Some humans survive on a ravaged Earth. Only Princess Nausicaä, who can communicate with all living things, can save them from a toxic forest. Miyazaki’s masterpiece is presented on the occasion of the Permafrost exhibition.

Session presented by the MO.CO. team.

The MO.CO. invites professionals from different disciplines to bring their point of view to the exhibition through their knowledge of the ecological, societal and artistic forms of climate change.

With Alain Gioda, climate historian, hydrologist and researcher at the Research Institute for Development, HydroSciences Laboratory and Clémence Agnez, teacher of philosophy and current affairs of art at the Duperré art school at the University Paris VIII Saint Denis and MO.CO. Esba.

Whether we call them complex systems, reactive artworks or ecosystems, many artworks that change according to their environment are produced in contemporary art (by Dora Budor, Pierre Huyghe, Laure Vigna, among others). What brings them together, a non-anthropocentric gaze towards the movements of the earth, rather than humans. How do they work? Are they new in art history, and what do they teach us about an ecological conception of the world?

Flora Katz is an art critic, curator and doctoral student at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Free - Within the limit of available places

Whatever you do, do something else
Or: "Contemporary art is (not) rubbish. "

Five received ideas on contemporary art
Cycle of conference on art history - Eric Watier

From February to June 2020

Contemporary art confuses you, you don't have all the keys to it. In 2020, the MO.CO. entrusts Eric Watier with the design of a series of conferences to make sense of contemporary creations.

These conferences written will be optimistic, demanding, informative, lively and (sometimes) funny.

The five conferences are built on five expressions, or received ideas on contemporary art.

In the context of the history of the Tsaritsyno collection and the exhibition The Non-Conformists. The History of a Russian Collection, a roundtable discussion about private donations that enrich public art collections. 

Why donate your collection?

For the second round table of the TALKS COLLECTIONS program, MO.CO. explores the issue of donating a private collection to a public institution. From the collection of non-conformist works assembled by Andrei Erofeev, donated to the National Tretyakov Gallery and exhibited at MO.CO. Hôtel des collections until February 9, 2020, it's about exploring the heritage, artistic and economic issues inherent in a donation.

In the presence of Nathalie Ergino (director of the IAC - Villeurbanne Institute for Contemporary Art), Pauline Faure (curator at MO.CO.), Simon Rolin (lawyer at the Paris bar) and Raymond Azibert (collector).

> Free - Limited capacity

This cult classic from the 1990s speaks of Danila Bagrov’s descent into crime and his immersion in the nightlife of St. Petersburg.  

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished.

Presentation of the 1st edition of Saison 6 (2018-19) by the participating artists with a screening of films shot at the 2018 Kochi Biennale, the 2019 Venice Biennale and the 2019 Istanbul Biennale.

With Nicolas Aguirre, Geoffrey Badel, Mona Young-Eun Kim, Corentine Le Mestre, Quentin L’helgoualc’h, Chloé Viton

Moderators: Yann Mazéas and Laetitia Delafontaine (MO.CO.ESBA)

Dominique Fontaine, invited to undertake a residency during November at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, will present her curatorial practice, whose focus is particularly on post-colonial and de-colonial artistic strategies.

As part of the programme Transatlantic Residencies 2019 – 2020 organised by The Darling Foundry, Montréal, and MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, in partnership with La Fondation des artistes; supported by the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; the Institut Français, and Canada Council for the Arts.

A teen becomes obsessed with religion… This film reveals the helplessness of civil and religious institutions when faced with this kind of fixation.

Cinéma Diagonal – 5 rue de Verdun

As part of the exhibition The Non-Conformists. The Story of a Russian Collection at MOCO Hôtel des collections. With Andrei Erofeev, the exhibition’s curator; Georgy Litichevsky, one of the leading artists of Moscow’s New Wave; and Katia Kameneva, co-founder of the collective The Fourth Height.

More about the future exhibition of Benoît Maire

With Nathalie Moureau, vice president of Culture at the Paul Valéry Montpellier University 3 | Caroline Bourgeois, art advisor and curator | Etienne Cuenant, surgeon and collector | Florence Bonnefous, gallery owner, director of Air de Paris

In partnership with the Paul Valéry Montpellier University

Movie by Julien Prévieux, Where is my (Deep) Mind? ; Pattern of life ; What Shall We Do Next?