administration of artistic activities related to performing arts. Le Consortium finds its origin in the mid-70's alternative structures, installed in the heart of the cities, and designed as power balances and independent places. Le Consortium's first actions have been realized with the most protester artists regarding to the language or the way to make art, as
Buren Buren () is a town and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Betuwe region of the Netherlands. Buren has 27,168 inhabitants as of 1 January 2022. Geography Buren is located in Gelderland, a province of the Netherlands. It is pa ...
, Mosset,
Toroni Toroni (, ''Toróne'', modern pronunciation ''Toróni'') is an ancient Greek city and a former municipality in the southwest edge of Sithonia peninsula in Chalkidiki, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality ...
, Rutault, Boltanski, Messager, Le Gac, Baldessari, Luthi... The Contemporary Art Center organizes 8 solo or group exhibitions of international artists each year. It hosted the works of
Chris Burden Christopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance art, sculpture, and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including ''Shoot (Burden), Shoot'' (1971) ...
, Rémy Zaugg,
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and Installation art, installation, and she is also active in painting, performance art, performance, video art, Fashion design, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her wo ...
, but also the first exhibition in France and even in Europe of today recognized artists as Jorge Pardo,
Maurizio Cattelan Maurizio Cattelan (; born 21 September 1960) is an Italian visual artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His Satire, satirical approach to art has re ...
, Sylvie Fleury, Mark Leckey, Rachel Harrison, Charline von Heyl...


The collection

The collection contains more than 250 works of international artists - mostly acquired at the beginning of their careers - which have been the subject of an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1998 and which are regularly loaned to many institutions. The collection allows a constant rotation in our exhibition spaces, creating a real educational tool in conjunction with the temporary shows.


Exhibitions


Selected recent shows

*2013 The Photographic Object 1970; Robert Barry *2012 FRAC / CONSORTIUM : 2 Collections *2011 «The Deer», a show by Eric Troncy; Sherrie Levine *2010 Sylvie Auvray; Lynda Benglis *2008 Christian Boltanski, «Questions-réponses» *2007 Mark Lecky, «Industrial Light and Magic» *2005 Angela Bulloch; Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, «Partial Eclipse 1982-2002» *2004 Carsten Höller; Ugo Rondinone, «Short Nights, Long Years» *2003 Ann Veronica Janssens; Richard Hamilton, «Editions & Multiples» *2002 Lily Van Der Stokker, «Family and Friends»; Lee Bul, «The Monster Show»; Christopher Wool *2001 Niki de Saint-Phalle; Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, «Quelle architecture pour Mars ?» *2000 Yayoi Kusama; Wang Du


Public Art


New Patrons programme

The Art & Society department is running a programme of public commissions, mainly dealing with the rural area and its historical and cultural heritage. Since 1991, Le Consortium has been mediator of the Fondation de France within the framework of the Nouveaux commanditaires activities in Bourgogne, which give individuals, organizations, and public corporations the opportunity to commission a contemporary artwork. One of the goals of the project is to help local development through tourism. The Art & Society department works in collaboration with the European LEADER programme for rural and cultural development.


Public commissions

Le Consortium, thanks to its long experience in the domain of contemporary art and to the relationship it built with the most famous artists over the years, is particularly qualified to lead public art projects : from isolated public artworks, in rural or urban areas, to big sets of works acting together in coherence, including projects designed in accordance with the social and cultural context of the territory in which they are implanted. Here below are a few examples of the public commissions recently carried out by Le Consortium.


Lille (France)

FLOWER POWER » / LILLE 2004, European Capital of Culture *dates : 6 Dec 2003 – 8 Feb 2004 at Palais Rameau *dates : 6 Dec 2003 – 22 Jan 2004 at Palais des Beaux-Arts & Musée de l’hospice Comtesse *Curators : Franck Gautherot, Kim Seung-duk, Xavier Douroux, Eric Troncy & Caroline David. Within the framework of this big-scale show, occupying several places in Lille as museums and cultural centers, Le Consortium conceived a public art project in collaboration with the internationally recognized Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama : Les Tulipes de Shangri-La. Between the train station Lille Europe and the city center, the work takes place in a wide empty place, as a 7,50-meter-high bouquet of colored and wild flowers, emerging among the buildings. Visible from a raised walkway, it is also directly reachable on the esplanade, such as natural flowers that belong to nobody, and anybody. This is Kusama's first monumental sculpture out of Japan.


Anyang (South Korea)

"ANYANG PUBLIC ART PROJECT" *since 20 October 2007 *Curators : Kim Seung-duk, Franck Gautherot, Sung Won Kim (artistic director & associate curator) Anyang Public Art Project is an exhibition of public commissions and an art festival held in Anyang, a city located at 25 km from Seoul. The objective of this project is to stimulate curiosity, awake the creative spirit of people whose city will be transformed. As a true outdoor laboratory, this project makes temporary and permanent works meet each others. Fifty monumental works of artists from different nationalities are presented in Anyang City :
John Armleder John Armleder (born 1948) is a Swiss performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, and curator. His work is based on his involvement with Fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s, when he created performance art pieces, installations, and collective art act ...
,
Angela Bulloch Angela Bulloch (born 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian artist who often works with sound and installation; she is recognised as one of the Young British Artists. Bulloch lives and works in Berlin. Life and career Bulloch stud ...
,
Daniel Buren Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for ...
, Marc Camille Chaimovicz, Eunji Cho, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Rachel Feinstein Sylvie Fleury, Gloria Friedmann,
Liam Gillick Liam Gillick (born 1964) is a British artist. In the 1990s he was one of the informal Young British Artists group; like many of them, he took a degree in fine art from Goldsmiths' College, in London. He was among the artists included in the ...
, Gimhongsok,
Dan Graham Daniel Graham (March 31, 1942 – February 19, 2022) was an American visual artist, writer, and curator in the writer-artist tradition. In addition to his visual works, he published a large array of critical and speculative writing that spanned ...
,
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and Installation art, installation, and she is also active in painting, performance art, performance, video art, Fashion design, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her wo ...
, Bertrand Lavier, Olivier Mosset, Mai-Thu Perret,
Rirkrit Tiravanija Rirkrit Tiravanija (, Jerry Saltz (May 7, 2007)Conspicuous Consumption''New York Magazine''.) is a Thai contemporary artist residing in New York City, Berlin, and Chiangmai, Thailand. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installatio ...
, Gary Webb, Yan Pei Ming...


Doha (Qatar)

"MSHEIREB DOWNTOWN DOHA PROJECT" *2011 - 2014 Le Consortium acted as an art consultant for the MDD Project, which consists in the re-qualification of a whole district in Doha, capital of Qatar. About 20 outdoor artworks will be installed in the city, punctuating the streets or enhancing the surrounds of museums, schools, mosques... Plus, additional 2- or 3-dimensional works (paintings, photographs, sculptures, furniture...) will be installed in the lobbies of buildings, as much in professional and commercial areas as in the residential zones. Deeply linked to the heritage and the culture of Qatar and its people, such a public collection will gather pieces from local and emerging artists, along with works of internationally recognized ones.


Gwangju (South Korea)

"ASIA CULTURE CENTER" *since Autumn 2014 Since 2014, Le Consortium takes part into the development of the Asian Culture Center in Gwangju (South Korea), managing the space design, the public art and other related projects like the opening of a culture store.


Research and development


Building museums, in and out

At the beginning of its activity, Le Consortium was set up in a 30 m2 space, at the first floor of an alternative library in Dijon. The structure early moves to a "gallery-apartment" and in 1982 finally occupies an old store of 600 m2 in the city center. In parallel in 1991, an old factory of 4000 m2 located in the inner suburbs has been included in the spaces of Le Consortium. In 2008, the art center arranges a shop, at the entrance of the exhibition space, for the sale of books and multiples. In 2009, the Consortium opens an office in Hoxton Street, London, in the continuation of its willing to promote and extend its approach of art and the society. Two years later, in 2011, the famous Japanese architect Shigeru Ban conceived the new building of Le Consortium, in accordance with the consideration of what an art center is in its founders’ minds. As an example, conceptually and architecturally, Le Consortium displays our capacity to invent new forms of spaces and places, and to supervise the construction a museum from alpha to omega, from the building to the programming, including the commercial and promotional matters.


Programming

The next fundamental step of building a museum consists in the programming. Each art center requires a specific agenda, including the permanent hanging of a collection, temporary exhibitions, events or shows, other arts performances, etc. in accordance with its conceptual and artistic definition.


Thematics

*Art & thinking *Diplomatic anniversaries (France, Korea, etc.) *Cultural events (Lille 2004, etc.)


The satellites


Les Presses du Réel

In addition to documenting, publishing enables a deepening of the exhibition activities of the Consortium. Les Presses du Réel limited company was set up in 1992, in order to make the publishing business financially independent from the Consortium. Its publications include series about today's most relevant contemporary art, as well as the main historical and literary texts from or about the 20th century's avant-gardes : Monographs (Lily van der Stokker, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Bull, Annette Messager, etc. ), exhibitions catalogues, artists’ writings, previously unpublished documents, classical texts never reprinted, and so forth. The series ‘L’Ecart Absolu’, ‘Document sur l’Art’, ‘Otto Muehl’s’ and ‘Hans Hartung’s', the publications Permanent Food and Charley, define an editorial policy which gives Les Presses du Réel a singular position in the landscape of French and international publishing. To strengthen its independency, Les Presses du Réel has also set up its own Distribution Service, which is used more and more by independent publishers such as the Contemporary Art Center of Geneva, The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes, JRP/Ringier Editions in Zurich...


Anna Sanders Films

Le Consortium is one of the main shareholders in the production company Anna Sanders Films, which was created by the artists Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Charles de Meaux and Dominique Gonzalez-Foester. Their aim is to produce their own films as well as to host other international projects. In the last seven years, several short films and features (Skimkent Hotel, Charles de Meaux’s Le Pont de Trieur, Dominique Gonzalez-Foester’s Riyo and Central Plage...), which were shown in cinemas and broadcast on television, have been produced. Some of them have been brought out on DVD in the Anna Sanders Films MK2 collection. During the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady obtained the Prix du Jury, and in 2002 Blissfully Yours by the same director obtained the award Un Certain regard.


Le Mur Saint-Bon

The Mur Saint-Bon is an exhibition space located at 8 rue Saint Bon in Paris. Founded in 2016 by Xavier Douroux and Natacha Carron Vullierme, it allows international artists close to the Consortium to confront their talents, each for 70 days, on one and the same wall. To this day
Sarah Morris Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England) is an American and British artist. She lives in New York City in the United States. Personal life and education Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, on 20 Ju ...
, Wade Guyton,
Alex Israel Alex Israel (born October 1982) is an American multimedia artist, writer, and designer from Los Angeles. His work includes large, colorful airbrushed paintings of abstract gradients and Los Angeles skies, his self-portraits, painted on shaped fi ...
, Mattias Faldbakken and Rachel Feinstein.


International recognition

* The
Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award). ...
has been awarded to Mark Leckey in 2008 for his exhibition "Industrial Light & Magic" at Le Consortium. * The Special Prize of the Jury of the Biennale de Venise 2001 awarded the French Pavilion by
Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French contemporary artist, who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. He lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Early life and education Pier ...
, that Le Consortium curated


Le Consortium : key figures

*1977 date of foundation *600 + 4000 m2 *300 artworks


Institutional partners

*Ministry of Culture and Communication *DRAC Bourgogne / Regional department for Culture *Conseil régional de Bourgogne *Conseil général de la Côte d’Or *Municipality of Dijon


See also

*
Art center Art Center may refer to: * Arts centre, a type of community centre that focuses on the arts * Art Center College of Design, a college in Pasadena, California {{Disambiguation ...
*
Dijon Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eas ...
*
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References


Bibliography

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External links


Site officiel du Consortium
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