Region Sud Art Prize
Since its beginnings, Art-o-rama has been committed to participating in the professionalization of young artists and allowing them to encounter different actors of the art world – curators, gallery owners, critics, collectors…
Each year with the Région Sud Prize, Art-o-rama offers visibility to the young creation from Art Schools of the Region Sud, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. The Prix Region Sud Art is aimed at artists who have graduated within the last 5 years from one of the art schools of Region Sud.
The Showroom section highlights the work of 4 artists 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, who will then be invited to vote for the winner of the Region Sud Prize of the year.
The following year, this artist will benefit from an exhibition space in the Gallery section of Art-o-rama following a two-month residency within the Moly-Sabata / Albert Gleizes Foundation. The artist will be the recipient of a 2 000 € grant and a catalog will be published.
Since 2021, the Showroom artists 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 Region Sud Prize often stands as a first experience for artists in a commercial environment of international scope and allows the galleries participating in Art-o-rama to discover artists who were formed in our region. 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 laureate of the Region Sud Art Prize 2024 is Cassandra Naigre.
The call for application for the Région Sud Art Prize will be open soon.
Rules for the Région Sud Art Prize (in French).
2025 Curator announcement to come !
Cassandra Naigre, 2025 guest artist
Born in Montreuil in 1996, Cassandra Naigre is a Franco-Guadeloupean artist.
Cassandra Naigre works between France and the West Indies. They first studied at the Ecole Boulle in Agencement de l’Environnement Architectural and then joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, where they obtained her DNSEP in 2021. At the same time, they trained in the conservation-restoration of painted works at the Fine Arts School of Budapest.
Their work has been exhibited in Marseille, Berlin, at the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Briançon and at the Mulhouse Biennale for Young Artists in 2022. In 2024, their artistic project Être.s de silence was supported by Ateliers Médicis for an artistic residency in Martinique. They are currently in residence at Artagon Marseille for the 2024-2025 session. Their latest research will be shown at the Centre d’Art des Capucins as part of the collective restitution of the residency l’Envers des Pentes. In addition, as winner of the Prix Région Sud Art, their work will be exhibited at the next edition of Art-o-rama in 2025.
Previous guest artists
2024 Théophylle Dcx
2023 HaYoung
2022 Flore Saunois
2021 mountaincutters
2019 Jonathan Vidal
2018 Delphine Wibaux
2017 Sabrina Belouaar
2016 Rafaela Lopez
2015 Vincent Ceraudo
2014 Sergio Verastegui
2013 Yann Gerstberger
2012 Caroline Duchatelet
2011 Sandro Della Noce
2010 Pascal Martinez
2009 Émilie Perotto
2008 Julien Bouillon
2007 Arnaud Maguet et Olivier Millagou
Region Sud Design Prize
In the continuity of the Région Sud Art Prize, Art-o-rama implemented in 2022 the Region Sud Design Prize which highlights young designers of the region and participates in their professionalization.
The Region Sud Design Prize is aimed at designers who have graduated within the last 5 years and who have completed part of their studies in the Southern Region, Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, or who live in the region. Designers will be selected by a curator to be shown in a dedicated space during Art-o-rama.
The winner will be selected by a jury of professionals during Art-o-rama and will benefit from a 2 000 € grant and an exhibition space during the next edition of the fair.
The laureate of the Region Sud Design Prize 2024 is Zoé Saudrais.
The call for application for the Région Sud Design Prize will be open soon.
Rules for the Région Sud Design Prize (in French).
2025 Curator announcement to come !
Zoé Saudrais, 2025 guest designer
Zoé Saudrais studied in Spain and Paris before entering the Beaux-Arts de Marseille to complete her DNA and DNSEP in design. Lulled by political struggles for as long as she can remember, she has naturally taken up these issues in her work. Between her enthusiasm for large-scale meals and her colorful graphic impulses, she creates a universe that appears naïve, but hides much darker realities. Through her drawings, her objects provoke conversations, whether around a meal or in the street during mobilizations. Above all, her aim is to reveal difficult social realities so that we can imagine a better world. Her “Plats de résistance” project, accompanied by a memoir entitled “Mettre les pieds dans le plat” (Putting your feet in it), sets up a large table. A five-meter table invites diners into a cheerful, colorful world, before they realize that their knife is resting on a dead migrant and their plate tells the story of the Ibis hotel chambermaids’ strike in Marseille.
Previous guest designers
2024 Studiolow
2023 Maxime Douillet
The Région Sud Art & Design Prizes are supported by Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur
The Région Sud Art Prize catalog is supported by the Conseil Départemental des Bouches du Rhône
