The French Public Higher Schools of Art
Bourges
École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges
about
Located in a 17th century building, the National Higher School of Art, Bourges, finds itself at the historical heart of the city. With almost 7000m2 available to it, the school offers vast work spaces to students and has numerous technical workshops fitted with a high standard of equipment that is constantly renewed and updated.
The Box is one of the main tools for teaching in the school. Each year it produces more than ten exhibitions of French and foreign artists. Since 1991, the Bourges ENSA works with young, resident artists and entrusts a part of its programme to young curators, with the financial support of the regional direction for cultural affairs and the regional council of the Centre. The goal of these residencies is to allow young French and foreign artists to do a personal project in connection with the school, its teachers, its students and other external partners. The students also benefit from the presence of these professionals and artists for the implementation of exhibitions and workshops.
Wenjing Wang, DNSEP 2012, Ensa Bourges
Camille Cathudal, DNSEP 2012, Ensa Bourges
Lola Antunes Sandhinhia, DNAP 2012, Ensa Bourges
Baptiste Brévart, DNSEP 2012, Ensa Bourges
Vasyl Odrekhivskyy, DNSEP 2012, Ensa Bourges
Vue amphithéâtre - École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges
options
Art
Master MEEF arts plastiques
qualifications
DNSEP option Art
third cycle
post-graduate
Laborintus – Post graduate course in sound practices
Since 2000, the ENSA of Bourges has introduced a workshop dedicated to sound practices which continues to evolve thanks to a reinforcing of the teaching staff, equipment and an informal but strong relationship between the school and the electro acoustic music class of the music conservatory of the town of Bourges.
The innovative nature of this project results in an overlapping of electronic music practices and sound practices. The idea is to create passages between electronic music and the inventive nature of sound practice, to create encounters between students coming from different backgrounds, and to avail of this twin approach so as to favor creation. The creation of the post graduate course arrives as a logical follow up to this accumulation of skills and practices which induce the development of research blending electronic musical practices and sound practices.
The objectives of the post graduate programme are to:
– deepen the artist’s and/or musician’s technical and artistic training with a multidisciplinary training;
– place creation at the heart of the overlap of musical and sound practices;
– engage transversal research around sound and contemporary forms;
– ensure the dissemination of the year’s creation in the context of a public demonstration.
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ongoing training
CÉPIA Center for Studies
This training is inscribed within the general policy of the Minister of Culture and Communication, a policy which aims to favor the widest possible access to artistic and cultural practices. Its objective is to provide complementary training to visual artists engaged in a professional activity. This training is founded on the acquisition of didactical skills and capacity for thought, applied to contemporary creation. It is not teaching in the classical sense of the term (an objectified transmission of a general skill-set) but rather prepares students to intervene on the basis of a unique practical experience, with diverse audiences: school and extracurricular contexts, cultural services, associative spaces, hospital and prison settings.
This training is based on a twin approach: theoretical and methodology teaching and an implementation of an intervention submitted to regular analysis all throughout the training period.
For more information
sylvie.chany@ensa-bourges.fr
research units
research programmes
publications
Exhibition Catalogues from the La Box Gallery
Publications connected with projects linked to research.
activities and events
Lectures, seminars, exhibitions, artist residencies, workshops.
Hosting of festivals (Bandits-mages, Bulles-Berry, Emmoson, Festival des scénaristes, Printemps de Bourges, Synthèse).
Participation in the biennial of Contemporary Art.
Study trips on the occasion of major international exhibitions (Venice, Kassel, Berlin, London).
international cooperation
– Study trips in the context of the Erasmus programme and numerous conventions for student exchanges: Peking, Hangzhou, China; Ankara, Antalaya, Samsun, Turkey; Berlin, Offenbach, Gemany; Brussels, Belgium; Grenada, Madrid, Salamanca, Spain; Prague, Czech Republic; Taipei, Taiwan; Utrecht, Holland; Wroclaw, Poland; Ulan Bator, Mongolia; Ramallah, Palestine; Douala, Cameroon; Los Angeles, USA;
– Experimental voyages conceived as art projects by artist-teachers giving rise to a collective production and an exhibition: Sun Slide in Japan, with Éric Maillet and Christian Merlhiot, Chiner en Chine (Antique hunting in China), with Karen Hansen and Cécile Paris, Traveling workshop in the USA with Roland Baladi…
– The Coalition for Reconstructive Utopia Dirt Expedition (CRUde):This project questions the use of space and its interpretation, with students from both institutions, one French, the other American (ENSA Bourges – UC Irvine). The first week is held during the period of June to July of 2011 at the UC Irvine Room Gallery in Wendover. Students of the Bourges ENSA are received by the American students from June 18th to June 30th, 2012 for a second conference. This project is run by Nathalie Magnan (professor at the Bourges ENSA) and Catherine Lord (professor at the UCI).
– Outland: A workshop for research and creation of radio fiction and sound work. The project brings together the ENSA of Limoges and the ENSA of Bourges and is run by Geneviève Vergé Beaudou, Marios Tériade Eleftheriadis and Jean-Michel Ponty. In 2012, Outland created a network of workshops “hors les murs” (beyond the walls) by organizing a study trip to Paris, followed by Thessalonica and Istanbul (from March 21st to March 31st, 2012)
– Grants available to students: students can avail of the possibility of a Mobi-Center and OFAJ grant
gallery
La Box Gallery
specific equipment
Workshops: publishing, multimedia, photography, painting, sound, volume, video, ceramics workshop, model making.
Traditional resources inherent to drawing, painting and sculpture, the ensemble of techniques of reproduction (engraving, lithographic printing, screen printing, offset printing), photography, multimedia and computer graphics, video and sound.
A 130 seat amphitheater,
1 radio studio
1 professional film studio, La Chapelle
1 contemporary art gallery, La Box
2 studios / accommodation for resident artists
1 media library
networks
ANdEA, Collegium Grand Ouest, ELIA, Erasmus, PRES Centre – Val de Loire, Art accord.
administrative team
Stéphane Doré Directeur
Patrice Ducher Secrétaire administratif
Krystel Cosquéric Relations internationales
Francine David-Casteran Secrétariat pédagogique
Cécile Ligier Bibliothèque
Krystel Cosquéric Relations internationales
Nadia Lecocq Communication et recherche
Chloé Nicolas Coordination de la galerie La Box
professors
Jean-Luc André
Wilfrid Augé
Éric Aupol
Stéphane Beaudonnet
Neal Beggs
Erik Bullot
Alexandre Castant
Damien Chaillou
Denis Champeau
Éric Corne
Arnaud Deshayes
Andreas Maria Fohr
Catherine Fraixe
Laurent Gautier
Antonio Guzman
Nicolas Hérubel
Stéphane Joly
Jérôme Joy
Florentine Lamarche-Ovize
Tatiana Lévy
Ingrid Luche
Nathalie Magnan
Gilles Martinez
Jenny Mary
Didier Mencoboni
Olga Moine
Jean-Michel Ponty
Noémie Privat
Françoise Quardon
Alejandra Riera
Mose Sironneau
Hervé Trioreau
Claudia Triozzi
Michel Weemans
Giovanna Zapperi
contact
7 rue Édouard-Branly, BP 297
18006 | Bourges cedex
tél. +33 (0)2 48 69 78 78
fax +33 (0)2 48 69 78 84
contact@ensa-bourges.fr
www.ensa-bourges.fr
students
235 students