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Area 1: Practises and theories of exhibition (PRATHEX)

This line of research deals with questions linked to the exhibition, a practice that has been particularly developed at the Esban for a number of years – curators, exhibition assistants and student exhibitions in spaces that may or may not be devoted to art. Nonetheless, far from being restricted to questions of museology, to “writings” of the exhibition and to its formats, this axis intends to deal with the idea of the exhibition in an oblique fashion. Thus, these are attitudes (staging the artist), and paradigms (the temporality of the artwork, thinking the archive) that have been questioned under the angle of their display during the previous three programmes: Jeux d’exposition (2010), Publier/Exposer (2012), Temps exposés (2015).

Area 2: La flamme et le papillon (The butterfly and the flame)

Rather than concentrating on elements of identity, or of convergence between literature and moving images, this line of research plans then to question the different ways of conceiving and creating that are raised by their encounter, without denying the gap that separates them. It will thus be a matter of questioning the porosity between the forms proceeding from inherent means of expression, analyzing the issues of their tensioning, positing opacity and displacement as sources of research and experimentation at the same time in the theoretical and artistic fields.

The school has a very strong editorial policy. It has published several research books and numerous catalogs of graduates.

Evening classes for adults and children’s classes.

Every year, Nîmes Art School (Esban) welcomes students from abroad. Foreign students may apply to study at Esban either as regular students (after passing the entrance exam or the mid-course admission) or as exchange students coming from a partner institution and staying for a semester or one academic year.

The Esban hosts in its main building a Gallery of 280m2. It allows the school to organize three or four exhibitions a year. This very solemn space can also be used by the students for their final exam.

Five 200m2 collective studios are reserved for students, allowing them to develop their personal projects and individual research.Publishing practises can avail of specific, well equipped workshops and the volume workshops are organised with tools and machines that allow students to work with wood and metal as well as perform modelling and casting.Three computer rooms (CAD, Video/Sound) and a photography laboratory are available to students who wish to work with images and sound.
The Esban also possesses a library that specialises in contemporary art, being part of the network formed by the centre for documentation of the Carré d’Art and that of the FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon.

ANdEA, Elia, Air de Midi, Erasmus +, Art Accord France, CampusArt, Paradox Fine Art

Christelle Kirchstetter Direction générale
Delphine Maurant Direction des études
Yvelise Terrade Administratrice
Elisabeth Klimoff Scolarité
Lola Wohlfahrt Relations internationales
Margaux Fieux Bibliothèque / Communication
Audrey Jamme Technicienne – Pratiques éditoriales
Javier Alonso Technicien – Construction
Michel Serron Technicien – Photographie

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