Eva Barois De Caevel

Eva Barois De Caevel Age: 26 16, rue des Poissonniers 75018, Paris, FRANCE +33 (0)6 73 03 75 87 [email protected] WORK EXPERIENCE April 2014 – today Assistant Curator at RAW Material Company, center for art, knowledge and society, Dakar, Senegal December 2011 – today Curator at Cartel de Kunst, international collective of young curators based in Paris, France, and founding member of the association Cartel de Kunst October 2011 – October 2012 Production Assistant at Red Shoes – some shoes, society for production, diffusion and sales of artists’ films, Paris, France CURATORIAL PROJECTS Autumn 2016 Curator of the exhibition Saloum niaari nek la, nietel ba di wanie ba at the GalleryDAAS (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies) of the University of Michigan, USA (List of artists to be announced) April 2016 Assistant Curator of the 37th EVA International, the Ireland Biennial of Contemporary Art, Limerick, Ireland December – February 2016 Assistant Curator of the exhibition Streamlines, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany With Abdoulaye Konaté, Alfredo Jaar, Arin Rungjang, Bouchra Khalili, Kader Attia, Mark Boulos, Otobong Nkanga, Peter Buggenhoüt, Theo Eshetu, Thomas Rentmeister, Ulrike Ottinger, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Godfried Donkor October – December 2015 Assistant Curator of the exhibition Body Talk, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France With Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Marcia Kure, Myriam Syowia Kyambi, Valérie Oka, Tracey Rose and Billie Zangewa October 2015 Curator of the SWAB Gate, SWAB Barcelona, International Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain With Sébastien Jean, Wycliffe Mundopa, Hamid El Kanbouhi and Steve Bandoma June – September 2015 Assistant curator of the exhibition Body Talk, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden With Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Marcia Kure, Myriam Syowia Kyambi, Valérie Oka, Tracey Rose and Billie Zangewa February – May 2015 Assistant curator of the exhibition Body Talk, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium With Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Marcia Kure, Myriam Syowia Kyambi, Valérie Oka, Tracey Rose and Billie Zangewa October 2014 Co-­‐curator of the exhibition Avant-­‐Garden, La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, France With Éric Abrogoua, Florent Audoye, Nathalie Bles, Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot, Alys Demeure, Mako Ishizuka, Damir Radović, Allison Somers, Camille Tsvetoukhine and Piyush Wadhera January – March 2014 Curator of the exhibition Who Said It Was Simple/Qui a dit que c'était simple, RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal January 2014 – January 2015 Coordinator of the programme of exhibitions Personal Liberties, RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal June – September 2013 Co-­‐curator of the exhibition The Floating Admiral, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France With Francis Alÿs, Isabelle Cornaro, Hans-­‐Peter Feldmann, Nicolas Floc’h, Mario García Torres, Germain Hamel, Nathan Hylden, Zhanna Kadyrova, Kitty Kraus and Hugo Pernet September 2012 Co-­‐curator of the exhibition Temps Étrangers, Mains d’œuvres, Saint-­‐Ouen, France With Maria Andersson, Matteo Attruia, Elisabeth Ballet, Julien Berthier, John Cornu, Hugo Kriegel, Martin Le Chevallier, Julien Nédelec, Sylvain Rousseau, Benjamin Sabatier, Sylvain Sailly and Diego Sarramon June 2012 Assistant curator of the exhibition Plus c’est gros, plus ça passe, Treize, Paris, France With Cécile Bicler, Yin-­‐Ju Chen, Simon Nicaise, Eléonore Saintagnan and Nico Joana Weber March 2012 Coordinator of the event BYOB – Carte blanche à Éléonore Saintagnan dans la Visionneuse Red Shoes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France RESIDENCIES Curatorial residency – Raw Material Company (Dakar) — October 2013 to March 2014: coordination of the Personal Liberties program, curating of the exhibition Who Said It Was Simple, editing of the upcoming publication Personal Liberties GRANTS AND AWARDS Recipient of the Gerrit Lansing Independent Vision Award 2014 (November 2014), selected by Nancy Spector, Guggenheim’s deputy director and chief curator JURY MEMBER Celeste Prize 2015, member of the international jury of 12 art curators and critics Salon de Montrouge 2015, member of the “Collège critique” WORKSHOPS, LECTURES AND TALKS June 21 2015 A culinary lecture and performance « Aux épiceries d'en-­‐bas – Cuisine-­‐Action-­‐Discours » during the event « Opéra-­‐Archipel, j’ai mangé de l’autre côté de la mer » Exhibition Opéra-­‐Archipel, ma peau rouge, henné, Julien Creuzet, Frac Basse-­‐Normandie, Caen, France June 1 – 2 2015 Lecture and performance « Qu’attend-­‐on de moi » during the seminar « Y a-­‐t-­‐il un régime postcolonial des arts ? » Seminar under the direction of Seloua Luste Boulbina, Paris, France, with the Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, the Laboratoire du changement social et politique, AFRIKADAA, the Campus Caribéen des Arts, Fort-­‐de-­‐France and the Institut Supérieur des Arts et de la Culture, Dakar. April 9 – 10 2015 Lecture « ‘N’êtes-­‐vous donc pas jolie ? Dévoilez-­‐vous !’ : Images et usages contemporains du voile chez les femmes artistes du Maghreb et de la diaspora » during the seminar « Relectures postcoloniales », Villa Médicis, Roma, Italy Seminar organised by the Académie de France à Rome-­‐Villa Médicis, by the Centre F.G. Pariset of the Université de Bordeaux-­‐Montaigne, the École française de Rome, the École du Louvre, Paris, the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Axe Mondialisation), Paris, the Institut de Recherches sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Tunis, the Laboratoire d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Maghrébines de l'Université de la Manouba-­‐Tunis and the Louvre Museum, Paris. March 8 2015 Lecture and Wikipedia activism during the « Edithaton Art+Feminism » Event organised by Flora Katz and Mikaëla Assolent at the Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France April 25 2015 Lecture « They Called Her 'Hottentot' – Une brève histoire du postérieur noir dans l’art contemporain : deuil, fierté et sur-­‐identification », during the symposium « Creating Sarah – politique de la représentation du corps noir (féminin) », WIELS, Brussels, Belgium Symposium organised by Koyo Kouoh during the exhibition Body Talk at WIELS March 4 2015 Lecture « Corps qui répètent, corps qui parlent » During the exhibition Body Talk, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium June 28 2014 « My Own Comedy » : Simon Njami, Berlin, Germany During the TURN Meeting 1, organized by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes March 7 – 8 2014 Coordinator of the seminar « Reporting on Difference. Different Report? Media Difference, and Marginality », RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal Part of the Personal Liberties programme March 6 2014 Lecture « SORTIR DE LA NATION ? — Une lecture de ‘Gender, race and the reinvention of difference’ de Shireen Hassim », launch party of the 6th issue of AFRIKADAA — BE NATIONAL Dakar, Senegal December 12 – 16 2012 Coordinator of the workshop « Art au Cinéma » with visual art, video and architecture students form Tangiers and Tetouan with the invited artists Neïl Beloufa and Clément Cogitore, at La Cinémathèque de Tanger, Tangiers, Morocco ARTICLES, TEXTS AND ESSAYS (selection) -­‐ Catalogue Personal Liberties (upcoming, 2016) -­‐ Catalogue Liberated Subjects – Present Tense (upcoming, 2016) -­‐ Catalogue Streamlines (upcoming, December 2015) -­‐ Catalogue SWAB Barcelona (upcoming, October 2015) -­‐ Catalogue 60e Salon de Montrouge: texts about Raphaël Barontini, Willem Boel, Jerome Cavaliere, Kenny Dunkan and Caroline Trucco (May 2015) -­‐ Catalogue Body Talk: "Corps qui répètent, corps qui parlent" (April 2015) -­‐ Catalogue Cao Su pleure — Thu Van Tran: "Document de barbarie ? Le statut des archives dans le travail de Thu Van Tran" (April 2015) -­‐ AFRIKADAA.com: « Survolé, les pages de toutes nos colonies (...) », with Julien Creuzet (n° 9, March 2015) -­‐ africultures.com: interview with Frieda Ekotto, « Voir au-­‐delà des mots » (January 2015) -­‐ complex.com: interview with Leigh Silver, « Eva Barois De Caevel speaks about how to be successful as a young curator » (December 2014) -­‐ ContemporaryAnd.com: interview with Dagara Dakin, « Eva Barois De Caevel on her curatorial practice » (December 2014) -­‐ AFRIKADAA.com: « Pour qui se dévoilent les indigènes de l’art contemporain ? » (n° 7, April 2014) -­‐ Contemporary And: « Possibilities of a queer identity that is properly African » (special printed edition for the Dakar Biennial Dak’art 2014, May 2014) -­‐ ContemporaryAnd.com: interview with Aicha Diallo, « A good way to start off the cycle… » (March 2014) -­‐ Catalogue The Floating Admiral: « Chapitre III : Des mots et des pièces à conviction » (June 2013) -­‐ Catalogue Temps Étrangers: « Faust, l'île ou le cabinet », « Du loisir de l'artiste : une partie de pêche avec Diego Sarramon » and « De l'autonomie financière aux systèmes complémentaires –
Titre provisoire – Version 2 » (September 2012) FORMATION 2010-­‐2012 Master 2 (Professional) « L’art contemporain et son exposition », Université Paris Sorbonne Paris IV. “Mention Très Bien”. Master 1 (Research) in Art History at the Université Paris Sorbonne Paris IV.