40th anniversary of the Frac ! Gunaikeîon

Frac Île-de-France, les Réserves
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 2–7pm

Fondation Fiminco, Romainville
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 2–7pm

43 Rue de la Commune de Paris, 93230 Romainville, France

Curators: Jade Barget, Daisy Lambert, Camille Martin, Céline Poulin & Elsa Vettier

With the works of: Ismaïl Alaoui Fdili, Pierre Allain, Marie Angeletti, Luisa Ardila Camacho, Fabienne Audéoud, Azzeazy, Andrés Baron, Eva Barto, Éric Baudelaire, Safouane Ben Slama, Abdelhak Benallou, Adam Bilardi, Jean-Luc Blanc, Andrea Blum, Sophie Bonnet-Pourpet, Katharina Bosse, Ulla von Brandenburg, Stéphanie Brossard, Dora Budor, Victor Burgin, A.K. Burns, Laura Burucoa (en collaboration avec Shveta Lebonheur, Sara Bouazzaoui, Yasmine Kicha), Bruno Carbonnet, Tom Cazin, Ève Gabriel Chabanon, Nina Childress, Rina Cho & Nozomu Matsumoto, Claude Closky, Lynne Cohen, Mathis Collins, Éric Corne, Bady Dalloul, Fred Deux, Livia Deville, Inès Di Folco, Lana Duval, Xiao Fan, Sylvie Fanchon, Jenny Gage, Lola Gonzàlez, Laurent Grasso, Renée Green, Wiame Haddad, Shuo Hao, Tirdad Hashemi / Soufia Erfanian, Pati Hill, Mayssa Jaoudat, Nanna Kaiser, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Kapwani Kiwanga, Pierre Klossowski, Nile Koetting, Byong Jin Koh, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner, Ken Lum, Mira Mann, Mélanie Matranga, Ad Minoliti, Arash Nassiri, Jürgen Nefzger, Josèfa Ntjam, Anouchka Oler Nussbaum, Nygel Panasco, Yuri Pattison, Bruno Persat, Émilie Pitoiset, Agnieszka Polska, Philippe Poupet, Marie Preston, Richard Prince, Alex Quicho, Harilay Rabenjamina, Pipilotti Rist, Johanna Rocard, Liv Schulman, Bruno Serralongue, Chloé Serre, Shimabuku, Cally Spooner, P. Staff, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lauren Tortil, Didier Trenet, Michael Van Den Abeele, Sophie Varin, Yuyan Wang, Rehana Zaman & Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers.

For the 40th anniversary of the Frac*, the aim is both to rethink the institution’s history, written through its collection, and to look towards shared and desirable futures. To mark the occasion, the exhibition takes place at two venues in the Romainville cultural district, the Frac Île-de-France’s Réserves and the Fondation Fiminco’s Chaufferie.

Several curators have been invited to write their own narratives based on pieces from the collection, in dialogue with other works. Traditionally, the gunaikeîon was the flat in Greek and Roman houses where women spent most of their time, and which was set apart so that they had no direct contact with the street. The aim of this exhibition, on the contrary, is to open the spaces of the Réserves and the Chaufferie to the surrounding neighbourhoods and the sounds of the world. The exhibition is divided into several chapters, spanning both venues, in which each of the curators proposes an update of the collection in the light of their respective obsessions, rooted in contemporary society.

*The Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain (Regional Funds of Contemporary Art) were set up forty years ago to support contemporary art and bring it closer to local communities, by building up a collection.

Les Réserves of the Frac Île-de-France receive support from the Région Île-de-France, the Culture Minister—the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles of Île-de-France. Member of Tram and Platform network, Frac group.