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.

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options

Art
Communication

qualifications

DNA  option Art mention dispositifs multiples
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

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

    Publication des diplômes, édition, 2011-2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba

    BLX, édition, 2021, Crédits : Romain Gamba

    BLX, édition, 2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba

    Publication des diplômes, édition, 2011-2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba

    Publication des diplômes, édition, 2011-2021, Crédits photo : Romain Gamba

    Album Sebum, édition, 2011-2022, 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.

http://www.esalorraine.fr/metz/ateliers/ 

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)

http://www.esalorraine.fr/metz/materiel-et-ateliers/

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