The French Public Higher Schools of Art
Nancy
École nationale supérieure d’art et design de Nancy
about
Founded in 1708 by the dukes of Lorraine, the Nancy School of Art was first an academy. The notion of “fine-arts” inherited from history no longer translates the diversity of approaches and practices of creation such as they are within the école nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy. Our approach is more open and unique, creating a balance between research and professionalization.
An essential axis of the art option is to widely examine questions linked to the spacialization of work. Notions of system, installation and environment are effectively an essential component of a relationship with art today. They articulate the permanent dialogue that artistic propositions enjoy with their context, from creation to the act of presentation.
The new department (communication option) develops a sensitive and responsible approach to the issues of creation in terms of “communication”. Far from the sole criteria of graphic formatting of fashionable productions, the teachers propose a wider approach to visual communication where current affairs, indeed society, as much as contemporary artistic positions, are analyzed and taken into account in production. The proposed path in no way aims to master the universe of “graphic design”, rather it encourages experimentation, porosity and areas of friction with contemporary society and the world.
The field of design investigation goes from the private, domestic sphere to the public, urban or territorial: the students are progressively faced with the project of the object, to the conception of space and the staging of objects in spaces. The option privileges rigorous research on the pertinence of the meaning and the uses of material, according to the objectives and contexts, so as to result in reasonable projects.
options
Art
Communication
Design
qualifications
DNA option Communication
DNA option Design
DNSEP option Art
DNSEP option Communication
DNSEP option Design
post-graduate
The Offshore school – the “globalization and creation” research programme
Shanghai, a megalopolis of more than 20 million inhabitants, one of the most dynamic cities on the planet, hosts the “globalization and creation” research programme. This is concerned with the issues of creation in the context of globalization. Trans-disciplinary in nature, it is open to post-master graduates of the Nancy ENSA. The offshore school gives each one of them the possibility to develop a personal project inscribed within four primary objectives:
– invent and experiment new strategies of innovation in a networked world and a globalized economy
– think and experience art as a major operator in the society of knowledge
– analyze and anticipate cultural and intercultural changes generated by new technologies
– highlight the esthetic stakes of a globalized culture
publications
Conference proceedings, exhibition catalogues, CD Roms, DVDs and DVD Roms, multiple posters and portfolios.
The school has developed a publishing and co-publishing programme and regularly publishes exhibition catalogues, works of art and research (5 publications or co-publications in 2011).
activities and events
Exhibition programme: 5 to 6 exhibitions per year in the NaMiMa Gallery and 5 or 6 exhibitions per year in partner spaces, Espace My Monkey, André Malraux Cultural Center, national stage, Museum of Fine Arts, Aquarium Museum…
international cooperation
Active participation in European Union student and teacher exchange programmes (Erasmus/Socrates)
gallery
In 2011, the school created its own exhibition gallery, NaMiMa, a 120m2 space dedicated to experimentation and practices of the exhibition. NaMiMa is an acronym taken from Nano/Micro/Macro. It places the accent on relationships of scale, movement, space and time. To move from micro to macro, is to shift from the individual to the collective, from the restricted to the global. A fundamental issue to be faced with within an art school.
The gallery privileges work done in a laboratory logic with young curators, young French and international artists with some coming from the ARTEM studios. It presents three or four exhibitions per year, one of them being the result of an international call for projects launched towards young creators, artists and collectives operating in the field of research being interested in emerging forms.
specific equipment
Wood, metal, casting-modeling, typography, engraving, screen printing, lithography, reprography, offset, film and digital photography (a shooting studio and two laboratories for the treatment of black and white and color photographs), CAD and CAO, multimedia (film studio, editing booths, post-production and mastering equipment), video, sound, prototyping.
networks
ANdEA.
administrative team
Christian Debize Directeur
Didier Lagrange Responsable des études
Susan Mollon Relations internationales
Sophie Petitjean Bibliothèque
Catherine Tamborini Secrétariat pédagogique
Marie-Pierre Udron Secrétariat pédagogique
professors
Olivier Ageron
Marc Boudot
Alexandre Brugnoni
Claire Chevalier
Nina Childress
Jehanne Dautrey
Dominique Davril
Jean-François Deblay
Alban Delacour
Luc Doerflinger
Harald Fernagu
Jean-Michel Fickinger
Peter Fletcher
Jean-Paul Fournier
Thierry Fournier
Robert Garcia
Vanina Géré
Jochen Gerner
Bruno Guiganti
Christophe Jacquet
Laurent-Marie Joubert
Andrea Keen
Pierre Lobstein
Aurélie Michel
Aurélien Mole
Susan Mollon
Justin Morin
Leonor Nuridsany
Patrick Perrin
Cédric Pescheux
Colin Ponthot
Étienne Pressager
Jean-François Robardet
Béatrice Selleron
Renaud Thiry
Pierre Vanni
Benoît Verjat
Frédéric Wecker
Alain Willaume
Charles Young
Zieger Zieger
contact
1 avenue Boffrand
54000 | Nancy
tél. +33 (0)3 83 41 61 61
fax +33 (0)3 83 28 78 60
ecole.art@ensa-nancy.fr
www.ensa-nancy.fr
students
271 students