Les Parallèles du Sud, Manifesta 13’s parallel programme offered 86 multi-disciplinary projects highlighting the richness of the artistic and cultural scene in Marseille and in the Region Sud.
Exhibitions, installations, performances and conferences took place during the biennial in Marseille and across its region. Discover all the projects here.

 Les Parallèles du Sud  projects addressed numerous themes that echoed the biennial’s central theme Traits d’union.s  such as our relationship to nature, issues surrounding migration and the transformation of 21st century cities. 

Some projects that have been reported to 2021 such as the 93.13 : Appel d’air.e performance at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, the film La Constellation de la Rouguière  of the Cinéma du Sud &Tilt, the La loterie des désirs performance at the ZEF and the exhibition Magnetic North at Vidéochroniques – Espace d’art contemporain.. Stay connected!

+ LES PARALLÈLES DU SUD

Le Tiers Programme, Manifesta 13’s Education & Mediation programme  presented two projects to the public during the biennial: the Invisible Archives and GROUP-THINK.

The Invisible Archives started before the opening of the biennial, in December 2019, and inhabited the Tiers QG in sequence of eight exhibitions and public programmes until October 2020. Selected archives of local civil initiatives were used as departure points for artists who together with the associations created the exhibitions. Discover all the Invisible Archives here, as well as the dedicated website here.

The GROUP-THINK project was developed by Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen with schools in Marseille. The project, that started in September 2019 resulted in a film screened in a cabin on the rooftop of Coco Velten during the biennial and into a handbook distributed to local schools and for sale online.

+ LE TIERS PROGRAMME
+ THE INVISIBLE ARCHIVES
+ GROUP-THINK

+ VIRTUAL VISIT OF THE INVISIBLE ARCHIVE #7

It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that due to the new national French COVID-19 regulations announced yesterday by President Emmanuel Macron, as of Friday 30th of October all museums, galleries, etc. in Marseille will have to close. The regulations stay in place for a minimum of four weeks.

In consultation with the Mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola, the Ministry of Culture, the Prefecture, and the Conseil Départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône, we have decided this means the 13th edition of Manifesta will effectively be closed.

Within the next days, Manifesta 13 will announce how visitors can still experience the biennial’s exhibitions through a digital format. Should certain projects that are part of the parallel programme Les Parallèles du Sud reopen after the national lockdown, Manifesta 13’s team will be sure to inform you.

We are incredibly grateful and thankful to all our partners, participants, curators, collaborators, team and board members for all their hard work and dedication, resulting in the biennial still having been open to the public from the 28th of August until the 29th of October 2020.

We welcome everyone to enjoy all Manifesta 13 Traits d’uinon.s venues for free today before the lockdown begins.

We look forward to seeing you at the Consigne Sanitaire, Citerne des moulins, Conservatoire de Marseille Pierre Barbizet, Musée Cantini, Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, Musée D’histoire Naturelle Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Marseille, Centre De La Vieille Charité.

Video by Mars Production in collaboration with the City of Marseille.

The eighth and last exhibition of the Invisible Archives, La subtile mémoire des humains du rivage opens specially tonight before the closure of Tiers QG due to the new sanitary measures.

For this Invisible Archive filmmaker Olivier Derousseau was invited to present his work on the archives of Film flamme-Polygone étoilé, an artists and filmmakers collective that created the Polygone Etoilé in La Joliette.

We invite you to the Tiers QG from 17.00 until 20.30 and to register to the presentation of “La Chaine Cinématographique Sensible”, tools and gesture, by Jean-François Neplaz, Raphaëlle Paupert-Borne and Olivier Derousseau, and the screening of 16mm Cinépantomimes, shot in Belsunce in 2002-2003 at 17.00 (registration here) and 19.00 (registration here)

See you tonight!

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+TIERS PROGRAMME

Manifesta 13 Marseille is pleased to offer free entry on the 1^st and 11^th of November 2020 in several Traits d’union.s venues where visitors will discover a great diversity of contemporary artists and practices. Special free open tours are also organised with our mediators. The tours’ capacity is limited and they are rapidly booked, register now!

> Venues open and free on the 1st and 11th of November 2020:
Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional, Citerne des Moulins, Consigne Sanitaire.

>Free open tours on the 1st of November 2020:
11.00 The School– Conservatoire. Book here
12.00 The Park – Citerne des Moulins. Book here
14.00 The Park – Citerne des Moulins. Book here
15.00 The Park– Consigne sanitaire IN ENGLISH. Book here
16h00 The School – Conservatoire. Book here
17h00 The Park– Consigne sanitaire. Book here

>Closed venues on the 1st and 11th of November 2020:
Centre de la Vieille Charité, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Musée Cantini, Musée Grobet-Labadié, Tiers QG, Coco Velten

Le Grand Puzzle, the pre-biennial urban study by MVRDV and The Why Factory led by Winy Maas and commissioned by Manifesta 13 Marseille offers a captivating portrait of Marseille that highlights its beauty, needs, contrasts and potential. The study looks at the city through three different lenses: interviews, urban maps and proposals. Thus, it serves as a tool for its citizens to rethink the potential of their city.

> On sale here and in bookshops across Marseille (click & collect)
Librairie Prado Paradis, Librairie Le Puits aux Livres, Librairie La Salle des Machines, Librairie Attrape Mots, Librairie du Mucem, Librairie l’Histoire de l’oeil, Editions Imbernon.

+ MORE INFO ON LE GRAND PUZZLE
+ WINY MAAS’ INTERVIEW
+ JOKE QUINTENS’ INTERVIEW
+ TARIK GHEZALI’S INTERVIEW

As part of Traits d’union.s public programme, Manifesta 13 Marseille developped a Sound Programme enabling sonic experimentation. Manifesta 13 has given Radio Grenouille-Euphonia carte blanche to design a support and distribution programme for artists working with or learning about sound. It encompasses two sound creation residencies, six listening sessions and a Sound Gallery on Radio Grenouille.

Listen to the Listening Sessions (in French) recorded live from Park Longchamps and the Conservatoire or beforehand in Radio Grenouille’s studio.

 Listening Session # 1 Politiques de l’écoute et féminismes with Elena Biserna at Park Longchamp

 Listening Session # 2 Une Méditerranée sonore by Radio Grenouille in collaboration with Samia Henni at IMéRA 

Listening Session # 3 Rythmes (in)visibles , a project by Anna Raimondo at IMéRA

Listening Session # 5 Ecouter le vivant by Radio Grenouille in collaboration with Mohamed Bourouissa at the Conservatoire

Listening Session # 6 Le gouffre du léopard with Ymane Fakhir at Le Conservatoire 

Radio Grenouille also developped Traits d’union.s; a series of conversations between personalities from the world of art, culture and business as well as civil society, in which they debate the major questions raised in the biennial. 

Listen to the Traits d’union.s (in French):

Part of Manifesta 13’s collateral programme, Les Parallèles du Sud, Radio Grenouille-Euphonia developped another projects called Sonographies Marseillaises, in which artists, scientists, inhabitants and studies tell stories about Marseille. Les Sonographies Marseillaises encompasses podcasts done by the Beaux-Arts students, with the Parc National des Calanques and L’Institut Pythéas.

Listen to Les Sonographies Marseillaises (in French) :

Manifesta 13 Marseille now organises free daily tours in all its venues of its central programme Traits d’union.s, as well as at Coco Velten and the Tiers QG. During public holidays, more tours have been organised (including one in English!). The tours’ capacity is limited and they are rapidly booked, register now! Please make sure to purchase here your Manifesta pass in order to be part of the free tours.

Tuesday 20.10.20
16.00 The Park – Musée des Beaux-Arts –  Register here
17.00 Tiers Programme – Tiers QG + Coco Velten – Register here

Wednesday 21.10.20
14.00 The School – Conservatoire – Register here
16.00 The Home – Musée Grobet-Labadié – Register here
17.00 The Park – Citerne des Moulins– Register here

Thursday 22.10.20
14.00 The Almshouse – Centre de la Vieille Charité – Register here
16.00 The Park – Consigne Sanitaire – Register here

Friday 23.10.20
14.00 The School – Conservatoire – Register here
16.00 The Park – Musée d’Histoire Naturelle – Register here

Saturday 24.10.20
14.00 The School – Conservatoire IN ENGLISH – Register here
14.00 The Port – Musée d’Histoire de Marseille – Register here
17.00 Le Parc – Consigne sanitaire – Register here

Sunday 25.10.20
14.00 The Park – Citerne des Moulins – Register here
16.00 The Refuge – Musée Cantini – Register here

+BOOK YOUR PASS HERE
+MORE INFO ON TOURS
+ AGENDA

Manifesta 13’s central programme exhibitions Traits d’union.s gradually opened across 20 venues in Marseille from the 28th of August until the 9th of October 2020. Due to France’s latest covid regulations, the biennial had to close its doors on the 28th of October 2020. 

At the same time, Le Tiers Programme welcomed visitors in the Tiers QG for its Invisible Archives and in Coco Velten for the GROUP-THINK project.

More than 80 exhibitions, performances, conferences and other projects took place in Marseille and across the Région Sud as part of Les Parallèles du Sud, Manifesta 13 collateral events.

We are extremely thankful for the generous support of our partners both from the City of Marseille, its museums, cultural institutions, artists, collaborators and visitors.

Dates of the openings:

28.08 → 29.11.20 The Home — Musée Grobet-Labadié / Parc Longchamp Satellite: Bel Horizon

11.09 → 29.11.20 The Refuge— Musée Cantini
The Almshouse — Centre de la Vieille Charité
The Port — Musée d’Histoire de Marseille
Sattelite : Centre Bourse
The School — Satellite: Bar Le Perrin / Chez Fun Funck / La Brasserie Communale

25.09 → 29.11.20 The Park — Muséum d’histoire naturelle / Musée des Beaux-Arts / Consigne Sanitaire
The Home — Satellite Cité Radieuse / Hôtel Dieu Intercontinental
The Port — Satellite : Métro Noailles, Place des Capucins

09.10 → 29.11.20 The Park — La Citerne des Moulins
The School — Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional
Satellite: Moon Roof

+ TO REVIEW ALL THE MANIFESTA 13 MARSEILLE ACTIVITIES
+ VIRTUAL VISITS

Manifesta 13 Marseille can officially say that it is OPEN as of this past weekend!  The last venues of Manifesta 13’s central programme Traits d’union.s, the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional, as well as La Citerne des Moulins, opened their doors on Friday allowing for visitors to explore 8 newly commissioned works and venture into locations that are usually closed to the public. 

As part of Manifesta’s Education and Mediation programme, Le Tiers Programme, Tiers QG yet again organised performances within the exhibition Invisible Archives #7 No Past No Future by the artists V. and Hugues Jourdain in collaboration with Mémoire des Sexualités. 

New Les Parallèles du Sud projects took place in many public spaces including performances by an array of local and international artists. 

So far Manifesta 13 has welcomed 35,000 visitors, including Les Parallèles du Sud programme and it is with great pride that we have been able to open thanks to the dedication and flexibility of all participants, partners and collaborators. We very much look forward to showing Manifesta 13’s visitors the biennial in its entirety!

Manifesta 13 Marseille is happy to invite you to the livestreamed conference in the presence of the members of Traits d’union.s Artistic Team Katerina Chuchalina, Stefan Kalmár and Alya Sebti and moderated by participant Samia Henni. It is organised as part of the opening of all the venues of Traits d’union.s, the biennial’s central programme.

Join us on the 9th of October 2020 at 11:45am.
Accessible here → https://bit.ly/2HWSBRE

FRIDAY 9TH OF OCTOBER

Traits d’union.s 

15.00 – 18.00 – The Park – opening of la Citerne des Moulins + info 
*Free guided tours at 16.00, registration mandatory here  

15.00 – 21.00 – The School – Conservatoire National à rayonnement régional + info 
Performances by the artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen Crimes de solidarité / Crimes of Solidarity at 16.00 and 18.00  
*Free guided tour IN ENGLISH at 19.00 on registration only here  

First opening of the plot The School. Free entry in these two venues for the opening day from 15.00 to 21.00. 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Refuge – Musée Cantini +info 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Almshouse – Centre de la Vieille Charité +info 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Port – Musée d’Histoire de Marseille +info    

9.00 – 18.00 – The Park – Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Musée des Beaux Arts, Consigne Sanitaire  + info 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Home – Musée Grobet-Labadié,  +info 

Accessible with the Manifesta PASS here

Satellite venues
Satellite exhibition of the plot The Port at Centre Bourse (next to the entry Musée Histoire de Marseille). Free entry + info 

Embouteillages, installation by Yassine Balbzioui on display Place des Capucins, on the facade of Noailles metro station + info 

The Keepers by Arseny Zhilyaev at l’Hôtel-Dieu Intercontinental, Satellite venue of the plot The Home + info and at Bel Horizon (registration mandatory) + info 
*Free visits, registration mandatory 17.00 > 17.45 and 18.00 > 18.45 here

Traits d’union.s public programme 

21.00 – 22.00 – Listening session #6 Le Gouffre du Léopard by the artist Ymane Fakhir at the Conservatoire + info 
Free entry, limited capacity, registration mandatory here  

20.30 – 23.00 – Film session #4, Screening of May they Rest in Revolt (Figure of War), 2011, Sylvain Georges (France) – Videodrome (on donation) + info  

Tiers Programme  

11.00 – 19.00 Archives Invisibles #7 No Past, No Future – Tiers QG +info 

11.00 – 19.00 GROUP-THINK by the artist Stine Marie Jacobsen – Coco Velten (rooftop) +info 

Les Parallèles du Sud 
Opening

14.00 – 18.00 – Split Window : Les mains invisibles – Sissi Club  
10.00 – 19.00 – As we go along – Le 33  
11.00 – 18.00 – Out.of.the.blue.map – Coco Velten   
12.00 – 18.00 – Soft Power – Hôtel de Gallifet 
18.00 – 22.00 – Images liées – Château de Servières 
21.00 – Baumettes, notes pour un film – Montevidéo  

Still happening …
Marseille  

Allochronotopie La Compagnie from 14.00 to 19.00 ; 
Anima Mundi Abbaye Sainte Victor from 9.00 to 19.00 ; 
Collines en ville, Faire avec – Ziva ( Zone d’inspiration vivante et active ) Corps étrangers : les femmes de Belsunce Le Pangolin from 10.00 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00 ;  
Des Architecture(s) Centre Photographie de Marseille from 14.00 to 19.00 ;   
Des Mondes aux creux de l’oreille  Vieux port de Marseille En continu ;  
Disobey Orders,Save the artists The American Gallery from 15.00 to 19.00 ;  
Giovanni Fontana: Epigenetic poetry  Centre de la Vieille Charité from 11.00 to 18.00 ;  
Head Above Water Belsunce Projects from 11.00 to 18.00 ;   
Les Belles idées reçues 42 La Canebiere from 14.00 to 17.00 
Les Suds d’Art-o-rama : Meridonial Contrast Friche la Belle de Mai from 11.00 to 19.00 ;  
Liminal  art-cade*, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine from 15.00 to 19.00 ; 
Local heroes Marseille&Berlin Musée Regards de Provence from 13.30 to 18.00 ;  
Magiciens de la ville, Target Croisement Boulevard Livon et Quai de Rive Neuve en continu ; 
Marseille Drive Unité d’habitation Le Corbusier Librairie Imbernon from 10.00 to 19.00 ;  
Nicolas Floc’h Paysages productifs FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur from 15.00 to 22.00 ; 
Noria, machinerie poétique et sonore Cité des Arts de la Rue from 9.30 to 17.00 ;  
Odyssey : an exile collage Centre Photographie de Marseille from 14.00 to 19.00 ;  
Palama Château Gombert from 10.00 to 18.00 ;   
Roots to Routes Palette,Preuves sur trois pattes Salon du Salon from 16.00 to 21.00 Roots to Routes Same door different street 93 rue de la République from 15.00 to 19.00 ;  
Ruche – Hive – Abraham Poincheval Centre de la Vieille Charité from 9.00 to 18.00 ;  
Scenes of the World Coco Velten from 9.00 to 23.00 ;   
Spoiled Waters Spilled Ballet National de Marseille from 14.00 to 19.00 ;  
Street Corner Espace Manifesta free access ;   
Sur pierres brûlantes Friche la Belle de Mai from 14.00 to 19.00 ;   
Wilfrid Almendra : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow  Atlantis Lumière from 14.00 to 19.00 ;   
Winter A -GO- GO Chantier Naval Borg from 15.00 to 18.00 ;  

Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Vallauris – Embrun 

10.00 – 17.00 – Cénotaphe – Abbaye de Montmajour 
15.00 – 18.00 – D’ailleurs la vie ici – Centre d’Art contemporain Les Capucins 
14.00 – 18.00 – Displace 3 bis f 
10.00 – 12.30 and 14.00 – 18.00 - Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix  
14.00 – 17.30 - Persévérance Maison des projets  
10.00 – 18.00 – SUD EST, le constructivisme en héritage : Europe de l’Est et Amérique du Sud Fondation Vasarely 
Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques MAMAC 

SATURDAY 10TH OF OCTOBER   

Traits d’union.s 
Accessible with the Manifesta PASS here 

9.00 – 18.00 – The School – Conservatoire National à rayonnement régional + info 
*Free guided tour at 16.00, registration mandatory here

9.00 – 18.00 – The Home – Musée Grobet-Labadié +info 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Park – Musée d’Histoire Naturelle (Manifesta’s exhibition closed from 15.00), Musée des beaux arts, Consigne Sanitaire et Citerne des Moulins + info 
*Free guided tour at 12.00 at Citerne des Moulins, registration mandatory here 

09.00 – 18.00 – The Refuge – Musée Cantini +info 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Almshouse – Centre de la Vieille Charité +info 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Port – Musée d’Histoire de Marseille +info    

Satellite venues
Satellite exhibition of the plot The Port at Centre Bourse (next to the entry Musée Histoire de Marseille). Free entry + info 

Embouteillages, installation by Yassine Balbzioui on display Place des Capucins, on the facade of Noailles metro station + info 

The Keepers by Arseny Zhilyaev at l’Hôtel-Dieu Intercontinental, Satellite venue of the plot The Home + info and at Bel Horizon (registration mandatory) + info 

Participatory performance The Gravity at Bel Horizon, satellite venue of the plot The Home + info From 17.00 to 22.00, registration mandatory here 

Traits d’union.s public programme 

18.00 – 19.00 Listening session #6 Le Gouffre du Léopard by the artist Ymane Fakhir at the Conservatoire + info  
Free entry, limited capacity, registration mandatory here   

20.30 – 22.30 Film session #4, screening of Atlantique, 2019, Mati Diop (Senegal, France, Belgium) – Videodrome (on donation) + info   

Tiers Programme  

11.00 – 19.00 – Invisible Archive #7 exhibition : No Past, No Future – Tiers QG +info 
Performance by the artists V. Jourdain and Hugues Jourdain followed by a guided tour of the exhibition, registration here 14.00 – 15.00; 16.00 – 17.00  and 18.00 – 19.00 

11.00 – 19.00 GROUP-THINK by the artist Stine Marie Jacobsen – Coco Velten (rooftop) +info  

Les Parallèles du Sud 
Openings  

10.00 – 18.00 – Inventaire – Maison de l’architecture et de la ville  
16.15 – Roots to routes Grandeur Nature – Parc départemental de la Barasse
16.30 – Moun Fou – Quartier de la Belle de Mai  
17.00 – Bureau des déposition,  Exercice de Justice spéculative – FRAC PACA   
18.00 – Eaux d’artifice : la mauvaise réputation – Galerie Zoème 
19.30 – Baumettes, notes pour un film – Montevidéo  

Still happening in Marseille…

Allochronotopie La Compagnie from 14.00 to 19.00 ; 
Anima Mundi Abbaye Sainte Victor from 9.00 to 19.00 ;  
As we go along Le 33 from 10.00 to 19.00 
Baumettes, notes pour un film Montevidéo from 10.00 from 18.00 
Collines en ville, Faire avec – Ziva ( Zone d’inspiration vivante et active ) 
Corps étrangers : les femmes de Belsunce Le Pangolin from 10.00 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00 ;  
Des Architecture(s) Centre Photographie de Marseille from 14.00 to 19.00 ;   
Des Mondes aux creux de l’oreille  Vieux port de Marseille En continu ;  
Disobey Orders,Save the artists The American Gallery from 15.00 à 19.00 ;  
Giovanni Fontana: Epigenetic poetry  Centre de la Vieille Charité from 11.00 to 18.00 ;  
Head Above Water Belsunce Projects from 11.00 to 18.00 ;   
Images liées Château de Servières from 14.00 to 18.00 
Les Belles idées reçues 42 La Canebiere from 14.00 to 17.00 
Les Suds d’Art-o-rama : Meridonial Contrast Friche la Belle de Mai from 11.00 to 19.00 ;  
Liminal  art-cade*, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine from 15.00 to 19.00 ; 
Local heroes Marseille&Berlin Musée Regards de Provence from 13.30 to 18.00 ;  
Magiciens de la ville, Target Croisement Boulevard Livon et Quai de Rive Neuve en continu ; 
Marseille Drive Unité d’habitation Le Corbusier Librairie Imbernon from 10.00 to 19.00 ;  
Nicolas Floc’h Paysages productifs FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur from 15.00 to 22.00 ; 
Odyssey : an exile collage Centre Photographie de Marseille from 14.00 to 19.00 ;  
Out.of.the.Blue.Map Coco Velten from 11.00 to 18.00 
Palama Château Gombert  from 10.00 to 18.00 ;   
Real Utopias Maison R&C from 9.00 to 12.30 and from 14.00 to 18.30 ; 
Roots to Routes Palette,Preuves sur trois pattes Salon du Salon from 16.00 to 21.00 
Roots to Routes Same door different street 93 rue de la République from 15.00 to 19.00 ;  
Ruche – Hive – Abraham Poincheval Centre de la Vieille Charité from 9.00 to 18.00 ;  
Scenes of the World Coco Velten from 9.00 to 23.00;   
Split Window : Les mains invisibles Sissi Club from 14.00 to 18.00 
Speakers corner Place du refuge at 20.00 
Street Corner Espace Manifesta free access ;   
Sur pierres brûlantes Friche la Belle de Mai from 13.00 to 19.00 ;   
Wilfrid Almendra : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow  Atlantis Lumière from 14.00 to 19.00;   
Winter A-GO-GO Chantier Naval Borg from 15.00 to 18.00;  

Still happening in Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Vallauris – Embrun 

10.00 – 17.00 – Cénotaphe – Abbaye de Montmajour 
15.00 – 18.00 – D’ailleurs la vie ici – Centre d’Art contemporain Les Capucins 
14.00 – 18.00 – Displace 3 bis f 
10.00 – 12.30 and 14.00 – 18.00 - Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix  
14.00 – 17.30 - Persévérance Maison des projets  
10.00 – 18.00 – SUD EST, le constructivisme en héritage : Europe de l’Est et Amérique du Sud Fondation Vasarely Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques MAMAC 

 SUNDAY 11TH OF OCTOBER

Traits d’union.s
Accessible with the Manifesta PASS here  

9.00 – 18.00 – The School – Conservatoire National à rayonnement régional + info  
*Free guided tour at 16.00 registration mandatory here 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Home – Musée Grobet-Labadié +info 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Park – Musée d’Histoire Naturelle (Manifesta’s exhibition closed until 12.00), Musée des Beaux Arts, Consigne Sanitaire et Citerne des Moulins + info 
*Free guided tour at 12.00 at Citerne des Moulins, registration mandatory here 

09.00 – 18.00 – The Refuge – Musée Cantini +info 

9.00 – 18.00 – The Almshouse – Centre de la Vieille Charité +info  

9.00 – 18.00 – The Port – Musée d’Histoire de Marseille +info 

Satellite venues
Satellite exhibition of the plot The Port at Centre Bourse (next to the entry Musée Histoire de Marseille). Free entry + info 

Embouteillages, installation by Yassine Balbzioui on display Place des Capucins, on the facade of Noailles metro station + info 

The Keepers by Arseny Zhilyaev at l’Hôtel-Dieu Intercontinental, Satellite venue of the plot The Home + info and at Bel Horizon (registration mandatory) + info 

Participatory performance The Gravity at Bel Horizon, satellite venue of the plot The Home + info From 17.00 to 22.00, registration mandatory here 

Traits d’union.s public programme 

10.00 – 13.00 – Family day – Park Longchamp + info 

20.30 – 20.50 – Film session #4, screening of ‘Kwassa Kwassa’ (2015), Tuan Andrew Nguyen, followed by a Q&A with the artist – Videodrome 
Free entry + info 

Tiers Programme  

11.00 – 19.00 – Invisible Archive #7 exhibition : No Past, No Future – Tiers QG +info 

Les Parallèles du Sud 
Opening 

9.30 – 17.00 – Pamparigouste, Crossing #3 Salt bassins Berre-l’Etang at plage de Champigny  
16.30 – Moun Fou – Quartier de la Belle de Mai  

Still happening in Marseille  

Anima Mundi Abbaye Sainte Victor from 9.00 to 19.00 ;  
As we go along Le 33 from 10.00 to 19.00 
Collines en ville, Faire avec – Ziva ( Zone d’inspiration vivante et active en continu ;  
Des Mondes aux creux de l’oreille Vieux port de Marseille en continu ;  
Les Suds d’Art-o-rama : Meridonial Contrast Friche la Belle de Mai from 13.00 to 19.00 ; 
Local heroes Marseille&Berlin Musée Regards de Provence from 13.30 to 18.00 ;  
Magiciens de la ville, Target Croisement Boulevard Livon et Quai de Rive Neuve en continu ; 
Nicolas Floc’h Paysages productifs FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur from 15.00 to 22.00 ; 
Palama Château Gombert from 10.00 to 18.00 ;   
Ruche – Hive – Abraham Poincheval Centre de la Vieille Charité from 9.00 to 18.00 ;  
Street Corner Espace Manifesta en continu ;   
Sur pierres brûlantes Friche la Belle de Mai from 13.00 to 19.00  

Still happening in Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Vallauris – Embrun 

10.00 – 17.00 – Cénotaphe – Abbaye de Montmajour 
15.00 – 18.00 – D’ailleurs la vie ici – Centre d’Art contemporain Les Capucins 
14.00 – 18.00 – Displace 3 bis f 
10.00 – 12.30 and 14.00 – 18.00 - Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix  
14.00 – 17.30 - Persévérance Maison des projets  
10.00 – 18.00 – SUD EST, le constructivisme en héritage : Europe de l’Est et Amérique du Sud Fondation Vasarely 
Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques MAMAC 

+ AGENDA

This weekend, for the 7th session on the Invisible Archive, the association Mémoire des Sexualité present the exhibition No past, No Future with the artists V. Jourdain et Hugues Jourdain (Nantes/Paris).

Save the date!

> Housewarming party this Friday 02.10 from 17.30 to 22.45 at Tiers QG, performance, visit of the exhibition with the artists, DJ set, buffet.

> Queer Fanzine mini-fair in the courtyard of the association Mémoire des Sexualités at 52 rue d’Aix Saturday 03.10 at 14.00 followed by a performance of the artists at Tiers QG.

> Christian de Leusse from the association Mémoire des Sexualité will present his archives and documentation about the history of LGBT activism in Marseille and beyond on Wednesday 07.10 from 17.30 to 19.30 at Tiers QG.

> Performances by the artists V. Jourdain et Hugues Jourdain followed by a visit of the exhibition on Saturday 10.10 from 14.00 to 19.00 at Tiers QG.

Please note that all perfomances will be in French.

All events are free entry and limited capacity on registration only HERE. 

More info on the Invisible Archive 7 HERE.

Join the event on Facebook HERE.  

This past weekend Manifesta 13 opened three Traits d’union.s new venues part of the new plot The Park: Musée D’histoire Naturelle Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Marseille and at Consigne Sanitaire at the Vieux Port, the latter opening specially on this occasion.

The director of Manifesta 13 Marseille is happy to announce that the biennial with all its institutional, educational and public programmes as well as Les Parallèles du Sud has attracted more than 20.000 individual visitors, since its first gradual opening moment a month ago today.

Despite the fact that due to the pandemic the opening conditions are not as foreseen, we are extremely thankful for the very loyal and generous support of our partners both from the City of Marseille, its museums, cultural institutions, artists, collaborators and visitors.

Stay tuned for the next and final opening on the 9th of October! All plots will be revealed and exhibitions of Traits d’union.s will be on display until the end of the biennial on the 29th of November 2020.

+AGENDA Marseille & Région Sud

We are on to our third opening weekend this week, bringing to you the plot of The Park at Musée des Beaux-Art, Muséum d’histoire naturelle and Consigne Sanitaire as part of Manifesta 13’s central programme Traits d’union.s. We invite you to all of our 7 main venues now open and especially look forward to welcoming you at Consigne Sanitaire, a historic location at the Vieux Port that is opening specially for Manifesta 13’s visitors, showcasing the work of American artist Peter Fend. This weekend introduces an array of exhibitions that explore the relationship between nature and culture, including exhibitions within Les Parallèles du Sud. The parallel programme of Manifesta presents new shows from the FRAC to the celebrated Abbey Saint Victor.

Don’t forget our special buy one day pass, get one free which is only valid until the 9th of October. And for all those unable to make it to Marseille, we have created a special VIP suspendu package for you. With this offer you will receive our urban research in collaboration with Winy Maas entitled Le Grand Puzzle, a Manifesta bag and we will donate your season pass to those less fortunate here in Marseille.

FRIDAY 25th of SEPTEMBER

15.00 – 21.00 The Park : Becoming a Body of Water + info
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Palais Longchamp, Entry place Henri Dunant , Consigne Sanitaire (FREE OPEN TOURS AT 18.00), 3 quai du Port

09.00 – 21.00 The Home: Rentals, Experiences, Places  + info
Musée Grobet-Labadié, 140 boulevard Longchamp 

The Refuge: Waiting for New Beginnings  + info
Musée Cantini, 19 rue Grignan 

The Almshouse: the Odd, the Poetic and the Possible  + info
Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2 rue de la Charité 

The Port: Where Histories Lie  + info 
Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, 2 rue Henri Barbusse 

Satellite venues of The School at Bar Le Perrin, Brasserie Communale, Chez Fun Funk. Different opening time, more info here.

Satellite project of The Port at Centre Bourse (next to entrance of Musée Histoire de Marseille) and Noailles Metro Station on Place des Capcuins More info here.

Satellite venues of The Home opening: Cité Radieuse, Intercontinental Marseille Hôtel Dieu and Bel Horizon.

FREE ENTRY IN ALL THE VENUES FROM 15.00 TO 21.00

11.00 – 19.00 GROUP-THINK by Stine Marie Jacobsen
Coco Velten, 16 rue Bernard du Bois
Video installation on roof top + info

Les Parallèles du Sud 

Opening of 4 projects in Marseille:
All day:Magiciens de la ville, Target Croisement-Boulevard Livon and Quai de Rive Neuve
15.00 – 22.00: Nicolas Floc’h Paysages productifs-FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur
16.00 – 21.00:Roots to Routes Palette. Preuves sur trois pattes – Salon du Salon
14.00 – 17.00:Les Belles idées reçues-Angle Canebiere / Cours Belsunce

Still happening in Marseille…

65 Rue d’Aubagne – Coco Velten 17.00 to 20.00 ; Allochronotopie – La Compagnie 14.00 to 19.00; Corps étrangers : les femmes de Belsunce – Le Pangolin 10.00 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00; Des Architecture(s) – Centre Photographie de Marseille 14.00 to 19.00; Des Mondes aux creux de l’oreille – Vieux port de Marseille all day ; Disobey Orders,Save the artists – The American Gallery 15.00 to 19.00; Giovanni Fontana: Epigenetic poetry – Centre de la Vieille Charité 11.00 to 18.00; Head Above Water – Belsunce Projects 11.00 to 18.00; Infinite Village – Espace Jouenne 10.00 to 19.00; Les Suds d’Art-o-rama : Meridonial Contrast Friche la Belle de Mai 11.00 to 19.00; Liminal – art-cade*, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine 15.00 to 19.00; Local heroes Marseille&Berlin – Musée Regards de Provence 13.30 to 18.00; Marseille Drive – Unité d’habitation Le Corbusier Librairie Imbernon 10.00 to 19.00; Odyssey : an exile collage – Centre Photographie de Marseille 14.00 to 19.00; Palama – Château Gombert 10.00 to 18.00; Roots to Routes Same door different street – 93 rue de la République 15.00 to 19.00; Ruche – Hive – Abraham Poincheval – Centre de la Vieille Charité 9.00 to 18.00; Scenes of the World – Coco Velten 9.00 to 23.00; Spoiled Waters Spilled – Ballet National de Marseille 14.00 to 19.00; Street Corner – Espace Manifesta all day; Sur pierres brûlantes- Friche la Belle de Mai 14.00 to 19.00; The Third House Owner – Galerie Zemma 15.00 to 19.00; Wilfrid Almendra : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow – Atlantis Lumière 14.00 to 19.00; Winter A -GO- GO – Chantier Naval Borg 15.00 to 18.00

Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Monaco – Vallauris – Embrun 

18th near Castro Street – Furiosa 11.00 to 18.00, Cénotaphe – Abbaye de Montmajour 10.00 to 17.00; D’ailleurs la vie ici – Centre d’Art contemporain Les Capucins 15.00 to 18.00; Displace – 3 bis f 14.00 to 18.00; Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah – Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix 10.00 to 12.30 and 14.00 to 18.00; Persévérance – Maison des projets 14.00 to 17.30 ; SUD EST, le constructivisme en héritage : Europe de l’Est et Amérique du Sud – Fondation Vasarely 10.00 to 18.00; Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques – MAMAC de Nice 10.00 to 18.00

SATURDAY 26TH OF SEPTEMBER

09.00 – 18.00 The Park : Becoming a Body of Water + info
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Muséum d’histoire naturelle (FREE OPEN TOURS AT 11.00), Palais Longchamp, Entry place Henri Dunant , Consigne Sanitaire , 3 quai du Port

The Home: Rentals, Experiences, Places  + info
Musée Grobet-Labadié, 140 boulevard Longchamp 

The Refuge: Waiting for New Beginnings  + info
Musée Cantini, 19 rue Grignan 

The Almshouse: the Odd, the Poetic and the Possible  + info
Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2 rue de la Charité 

The Port: Where Histories Lie  + info 
Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, 2 rue Henri Barbusse 

Satellite venues of The School at Bar Le Perrin, Brasserie Communale, Chez Fun Funk. Different opening time, more info here.

Satellite project of The Port at Centre Bourse (next to entrance of Musée Histoire de Marseille) and Noailles Metro Station on Place des Capcuins More info here.

Satellite venues of The Home opening: Cité Radieuse, Intercontinental Marseille Hôtel Dieu and Bel Horizon.

11.00 – 19.00 GROUP-THINK by Stine Marie Jacobsen
Coco Velten, 16 rue Bernard du Bois
Video installation on roof top + info

Les Parallèles du Sud 

Opening of 4 projects in Marseille :
10.00 – 19.00  Real utopias – Maison R&C
9.00 – 19.00: Anima Mundi– Abbaye Saint Victor
17.00: Faire avec – ZIVA (Zone d’inspiration vivante et active) Olivier Nattes , 
18.00: Speakers’ corner – Place du Refuge

Still happening in Marseille…

65 Rue d’Aubagne – Coco Velten 17.00 to 20.00 ; Allochronotopie – La Compagnie 14.00 to 19.00; Corps étrangers : les femmes de Belsunce – Le Pangolin 10.00 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00; Des Architecture(s) – Centre Photographie de Marseille 14.00 to 19.00; Des Mondes aux creux de l’oreille – Vieux port de Marseille all day ; Disobey Orders,Save the artists – The American Gallery 15.00 to 19.00; Giovanni Fontana: Epigenetic poetry – Centre de la Vieille Charité 11.00 to 18.00; Head Above Water – Belsunce Projects 11.00 to 18.00; Infinite Village – Espace Jouenne 10.00 to 19.00; Les Suds d’Art-o-rama : Meridonial Contrast Friche la Belle de Mai 11.00 to 19.00; Liminal – art-cade*, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine 15.00 to 19.00; Local heroes Marseille&Berlin – Musée Regards de Provence 13.30 to 18.00; Marseille Drive – Unité d’habitation Le Corbusier Librairie Imbernon 10.00 to 19.00; Odyssey : an exile collage – Centre Photographie de Marseille 14.00 to 19.00; Palama – Château Gombert 10.00 to 18.00; Roots to Routes Same door different street – 93 rue de la République 15.00 to 19.00; Ruche – Hive – Abraham Poincheval – Centre de la Vieille Charité 9.00 to 18.00; Scenes of the World – Coco Velten 9.00 to 23.00; Spoiled Waters Spilled – Ballet National de Marseille 14.00 to 19.00; Street Corner – Espace Manifesta all day; Sur pierres brûlantes- Friche la Belle de Mai 14.00 to 19.00; The Third House Owner – Galerie Zemma 15.00 to 19.00; Wilfrid Almendra : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow – Atlantis Lumière 14.00 to 19.00; Winter A -GO- GO – Chantier Naval Borg 15.00 to 18.00

Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Monaco – Vallauris – Embrun 

18th near Castro Street – Furiosa 11.00 to 18.00, Cénotaphe – Abbaye de Montmajour 10.00 to 17.00; D’ailleurs la vie ici – Centre d’Art contemporain Les Capucins 15.00 to 18.00; Displace – 3 bis f 14.00 to 18.00; Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah – Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix 10.00 to 12.30 and 14.00 to 18.00; Persévérance – Maison des projets 14.00 to 17.30 ; SUD EST, le constructivisme en héritage : Europe de l’Est et Amérique du Sud – Fondation Vasarely 10.00 to 18.00; Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques – MAMAC de Nice 10.00 to 18.00

SUNDAY 27TH OF SEPTEMBER

09.00 – 18.00 The Park : Becoming a Body of Water + info
Musée des Beaux-Arts (FREE OPEN TOURS AT 11.00), Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Palais Longchamp, Entry place Henri Dunant , Consigne Sanitaire, 3 quai du Port

The Home: Rentals, Experiences, Places  + info
Musée Grobet-Labadié, 140 boulevard Longchamp 

The Refuge: Waiting for New Beginnings + info
Musée Cantini, 19 rue Grignan 

The Almshouse: the Odd, the Poetic and the Possible  + info
Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2 rue de la Charité 

The Port: Where Histories Lie  + info
Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, 2 rue Henri Barbusse 

Satellite venues of The School at Bar Le Perrin, Brasserie Communale, Chez Fun Funk. Different opening time, more info here.

Satellite project of The Port at Centre Bourse (next to entrance of Musée Histoire de Marseille) and Noailles Metro Station on Place des Capcuins More info here.

Satellite venues of The Home opening: Cité Radieuse, Intercontinental Marseille Hôtel Dieu and Bel Horizon.

Les Parallèles du Sud 

Opening of one project in Vitrolles: From station to Les Marettes beach
9h: Pamparigouste, traversée #2

Still happening in Marseille:

Anima Mundi Abbaye de Saint Victor 9.00 to 19.00 Corps étrangers : les femmes de Belsunce – Le Pangolin 10.00 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00; Des Mondes aux creux de l’oreille – Vieux port de Marseille all day; FAIRE AVEC – ZIVA (Zone d’inspiration vivante et active) Olivier Nattes – Collines en ville-Signal de l’Est – Place de la liberté; Infinite Village – Espace Jouenne 10.00 to 19.00; Les Suds d’Art-o-rama : Meridonial Contrast Friche la Belle de Mai de 13.00 to 19.00; Local heroes Marseille&Berlin – Musée Regards de Provence 13.30 to 18.00; Magiciens de la ville, Target – Croisement Boulevard Livon et Quai de Rive Neuve tout le temps; Nicolas Floc’h Paysages productifs – FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur 14.00 to 19.00; Noria, machinerie poétique et sonore – Cité des arts de la Rue 14.00 to 17.00; Odyssey : an exile collage – Centre Photographie de Marseille 14.00 to 19.00; Palama – Château Gombert 10.00 to 18.00; Ruche – Hive – Abraham Poincheval – Centre de la Vieille Charité 9.00 to 18.00; Street Corner – Espace Manifesta all day; Sur pierres brûlantes – Friche la Belle de Mai 13.00 to 19.00

Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Monaco – Vallauris – Embrun :

Cénotaphe – Abbaye de Montmajour 10.00 to 17.00; Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah – Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix 10.00 to 12.30 and 14.00 to 18.00; SUD EST, le constructivisme en héritage : Europe de l’Est et Amérique du Sud – Fondation Vasarely 10.00 to 18.00; Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques – MAMAC de Nice 10.00 to 18.00

+ DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME IN PDF

The central programme Traits d’union.s presented the exhibitions The Home, The Almshouse, The Refuge, The Port, The Park, The School in six Marseille museums and other unexpected venues in the city, such as the Citerne des Moulins in the most ancient neighbourhood of the city le Panier, the Consigne Sanitaire in the Vieux Port, or the Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet.

It brought together the work of more than 40 international and French artists, with a majority of works commissioned on this occasion.

Gradually opening from the 28th of August to the 9th of October 2020, these exhibitions were combined with a free Public Programme, including outdoor listening sessions at the Parc Longchamp in collaboration with Radio Grenouille, film screenings at Vidéodrome 2 and encounters throughout Marseille.

+ VISIT THE EXHIBITIONS ONLINE

+ TRAITS D’UNION.S CONCEPT

+ EXHIBITIONS PROGRAMME

+ PUBLIC PROGRAMME

+ TRAITS D’UNION.S IN VIDEO

Manifesta 13 Marseille had another jam-packed weekend, as we opened another three of our Traits d’union.s plots: The Amlshouse in Centre de La Vieille Charité, The Refuge in Musée Cantini and The Port in Musée d’Histoire de Marseille.

Our public programme was filled with film screenings by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley, and a full day conference focusing on restitution and repair. Manifesta 13 Les Paralleles du Sud welcomed once again many visitors to performances, exhibitions and more. The weekend ended with an outdoor screening of Rory Pilgrim’s The Undercurrent, as part of Le Tiers Programme.

A huge thank you to all the artists, collaborators and our partners. Thank you also to our audiences for attending our second Opening weekend!

See you at our next Opening #3 starting on the 25th of September and at Espace Manifesta 13 for more information and events!

+ AGENDA OF THE WEEK

Join our Family Days workshops every Sunday 10.00-13.00 on the Stage of Park Longchamp.

The drop-in workshops are designed for the age 6-12 and are led by Manifesta 13 mediators.

Inspired by artworks of the biennial, our mediators invite children and their caretakers to draw, paint, glue, sculpt in the open air and give their imaginations free rein.

Free entrance, no registration required.

On the 11th, 12th and 13th of September, the second opening weekend of Manifesta 13 in Marseille and throughout the South Region begins.
Exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops and many others to discover with your family, solo or in groups.
Come and discover the exhibitions with free guided tours with the Manifesta 13 mediators (registration here).

For the opening on Friday 11.09, the exhibitions are free!
Then get your season PASS and access all the events of the biennial! Until October 9th, buy 1 day pass = get 1 for free.

[ PROGRAMME OPENING #2 ]

+ DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME IN PDF

Friday 11^th of September 2020

11.00 – 19.00 Invisible Archives #6 B.Vice Sound Musical School – Tiers QG 
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11.00 – 19.00 GROUP-THINK of Stine Marie Jacobsen – Coco Velten (Toit-terrasse)
+ info

15.00 – 21.00 The Refuge: Waiting for New Beginnings – Musée Cantini
 +info 
*Free open guided tours 16.00 > 17.00. Book your visit here 

15.00 – 21.00 The Almshouse: The Odd, The Poetic and The Possible – Centre de la Vieille Charité 
+info 
*Free open guided tours 18.00 > 19.00. Book your visit here 

15.00 – 21.00 The Port: Where History lie – Musée d’Histoire de Marseille
 +info 
*Free open guided tours 16.00 > 17.00. Book your visit here 

These three plots are open to the public for the first time. Free entry 

15.00 – 21.00 – The Home: Rentals, Experiences, Places – Musée Grobet-Labadie.
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20.30 – 22.00 Film screening Permanent Green Light (2018) by Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley – Videodrome 2
Presentation beforehand by the artists + Q&A  
+info  Donation requested. Limited Capacity.  

Satellite venues of The School opening: Bar Le Perrin, Brasserie Communale, Chez Fun Funk. Free entry. Different opening time, more info here  

Satellite project of The Port opening at Centre Bourse (next to entrance of Musée Histoire de Marseille). Free entry. More info here 

Les Parallèles du Sud 

14h – 21h – Giovanni Fontana: Epigenetic poetry – Centre de la Vieille Charité – cipM. Performance à 17h30 
14h– 18h – Spoiled Waters Spilled – Ballet National de Marseille.  
15h– 21h  Ruche / Hive – Abraham Poincheval – Centre de la Vieille Charité  

Still hapenning….  

Marseille   

Palama Château Gombert – 10.00 to 18.00;
Wilfrid Almendra : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow  Atlantis Lumière  – 14.00 to 18.00; Liminal  art-cade*, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine – 15.00 to 19.00 ; Head Above Water Belsunce Projects – 11.00 to 18.00;  Sur pierres brûlantes Friche la Belle de Mai -14.00 to 19.00;  Les Suds d’Art-o-rama : Meridonial Contrast Friche la Belle de Mai – 11.00 to 19.00 ; Persévérance Quai d’honneur de la Mairie- 15.30 to 18.30 ; Allochronotopie La Compagnie – 14.00 to 19.00; Infinite Village Espace Jouenne – 10.00 to 19.00; Split Window Sissi Club – 14.00 to 18.00;  Street Corner Espace Manifesta;  The Third House Owner Galerie Zemma – 15.00 to 19.00 ; 65 Rue d’Aubagne Coco Veltende – 17.00 to 20.00 ;  Scenes of the World Coco Velten – 9.00 to 23.00;  Des Architecture(s) Centre Photographie de Marseille – 14.00 to 19.00;  Odyssey : an exile collage Centre Photographie de Marseille – 14.00 to 19.00; Roots to Routes 93 Rue de la République – 15.00 to 19.00 + performance Pirouette at 19.00; Pristhina-Marseille La Ville Blanche – 14.00 to 18.00 ; Winter A -GO- GO Chantier Naval Borg – 15.00 to 18.00 ; Disobey Orders,Save the artists The American Gallery – 15.00 to 19.00 

Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Monaco – Vallauris – Embrun 

Displace 3 bis f – 14.00 to 18.00 ; Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques MAMAC -10.00 to 18.00 ; Cénotaphe Abbaye de Montmajour – 10.00 to 17.00 ; 18th near Castro Street Furiosa – 11.00 to 18.00 ; Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix – 10.00 to 12.30 and 14.00 to 18.00 ; D’ailleurs la vie ici Centre d’Art contemporain Les Capucins – 15.00 to 18.00 

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Saturday 12th of September 2020

09.00 – 18.00 – The Refuge – Musée Cantini 
Get your Pass Manifesta here (2 Day Passes for the price of 1) +info 
*Free open guided tours 16.00 > 17.00. Book your visit here 

09.00 – 18.00 – The Almshouse – Centre de la Vieille Charité
 +info 
*Free open guided tours 14.00 > 15.00. Book your visit here 

09.00 – 18.00 – The Port – Musée d’Histoire de Marseille 
+info 
*Free open guided tours 14.00 > 15.00
**Tours with the artist Samia Henni  16.00 >16.45
Limited capacity. Book your visit here 

09.00 – 18.00 – The Home– Musée Grobet-Labadié.
 +info 

11.00 – 19.00 Invisible Archives #6 – Tiers QG 
+info 

11.00 – 19.00 GROUP-THINK by Stine Marie Jacobsen – Coco Velten (Roof top) +info 

Public Programme: Special Rencontres 
14.00 – 19.00 Tracing fractures: Across Listening, Movement, Restitution and Repair 
With: Matthieu Abonnenc, Nora Al-Badri, Memory Biwa, Barbara Cassin, Badr El Hammami, Bhavisha Panchia, Dorothée Munyaneza, Estelle N’Tsende, Xavier Rey, Assia Zouane, et al. 
Courtyard of Centre de la Vieille Charité. Full programme 
Free Entrance 

20.30 – 22.00 Film screening Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015) by Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley – Videodrome 2
Presentation beforehand by the artists + Q&A
 +info 

Satellite venues of The School opening: Bar Le Perrin, Brasserie Communale, Chez Fun Funk. Free entry. Different opening time, more info here  

Satellite project of The Port opening at Centre Bourse (next to entrance of Musée Histoire de Marseille). Free entry. More info here 

Les Parallèles du Sud 

13.30 – 18.00, Local Heroes, Musée Regards de Provence 
16.00,  – 20.00,  Marseille Drive – Unité d’habitation Le Corbusier Librairie Imbernon 

Still hapenning….  

Marseille   

Palama Château Gombert – 10.00 to 18.00; Wilfrid Almendra : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow  Atlantis Lumière  – 14.00 to 18.00; Liminal  art-cade*, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine – 15.00 to 19.00 ; Head Above Water Belsunce Projects – 11.00 to 18.00;  Sur pierres brûlantes Friche la Belle de Mai -14.00 to 19.00;  Les Suds d’Art-o-rama : Meridonial Contrast Friche la Belle de Mai – 11.00 to 19.00 ; Persévérance Quai d’honneur de la Mairie- 15.30 to 18.30 ; Allochronotopie La Compagnie – 14.00 to 19.00; Infinite Village Espace Jouenne – 10.00 to 19.00;  Street Corner Espace Manifesta;  The Third House Owner Galerie Zemma – 15.00 to 19.00 ; 65 Rue d’Aubagne Coco Velten – 17.00 to 20.00 ;  Scenes of the World Coco Velten – 9.00 to 23.00;  Des Architecture(s) Centre Photographie de Marseille – 14.00 to 19.00;  Odyssey : an exile collage Centre Photographie de Marseille – 14.00 to 19.00; Roots to Routes 93 Rue de la République – 15.00 to 19.00; Pristhina-Marseille La Ville Blanche – 14.00 to 18.00 ; Giovanni Fontana : Epigenetic Poetry  Centre de la Vieille Charité – Centre International de la Poésie - 11.00 to 20.00 and performance at 17.30 ; Abraham Poincheval : Ruches / Hive  Centre de la Vieille Charité - 9.00 to 18.00 ; Spoiled Waters Spilled  Ballet National de Marseille – Centre chorégraphique Nationalde – 14.00 to 18.00; Winter A -GO- GO Chantier Naval Borg – 15.00 to 18.00 ; Disobey Orders,Save the artists The American Gallery – 15.00 to 19.00 

Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Monaco – Vallauris – Embrun 

Displace 3 bis f – 14.00 to 18.00 ; Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques MAMAC -10.00 to 18.00 ; Cénotaphe Abbaye de Montmajour – 10.00 to 17.00 ; 18th near Castro Street Furiosa – 11.00 to 18.00 ; Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix – 10.00 to 12.30 and 14.00 to 18.00 ; D’ailleurs la vie ici Centre d’Art contemporain Les Capucins – 15.00 to 18.00 

+info

Sunday 13th of September 2020

09.00 – 18.00 – The Refuge – Musée Cantini 
Get your Pass Manifesta here (2 Day Passes for the price of 1) +info 
*Free open guided tours 16.00 > 17.00. Book your visit here 

09.00 – 18.00 – The Almshouse – Centre de la Vieille Charité
 +info 
*Free open guided tours 14.00 > 15.00. Book your visit here 

09.00 – 18.00 – The Port – Musée d’Histoire de Marseille 
+info 
*Free open guided tours 14.00 > 15.00
**Tours with the artist Samia Henni  16.00 >16.45
Limited capacity. Book your visit here 

09.00 – 18.00 – The Home– Musée Grobet-Labadié.
 +info 

11.00 – 19.00 Invisible Archives #6 – Tiers QG 
+info 

10.00 – 13.00: Family day
Join Manifesta 13 mediators team for workshops for youngster (6 yo to 12) and their attendants around artworks form the biennale exhibitions – Park Longchamp stage +info
Free participation, open to all, no registration needed

20.00 – 21.30 Screening of The Undercurrent(2019) by Rory Pilgrim + Q&A – Longchamp Stage. Free entrance. +info  

20.30 – 22.00 Presentation of the book ZAC’S DRUG BINGE, a gif novel, by Dennis Cooper – Press Kiddiepunk.
+info 

Satellite venues of The School opening: Bar Le Perrin, Brasserie Communale, Chez Fun Funk. Free entry. Different opening time, more info here  

Satellite project of The Port opening at Centre Bourse (next to entrance of Musée Histoire de Marseille). Free entry. More info here 

Les Parallèles du Sud 

10.30 – Avec le vent…  Vieux Port de Marseille 
17.00 – 21.00 – Marseille Drive – Unité d’habitation Le Corbusier Librairie Imbernon 

Still hapenning….  

Marseille   

Palama Château Gombert – 10.00 to 18.00 ;  Sur pierres brûlantes Friche la Belle de Mai – 13.00 to 19.00 ;  Meridonialcontrast Friche la Belle de Mai – -11.00 to 19.00 ; Persévérance Quai d’honneur de la Mairie -15.30 to 18.30 ; Espace Jouenne -10.00 to 19.00 ; Street Corner Espace Manifesta; Roots to Routes 93 Rue de la République – 15.00 to 19.00 ;  Abraham Poincheval : Ruches / Hive  Centre de la Vieille Charité - 9.00 to 18.00 ; Local Heroes Musée Regards de Provence 13.30 to 18.00 ;  Noria – machinerie poétique et sonore Cité des Arts de la Rue 9.30 to 17.00

Aix en Provence – Arles – Nice – Vallauris  

Ursula Biemann Savoirs indigènes-Fictions cosmologiques MAMAC – 10.00 to 18.00 ; Cénotaphe Abbaye de Montmajour – 10.00 to 17.00 ; Mon heure préférée est une heure de la Nuit : Al Fahmah Musée Pablo Picasso La Guerre et la Paix – 10.00 to 12.30 and 14.00 to 18.00 ; SUD EST Fondation Vasarely -10.00 to 18.00

Due to the health measures related to COVID-19, entry are limited in all venues of Manifesta 13 Marseille. Please follow the regulations, here on our website: manifesta13.org/en/visit

I NEXT OPENINGS I
The 5 other plots of the central programme Traits d’union.s will gradually open in Manifesta 13 Marseille’s venues.
[ Opening #3 ] : 25,26, 27 September 2020
[ Opening #4 ] : 9, 10, 12 October
From the 9th of October, all the Traits d’union.s exhibitions will be on display until the 29th of November 2020.

Manifesta 13 Marseille was launched on the weekend of the 28th to the 30th of August 2020.

To open the biennial during Covid-19 was a big challenge. Limited capacity and sanitary measures respected, we made it! To all supporters who made the beginning of Manifesta 13 possible, this was a huge collective effort for which we are extremely grateful!

We would like to thank our audiences for attending our first Opening weekend: you were in Marseille with more than 1000 visitors to discover the first series of Manifesta 13 programmes: exhibitions, concerts and performances of Manifesta 13’s Les Paralleles du Sud, Le Tiers Programme and the first plot of Trait’s – d’union.s, The Home. 

Thank you to all our worldwide partners, members of the press and professionals who have been attending our online press conference (with over 500 viewers) and Le Grand Puzzle online panel discussion. 

Find out more about the agenda for the weeks to come.

We hope to welcome you back for the second opening weekend on the 11th, 12th and 13th of September, 2020.

Manifesta 13 Marseille begins! Don’t miss the opening of 25 projects from its colateral programme Les Parallèles du Sud on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of August 2020. This programme aims to highlight the richness of the local artistic and cultural scene while creating sustainable and fruitful collaborations.

Come and discover installations that question our relationship to transportation such as Scenes of the world by Johann Arens, or an infrastructure that contributes to a positive rethinking of living together at Coco Velten or again, Persévérance at the Bassin du J4, a creative reworking of a curious boat from the end of the 18th century in which you can stroll with the artists!

Exhibitions, performances, workshops, meetings, screenings…. Discover the details of the programme day by day!

Thursday the 27th of August 2020:
16.00 – 21.00 : Wilfrid Almendra, so much depends upon a red wheel barrow, Atlantis Lumière
18.30 – 22.00 : Liminal, art- cade* galerie des grands bains douches de la plaine

Friday the 28th of August 2020: 
18.30 – 21.00: 65 rue d’Aubagne and Scenes of the World at Coco Velten
18.00 – 21.00: Allochronotopie at La Compagnie
19.00 – 22.00: Des Architecture(s) and Odyssey – an exil collage at the Centre Photographique Marseille
11.00 – 21.00: Head Above Water at Belsunce Project 
18.00 – 22.00: Infinite Village at the Espace Jouenne
18.00 – 22.00: Split Window at Sissi Club
19.00 – 22.00: Street Corner at the Espace Manifesta 
14.00 – 22.00: Sur pierres brûlantes, Les Suds d’Art-o-rama: Meridional Contrast and White Mountain College at Friche la Belle de Mai
18.00 – 20.00: The Third House Owner at the Galerie Zemma
10.00 – 18.00: Palama at Château Gombert 
15.30 – 18.30: Persévérance at Bassin du J4
18.30 – 21.00: Prishtina-Marseille at La Ville Blanche
18.00 – 21.00: Roots to Routes at 93 rue de la République

Saturday the 29th of August 2020:
16.00 – 18.00: D’ici, la vile ailleurs at Où, lieu pour l’art actuel
18.00: Roots to Routes at the Unité d’habitation Le Corbusier

Sunday the 30th of August:
14.00 – 18.00: Disobey Orders, Save the Artists at The American Gallery
14.00 – 17.00: Noria, machinerie poétique et sonore at the Cité des Arts de la Rue
11.00 – 13.00: WINTER A-GO-GO at the Chantier Naval de Borg
16.00 – 18.00: Relai at the Immeuble Bel Horizon

Free entry to the openings depending on capacity, mask required!

+ INFO ON LES PARALLÈLES DU SUD

Join Le Grand Puzzle online panel discussion on Saturday the 29^th of August at 11.00 with Mayor of Marseille, Mrs Michèle Rubirola and Dutch architect Winy Maas, who will speak about possible scenario’s for the future of the city of Marseille, based on the publication of Le Grand Puzzle, the urban study commissioned by Manifesta 13.

Le Grand Puzzle is the urban research by MVRDV and The Why Factory led by Winy Maas commissioned by Manifesta 13 Marseille. It was commissioned as the foundational step of Manifesta 13 Marseille and as new model of creative mediation that serves both as a blueprint for Marseille to plan its future and as a research framework to ensure that Manifesta 13 achieved a long-term impact for the city and its citizens. In Le Grand Puzzle, Marseille is addressed as a complex mosaic of fragments and sometimes lost identities unfolding from centuries of exchange between civilisations, where the city’s material archaeology, cultural legacy, histories and ecosystems testify to Marseille multiculturalism and syncretism.

For this occasion the the Mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola; the City Councillor of Culture, Jean Marc Copolla; Architect, Co-founder of MVRDV and Director of The Why Factory (Delft University of Technology) Winy Maas; Research and Education Coordinator of the Why Factory Javier Arpa Fernández, Manifesta’s Founding Director Hedwig Fijen as well as city makers Tarik Gezhali and Joke Quintens will come together to discuss the notion and value of an urban study for the future agenda of the city of Marseille.

+FOLLOW THE PANEL DISCUSSION HERE
+BUY YOUR COPY ONLINE
+MORE ON LE GRAND PUZZLE

Throughout the weekend of the 28th until the 30th of August we invite you to discover the first plot of the central programme Traits d’union.s at Musée Grobet-Labadié, the new exhibition of the Invisible Archives at Tiers QG, screenings at the rooftop of Coco Velten and Friche la Belle de Mai, the film programme at Videodrome 2, the sound programme in collaboration with Radio Grenouille, as well as more than 20 fantastic projects brought to you by some Marseille’s most exciting cultural producers within the programme Les Parallèles du Sud.

Many openings will be for free during this kick-off weekend, so please check our agenda! Most importantly, your safety is our priority, so please make sure to adhere to all the coronavirus regulations within these venues.

Discover our programme below!

+REGISTER TO OUR FACEBOOK EVENT HERE
+GET YOUR MANIFESTA PASS HERE
+FULL AGENDA HERE

Friday 28th of August 2020 

Free entry for all events!
11.30 – 12h.30 à Press conference [LIVESTREAM]

15.00 – 21.00 : Opening of The Home, first plot of the central programme Traits d’union.s  at Musée Grobet-Labadié. No tickets needed

15.00 – 19.00  Screening of GROUP-THINK by Stine Marie Jacobsen as part of Le Tiers Programme at Coco Velten.
+ Info

20.30- 22.30 Screening Landscape Suicide of James Benning, as part of the film programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille at Videodrome 2
+ Info

 Saturday 29th of August 2020

09.00 – 18.00 The Home, first plot of the central programme Traits d’union.s at Musée Grobet-Labadié : tickets required
+Info
*Free Open Tours 10.00, 14.00 and 16.00
+ Info

11.00 – 19.00  Screening of GROUP-THINK by Stine Marie Jacobsen as part of Le Tiers Programme at Coco Velten.
+ Info

11h30-12h30 GRAND PUZZLE: the panel
An online panel discussion on Le Grand Puzzle, Manifesta 13 Marseille’s pre biennial urban study, In the presence of Michèle Rubirola, Mayor of Marseille and Winy Maas, Architect and Co-Founder of the architectural bureau MVRDV
Online

17.00 – 21.00 The Gravity, Live Action Rôle Playing Game by Arseny Zhilyaev at Bel Horizon part of The Home of Traits d’union.s. Registration required
+Info

18.00 – 19.00 Politiques de l’écoute et féminismes with Elena Biserna, part of the sound programme with Radio Grenouille at Park Longchamp Marseille, Free entry – Registration required
+ Info

18.00 – 00.00 Housewarming party of the exhibition Archive Invisible #6 La B. Vice Sound Musical School, le conservatoire du rap à Marseille?, as part of Le Tiers Programme with performances by Eva Doumbia, Famoudou Don Moye and B. Vice Sound Musical School at Tiers QG Free, reservation required. Join us on the Facebook Live!
+ Info

20.30- 22.30 Screening of Reader by James Benning at Videodrome 2
+ Info

Sunday 30th of August 2020 

09.00 – 18.00 The Home, first plot of the central programme Traits d’union.s at Musée Grobet-Labadié: tickets required
+ Info
*Free Open Tours 10.00, 14.00 and 16.00
+ Info

10.00 – 19.00 Invisible Archive #6 B. Vice Sound Musical School + Eva Doumbia + Famoudou Don Moye at Tiers QG. Free
* 12.00 Free Open Tour with Manifesta 13 mediators
+ Info

16h30 – 20h- Inclusive film debate: Our identities on the screen, our hybrid existences. Programme by AOZIZ & more for Pride 2020 at Cinéma Le Miroir de la Vieille Charité
Free entry, registration required (limited capacity)
+ Info

17.00 and 18.30 Visits of The Gravity and The Keepers by Arseny Zhilyaev at Bel Horizon, as part of The Home of Traits d’union.s. Registration required
+ Info

From 20.30 Screening of Péril sur la Ville by Philippe Pujol on the Rooftop of  Friche la Belle de Mai. Free entry, limited capacity: tickets available from 19.30 in Cour Jobin

COLATERAL PROGRAMME, LES PARALLÈLES DU SUD
28 > 30.08 Launch of 20 projects in several locations in Marseille: 

Friche la Belle de Mai, Château Gombert, Coco Velten, Esplanade du J4 Promenade Robert Laffont, La Ville Blanche, Centre Photographique Marseille and many more
+ Agenda

I NEXT OPENINGS I
The 5 other plots of the central programme Traits d’union.s will gradually open in Manifesta 13 Marseille’s venues. Save the date!
[ Opening #2 ] : 11,12,13 September 2020
[ Opening #3 ] : 25,26, 27 September 2020
[ Opening #4 ] : 9, 10, 12 October
From the 9th of October, all the Traits d’union.s exhibitions will be on display until the 29th of November 2020.

Stay in touch > NEWSLETTER

Throughout the weekend of the 28th until the 30th of August we invite you to discover the first plot of the central programme Traits d’union.s at Musée Grobet-Labadié, the new exhibition of the Invisible Archives at Tiers QG, screenings at the rooftop of Coco Velten and Friche la Belle de Mai, the film programme at Videodrome 2, the sound programme in collaboration with Radio Grenouille, as well as more than 20 fantastic projects brought to you by some Marseille’s most exciting cultural producers within the programme Les Parallèles du Sud.

Many openings will be for free during this kick-off weekend, so please check our agenda! Most importantly, your safety is our priority, so please make sure to adhere to all the coronavirus regulations within these venues.

Discover our programme below!

+REGISTER TO OUR FACEBOOK EVENT HERE
+GET YOUR MANIFESTA PASS HERE
+FULL AGENDA HERE

FRIDAY 28TH OF AUGUST 2020

Free entry for all events!
11.30 – 12h.30 à Press conference [LIVESTREAM]

15.00 – 21.00 : Opening of The Home, first plot of the central programme Traits d’union.s  at Musée Grobet-Labadié. No tickets needed

15.00 – 19.00  Video installation of GROUP-THINK by Stine Marie Jacobsen as part of Le Tiers Programme at Coco Velten.
+ Info

20.30- 22.30 Screening Landscape Suicide of James Benning, as part of the film programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille at Videodrome 2
+ Info

SATURDAY 29TH OF AUGUST 2020

09.00 – 18.00 The Home, first plot of the central programme Traits d’union.s at Musée Grobet-Labadié : tickets required
+Info
*Free Open Tours 10.00, 14.00 and 16.00
+ Info

11.00 – 19.00  Video installation of GROUP-THINK by Stine Marie Jacobsen as part of Le Tiers Programme at Coco Velten.
+ Info

11h30-12h30 GRAND PUZZLE: the panel
An online panel discussion on Le Grand Puzzle, Manifesta 13 Marseille’s pre biennial urban study, In the presence of Michèle Rubirola, Mayor of Marseille and Winy Maas, Architect and Co-Founder of the architectural bureau MVRDV
Online

17.00 – 21.00 The Gravity, Live Action Rôle Playing Game by Arseny Zhilyaev at Bel Horizon part of The Home of Traits d’union.s. Registration required
+Info

18.00 – 19.00 Politiques de l’écoute et féminismes with Elena Biserna, part of the sound programme with Radio Grenouille at Park Longchamp Marseille, Free entry
POSTPONED to the 3th of September, same place, same hour.
+ Info

18.00 – 00.00 Housewarming party of the exhibition Archive Invisible #6 La B. Vice Sound Musical School, le conservatoire du rap à Marseille?, as part of Le Tiers Programme with performances by Eva Doumbia, Famoudou Don Moye and B. Vice Sound Musical School at Tiers QG Free, reservation required. Join us on the Facebook Live!
+ Info

20.30- 22.30 Screening of Reader by James Benning at Videodrome 2
+ Info

SUNDAY 30TH OF AUGUST 2020

09.00 – 18.00 The Home, first plot of the central programme Traits d’union.s at Musée Grobet-Labadié: tickets required
+ Info
*Free Open Tours 10.00, 14.00 and 16.00
+ Info

10.00 – 19.00 Invisible Archive #6 B. Vice Sound Musical School + Eva Doumbia + Famoudou Don Moye at Tiers QG. Free
* 12.00 Free Open Tour with Manifesta 13 mediators
+ Info

16h30 – 20h- Inclusive film debate: Our identities on the screen, our hybrid existences. Programme by AOZIZ & more for Pride 2020 at Cinéma Le Miroir de la Vieille Charité
Free entry, registration required (limited capacity)
+ Info

17.00 and 18.30 Visits of The Gravity and The Keepers by Arseny Zhilyaev at Bel Horizon, as part of The Home of Traits d’union.s. Registration required
+ Info

19.00 – 21.00 Screening of Péril sur la Ville by Philippe Pujol on the Rooftop of  Friche la Belle de Mai. Free entry, limited capacity: tickets available from 18.30 in Cour Jobin

COLATERAL PROGRAMME, LES PARALLÈLES DU SUD
28 > 30.08 Launch of 20 projects in several locations in Marseille: 

Friche la Belle de Mai, Château Gombert, Coco Velten, Esplanade du J4 Promenade Robert Laffont, La Ville Blanche, Centre Photographique Marseille and many more
+ Agenda

I NEXT OPENINGS I
The 5 other plots of the central programme Traits d’union.s will gradually open in Manifesta 13 Marseille’s venues. Save the date!
[ Opening #2 ] : 11,12,13 September 2020
[ Opening #3 ] : 25,26, 27 September 2020
[ Opening #4 ] : 9, 10, 12 October
From the 9th of October, all the Traits d’union.s exhibitions will be on display until the 29th of November 2020.

Stay in touch : NEWSLETTER

Don’t miss out on Traits d’union.s, Manifesta 13 Marseille’s central programme, tours!

The tours of Manifesta 13 in Marseille, that include the six plots of Traits d’union.s, will offer a critical perspective on how cultural institutions function as sites of knowledge production and representational power. The mediators will guide the visitors through the Manifesta 13 projects placed within museum collections, together deconstructing dominant storylines and searching for unrepresented narratives.

 Join the daily free Open Tours for individuals or book a Group Tour ( for 75  € )* . For more information: engage@manifesta.org

*12 people max., tickets not included

+MORE INFO HERE

Manifesta 13 Marseille is very pleased to announce that Le Grand Puzzle, the pre-biennial urban study developed by the Rotterdam based architectural studio and The Why Factory led by Winy Maas, has been sent to the printer and will be published by the German publisher Hatje Cantz.

The study, that offers a reflection on Marseille and reveals the city’s specificities, possibilities, dreams, necessities and complexities, will be for sale during the biennial at Espace Manifesta 13 from the 28th of August 2020.

You can already buy it online and collect it at Espace Manifesta 13 on the 28th of August !

+MORE INFO ON THE PRE-BIENNIAL URBAN STUDY HERE
+ BUY YOUR LE GRAND PUZZLE

Traits d’union.s is the central programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille. Devised into six plots which respond to their historic locations, The Home, The Refuge, The Almshouse, The Port, The Park and The School; Traits d’union.s will take place from the 28th of August until the 29th of November 2020.

The Artistic Team (Katerina Chuchalina, Stefan Kalmár, Alya Sebti) of Manifesta 13 Marseille have announced the 46 participants of Traits d’union.s. The work presented by the participants will be a combination of newly conceived and commissioned works, as well as important historic works. See full list of participants here.

The six plots will unfold one after another between the 28^th of August until 9th of October from which point they can be viewed concurrently until the 29^th of November 2020. Day and season passes are available now here. These tickets give you access to all of the Traits d’union.s‘ exhibitions and public programme.

A public programme consisting of listening sessions, a film programme and talks will take place at the same time. More information on the public programme here.

Discover the programme devised into six plots :

28.08 → 29.11.20 The Home — Musée Grobet-Labadié
Satellite venues: Cité Radieuse and Bel Horizon

11.09 → 29.11.20 The Refuge— Musée Cantini
The Almshouse — Centre de la Vieille Charité
The Port — Musée d’Histoire de Marseille
Satellite venues: Centre Bourse

25.09 → 29.11.20 The Park — Muséum d’histoire naturelle / Musée des Beaux-Arts / Consigne Sanitaire

09.10 → 29.11.20 The Park — La Citerne du Moulin
The School — Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional

+AGENDA
+PUBLIC PROGRAMME

We are pleased to announce that Espace Manifesta 13 re-opened on the 17^th of June 2020!

Everyone is welcome to enjoy the library and to pass by to get information about the biennial.

Our library has an amazing selection of art books that you can comfortably read on our sofas while enjoying the free wifi. Our team of civil servants will be happy to give you any information regarding Manifesta 13 Marseille and its three programmes : Traits d’union.s, Le Tiers programme and Les Parallèles du Sud.

New opening times:  Wednesday to Sunday from 14.00 until 19.00

See you soon at Espcae Manifesta 13!

Espace Manifesta 13
42 La Canebière – Marseille
Wednesday to Sunday, 14.00 to 19.00

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming reopening of the Tiers QG on the 12^th of June 2020 for the housewarming party of the Invisible Archive #4 Le voyage marseillais M.A.D.E in Bassens x Sara Sadik.

Since December 2019, the Tiers QG, headquarters of Le Tiers Programme hosts the Invisible Archives, a cycle of exhibitions and events focusing on genealogies of civil initiatives, stories of resilience and citizen synergies born in different districts of Marseille. For the 4th exhibition, the artist Sara Sadik delved into the history of the association M.A.D.E in Bassens and explored its archives. She looks at Cité Bassens’ past but also its present through the stories and actions of its inhabitants.

Following health measures and restrictions, booking is required online (free). The full safety protocol is available here. During the housewarming party, DJ Prof Babacar will prepare a special mix for each visit.  See you soon at Tiers QG  (limited number of tickets!).

📍Tiers QG
57 rue Bernard Dubois, Belsunce
Tuesday to Saturday, 11.00 – 19.00

12.06.20 > 11.07.20 I Archive Invisible #4 Le voyage marseillais: M.A.D.E in Bassens x Sara Sadik: slots of 10 people every 30 minutes

Housewarming 12.06.20, 18.00 : slots of 15 people every 30 minutes

Online booking here !

+ Facebook event here
+ TIERS PROGRAMME
+ INVISIBLE ARCHIVES

After public life had been reduced as much as is possible, the time has come to slowly and carefully come together again. As of the beginning of June, Manifesta 13 Marseille will reopen for interpersonal activities to fulfil the need for dialogue, culture and social protection.

More than ever, everyone is impacted by this historical moment. Manifesta 13 Marseille believes that everyone should be able to imagine the future otherwise and supports a democracy where citizens are at the helm to steer political decisions. Le Tour de Tous les Possibles is a project central to Manifesta 13 Marseille. It is a series of 22 workshops with more than 500 inhabitants of Marseille, that aims to enable citizens to collectively imagine futures for their city. The project started in January 2020, continued online during the 2019-20 Pandemic and will now reopen. Each workshop brings together inhabitants of Marseille from different backgrounds, neighbourhoods, ages and genders. Many ideas have already arisen out of the 13 workshops (six physical, seven online) that have already taken place. Some of these ideas were utopian, others more practical but all offered innovative solutions to the numerous challenges, social, economic and ecological, that Marseille is facing today.

In order to gain a more in-depth understanding of citizen assemblies, we want to share a video recording of a discussion that took place in the Amsterdam-based Pakhuis de Zwijger. In the conversation, Eva Rovers, who is a member of Extinction Rebellion and author of among others Practivism (2018), and cultural historian David van Reybrouck discuss the importance of deliberative citizen assemblies, especially in these times of ongoing crises. Van Reybrouck is the author of among others A Plea for Populism (2008), Congo: The Epic History of a People (2010), and Against Elections: The Case for Democracy (2016). Van Reybrouck observes something strange about the present state of democracy: everyone seems to long for it, but no one believes in it. In this LIVECAST Rovers and Reybrouck discuss the potential of climate citizens assemblies. Best to start the video from the 27th minute onwards. 

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Manifesta is happy to announce that from the 28th of August until 29^th of November 2020 Manifesta 13 Marseille will start to gradually open its three programmes: its central exhibition Traits d’union.s; its education and mediation programme Le Tiers Programme and the parallel programme Les Parallèles du Sud. There will moments with different intensity at different speeds, articulating different underlying thoughts and dreams.

•  The story of Manifesta 13 Marseille is that of a passage, or as the title of the exhibition suggests of Traits d’union.s, hyphens, between one world and the next. All plots of the exhibition will unfold successively across Marseille, including in six city museums.
   
• At the end of August 2020, Le Tiers Programme will open the sixth exhibition in Belsunce of the Invisible Archives at its headquarters Tiers QG. Delve into the world of the Invisible Archives.
   
• Projects from Les Parallèles du Sud will be launched in collaboration with a large variety of local, regional and international actors across the region, starting at the end of August. Selected projects here.

Manifesta is working on a new ticketing policy to give everyone the opportunity to discover the entire programme over the three months of the biennial. Those who have already requested and paid for a professional accreditation to the preview days or have purchased tickets will be contacted by the Manifesta team shortly for a reimbursement.

Tiers QG has reopened its doors on the 12^th of June with Invisible Archives # 4 exhibition. Espace Manifesta 13 will be open to the public fromthe 17^th of June.

SOUND COLLABORATIONS WITH RADIO GRENOUILLE

As part of Traits d’union.s’ public programme, Manifesta 13 Marseille developed a Sound Programme enabling sonic experimentation. Manifesta 13 gave Radio Grenouille-Euphonia a carte blanche to design a support and distribution programme for artists working with or learning about sound. It encompasses two sound creation residencies, six listening sessions and a Sound Gallery on Radio Grenouille. Listen to the Listening Sessions (in French) recorded live from Park Longchamps and the Conservatoire or within the Radio Grenouille’s studio.

Radio Grenouille also developed Traits d’union.s; a series of conversations between personalities from the world of art, culture, business as well as civil society, in which a diverse range of individuals debate the major questions raised in the biennial. 

Listen to the Traits d’union.s (in French):

Finally, a part of Manifesta 13’s collateral programme, Les Parallèles du Sud, Radio Grenouille-Euphonia developed another projects called Sonographies Marseillaises, in which artists, scientists, inhabitants and studies tell stories about Marseille.

Listen to Les Sonographies Marseillaises (in French) :

MANIFESTA 13’S PODCASTS

Behind the scenes of Manifesta is a series of podcast with those who work for the biennial. Here you can meet some of our team members, such as Hedwig Fijen, founding director of Manifesta or Beatrice Simonet, coordinator of Les Parallèles du Sud.

Being part of Manifesta is a series of podcasts with some of our collaborators, who explain in depth their work and Manifesta 13’s programmes. For instance, the Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen describes the Goup-Think project, an innovative sport and education programme she developed in various schools of Marseille within Le Tiers Programme, and Tikka Radio present Tikka Live, the series of event they did at Espace Manifesta 13, as part of the pre-biennial programme.

Finally, enjoy a musical break from Prof Babacar dj sets recorded during the housewarmings of the exhibitions Archive Invisible #2 #3 and #4 at Tiers QG.

VIDEOS

Discover some of Traits d’union.s‘ participants and their works with interviews of Yassine Balbzioui, Sara Ouhaddou and Ali Cherri:

Get also a glimpse of behind the scene with some interviews of our mediators:

And finally discover some of our projects such as Le Tour de Tous les Possibles in more depth:

Stay tuned!

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Created by Marseille based Joke Quintens and Tarik Ghezali, in collaboration with Ouishare and Marseille Solutions, Le Tour de Tous les Possibles is a project central to Manifesta 13 Marseille. It is a series of 22 workshops with more than 500 inhabitants of Marseille, that aims to enable citizens to collectively imagine futures for their city. The project started in January 2020 and continues currently online.

Each workshop brings together inhabitants of Marseille from different backgrounds, neighbourhoods, ages and genders. Several ideas already arose out of the five workshops that have already taken place. Some of these ideas were utopian, others more practical but all offered innovative solutions to the numerous challenges, social, economic and ecological, that Marseille is facing today.

Taking key themes of the pre-biennial urban study Le Grand Puzzle as a starting point, the initiators of Le Tour de Tous les Possibles have imagined this project as to attempt to answer to the lack of representativity and participation in policy decision-making that some of Marseille’s citizens perceive.

The objective of the project, on the longer term, is to stimulate citizen participation for the creation of an “Assemblée de Tous les Possibles”, a permanent citizen convention of 101 inhabitants of Marseille drawn by lottery and representative of the population. This citizens’ assembly would propose and invent solutions to the challenges of Marseille, in close collaboration with the City Council.

In the current difficult context, where exchanges and social ties must be strengthened more than ever, the workshops are taking place online for the coming weeks, always with the desire to continue to imagine the city of tomorrow. They bring together 10 participants and two coordinators, as well as an artist who reports the ideas visually.

The first two online workshops took place the 16th and 20th of April.
Next workshop on the 23rd of April with Lab Pôle Emploi (the French employment service): register here
Workshop on the 29th of April with Synergy Family, a social and education strat-up and  Entrepreneurs dans la Ville, a network of entrepreurs: register here

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Taking into consideration the current situation surrounding the COVID-19 virus, the team members of Manifesta 13 Marseille will do their utmost to allow for its community to follow Manifesta 13’s progress from behind the scenes and bring you insights and stories from its three programmes.

Stay connected and from now, delve into our website dedicated to the Invisible Archives project of the Education and Mediation programme Le Tiers Programme.

You can also explore virtually the exhibition ̶F̶a̶i̶r̶e̶ ̶s̶e̶m̶b̶l̶a̶n̶t̶, Faire Archives, the third exhibition of the Invisible Archive at Tiers QG. Joana Monbaron, Tiers Programme’s coordinator, takes us through the exhibition space and presents the collaboration between the artist Mohamed Fariji and the members of the cooperative Hôtel du Nord. The collaboration explores heritage protection in the Northern neighbourhoods of Marseille.

Finally, and before it is presented at Tiers QG, discover a preview of the postponed exhibition Invisible Archive #4 with the artist Sara Sadik and the association M.A.D.E in Bassens, an association that  works on the recognition of the Bassens neighborhood as an integral part of the history of Marseille. 

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+ VIRTUAL VISIT OF THE INVISIBLE ARCHIVE #3 AT TIERS QG
+ TEASER OF THE INVISIBLE ARCHIVE #4

Manifesta 13 is divided into three connected programmes in Marseille and its region. The biennial’s central exhibition Traits d’union.s, conceived by the Artistic Team of Manifesta 13 Marseille; Katerina Chuchalina chief-curator of the VAC Foundation in Moscow & Venice, Stefan Kalmár director of the ICA in London and Alya Sebti, director of ifa gallery in Berlin, is accompanied by two analogue programmes: Le Tiers Programme, the education and mediation programme and Les Parallèles du Sud, the collateral programme. 

Consisting of various plots and multiple storylines, the central exhibition of Manifesta 13 takes place across most of Marseille’s major museums, inviting the visitors to explore emblematic places of Marseille’s heritage including unexpected venues that open specially for the biennial. Six of Marseille’s museums, the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional, the Consigne Sanitaire, the citerne des Moulins and other satellite venues gradually open from the 28th of August and house Traits d’union.s’ exhibitions thus actively building “traits d’union.s” between seemingly specific local narratives and those happening elsewhere in the world. Through deep and critical engagements with the conditions of change, Traits d’union.s adds new voices to the often competing narratives existing within Marseille. 

Le Tiers Programme presents the result of almost two years of research in Marseille, among which is the project Invisible Archives: a monthly exhibition programme that connects Marseille-based associations with local and international artists running from December 2019 to December 2020.   

Lastly, Manifesta’s collateral projects and events, Les Parallèles du Sud highlights the plethora of rich and diverse cultural initiatives in Marseille and its region, whilst at the same time showcasing international creative participants. Local cultural institutions, galleries and artists are co-curating and co-producing projects with international partners, connecting their concepts with Traits d’union.s. 85 projects are presented across Marseille and the region. 

Through its three analogue programmes: Traits d’union.s, Le Tiers Programme and Les Parallèles du Sud, and its extensive pre-biennial activities, starting with the urban research Le Grand Puzzle and a series of citizen’s workshops entitled Le Tour de Tous les Possibles, 
Manifesta shows a strong ambition to adapt its format to each host city through the creation of an experimental biennial model. 

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Images of the opening on Friday the 21st of February 2020 of the third exhibition of the project Invisible Archives entitled,  Invisible Archive #3 : Faire semblant Faire archive.

The exhibition will be presented at Tiers QG until the 21st of March 2020. Free entry.

For the exhibition, the artist Mohamed Fariji explores the dense history of Hôtel du Nord that echoes his project of Musée Collectif de Casablanca.

Many thanks to the partners of Tiers Programme and their generous support: the Fondation Nina and Daniel Carasso (partner of the Invisible Archives), as well as Villogia, CIQ Saint Charles, ESADMM (Marseille school of fine arts and design), Vidi-square and alinea (partners of Tiers QG)

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The Tiers QG welcomed 200 visitors last Friday as part of the opening of its second exhibition of the project Invisible Archives entitled , “Archive Invisible #2: ” Essor / Anatomie de la joie collective”, with Manifesta’s founding director, Hedwig Fijen.

The exhibition presented the work of artists gethan&myles, in collaboration with the association Les Excursionnistes Marseillais.

Many thanks to the partners of Tiers Programme and their generous support: the Fondation Nina and Daniel Carasso (partner of the Invisible Archives), as well as Villogia, CIQ Saint Charles, ESADMM (Marseille school of fine arts and design), Vidi-square and alinea (partners of Tiers QG)
Relive the opening in images!

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Discover the pre-biennial programme of Espace Manifesta 13 and Tiers programme, education and mediation programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille, for the month of February! Artists meet ups, musical events, workshops, exhibitions, conferences, hikes…Free and open to all!

ESPACE MANIFESTA 13’S AGENDA
05.02.20 – Subjective Mapping Workshop #1 with Cabanon Vertical
from 15.00 to 17.00

06.02.20 – M-U-S-I-C! by Grand Bonheur: Bien Sûre [Live]
from 18.00 to 22.00

12.02.20 – Subjective Mapping Workshop #2 with Cabanon Vertical
from 15.00 to 17.00

13.02.20 – Traits d’union.s by Radio Grenouille: Raphael Imbert and Pierre Oudart
from 19.00 to 22.00

20.02.20 – M-U-S-I-C! by Grand Bonheur: Dasha and Sasha
from 18.00 to 22.00

23.02.20 – Un Dimanche de la Canebière at Espace Manifesta 13:

+ Workshop with Cabanon Vertical and Jardins de Noailles 
from 11.00 to 17.00

+ Parcours Chanson of Avec le Temps festival by Grand Bonheur 
at 16.30

26.02.20 – Tikka Live by Tikka Radio: Chambry and Grminal
from 19.00 to 22.00

27.02.20 – Traits d’unions by Radio Grenouille: Samia Henni and Fabrice Denise
from 18.00 to 22.00

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TIERS PROGRAMME’S AGENDA

AT TIERS QG
17.01.20 > 15.02.20 – Invisible Archive #2: Essor / Anatomie de la joie collective I Exhibition
Artists : gethan&myles (Marseille) – Organisation : Les Excursionnistes marseillais

15.02.20 – Closing party!
17.00 I Visit of the exhibition Essor / Anatomie de la joie collective by artists gethan&myles
18.00 – Penser avec ses pieds I Round Table
19.30 – Informal apéro 

21.02.20>21.03.20 – Archive Invisible #3 I Artist: Mohamed Fariji – Organisation: Coopérative Hôtel du Nord
21.02.20 –Housewarming party at Tiers QG 

22.02.20 –  Invisible and visible traces and stories of communities  I Agora 
14.00-18.00 I Tiers QG

AND ELSEWHERE…

07.02.20 – La Fontaine de Voire I Hike
10.00 I Departure : Campagne Pastré,
155 av. De Montredon, Marseille 8e

22.02.20 – GBA du bas, GBA du haut I Walk #1 in city centre 
9.30-12h.30 : Departure from rue de la Palud, Marseille 1er / Length: 3 hours

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Discover the pre-biennial programme of Espace Manifesta 13 and Tiers programme, education and mediation programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille, for the month of February! Artists meet ups, musical events, exhibitions, hikes…Free and open to all!

ESPACE MANIFESTA 13’S AGENDA

06.03.20 – M-U-S-I-C ! by Grand Bonheur: Dario and Friends
from 18.00 to 22.00

11.03.20 – Meet up with Ymane Fakhir
from 18.30 to 20.00

12.03.20 – Traits d’union.s by Radio Grenouille: La Zone invites artist Matteo Demaria and the collectives Cabanon Vertical and Degrés 127
from 19.00

13.03.20 – Parcours Chanson of Avec le Temps festival by Grand Bonheur: Ramó
at 12.00

19.03.20 – M-U-S-I-C ! by Grand Bonheur: Sun & Softboi (Dancefloor)
from 18.00 to 22.00

26.03.20 – Traits d’union.s by Radio Grenouille: Xavier Rey and surprise guest(s)
from 19.00

25.03.20 Tikka Live by Tikka Radio: TXC Velvet and Lëster
from 19.00 to 22.00

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TIERS PROGRAMME’S AGENDA

AT TIERS QG

21.02.20 > 21.03.20 – Invisible Archive #3 IFaire semblant Faire archive I Artist: Mohamed Fariji – Organisation: Coopérative Hôtel du Nord

Screening of the film “Orange vive” every Wednesday and Saturday at 4.30pm at Tiers QG, with Christine Breton, initiator of the Hôtel du Nord cooperative, or Cyrielle Faure, director of the film.

AND ELSEWHERE…

Remonter la mer I Walk #2 towards the North (in French)
14.03.20 – 14.00-17.00
Departure: Marseille 2e / Length 3 hours

Se relier malgré tout I Walk #3 towards the North, a bit further (in French)
21.03.20 – 14.00-17.30
Departure: Marseille 14e. Arrival: Marseille 15e / Length: 3.30 hours

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Group-think is a project developed by Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen within Tiers programme. It is an innovative sports and civic education project. Developed in partnership with the national circus centre Archaos, it is a series of exercises that aims to stimulate the collective intelligence of students. The project was tested during pilot phases in October and November 2019 in five high schools and secondary schools in Marseille, and workshops of an adapted versions have been put in place in February 2020 with students from two elementary schools (Maurice Korsec school and the Rose Garde school).

A textbook co-written with students is about to be published. It will be used as a tool to share the methodology proposed in the academic training plan of teachers of the Aix-Marseille Academy in March 2020. It will then be shared to the national education and beyond during and after Manifesta 13 Marseille.

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Tour de Tous les Possibles, a project designed by Joke Quintens and Tarik Ghezali in collaboration with Ouishare and Marseille Solutions, started end of January 2020.

Part of the pre-biennial urban study Le Grand Puzzle, Tour de Tous les Possibles is a series of 25 workshops that brings together more than 500 inhabitants from different backgrounds in Marseille: students and prisoners, workers and members of a prestigious swimming club, homeless and real estate agents… A series of unexpected meetings to imagine possible futures for Marseille.

The first two workshops held on the 28th and 29th of Januray were a success. The first one took place at the Baumettes penitentiary centre, where an unprecedented meeting unfolded between young prisoners and students from the KEDGE Business School. The second was held at the ACTA VISTA association, where reintegrated employees met with Endoume residents (Marseille, 7th). Dozens of amazing ideas and projects have already emerged from these workshops.

The Tour de Tous les Possibles project will continue its experimental workshops throughout Marseille, in unusual places, until April 2020.

The commissioned study Le Grand Puzzle explores the different layers of Marseille and its political, cultural and geographical structures. It allows Manifesta to fully understand the complexities and necessities of its host cities while encouraging local citizens to think of new possibilities for their city.

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Discover the pre-biennial public programme of the month of Espace Manifesta 13 and Tiers QG, headquarters of Tiers programme! Meet ups, musical events, workshops, exhibitions, conferences, hikes…

ESPACE MANIFESTA 13’S AGENDA
23.01.20 – Meet up with Yassine Balbzioui
from 18.30 to 20.30

24.01.20 – M-U-S-I-C ! by Grand Bonheur: Charlotte Isabelle [Live]
from 18.00 to 22.00

26.01.20 – Un Dimanche de la Canebière at Espace Manifesta 13
from 11.00 to 17.00

29.01.20 – Tikka Live by Tikka Radio : Clara de Asís and Janna Zhiri
from 19.00 to 22.00

30.01.20 – Les Traits d’union.s  by Radio Grenouille: Jordi Colomer and Jean Pierre Rhem
from 19.00 to 22.00

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TIERS QG’S AGENDA
17.01.20 > 15.02.20 – Archive Invisible #2 : Essor / Anatomie de la joie collective I Exhibition
Artists : gethan&myles (Marseille) – Organisation : Les Excursionnistes marseillais

26.01.20 – Le chemin de la glace I Hike
Departure 10.00, return 16.00 I Parking du Parc de St Pons

30.01.20 – Dominique Piazza par Jean Contrucci I Conference
18.00 | Les Excursionnistes Marseillais’ headquarters
16 rue de la Rotonde, Marseille 1er

07.02.20 – La Fontaine de Voire I Hike
10.00 I Departure : Campagne Pastrée,
155 av. De Montredon, Marseille 8e

15.02.20 – Closing party!
17.00 I Visit of the exhibition Essor / Anatomie de la joie collective by artists gethan&myles
18.00 – Penser avec ses pieds I Round Table
19.30 – Informal apéro 

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Each edition of Manifesta creates a synergy between the main programme and a programme of collateral events that aims to highlight the wealth of the local and regional arts scene.  For its 13th edition, Manifesta is delighted to announce the final selection of projects for its parallel programme entitled Les Parallèles du Sud. Within the 380 applications to Les Parallèles du Sud, 96 projects have been selected to open their doors in Marseille and the region from the 7th June to 1st November 2020.

Echoing Traits d’union.s, the main programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille, Les Parallèles du Sud will be a rich and muti-disciplinary programme. In store for you: forty exhibitions and installations, as well as a range of performances, conferences, roundtable discussions, summer schools, and publishing and sound projects from Marseille to Nice, from Arles to Avignon and on to Aix-en-Provence, Port de Bouc, Monaco, Vallauris, and Embrun.

Preview of the programming Les Parallèles du Sud programme includes major group and solo exhibitions within regional institutions among which Swiss artist Ursula Biemann at the MAMAC in Nice, French artist Nicolas Floc’h at the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in Marseille. Internationally renowned festivals such as Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, the FID (International Film Festival of Marseille) and the Festival de Marseille will also collaborate within the programme as well as partnerships with several institution such as the Beaux-arts de Marseille – Esadmm, the Villa Arson in Nice, Marseille expos and Botox(s) networks, to name just a few.

Within the framework of Les Parallèles du Sud programme: international artists, curators, researchers, galleries, nonprofit organisations, and institutions (from across the globe) will work together with regional actors. Manifesta 13 Marseille’s collateral programme welcomes 350 participants in total (including 200 visual artists of which half are based in the region).
Manifesta 13 Marseille would particularly like to thank the Région Sud for its support of Les Parallèles du Sud and its continuous encouragement.

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The full list of the Parallèles du Sud  96 projects
The press release

On Friday 6 December 2019, the Tiers QG welcomed 300 visitors as part of the opening of its first exhibition of the project Invisible Archives entitled Archive #1 : Place des investis !

Prior to the official opening, the education and mediation department of Manifesta 13 launches its programme Tiers Programme (the Third Programme) with the project the Invisible Archives.
Many thanks to the partners of Tiers Programme and their generous support: the Fondation Nina and Daniel Carasso (partner of the Invisible Archives), as well as Villogia, CIQ Saint Charles, ESADMM (Marseille school of fine arts and design), Vidi-square and alinea (partners of Tiers QG)
Relive the opening in images!

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Invisible Archive #1 : Place des investis, exposition inaugurale des Archives Invisibles
Tiers QG, headquarter of the Tiers Programme
The Tiers Programme, Education and Mediation programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille

Headquarters of the Tiers Programme, the Tiers QG opens its doors this Friday the 6th of December in Belsunce neighbourhood and invites you to the first exhibition of the Invisible Archives , Archive #1 : Place des investis.

Designed by the students of the College of Arts and Design of Marseille (ESADMM – École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Marseille Méditerranée) under the guidance of Cookies, design and architecture studio based in Rotterdam, this former snackbar in the Belsunce neighbourhood has been transformed into the HQ of the Tiers Programme to host the Invisible Archives, a series of exhibitions and events (talks, performances, walks, workshops). Discover the first exhibition from the 6th of November 2019 to the 11th of January 2020 : Archive Invisible #1 : Place des Investis.

Invisible Archive #1: “Place des investis” by Olivier Hilaire
Associations: CIQ CADUNAB and ACAM Belsunce
Olivier Hilaire (b. 1979, FR), familiar with creating works based on existing archives, has been invited by the Tiers Programme team to collaborate with the Belsunce interest committee (CIQ Cadunab) and Belsunce traders association (ACAM) to tell the story of citizen mobilisation around Louise Michel square in Belsunce.
Immersing himself in the genealogy of this history, Olivier Hilaire collaborated closely with the president of the two associations, Ali Timizar. In addition to regular meetings with Ali Timizar and his colleagues at Café Louise Michel, the artist completed his research by interviewing important actors from the square such as the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, Pascal Messaoudi and Bruno Le Dantec for their sound work “Autour de la place Louise Michel”.

Tiers QG I 57 rue Bernard Dubois, Belsunce – Marseille
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 to 18.00
Closed from 22nd December 2019 to 11th January 2020

Invisible Archives #1: “Place des investis” by Olivier Hilaire at Tiers QG
Exhibition 06.11.19 > 11.01.20 I Join our Facebook event
Crémaillère 06.12.19 à 19.00 I Join our Facebook event
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Invisible Archives event programming: at Tiers QG, at Café Louise Michel in Belsunce, at the Espace culturel  Busserine and at Théâtre de l’Oeuvre Discover the agenda !

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SAVE THE DATE FOR MANIFESTA 13 IN 2020 IN MARSEILLE !
The 13th edition of Manifesta, European Nomadic Biennial, is taking place for the first time ever in France from the 7th of June to the 1st of November 2020 in Marseille and its region. Starting six month before the official opening of Manifesta 13 Marseille, the Invisible Archives is an attempt to understand the current complexities of Marseille through being in dialogue with local communities.

For the 4th edition of Les Mondes de l’Art hosted by École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence Félix Ciccolini, the team of Manifesta 13 Marseille has been invited to speak to the school’s students and share their insights into running a biennial. The programme will take you through the history of the nomadic European biennial, as well as highlighting projects in store for the 13th edition in 2020, touching upon all the different roles within the organisation including curatorial, production, education and communication practices. The 28th of November is reserved for students of the school but Wednesday the 27th and Friday the 29th of November are open to the general public in Aix-en-Provence. See the programme below!

NOVEMBER 27, 2019 (free admission)
Location: École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence Félix Ciccolini

10:30 – 12:00 – Position of Manifesta, a traveling European Biennial, by Paul Domela, Head of Business and Administration.
13:30 – 14:15 – Manifesta 13, a territorial policy tool, by Mathilde Rubinstein, General Coordinator.
14:30 – 15:30 – In search of patrons, by Aleth Mandula, Development Coordinator.

NOVEMBER 28, 2019 (entrance reserved for students)
Location: Espace Manifesta 13 – 42, La Canebière – Marseille 1st, and Tiers QG – 57 rue Bernard Du Bois – Marseille 1st.

10:30 – 12:00 – Insights into curatorial practices and producing Manifesta by Tatiana Tarragó, Head of Production and Programming; Thomas Engelbert, Senior Production Coordinator; Carlo Coppola, Senior Production Manager; Francesca Verga, Curatorial Coordinator; Flora Fettah, Curatorial Assistant
(Appointment on registration).

13:30 – 15:00 – The potential of artistic practice in the decentralisation of culture and education: the Tiers Programme, Manifesta 13 Marseille by Yana Klichuk, Head of Education and Learning; Joana Monbaron, Education & Learning Coordinator (Appointment on registration).

NOVEMBER 29, 2019 (free admission)

Location: École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence Félix Ciccolini

10:30 – 12:00 – How to engage large and diverse audiences when organising a leading international art event?  by Emilia van Lynden, Head of Marketing, Communication and Publications and Nadia Fatnassi, Head of Public and Press Relations.

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In the splendid Amphithéâtre d’Honneur of Paris Fine arts school, Hedwig Fijen, director of Manifesta and the members of the Artistic Team – Alya Sebti, Marina Otero Verzier, Katerina Chuchalina, Stefan Kalmár- announced last Thursday the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic and revealed the concept of the biennial along with the first venues in Marseille.

The High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel MACRON, President of the French Republic, recognition confirms the ambition of Manifesta 13 Marseille, its high-quality programme, international calibre and inclusive character. 

Following the announcement of the title of Manifesta 13 Marseille Traits d’union.s, on the 29th of June, Hedwig Fijen, director of Manifesta, Jean de Loisy and Marc Bollet, respectively vice-president and secretary of the Manifesta 13 Marseille’s board, and all members of the Manifesta 13 Marseille’s board, Marie-Hélène Feraud-Grégori, City of Marseille councillor for the Opera, the Theatre and the Contemporary art, and the Artistic Team members were happy to reveal the concept of the upcoming biennial as well as a first selection of its venues.

The Artistic Team of Manifesta 13, Alya Sebti, Marina Otero Verzier, Katerina Chuchalina, Stefan Kalmár, will work, among others, closely with, within and across six of Marseille’s most prominent institutions: Musée Cantini, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Musée Grobet-Labadié, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Musée des Beaux- Arts and Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional de Marseille. Manifesta 13 Marseille’s participants will infuse these existing institutions with different voices, activating the possibilities that these institutions still hold, by temporarily expanding their narratives outwards and inwards. Museums play an important role within our society in order to bring people together and to help them understand the complexities of the world around us. The current discourse around museums is shifting in order for institutions to become more inclusive, diverse and to create coexistence. The decision to work with a range of venues in Marseille, including many of the leading museums, is amongst others to create stages on which stories will be told, where plots will be unravelled and where new alliances will be formed

“Traits d’union.s’ venues are elastic sites within a geography of actions and illusions, promises and premonitions, demands and resolutions: artists, poets, writers, scholars and journalists wield the pen to unveil forgotten, hidden, emergent or just never happened narratives.” 

> Read more about the concept Traits d’union.s, here.

Located in one of the most iconic historical and central buildings in Marseille, former Espace Culture in 42 la Canebière— the Espace Manifesta 13 opened its doors on the 3^rd of October to become one of the leading hubs of Manifesta 13. The space will be one for encounters and exchange, welcoming the neighbourhood and its habitants.

The official opening of the space was announcement by Marie-Hélène Feraud Gregori, a representative of the office of the Mayor of Marseille and the Conseillère municipale déléguée à l’Opéra, à l’Odéon et à l’Art contemporain of the city. The event was attended by representatives of Manifesta’s public partners, the prefecture de region Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur represented by Nicolas Dufaud, and the departmental council of the Bouches-du-Rhone represented by Sabine Bernasconi, as well as leading members of the press.

In addition to officially opening the space, the moment was also marked by the official announcement that Manifesta 13 Marseille has received the High Patronage from the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

Manifesta 13 Marseille’s Artistic Team will create a programming for Espace Manifesta 13 consisting of exhibitions, lectures, debates, artist talks and will invite actors from across the cultural sphere to take over the former Espace Culture.

Espace Manifesta 13 will become part of the monthly Les Dimanches de La Canebière, welcoming visitors on Sunday the 6^th of October to drop by and get acquainted with Manifesta and the programme of Espace Manifesta 13.

Frequent events will be taking place as of October 2019 and the official opening times will vary according to the programming, so do follow Manifesta’s social media channels in order to stay up to date with our latest exhibitions and events. Have a look on the Espace Manifesta 13 Agenda, here.

Every edition of Manifesta creates a synergy between the main programme of the biennial and so-called « collateral events » which will take place during Manifesta 13 Marseille from 7 June until 1 November 2020. For its 13th edition in Marseille, this programme is entitled Les Parallèles du Sud. These collateral events aim at highlighting the richness of the artistic and cultural regional scene and strengthening the links between the local ecosystem and external partners. As of the 25^th of September, the application call ended, with Manifesta receiving an array of high-quality projects consisting of more than 350 applications. The projects submitted came from all over the world, with over 40% of the applicants coming from outside of Marseille and its region.

The jury consisting of the artist Michèle Sylvander, Colette Barbier, director of the Ricard Foundation, Alya Sebti, member of the artistic team of Manifesta 13 Marseille and Hedwig Fijen, the director of Manifesta, will come together in the weeks to come to deliberate which projects will be selected.  

The 50+ official projects of Les Parallèles du Sud will be announced at the end of November and will open their doors during the biennial period. More information to come soon.

Photo: Manifesta 12 Palermo, Tasca ©Antonion Chinnici

Manifesta is proud to announce that its director Hedwig Fijen is nominated for the European Cultural Manager Award 2019, Europe’s most advanced cultural award. 

The director of Manifesta Biennial Hedwig Fijen is among the finalists of the European Cultural Manager Award 2019!
Art historian and founding director of Manifesta biennial since its origin in 1996, Ms Fijen has been selected as one of the finalists for Europe’s most advanced cultural award among over 100 entries from all over Europe.
The final award ceremony of the European Cultural Brand Awards will take place on the 7th of November 2019 at the “Night of Cultural Brands” of the CultureInvest! Congress, which will take place at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein in Essen, in Germany, with guests from all over Europe. Fingers crossed for our director!

More info on Cultural Brands Award contest at: https://bit.ly/2oUdfsp

In 2020, Manifesta 13, the European Nomadic Biennial, will take place in Marseille and Region Sud from 7 June 2020 until 1 November 2020. For its first edition in France, Manifesta 13 Marseille will work with an interdisciplinary team of architects, urbanists, artists, and curators, to genuinely integrate a series of artistic projects into the social, cultural, and political fabric of the hosting region and to create a sustainable implementation of Manifesta 13 Marseille. 

One of Manifesta 13 Marseille’s main ambitions is to create long-lasting connections and creative collaborations between a local and international network of professionals, cultural producers, associations, and institutions.

Every edition of Manifesta creates a synergy between the main programme of the biennial and so-called “parallel events.” This programme will be called Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud. Les Parallèles du Sud aims at highlighting the richness of the artistic and cultural regional scene and strengthening the links between the local ecosystem and international  partners. In 2018 the parallel events of Manifesta 12 Palermo were very successful in terms of visitor numbers and by generating more than 700 press articles.

The projects for Les Parallèles du Sud are selected from an open call by a jury of international and local professionals. Theyare self-organized and self-financed, but benefit from the international outreach and visitors of Manifesta through a dedicated marketing and communication strategy across digital and analogue channels of Manifesta 13 Marseille including the website, guidebook, press conferences, outdoor design, social media features, and printed material.

Region Sud will offer financial support to a number of projects in the Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud programme.

Application Guidelines

We are very pleased to open the application procedure for Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud.

Who can participate?
The projects can be proposed by local, regional, or international private and public institutions, non-profit organisations, artists, and professionals.
The projects can also be proposed by non-artistic and non-cultural partners so long as the project reflects Manifesta 13 Marseille’s main ambition.

Selection criteria
All projects submitted to the Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud should be linked with the main thematic approach of Manifesta 13 Marseille Traits d’union.s which is conceptualised in a time when human and environmental issues are urgent and complex. Specifically, Manifesta 13 Marseille focuses on the following questions:  what do we learn from the plural roots of a city informed by several generations of migration?  What forms of knowledge are born out of this new generation of individuals with complex biographies? How do we create new forms of relationships that can reveal parallels between the local and global context?

The projects should have at least 2 partners, including one regional partner, and should have a clear international dimension (artistic scale, coproduction, part of international networks, etc.) and active collaboration between both partners, reflecting Manifesta 13 Marseille’s ambition to create sustainable networks. The projects should take place in Region Sud and should take place during Manifesta 13 Marseille, from 7 June 2020 until 1 November 2020. Projects do not necessarily have to be on view for the whole duration of the biennial. All proposed projects should be in line with the high-quality standards of Manifesta 13. An interdisciplinary approach of projects will be appreciated. Projects of Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud may charge an entry fee. In case of an entry fee, all Manifesta 13 Marseille Pass holders will be granted access to Les Parallèles du Sud at a reduced prize.

Jury
The projects will be evaluated and selected by a dedicated jury, formed by the director of Manifesta, a member of the artistic team Manifesta 13 Marseille, and two local art professionals. The organisers of the selected projects will receive a written confirmation via email by 31 October 2019. The jury will not give reasons for its decision.
All the organisers of the selected projects will be asked to sign a contract stating the artistic, logistic, operational, and financial responsibilities of both partners (Manifesta 13 Marseille and the organisers). The selected projects which have not secured their budget or venues by 1 February 2020 may be withdrawn from the Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud programme.

Support from Region Sud to Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud programme. 
Only regional organisers (based in departments of Region Sud) can apply to Region Sud for financial support.  In their application to the Les Parallèles du Sud programme, applicants should mention the request for a grant to Region Sud in their projected budget. Financial support from Region Sud will be within the range of 4.000 euros to 30.000 euros, and may not exceed more than 30 % of the total budget of the project. Selection by the jury does not guarantee financial support from Region Sud. 

How to apply? 

To apply for the Manifesta 13 Marseille Les Parallèles du Sud programme, please download the application form at this link, and send a complete and signed copy via mail to M13paralleles@manifesta.org.

The deadline for submission is 25 September 2019.

For further information, please contact Beatrice Simonet, Manifesta 13 Parallel Events Coordinator, at beatricesimonet@manifesta.org / Tel : 04 86 11 89 75

Informational meetings for interested parties will be organised before the closing date of the open call at Manifesta 13 HQ at l’Espace Culture, 42 La Canebière, Marseille. Entrance is free but limited, we highly recommend to reserve your seat at the following links:
-To attend the informational meetings on 17 July at 11PM,please click here
-To attend the informational meetings on 17 July at 5 PM, please click here

On 29 June 2019 at the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional de Marseille, the Manifesta 13 Marseille Artistic Team – Katerina Chuchalina, Stefan Kalmár, Marina Otero Verzier, and Alya Sebti, together with Manifesta director Hedwig Fijen have unveiled the title and first ideas of Manifesta 13 opening on 7 June 2020 and running until 1 November 2020 in Marseille and its region.

Titled Traits d’union.s, Manifesta 13 will bring about new possibilities of telling about, and representing, a city and its region by activating a direct collaboration between its citizens and an international network of professionals. The Manifesta 13 Artistic Team proposes to establish new modes of collaborating among different institutions, associations, and professionals, inviting them to connect, exchange and co-create with the researchers, artists, and architects invited by the Artistic Team as participants. These collaborations will lead to new, site-specific commissions as well as performances and architectural interventions spread through indoor and outdoor venues all around Marseille, and in this way, introduce new forms of being together: Traits d’union.s.

On the occasion of the announcement of the title of the upcoming Manifesta 13 Marseille biennial, the Education Team has released the key mediation concepts and initial projects under the umbrella of Le Tiers Programme. Looking out from the institution, while going along and intertwining with other programmes of the biennial, Le Tiers Programme balances on two pillars: the biennial agenda and that of the Marseillais. Part of the programme derives from the artistic and curatorial dialogue and includes a series of projects accompanying artistic interventions of Manifesta 13 in different neighbourhoods, as well as an extensive mediation programme during the biennial. Another part of the programme traces genealogies of Marseille, challenging the mainstream narratives through peripheral and non-institutional memories.

In this context, the Education and Mediation Team of Manifesta 13 Marseille has also released information on the first projects of Le Tiers Programme. The Invisible Archives is a year-long programme of consecutive exhibitions and public events that activate and re-narrate archives of associations at work around the city of Marseille. The schools’ project, developed by Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen together with teachers, students, and local associations, will take the shape of an innovative sports and civic education programme focusing on various forms of solidarity, participation or objection, care, and collaborative skills. The schools’ project is realised in partnership with the Académie d’Aix-Marseille. Please click here to read more about Le Tiers Programme.

The Team of Manifesta 13 Marseille has also introduced the open call for projects to be included in the parallel events programme called Les Parallèles du Sud. As with every edition of Manifesta, Manifesta 13 (7 June 2020 – 1 November 2020) includes parallel events, where local and international professionals and organisations are invited to take part in the biennial alongside the main programme and benefit from Manifesta’s international reach and visitors. The open call will be launched on Manifesta 13 website on 1 July 2019, and the deadline for submission is 25 September 2019. The programme Manifesta 13 Marseille ‘Les Parallèles du Sud’ is supported by the Région Sud Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur (PACA) which can grant financial support to the selected projects. Only regional organisers can apply to Région Sud financial support.

On 29 June 2019, along with the title and key concepts of Manifesta 13 Marseille, the Director of Manifesta and the Manifesta 13 Marseille Artistic Team have also presented the new visual identity of the upcoming biennial. Designed by the Marseille-based studio Super Terrain, the new logo and overall identity of the biennial crystallises the main ambition and crucial intentions of the biennial. Designed by the Marseille-based studio Super Terrain, the new visual identity of Manifesta 13 Marseille plays with a mirrored M, standing for both Manifesta and Marseille, highlighting the fact that both Manifesta and Marseille are looking at each other in an effort to learn from one another. The mirrored M symbol becomes an infinite and identifiable loop.

On Friday, the 1st of February 2019 at L’Alcazar in Marseille, Winy Maas, co-founder of the Dutch architecture and urban design office MVRDV, and director of The Why Factory, the thinktank on the future city at the Technical University in Delft, presented The Grand Puzzle, a 1200-page interdisciplinary pre-biennial research study of Marseille and its metropolitan region. The findings included analyses of the city through interviews and spatial data, and based on this, suggestions for possible urban interventions.

Receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from the local, national, and international community, the next step is for the study to be contextualized, analyzed, and refined as it becomes a tool for Marseillais to imagine possible futures for their city. The Grand Puzzle will also then serve as an inspirational tool to build on while developing artistic and cultural interventions before and during the biennial which will take place throughout the Marseille region between the 7th of June and the 1st of November 2020. Following the successful introduction of this model in Manifesta 12 Palermo, this is the second time that Manifesta has commissioned an urban study with the purpose of putting the city itself on a stage, fusing various disciplines, and aiming to weave the next stages of Manifesta deeply into the tissues of Marseille society.

The study offers a reflection of the city’s current situation in comparison with other cities. It reveals its specificities, its possibilities, its necessities, and its complexities; forming a “portrait” of the “Grand Puzzle” of Marseille. Deriving from these findings, a number of spatial interventions are suggested, illustrating a path for potential solutions and directions. Ultimately, The Grand Puzzle is a tool for citizens to rethink the potential of their city and its surrounding area. It is structured in 9 chapters with the aim to guide the reader in the discovery of the “Grand Puzzle,” without aspiring to claim a fixed conclusion or single simplistic view of this complex city. The ambition of the study is to highlight the potentialities of the city and its metropole and to put these in a European perspective – finding the themes that echo the critical issues Europe and Marseille face today.

The Grand Puzzle is designed not only to leave a tangible legacy for Marseille but is also intended to create discussion about the future of the city while serving as a basis for the upcoming Manifesta 13 architectural intervention. The forthcoming intervention represents a new model to visualize the ideas of the urban research study into a material form. It will be developed in the next few months and opened this spring as a symbol of unlocking the potential of the city of Marseille in collaboration with – and catering to the needs of – the citizens of the Marseille metropole.

On 3 May 2019, at an official press conference held in Pristina, the Director of Manifesta, Hedwig Fijen, the Mayor of Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti, the Director of Culture City of Pristina, Blerta Bosholli, and the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Republic of Kosovo, Kujtim Gashi; officially announced Pristina as the host city of Manifesta 14.

Since its inception in the early 1990s, the mission of Manifesta is to examine the changing cultural topography of Europe. Every two years, Manifesta looks at the world through the prism of the specific situation of a new host city. The Supervisory Board of Manifesta selected the city of Pristina in Kosovo because of the geographical and geo-political importance of the Balkan in relation to Europe’s recent history and its future. In its relatively young history as the capital of the youngest nation state of Europe, the city of Pristina has experienced major transformations in its landscape by unrestrained neoliberal policies of privatization of open urban spaces. Manifesta aims to support the citizens of Kosovo in their ambition to reclaim public space and to rewrite the future of their city as an open-minded metropolis in the heart of the Balkans.

Pristina presents a unique location from which to look at the past and think about the present challenges Europe is facing from an unexpected and heterogeneous perspectives. This fast-changing urban centre at the crossroads between Southern and Eastern Europe will allow Manifesta 14 to investigate how contemporary culture and social practices can address the identity of a country that is as composite as it is polymorphic.

Pristina was selected by Manifesta to host the 14^th edition of the biennial based on the strong bid submitted by the City of Pristina. The Board received bids from various European cities and subsequently undertook in-depth research into each candidate, including research travels, as part of the selection procedure. The selection of the host city three years in advance of the biennial is part of a strategy that enables a greater engagement with the host region and build links between host cities.

At an official press conference in Pristina on 3 May 2019, the Director of Manifesta, Hedwig Fijen; the Mayor of Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti; the Director of Culture City of Pristina, Blerta Bosholli; and the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Republic of Kosovo, Kujtim Gashi; officially announced Pristina as the host city of Manifesta 14.

Shpend Ahmeti, Mayor of the City of Pristina:
Our city is proud and honored to host Manifesta in 2022. In a place where 50 percent of its hospitable population are younger than 25, where Ottoman architecture is mixed with postwar neoliberal philosophy, there is a lot to discuss, there is a lot to do and there is a lot of public space to reclaim. Manifesta is what we need not only to push for an honest discussion about the direction of the city, but also as an example of rebirth of cities, art and architecture in Western Balkans. Manifesta has given the most important answer to our bid – Balkans is Europe and we can contribute to the debate.

Hedwig Fijen, Director of Manifesta:
As the bid proclaimed, Kosovo seems to be going through its own quiet revolution in terms of mobility. An increase in exchange between the new region revitalises historical relationships but also creates surprising connections. This freedom to move within the region has given Kosovars a new way to think about themselves, how they organise their life, and how they experience themselves in relation to the region and the world at large. Besides, Kosovo is not only located within its sovereign territory, but is manifested in a lively diaspora all around the world.
The cultural, legal and political paralysis of the 1990s resulted in a loss of sense of public space and a lack of recognition for what is common. I wish Manifesta can provide Pristina the means to reconstruct, redefine and reclaim a radicalised and diverse public space, which still seems to be today regarded as a cultural subversive act, which can become a call for change.

Manifesta 13 is taking place in Marseille, France in 2020, with an artistic team composed of ifa Gallery Director, Alya Sebti; VAC Foundation Senior Chief Curator, Katerina Chuchalina; Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Marina Otero Verzier; and Director of ICA London, Stefan Kalmàr. Manifesta 13 Marseille will be open from 7 June until 1 November 2020 and takes place in various locations throughout the city.

The “Manifesta 13 Marseille Moment” is a workshop organised from November 8-13, 2018, by Winy Maas and The Why Factory, commissioned by Manifesta as part of the pre-biennial research study anticipating the Manifesta 13 edition.

During one week, 80 students and teachers from the Dutch Technical University of Delft, the ENSAM Marseille, and the ESADMM Marseille, were brought together at the J1 Hangar in Marseille to thoroughly investigate the current and future social, cultural, and urbanistic vision of the Metropol of Marseille in all aspects.

The workshop is the first step of the interdisciplinary study on Marseille and its metropolis to be conducted by Dutch architecture and urban agency MVRDV, prior to Manifesta 13 Marseille, the European Nomadic Biennial, to be held in 2020.

During the workshop, the international students produced hundreds of maps of Marseille, illustrated ideas through images and models, and created a collective giant model of the city- imagining a collective future for the city and metropol of Marseille.

Marseille, 25 January 2019

Education and mediation are fundamental values of Manifesta, aiming at implementing the program deep in the tissues of the host city and building sustainable social connections. The Education department started her research in the host city almost two years before the biennial opens to the public. Cultural mapping and extensive research in the neighbourhoods are followed by pilot community program and projects in schools.

Under the title “Who are the protagonists of Manifesta 13 in the City of Marseille?” the workshop aimed at mapping educational, cultural and socially-engaged initiatives of the City of Marseille, identifying methodological and infrastructural gaps and needs of local educational and cultural institutions, independent initiatives and social communities.

The participants of the workshop were asked to reflect upon the past experience and current issues of cultural engagement with particular audiences and imagine who and in which way these audience could become protagonists of Manifesta 13 Marseille. Participants took part in five working groups investigating five potential protagonists: Student, Migrant, Activist, Artist and a “fifth” personage to be identified by participants. Each group work presented their findings, followed by plenary discussion moderated by Joana Monbaron, Education Coordinator and Yana Klichuk, Head of Education of Manifesta.

Following the August 2018 appointment by Manifesta 13 of Dutch architect Winy Maas and urban practice MVRDV to conduct the pre-biennial research study for the city of Marseille, a new artistic team has been selected for Manifesta 13 Marseille in 2020 by Director of Manifesta, Hedwig Fijen.

Manifesta 13 Marseille will apply the same innovative approach introduced in Manifesta 12 Palermo, where an in-depth urban study preceded the appointment of 4 trans-disciplinary Creative Mediators who collaborated to genuinely integrate the biennial into the social, cultural, and political fabric of the city of Palermo. This model will now be continued for  Manifesta 13 taking place in 2020 in Marseille with the intention to unlock the city and leave a tangible legacy as was accomplished in Palermo. This is the first time that Manifesta will hold a biennial edition in France. Acutely mirroring the current geo-political challenges both Europe and France are facing, and specifically Marseille as a city of many contradictions, this Mediterranean metropole provides an apt location to hold the European Nomadic Biennial in 2020.

Manifesta is announcing the artistic team of its 13^th edition: Moroccan Alya Sebti is today the director of Berlin’s ifa Gallery, has recently been the guest curator of the 13th Dak’Art, Biennial of Contemporary African Art (2018), and was Artistic Director of the 5^th Marrakech Biennial; Spanish architect Marina Otero Verzier is the Director of Research and Development at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Moscow-based, Russian Katerina Chuchalina, is chief curator at the V-A-C Foundation in both Moscow and Venice; German Stefan Kalmár is currently the director of the ICA in London, formerly director of Artists Space New York City, and Kunstverein München, and former resident of Marseille having lived in the city for 12 years.

The appointed artistic team of Manifesta13 reflects this trans-disciplinary and intercultural approach and is the continuation of a model working with a team of both architects, urbanists, curators, and artistic producers covering the knowledge of the Mediterranean region at large as well as the wider spectrum of working in the specific geographical and social political context of Marseille.

Manifesta Director, Hedwig Fijen:

“In continuation of the thematic approach and model of Manifesta 12 in Palermo, we have looked for another southern Mediterranean, historically important central city allowing us to engage with the 21st century urgent global and local issues. This second city of France seems to always be positioned as the ‘outsider’ city characterized by many contradictions, since many citizens consider themselves first Marseillaise and second French. Yet Marseille, with its great port city multiculturalism, and all its complexities and struggles, is for us maybe the ultimate test of how Marseille, France and Europe are facing the most important conflicts of our time. The appointed artistic team has our confidence to create a critical response to the current state of affairs in Europe and an artistic vision how we can look at global issues through the spectrum of Marseille.”

MVRDV, after having worked closely with students from the National Higher School of Architecture (ENSA), the National Higher School of Arts and Design of Marseille, and The Why Factory, a research institute for the future city, founded by Winy Maas in 2008 at TU Delft, will close its pre-biennial urban study in the beginning of 2019. An architectural intervention in public space of the city of Marseille will be presented in spring of the same year.

Manifesta 13 Marseille will take place between 7 June and 1 November 2020.

Annex 1: Biographies for Manifesta Marseille 13 Artistic Team

Alya Sebti has been directing the ifa Gallery Berlin (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) since 2016. In 2018 she was guest curator of the 13th Dak’Art, Biennial of Contemporary African Art and in 2014, she was the Artistic Director of the 5th Marrakech Biennial. She has curated several exhibitions including: invisible at Musee de l’IFAN in Dakar, Carrefour/Treffpunkt at the ifa Galleries, Casablanca, Energie Noire as part of Mons 2015 – European Capital of Culture, and Now Eat My Script at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (2014). She was a board member of the International Biennial Association (IBA). She has written and lectured extensively on art and the public sphere, about biennials and transcultural art practices at venues including: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Thessaloniki Biennale (GR); University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; International Academy of Salzburg (Austria); New York University, Berlin; Le Cube Art Centre, Rabat.

Marina Otero Verzier is a Spanish architect and the director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. She leads research initiatives such as “Automated Landscapes,” focusing on the emerging architectures of automated labor, “Architecture of Appropriation,” on squatting as spatial practice, and recently curated the exhibition Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective by Jonas Staal (2018). Otero was the curator of “Work, Body, Leisure,” the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2018. Previously, she was Chief Curator of the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale together with the After Belonging Agency, and director of Global Network Programming at Studio-X- Columbia University GSAPP (New York). She is a co-editor of Unmanned: Architecture and Security Series (2016), After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay In Transit (2016), and editor of Work, Body, Leisure (2018). Otero has authored several articles and publications, including critical texts for Palermo Atlas, the urban study’s result of Manifesta 12 in Palermo. She teaches architecture at RCA in London.

Katerina Chuchalina has been a chief curator at the V-A-C Foundation (Moscow and Venice) since 2011. Chuchalina conceived and curated the long-term cycle of nomadic artistic interventions and public programs in Moscow non-art institutions (Museum of Armed Forces, the Museum of Modern History, Institute for African Studies, GULAG museum etc.). She curated a series of exhibitions investigating architecture-related issues by means of contemporary art, which have included the international group shows IK-00. The Spaces of Confinement (Venice, 2014), and The Way of Enthusiasts (Venice, 2014). Chuchalinaco curated a transhistorical group show Space.Force.Construction that revolved around Russian avant-garde and its resonance within contemporary artistic practices. She also conceived and co-curated Expanding Space, a public art program aimed at examining the status and modus operandi of artistic interventions into the Moscow urban environment. She is the co-founder and member of the Centre for Experimental Museology (CEM), which draws on the innovations of Soviet avant-garde museology and the history of experimental exhibition design, and focuses the museum as a medium, and political implications of cultural institutions.

Stefan Kalmár has been the director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London since 2017, where he has been widely credited with reasserting the ICA’s radical and progressive founding spirit with exhibitions by Seth Price, Forensic Architecture, Julie Becker and Metahaven and by reintroducing theatre, performance and truly independent cinema to the programme. Prior to this, Kalmár was director of Artists Space, New York, between 2009 and 2016. Notable exhibitions staged during his directorship include Danh Vō (2010), Charlotte Posenenske (2010), Bernadette Corporation (2012), Hito Steyerl (2015) and Cameron Rowland (2016). In 2012 he launched Artists Space Books & Talks, a second venue dedicated to critical, discursive practice and dialogue. With exhibitions such as Decolonize This Place, or historic surveys on the work of Christopher D’Archangolo, Charlotte Posenenske or Tom of Finland The Pleasure of Play, Kalmár demonstrates a deep commitment to historical and contemporary artists working in their most radical forms, a curatorial work that results in often longstanding and deep relationships with artists, and audiences alike.

Manifesta is the European Nomadic Biennial, which originated in the early 1990s in response to the political, economic, and social change following the end of the Cold War and the subsequent steps towards European integration. Manifesta has developed into a platform for dialogue between art and society by inviting the cultural and artistic community to produce new creative experiences with, and for, the context in which it takes place. Manifesta rethinks the relations between culture and society investigating and catalysing positive social change in Europe through contemporary culture in a continuous dialogue with the social sphere of a specific place.

Manifesta was founded Dutch art historian, Hedwig Fijen. Each new edition is fundraised individually and managed by a permanent team of international specialists. Manifesta is working from its offices in Amsterdam and Marseille.

Previous Editions:  Rotterdam(1996), Luxembourg (1998),  Ljubljana(2000), Frankfurt (2002), San Sebastian (2004), Nicosia (2006 – cancelled), Trentino-South Tyrol (2008), Murcia in dialogue with  northern Africa (2010), Limburg (2012), St. Petersburg (2014), Zurich (2016) and Palermo (2018). The upcoming editions will take place in Marseille (2020) and in Pristina (2022).

For its thirteenth edition, Manifesta takes place for the first time in France in Marseille in 2020. There could be no better city than Marseille to further expand Manifesta’s research and discussion about the challenges Europe is facing today. Manifesta 13 Marseille proposes to work with existing cultural institutions and associations, both symbolically and practically, by introducing different voices while expanding their narratives. With this ambition, Manifesta 13 Marseille will unfold through site-specific artistic commissions, performances, and urban interventions to imagine new forms of being together: Traits d’union.s.