CV - Rebecca Topakian

CURRICULUM VITÆ // MAR 2016
REBECCA TOPAKIAN
born in 1989, lives and works in Paris
www.rebeccatopakian.fr
+33 7 86 59 40 65
[email protected]
29, rue Anatole France 94300 Vincennes
Solo shows /
>> Infra-, curated by Anne Immelé, Centre Culturel Français de
Freibourg, Freiburg, Germany, June 3rd - September 15th 2016
The Situation, CROUS Aix-Marseille, April 9th - May 9th 2015
Group Shows /
>> Born and Die #001 : Na Zdravlje, september 2016
>> Born and Die #001 : Na Zdravlje, exhibition of the book, box and
multiples, april 2016
Échanges de vues, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, December 4th - January
18th 2016
Interstices, Agnès B., Paris, November 7th - 19th 2015
Olympus engage une conversation photographique, work in
conversation with Dorothée Smith, Enclos Saint-Césaire, July 7th September 21st 2015, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2015
«La mêlée», BYOPaper, Nuit de l’année, July 2015, Papeteries Etienne,
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2015
Barthes is Back, video projection, work in collaboration with Aurélie
Jacquet, Pierre-Marie Drapeau-Martin, Emilie Saubestre, Anne-Sophie
Trischler, curated by Fabien Vallos, seminar « Barthes is Back »,
Théâtre d’Arles, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2015
La part des anges, Église Saint-Julien, July 6st -19th 2015, Festival
off, Rencontres d’Arles 2015
D’écumes légères, Galerie Arena, Arles, April 3rd - 12th 2015
La recherche de l’art #3, Centre des cordeliers, Paris, March 31st April 9th 2015
La recherche de l’art #3, Théâtre de la Faïencerie, Creil, March 12th
- 25th 2015
el Atlal, with Valérie Jouve, Basma Alsharif et AAU Anastas,
Galerie 28bis, Paris, January 22nd 2015
The Situation, diaporama, projection, Fotoistanbul, Besiktas
International Festival of Photography, Istanbul, 2014
La recherche de l’art #3, Rencontres d’Arles 2014
Self Publish, Be Happy 89+, projection and zine, Marathon 89+,
Serpentine Gallery, Londres, 2013
«Infra-», Interstices, Agnès B.,
Fermer l’œil, Église Saint-Julien, July 1st - 15th 2013, Festival Off,
Rencontres d’Arles 2013
Book launches - exhibitions and fairs /
Auto-edition «Habana Frikis», distributed by Einer Books
Polycopies, Paris, 2015
Unseen Photo Fair, 2015
Cosmos Arles Books, Rencontres d’Arles, 2015
Polycopies, Paris, 2015
Unseen Book Market, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, 2015
Zines of the Zones, librairie ambulante
VOST, Arles, 2014
Publications papier /
Échanges de vues, Filigranes, 2015
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2015, exhibition catalogue, Actes Sud, 2015
Le gai savoir, Sans humour pas de travail, 8 juillet 2015
Échappées Belles, 2015
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2014, exhibition catalogue, Actes Sud, 2014
La Recherche de l’art #3, 2014
Ithaac, numéro 2, 2014
Self Publish, Be Happy, SPBH 89+ zine, 2013
Publications web /
Lunettes Rouges, « Découvertes : 5 », July 18th 2015
Self Publish, Be Happy : portfolio, 2015
Self Publish, Be Happy : Book du jour, 2014
Noisey FR, 2014
Noisey ES, 2014
Brain Magazine, 2014
Self Publish, Be Happy, SPBH 89+ zine, 2013
GQ Italia, 2013
Le Tag Parfait, 2013
HBA, Webzine de Photographies Argentiques, n° 2, 2013
Le Tag Parfait, 2012
Curation /
2014- today - Artistic Direction of the association el Atlal, artist/
writers/researchers residency in Jericho, Palestine. Organization
of a first residency in October 2015, partly canceled because of the
situation, and maintened for two artists in Amman, Jordany. Work
in collaboration with palestinian architects for the project of the
building of an art center/residency.
2015. el Atlal - exhibition of the architectural project by the AAU
Anastas Agency, March 2015, Librairie Volume, Paris
2015. el Atlal - Group show for the launching night of the project el
Atlal, with Valérie Jouve, Basma Alsharif, AAU Anastas and Rebecca
Topakian, Galerie 28bis, Paris, January 2015
Residencies, grants, awards /
2015. The Independant Air Residecy, Silkeborg, Denmark, withJacob
Aue Sobol, Antoine d’Agata, Trine Søndergaard and Der Greif
2014. Grant «Initiatives Jeunes», pour the project «Awaiting Oblivion»
2014. Grant «Défi Jeunes», for the project «Awaiting Oblivion»
2013. «SPBH 89+», Self Publish Be Happy with Serpentine Gallery,
selection of young artists born in 1989 and after.
Lectures and workshops /
2016.04.06. Lecture, «Soirées photographiques EXTRAFORT» at
Recyclart, Bruxelles
2015.07. Rencontres Olympus, animées par Natacha Wolinski à
l’Espace Fanton, Les Rencontres d’Arles. Avec Dorothée Smith, Denis
Darzacq, Paolo Woods et les étudiants de l’ENSP Rebecca Topakian,
Swen Renault et Elsa Leydier.
2014.07. Photographic workshop in Aida Camp, Bethléem.
Formation /
MA with honors, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie,
Arles, 2015
École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, Noisy-le-Grand, 2012
BA in Philosophy with honors, Panthéon Sorbonne, 2010
BA in Geography with honors, Panthéon Sorbonne, 2010