Île-de-France
Caroline Bravo is an independent curator based in Paris, France. She is the co-founder, alongside artist Sandrine Follère, of the Station Expérimentale d’Art Contemporain, a nomadic art incubator dedicated to research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary contemporary art practices. She is also the co-founder and curator of HEY MUMMY! PROJECT, a series of exhibitions and events exploring women’s memories and transgenerational transmission. Her curatorial practice encompasses the conception of interdisciplinary exhibitions, performance art programmes, and collaborative artistic projects. At the intersection of contemporary art, the humanities, and contemporary social issues, she favours experimental approaches, hybrid forms, and dialogue across disciplines. Her work explores questions of memory, otherness, identity, transmission, power dynamics, and engagement. Holding a Master’s degree in Ethnology, Anthropology, and Religious Studies, she develops a curatorial approach informed by the humanities, in dialogue with her own artistic practice, which encompasses performance art, installation, and photography. Also holding a degree in Art, Culture and Mediation, she has worked extensively across the cultural, artistic and media sectors, notably with the Office of the President of the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute), in print journalism (including the editorial team of Diapason magazine), television and the music industry, where she served as Image/PR Director for record labels, overseeing music video production, the art direction of album covers, booklets and promotional materials, as well as press relations. She has also led artistic workshops and research sessions, including the workshop “Performance and Animality”, co-directed with scenographer Catherine Bay at The Window (Paris), a research session at Galerie Michel Journiac (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) with the Laboratoire des Arts de la Performance, as well as workshops in Toulouse exploring the themes of “Elasticity” and “Bifurcation”. She is a member of C-E-A (French Association of Curators) and La Maison des Artistes, a researcher-member of L.A.P. (Laboratoire des Arts de la Performance), a board member of the Culture Soudée collective, a member of the Board of Directors of AgorActive, which oversees the Be-Cosmo artists’ studios, a member of Arts Diffusion – Le Générateur, and a member of Les Braqueuses, a women’s magazine to which she contributes as a curator and visual artist.
INSENSIBILITÉS / INSENSITIVITIES
In partnership with the journal Sensibilités. Histoire, critique & sciences sociales, artists and curators Caroline Bravo and Sandrine Follère present “Insensibilités: Talks & Performances” at Le Générateur, an event sharing its title with the journal’s 11th issue (published by Anamosa).
Featuring performances by :
NOUR AWADA • CAROLINE BRAVO • SANDRINE FOLLERE • JULIE GENELIN
Guest : Historian Anouche Kunth, a CNRS research fellow and member of the journal’s editorial board, will present the latest issue of Sensibilités, alongside her book Au bord de l’effacement (Éditions La Découverte).
The event is incubated within the Station expérimentale d’Art contemporain and organised by OOps! a.c.c., a non-profit association dedicated to supporting contemporary art and culture.
HEY MUMMY PROJECT – OPUS III – WHAT ABOUT SEXISM IN SPORTS? ♀
This third edition of HEY MUMMY! PROJECT, dedicated to women in sports, from past generations to the present day, explores discrimination, the pressure to conform to standards of sexiness, and the invisibility of women.
Above all, it is a multifaceted event combining an artist residency, discussions, a space for experimentation open to the public, performances, and encounters.
Installations • Performances • Talks • Experimentation • Video Projections
Conceived as a travelling event across several venues in central Paris, the programme includes an artist residency culminating in a public presentation at The Window, a laboratory for artistic experimentation in urban environments in the 10th arrondissement; a research and artistic intervention session at Cercle Chromatique (Beaux-Arts de Paris); an evening of talks and book signings at Be-Jazzy, an emerging cultural and creative space in the Parisian art scene, located in the 18th arrondissement (Porte de Montmartre); and a gathering at the Be-Cosmo artists’ studios, also in the 18th arrondissement.
The event is incubated within the Station expérimentale d’Art contemporain and organised by OOps! a.c.c., a non-profit association dedicated to supporting contemporary art and culture.
MUCEM (Marseille)
FOCUS, the forum for alternative forms of writing in the social sciences.
Invited to participate as a creative industries professional in the workshop “Cross-Perspectives: Exhibition and Performance”.
HEY MUMMY PROJECT – OPUS II – 15 WOMEN ARTISTS ♀
The exhibition-event “HEY MUMMY! PROJECT – OPUS II”, dedicated to female transgenerational transmission, brings together FIFTEEN WOMEN ARTISTS aged between 20 and 79.
Video Projections • Installations • Sculptures • Paintings • Drawings • Photography • Performances
This second edition features an extensive network of partners, including the City of Paris, 59 Rivoli, Grasset Publishing, Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, Payot Publishing, Causette women’s magazine, Anamosa Publishing, Le Cercle de l’Art, L.A.P. (Laboratoire des Arts de la Performance), [Re]production, Art Prise and PassionariArt.
ARTISTES EXPOSANTES // PERFORMEUSES
NOUR AWADA • SARA BASTA • CAROLINE BRAVO • ANNE BRAVY • VICTORIA DONNET • SANDRINE FOLLERE • JULIE GENELIN • EMILY HOLMES • PAMELA MADDALENO • EMILIE MCDERMOTT • CHRISTY NGUYEN • SOPHIE PARIENTE (SOX) • MARCY PETIT • NATASKA ROUBLOV • JACQUELINE SAMULON
Guests “Talks & Book Signings”: Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian, art historian, Hélène Marquié, professor of Arts and Gender Studies, and Frédérick Duhautpas, musicologist and senior lecturer, co-authors of “Médiatrices des arts, pour une histoire des réseaux féminins et féministes” (Women Mediators in the Arts: Towards a History of Women’s and Feminist Networks) (Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre); Bruno Clavier, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, author of “Les Fantômes familiaux” (Family Ghosts) and “L’inceste ne fait pas de bruit” (Incest Makes No Noise) (Éditions Payot) ; Frankie Wallach, director of the film “Trop d’amour” (Too Much Love), and Pauline Guéna, co-author with Julia Wallach of the book “Dieu était en vacances” (God Was on Vacation) (Éditions Grasset).
The event is incubated within the Station expérimentale d’Art contemporain and organised by OOps! a.c.c., a non-profit association dedicated to supporting contemporary art and culture.
CONFERENCE “Digital Technology and the Pandemic: Ethical Challenges One Year On”, organised by the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) and the Institut Covid-19 Ad Memoriam.
Invited to participate in the panel discussion “Arts and Culture at a Distance”.
HEY MUMMY PROJECT – OPUS I – i.e. XX CHROMOSOMES
7 women artists aged between 20 and 79, alongside a scientist, exploring the theme of female transgenerational transmission.
Video Projections • Installations • Sculptures • Paintings • Drawings • Photography • Performances
EXHIBITING ARTISTS // PERFORMERS
NOUR AWADA • LAURA BEN AMI • CAROLINE BRAVO • MONIQUE BRAVO • VICTORIA DONNET • SANDRINE FOLLERE • PAMELA MADDALENO
Guests – “Talks & Book Signings”: Jennifer Kerner, funerary archaeologist and co-author of the book “Lady Sapiens” (Éditions Les Arènes), and Hervé Mazurel, historian of emotions and sensibilities, author of “L’inconscient ou l’oubli de l’histoire” (Éditions La Découverte) and co-founder of the journal “Sensibilités. Histoire, critique et sciences sociales” (Éditions Anamosa).