Région Sud Art Prize Showroom 2025
Since its begining Art-o-rama has been committed to participating in the professionalization of young artists and helping them network with different actors in the art scene : gallery owners, critics, collectors …
Through the Région Sud Art Prize funded by Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, this fair highlight yearly young creation from Art Schools of the Région Sud.
The Showroom section presents the work of 4 artist selected by a curator.The curator accompanies them in the presentation of their work, produces a critical text and introduces the artists to the gallery owners and publishers participating in the fair. They will then choose the Région Sud Prize laureate of the year.
The winner will be exposed next year in the main section of Art-o-rama after a two-months residency within the Moly-Sabata / Albert Gleizes Foundation. The artist will also receive a 2000 € production grant and a catalog will be published.
Since 2021, the artists of the Showroom benefit from a new residency program created by a regional network of art centers and venues from the Région. The 3 other artists will then each partake in one of the following residencies: Centre d’Arts Plastiques Fernand Léger de Port-de-Bouc, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Châteauvert et Voyons-Voir, art contemporain & territoire.
The Région Sud Art Prize is often a first experience for artists in a commercial event of international scope and allows the galleries participating in Art-o-rama to discover artists who where formed in our region. Furthermore it is a real platform of professionalization putting forward their work to a large public, as much amateur as professional. It is an opportunity for meetings, often sales and first collaborations with galleries.
The winner of the Région Sud Art Prize of 2024 is Cassandra Naigre who will do her exhibition during Art-orama 2025.
Yasmine d’O. & Saâdane Afif – Curators 2025
Saâdane Afif (b. 1970, Vendôme, France) is a French artist with a conceptual approach who lives and works in Berlin. His work explores a variety of media (performance, objects, texts and printed materials) without fitting into any particular artistic category or discipline. Recent solo exhibitions include The Fountain Archives and Beyond…, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2021); The Fairytale Recordings, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019); and This Is Ornamental, Kunsthalle, Vienna (2018). His work was presented at Documenta 12 (2007) and at the 56th Venice Biennale. In 2020, Saâdane Afif was awarded the Villa Aurora bursary. He wins the Prix Marcel Duchamp (2009) and the Prix Meurice (2015).
In 2025, Saâdane Afif will open one of his solo exhibitions at the Hamburger Banhof, Berlin.
Yasmine d’O. is an exhibition curator and publisher. Yasmine d’O. regularly collaborates with Saâdane Afif, whom she met on Jemaa el-Fna Square during the 5th Marrakech Biennal (2014). Recently, she curated Saâdane Afif’s exhibitions The Fountain Archives and Beyond…, Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona (2021); The Bonimenteur, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2022); The Coalman (2023), Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin; as well as the Bergen Assembly triennial, 2022. Yasmine d’O. is editor-in-chief of Side Magazine.
Selected artists for Art-o-rama’s Art Showroom 2025
Ix Dartayre
Ix Dartayre defines her productions as plural, able to summon up different subjects, practices, bodies and histories, inscribing themselves in multiple spaces and playing with scales as well as levels of reading. Nevertheless, the images that make up her work are always the result of an encounter, a dialogue and a certain relationship with the subjects photographed. For the artist, they are as much personal, intimate and emotional memories as they are the basis for a broader artistic, collaborative and visual work. They can be passed from hand to hand in the form of publications and prints, or linked to frames, jewelry and key-holders, as well as being deposited on other media that allow their narratives to be extended.
Juliette George
Juliette George is interested in what contributes to the exhibition experience, particularly through the idea of comfort. Her pieces can take the form of reading devices (Sympathies n°1, 3 bis f, 2023), archive furniture (Meuble typographique, Georgian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2024) or printed matter (Campagne de recensement des mobiliers d’exposition, CAC Brétigny, 2025). She studied literature before entering the ENSP in Arles, from which she graduated in 2021. Another part of her work is text-based. Using micro-narratives and apparently non-poetic material, she attempts to humorously rethink the central question of value (that of measurement, money, power and, by extension, art).
Rémi Lécussan
Rémi Lécussan, born in 1997, lives and works in Marseille. He graduated from the École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence in 2022. Since then, he has taken part in several group shows, notably at the Galerie de la SCEP, and at the Festival Actoral (Marseille). He presents his first solo show at Glassbox Sud (Montpellier, 2023). In 2024, he was awarded a three-month residency at Villa Belleville (Paris). He is currently in residence at Artagon Marseille. His first international solo exhibition will take place at the Boxes Art Museum of Songshan Lake (Dongguan, China) in December 2025 at the invitation of Morgan Labar.
Léon Nullans
Born in Toulouse in 2001, Léon Nullans entered the Villa Arson in 2019, where he obtained his DNSEP, before continuing his studies at the Beaux Arts de Paris in 2024.
Through a multidisciplinary practice, Léon Nullans invests and articulates his research around the “use values” perceived in certain cultural productions. As if ‘Ghostwritten’ by existing pieces and practices, his work depends on them, and evolves by establishing a fantasized tutor/student relationship with these figures. Documenting what might be described as a “learning path”, the processes intertwine with the results to form a body of interconnected productions. Now based in Paris, his work has been shown at Nièce Residency in Nice, and will be featured at the 2025 edition of Art-O-Rama in August and at the Villa Arson Art Center in September.
