Studiolow, guest designer 2024
Héloïse Charital, born in 1994, holds a bachelor’s degree in art history and a Master of Arts from the Design Academy Eindhoven. She also completed a one-year master’s program at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Marseille Méditérranée. Ismaël Rifaï, born in 1993, holds a DNAP from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Etienne and a Master of Arts from the Design Academy Eindhoven. Their work is part of the collections of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, and has been exhibited at the Design Museum London (2021), Friedman Benda New York (2021), the Émergences Biennial (Centre national de la danse, Pantin, 2020), Dutch Design Week
Week (Eindhoven, 2019), PASSAGEN (Cologne, 2020), and the Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven, 2020). In 2022, Héloïse Charital and Ismaël Rifaï were exhibited at Carlota Oyarzun Gallery (Copenhagen) and Friedman Benda Gallery (New York).
Région Sud Prize 2023
Through a partnership with Fræme, resident association at Marseille’s Friche la Belle de Mai and producer of Art-o-rama international contemporary art fair, and the Design Museum Brussels, the Centre has awarded a joint prize with the Design Museum Brussels to the Studiolow design duo in 2023, as part of the Prix Région Sud Design, organized by Art-o-rama to support and accompany the professionalization of young designers based in the Sud – Provence region.
This joint prize will enable the presentation of new pieces by the winners for the 2024 edition of Art-o-rama, with production support from Fræme and the Centre. These new productions will be exhibited at the 2024 edition of Art-o-rama, as well as at the Design Museum Brussels, from September 9 to 29, during Design September 2024.
CENTRE WALLONIE-BRUXELLES|PARIS
Far from constituting a mausoleum that would contribute to the canonization of the pa-ma-trimonial heritage of French-speaking Belgian culture, the Centre, aka le Vaisseau, is a referenced situated catalyser, a non-prescriptive place with an experiential vocation for so-called Belgian contemporary creation and the artistic ecosystem in its transversality.
Through its resolutely de-anctuarizing and a-trans-disciplinary programming, the Center is mandated to disseminate and promote the work of artists based in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. It thus promotes emerging and established talent, from the peripheral to the established. It helps to stimulate international co-productions and partnerships, and to crystallize attention in favor of the so-called Belgian scene.
Each season, the Centre unveils artistic approaches that attest to the irreducibility of a common denominator in the porous territories of contemporary creation. Located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, its programming is spread over more than 1,000 m2. A decentralized Belgian vessel, in addition to its In-Situ programming, it also implements Hors-les-Murs programming and invests Cyberspace as a territory for creation and propagation with dedicated content.
The Center is a decentralized service of Wallonie- Bruxelles International (WBI): an instrument of the international policy pursued by Wallonia, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and the French Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region.
Previous guest designer
2023 – Maxime Douillet
