The French Public Higher Schools of Art
Metz
Ecole supérieure d’art de Lorraine | Metz
about
In January of 2011, ÉSAL was founded following the merger of the École de l’Image d’Épinal and the École Supérieure d’Art de Metz Métropole. In January 2014, the school opened its training centre for teachers of music and dance. ÉSAL is a multi-site institution offering training programmes in visual arts, music and dance open to multidisciplinary practices and experiences.
The school contain around 300 students in 3 different sites. It proposes curricula in 5 state-certified training programmes :
- Art option, specialization: exploring artistic devices, Metz
- Communication option, specialization: graphic arts & languages, Metz
- Artistic Design option, specialization: images & narratives, Épinal
- Music, all fields, Metz
- Dance, classical, jazz & contemporary, Metz
The school’s multidisciplinary approach enriches its training at each site, while its cross-disciplinary workshops allow for fertile exchanges within numerous fields of contemporary art and the performing arts. Research training is also a common denominator.
The visual arts center in Metz covers 3 000 m2 and is situated in the heart of Metz between two institutions of major artistic importance: The Metz Pompidou Centre and the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (Frac Lorraine). Situated in a privileged access to European space, crossing national frontiers confers a particular status on the school offering further cultural opportunities due to its geographical positionclose to Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg – known as the territory of La Grande Region.
This rich environment is concerned with the directing and circulating of images, the notions of artistic devices, and graphic and narrative systems. Backed up by permanent workshops (a film studio, mixed media workshops, edition, photography, video, print making studios, wood and metal workshops) and important resources in the fields of multimedia, ofinteractivity, of sound and specialization, of edition, photography andtraditional media (etching, drawing, painting…) students find here theconditions of development for personal research projects.
The Ésal is the only school of art in further education having connections with an exceptional Centre of art dedicated on a European level to modern and contemporary art. In terms of synergy the construction of the Pompidou Centre in Metz has a highly favorable incidence on its teaching project. The Centre allows the Ésal to take advantage of exceptional resources, be they documentary or related to events. It also associates students and teachers in the setting up of experimental projects.The concept of a studio of creation, especially, allows for the development of collaborations where the creating of hybrid images, associating sound andmovement provokes questioning about scenography and the whole spectrum of setting up, from photographic to film sets, exhibition and theatre design.
options
Art
Communication
qualifications
DNA option Communication mention arts et langages graphiques
DNSEP option Art mention dispositifs multiples
DNSEP option Communication mention arts et langages graphiques
research programmes
(D)écrire – (de)scribe
ARC Electrique – Electric
Changer d'(air) – change of air/scenery
Cultures Alternatives – alternatives cultur
EQART – The space in question in the art
EXTRA—TEXTE Seminar – Elamine Maecha
Group of experimental et creativ practice on the memoir
Haounting images and nuances of the form
Research in the sound – Élénore Bak
Research program EXTRA -TEXTE
Sensitive opposition
The Messine – typography
publications
http://www.esalorraine.fr/metz/publications/
Inter-school publications
Publication des diplômes, édition, 2011-2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba
- Diplomas Catalogues, for ex. : Diplômes 2021 ÉSAL, 2021
- Revu #2016/2017, 2017, édition de l’atelier de design REVU suite aux échanges entre Metz et Épinal
- Le Salon, échantillon de typographie (la messine), CD, affiches,etc.
Exhibition catalogues
- Prix d’art/Kunstpreis Robert Schuman, 2018, catalogue de l’exposition
- Pangramme, 2016
- Dependant Participation, projet Vitrine , ÉSAL / Vittorio Santoro, Metz, 2022.
Other Publishing works
- Album Sébum, as part of Tumultes – cases et débordements, avec Lucie Durbiano / ÉSAL ,
- Monsieur P s’allia au sonneur pour passer à l’échoppe réclamer ses envois, mais troua dans son sillage un petit livre à moins de 5 euros. Quelle aubaine!, édition de l’ARC Édition de l’ESAL Metz, dans le cadre de la Biennale de l’Edition Exemplaires, mars 2019
- Messine, research publishing work as part of the Type design workshop, 2021.
- D’os, as part of the Exemplaires réalisée pour la Biennal, with Institut Page of École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine, 2021.
- Catabase, Antonin Caniparoli’s artistic dissertation (a graduate student) published, as part of the “Groupe de pratique expérimentale et créative du mémoire”, Institut Page of École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine, 2021.
- BLX, as part of the “Zone À dessins” workshop, partnership with the city of Metz, 2021.
Catabase, édition, 2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba
Publication des diplômes, édition, 2011-2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba
BLX, édition, 2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba
Publication des diplômes, édition, 2011-2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba
Album Sebum, édition, 2011-2022, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba
magazines
activities and events
Seminars, lectures, exhibitions…
Current events : http://www.esalorraine.fr/metz/actualite/
Non-exhaustive list :
Partenaires particuliers/ October
The “particular partners”comes to the school to introduce themselves and the annual Programming of the year to the students. Guests: Centre Pompidou-Metz, FRAC Lorraine, Centre of contemporary art La Synagogue de Delme, MUDAM, Vent des fôrets, Le Signe – national Centre of graphic design, etc.
Exchanges Metz-Épinal / Several times per year
Workshops between the plastic students of Metz and Épinal.
Workshop of Trinational Design / December
The higher school of the Upper Rhine region work together every year to set up a workshop about design.
Journée portes ouvertes/ March
Open Doors of the school for one day (conferences, exhibitions, group visit,)
Week-end de l’art contemporain/ March
weekend about art contemporary
Semaine de la BD / Festival du livre à Metz / April
A week about illustration and the comic book. Workshops, exhibition. In collaboration with the festival le Livre à Metz
Résidence and creation in the landscape / June
One week in a residence (Northern Vosges regional natural park) to create an artistic way in the landscape
Carte de visite / June
Annual exhibition of the Graduates of the school
post-curricular or extracurricular activities
Traineeship for the young people (16—21 year) / February
Traineeship for the young people who want the experiment the plasticart for one entirely week (painting, etching, video, etc.). Help for the competitionof art schools.
Hands-on art workshops – public courses
ESAL hosts art workshops on weekdays. These convivial workshops are open to everyone, from begining to experienced artists, and are led by artist-teachers or professional instructors.
international cooperation
Numerous international exchange initiatives, which are a priority for the school, through the Erasmus network. The elaboration of politics for international exchanges is one of the priorities of the Ésal which disposes of Erasmus agreements in ten European countries.
Foreign students from outside the European Union
Foreign applicants residing abroad and graduates from countries outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) must apply via the portal CampusArt and submit their application to the equivalency committee (admissions only via the Metz Visual Arts website).
campusart.org
European Union students
Foreign students from the EU who would like to complete an entire ÉSAL course programme may integrate the school in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th academic year. Just like French students, they must take the competitive entrance exam and submit their application to the equivalency committee. Otherwise, for a shorter period, students may
request a study mobility via their own institution.
The Erasmus application form’ available on our website must be filled out and sent in no later than November 6, along with all other necessary documents. More information on the website
http://www.esalorraine.fr/metz/erasmus/
gallery
Gallery of the Esplanade : A 400m2 space located in the heart of the city
Installation du DNSEP Communication de Sarah Lampaert, 2022, Metz. Crédits photo: Pancake! photo
Installation du DNSEP Communication de Sarah Queraud, 2022, Metz. Crédits photo: Pancake! photo
specific equipment
Multimedia pilot workshops: text, photography, publications, sound, image, moving images, interactive systems…
Workshop/classes of the school:
- film
- video live
- graphic design
- editorial design
- transmedia
- interactive system
- The sound research studio [ ARS ]
- etching
- photo
- digital print
- plotter
- wood and metal shops
- FabLab (laser cutting & 3D printout)
- studio tacking room
- video screening room (green background)
networks
- ANdEA : National Association of Higher Schools of Art
- ANESCAS : Association Nationale d’Établissements Supérieurs de la Création Artistique dans le domaine des arts de la Scène
- Great-Eastern Network of Higher Art Schools.
- AGEM (association of the great schools of Metz),
- ELIA,
- Art Accord France,
- Metz Campus,
- Isseetech (Advanced European Institute for the enterprise and its techniques)
- Réseau des écoles supérieures d’art du Grand-Est,
- Erasmus,
- Réseau LORA, Network of contemporary art in Lorraine
- Plan d’Est, visual arts center of Grand Est
- CGEL : Conférence des Grandes Écoles de Lorraine,
- PLES : Centre of Higher Education in Lorraine
- PR2A : Centre of Competence in Research of Art and Architecture,
- Pôle Images
administrative team
Nathalie Filser, directrice générale
Gilles Balligand, administrateur
Eve Demange, responsable des études et des relations internationales
Juliette Férard, responsable de communication
Marion Sztor, chargée de la scolarité
Pauline Speyer, chargée de la médiathèque
Alice Blas, gestionnaire RH et paie
Sabrina Gerber Assistante administrative RH
Billal Mebarki, gestionnaire budgétaire et financier, régie
Valérie Massonet, assistante administrative finances
Claudine Langenberger, informaticienne
Patrick Ricordeau, réseaux et matériel
Daniel Collot, responsable patrimoine, ateliers, logistique
Valérie Mathieu, chargée d’accueil
professors
Aurélie Amiot, image imprimée
Éléonore Bak, son
Célia Charvet, écriture et arts de l’exposition
Léo Coquet, suivi mémoire et Institut Page
Jean-Denis Filliozat, interfaces, installations interactives
François Génot, dessiner designer
Agnès Geoffray, photographie
Christophe Georgel, histoire de l’art
Franck Girard, dessin
Christian Globensky, pratique/théorie des arts multimédia
Marco Godinho, art et pratiques plastiques
Agnès Gorchkoff, couleur
Hélène Guillaume, vidéo
Jérôme Knebusch, design graphique et typographie
Elamine Maecha, design éditorial
Constance Nouvel, photographie
Émilie Pompelle, transmédia
Jean-Christophe Roelens, volume technique et matériaux
Yvain Von Stebut, radio-théorie
Frédéric Thomas, transmédia, animation & FabLab
Pierre Villemin, vidéo
Allison Wilson, anglais
contact
1 rue de la Citadelle
57000 | Metz
tél. +33 (0)3 87 39 61 30
metz@esalorraine.fr
www.esalorraine.fr
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students
300 students – 150 in Metz