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 with a DNSEP degree 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 Région Sud Art Prize 2026 is Louise Belin

The curator for the Art Showroom 2027 is

To apply, please send us a PDF file of no more than 15 pages by email to contact@art-o-rama.fr, specifying your participation in the Région Sud Art Prize in the subject line of the email, before January 31, 2027. The file must include a presentation of your practice, a CV, and captioned images.

Regulation of the Région Sud Art Prize (in French)

Pierre-Antoine Lalande, 2026 Art Showroom Curator

Pierre-Antoine Lalande (born in 1991, lives and works in Montreuil) is an independent curator and art critic. Trained in political science and modern literature, he has held positions in communications and patronage at institutions such as KADIST, the MEP, and the Giacometti Foundation. He is currently developing exhibition projects after collaborating with various venues, including the artist-run space Julio, Galerie Sultana, and Chapelle XIV. He also writes for Mouvement magazine and has joined the curatorial team of Fotofestival Lenzburg for its 2026 edition.

Louise Belin, 2027 guest artist

Louise Belin (born 1998 in Mantes-la-Jolie) lives and works in Paris. A graduate of ESADHaR Rouen and the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, her work has been presented notably at the Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris), the Musée d’Art contemporain des Sables d’Olonne, the Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris), and the galerie Eric Mouchet (Brussels).

She develops a practice of painting and installation drawing from poor images — sourced from surveillance cameras, livestreams, meteorological webcams, and self-tracking tools operating within 24/7 monitoring logics. She takes these images up, slows them down, and passes them through the extended time of the painterly gesture.

This slowing-down reveals zones of opacity, blur, and obsolescence within tools that nonetheless promise control, clarity, and optimisation. Her paintings and reliefs thus compose a form of background noise from which she seeks to translate plastically the fatigue of images, devices, and the gaze that moves through them.

https://louisebelin.com/

Previous guest artists

2026 Juliette George

2025 Moye

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 completed all or part of their studies in the region and/or who reside in the Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. 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 2026 is Cassandre Thévenier

The curator for the Design Showroom 2027 is Justinien Tribillon

To apply, please send us a PDF file of no more than 15 pages by email to contact@art-o-rama.fr, specifying your participation in the Région Sud Design Prize in the subject line of the email, before February 28, 2027. The file must include a presentation of your practice, a CV, and captioned images.

Regulation of the Région Sud Design Prize (in French)

Justinien Tribillon, 2027 Design Showroom Curator

Justinien Tribillon is a curator, writer, and teacher with a transdisciplinary and itinerant practice encompassing social sciences, photography, architecture, history, and design. His recent publications include: La Zone: Une Histoire Alternative de Paris (B42, 2025), Rudéral: Identités Liquides (Deux-cent-cinq, 2024), and Visible upon Breakdown (Spector Books, 2024). Justinien teaches history, theory, and criticism at the École des Arts Décoratifs Paris — PSL and was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2023-2024 as an exhibition curator.

Cassandre Thévenier, 2027 guest designer

Cassandre Thévenier, born in Ambilly in 1996, has lived and worked in Marseille since 2019, where she obtained a DNSEP in design in 2025.

Her work originates in intimate narratives, attachments, and spontaneous uses. It weaves itself around our sentimental objects to question what they hold within. Her practice explores what ordinarily remains discreet: silent gestures, invisible presences, and interior narratives. She questions the boundary between our bodies, our souls, and our objects, how they preserve traces of ourselves and sometimes perpetuate our existences. It is through experiences of grief that she interrogates these transformations: those moments when certain objects suddenly change status, becoming vessels of memory, spaces of dialogue, or forms of presence. Her work is interested in what objects allow us to reinvent, narrate, or embody in the face of absence. Cassandre considers possibilities, moments of doubt, and tipping points. Those situations where a gesture, a light, a sound, or an object seems to open a breach in reality and leads us to question the place of the absent in our lives.

In her work, light, gestures, contexts, and narratives become raw materials on the same level as textiles, ceramics, wood, and glass. Her design practice explores the sensitive, intimate, and invisible uses of our objects: the uses that transform, in our eyes, ordinary objects into sacred ones.

Through her pieces, Cassandre Thévenier questions the bonds we weave with objects and how they allow us to confront absence, to reorganise it, and create alongside it. Her work reveals a need for continuity, dialogue, and care through the object.

Each of her works thus attempts to open a passage: between visible and invisible, intimate and shareable, presence and absence.

https://www.instagram.com/cassandre_thevenier/