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Jean Chatelus – Fondation Antoine de Galbert x Cité internationale des arts

Programme for visual artists, in resonance with the Jean Chatelus collection

Programme

The Fondation Antoine de Galbert and the Cité internationale des arts have partnered to co-construct after the Fondation has inherited Jean Chatelus’s exceptional collection: over 400 works of contemporary art, both early and popular, assembled by the collector over some fifty years with great freedom of vision. This astonishing collection has been donated by the Fondation to the Centre Pompidou in 2024.

To complete this tribute, a invited artist – selected jointly by the Fondation Antoine de Galbert and the Cité internationale des arts and whose work resonates with the spirit of the Jean Chatelus collection – benefits each year, for a period of one year, from a residency at the Cité internationale des arts.

About

1 residency per year
12 months’ residency
Programme created in 2024 2024

Eligibility criteria

  • Be a visual artist, with a practice which resonates with the Jean Chatelus collection

The Laureates

2024 – Diego Bianchi (B. 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentine)
2025 – Nobuko Tsuchiya (B. 1972 in Yokohama, Japon)
2026 – Jon Pylypchuk (B. 1972 àWinnipeg, Canada)

Diego Bianchi © Maurine Tric / Adagp Paris 2025

Diego Bianchi

Diego Bianchi’s work consists of visually transgressive materials, bringing together discarded objects such as chairs, pipes, electronic devices and casts of body parts.
His practice encompasses sculpture, installation, video art, photography and performance elements, which explore aesthetic norms as well as socio-political issues.

© Maurine Tric / Adagp, Paris, 2026⁠

Nobuko Tsuchiya

Nobuko Tsuchiya produces her works like a gardener would take care of a harmonious flower bed where varieties from all origins could enjoy being together. Finding a right balance among diversities, listening, observing a possible cohabitation between all forms of existence, living or not – plants, animals, atoms, viruses, cells, planets, galaxies -, such is her quest. It’s a whole living world that ends up combining, merging and, finally, disappearing. Where does life come from? Where are we going? Nobuko Tsuchiya pursues the very essence of existence. This results in some mysterious works, as enigmatic as her questions about the universe. From these assemblies of felt, silicone, wool, metal, arise a poetic dialogue, an unexpected logic and a universal experience.

© Jon Pylypchuk

Jon Pylypchuk

Pylypchuk is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture, installation and video. Working with simple materials (fake fur, wood, fabric, sheet metal, beer cans, electric light bulbs, polyurethane foam, etc.), Pylypchuk reinterprets the collage and bricolage practices derived from Art Brut. Often his ‘creatures’ draw upon the animal world to explore the frailty of human existence and social relationships.

The partner of this programme :

Fondation Antoine de Galbert

Fondation Antoine de Galbert helps, promotes and supports creation in the field of modern and contemporary art. Its mission is to support the learning of art history and the training of future artists. The Fondation was created by the collector and patron Antoine de Galbert, who also administrated the Maison Rouge from 2004 to 2018. It acquires works to enrich the collections of certain museums. It supports research grants, residencies or catalogue projects.