Call for artist residencies and curatorial project

The La Box gallery is one of ENSA’s principal teaching tools. Every year it features artists from France and abroad in ten exhibitions relating to the study programme. For more than ten years now the gallery has entrusted part of its planning to young guest curators. Chosen and monitored by the ENSA teaching team, the curators work on experimental programmes involving the active participation of the students, who thus find themselves in close contact with major figures on the contemporary scene and with the realities of drawing up an exhibition project.

Each year since 1991 the École nationale supérieure d’art (National School of Art/ENSA) in Bourges, has been providing residencies for young artists, with the financial backing of the Regional Cultural Affairs Office (DRAC), the Centre-Val de Loire Region and Agglomeration Community Bourges Plus. These residencies are intended to give young artists from France and abroad the opportunity to carry out a personal artistic project connected with the School, its teaching, its students and other external partners. The winning candidates are chosen by a jury comprising one representative each from the Regional Cultural Affairs office, the Centre-Val de Loire Region and the Centre Region Contemporary Art Collection, together with the School’s director, three members of the teaching staff, the coordinator of La Box, and an art world personality.