Exhibition, “Klonaris/Thomadaki: archives”

BnF | François Mitterrand, Research library
Access restricted to holders of a research library accreditation

Jagna Ciuchta’s launch book, “Dilated I, Liquid Images and Carnivorous Plants”

Round table with Jagna Ciuchta, Maud Jacquin, Émilie Renard and Martha Salimbeni, followed by a reading by Stéphanie Garzanti

“Klonaris/Thomadaki: Silence and sound”

“Vidéo et après” cycle, New Media department, Centre Pompidou
at Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) – Auditorium Jacqueline Lichtenstein
2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris
Katerina Thomadaki in conversation with Marie-José Mondzain

“The Thick Present”

Talk with Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke, hosted by Pauline Mabit and Matisse Crespo, as part of the author’s residency in Art & Science at Université Paris Cité.
Free admission.

“Into The Woods”

Research-creation seminar with Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke, Pablo Réol, David Posth-Kohler, Clara Aubonnet, Guillaume Larregle, and Baptiste Miremont.
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Béton Book Club : Tal Piterbraut-Merx, “The Forgotten Domination: Politicizing adult-child relationships”, Éditions Blast, 2024.

Collective reading

Bétonsalon is recruiting!

Stakeholders #6

Retroperspectives on the history of Villa Vassilieff around the exhibition “Groupe Mobile” (2016)

Art workers on strike

“Hospital Museum / Antidote Museum”

Lecture by Joana Masó and conversation with Florian Fouché

Talk with Florian Fouché, Émilie Renard et Vincent Enjalbert

“The Untamable Hand” performance

Bétonsalon is recruiting

“How the Ocean lit up”

Closing event of the “The Tick Present” writing residency
With Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke and Quentin Baghi, Matisse Crespo, Caroline Derniaux, Xavier Dizambourg, Enora Luce, Pauline Mabit, Elena Maj, Priscila Rosas Martínez, participants of the “Grieving-With” writing workshop; and Nathalie Blanc, Émilie Renard, and Elena Lespes Muñoz

“Salonbéton”

Public Presentation of the Project “A Year in the Life of an Art Center” carried out with students from the Master’s program in Visual Arts, specialization in Mediation, Exhibition, Critique – Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis

At 7pm: “Anti-Ableist Struggles and Working Methodologies in Art Centers”, a collective talk with Coline Ardouin, Lucas Fritz and Benoît Piéron.

EXCEPTIONNAL CLOSING

Bétonsalon will be closed on Thursday 29 May, but we’ll be back on Friday and Saturday at our usual opening times!

Stakeholders #7

A look back at the history of Bétonsalon around the exhibition “La Moitié des Choses” (2010) with some of the artists who participated.

Workshop with Hedwig Houben and Rob Leijdekkers

Exhibition visit with the Bétonsalon team

Béton Book Club: Emma Bigé, “Movementements. Ecopolitics of dance.” (La Découverte, 2023)

Collective reading

Talk with Hedwig Houben, Émilie Renard and Vincent Enjalbert, in english

From hysteria as symptom language to feminist poetics: arts, bodies, writings

Lecture by Sofia Batko, as part of the exhibition “The Untamable Hand” by Hedwig Houben and l’été culturel 2025.

“Borborygmi” – performances & readings evening

Performances by Nicole, Lisa Lecuivre, Estelle Benazet Heugenhauser, Helena de Laurens, Star Finch & cl✰ra.

Launch of the book “Rather Live. Understanding Ableism and Valuing a Crip Culture” by Chiara Kahn & Charlotte Puiseux

Talk with the authors hosted by Émilie Renard, followed by a discussion with the public. In collaboration with Librairie La Brèche and in presence of artist Morgan.e.
Space accessible to people with reduced mobility. Event subtitled and broadcast live on Instagram via the @betonsalon account. Masks available.

“Simulation Comedy”

A video installation by Irma Name (Hélène Déléan and Clément Caignart), as part of the research and production grant ADAGP / Bétonsalon 2023

Vegetal Ecosophies: Paths and Practices in Becoming

A programme imagined by Roberto Barbanti, Sylvie Pouteau and Eulalia de Valdenebro. With the participation of Pauline Lisowski and Marine Fauché.

Book launch The Rebirth of Wonder (PUR, 2025) by Clélia Barbut

Talk with the author, hosted by Elena Lespes Muñoz and Vincent Enjalbert, followed by an open discussion with the audience.

Launch of the book “Parlons Pratiques”, published by Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, co-edited by Anna Colin and Céline Kopp

Discussion between Anna Colin and Céline Kopp, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Stakeholders #8

Parties prenantes (Stakeholders): retroperspectives on the history of Bétonsalon

Lesbian Self-Representations Through Practices of Architecture, Writing, and Photography: Reasons to Live, Ways to Survive and Resist

Discussion with Milena Charbit and Louise Toth, moderated by Vincent Enjalbert
As part of the Pride Festival of the 12th, 13th, and 14th arrondissements.

 

Béton Book Club: collective reading of Sunaura Taylor’s book, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, 2019, Les Éditions du Portrait.

“To what extent does our idea of being ‘human’ depend on our physical and mental capacities, on how we move (or don’t), and on how we interact with the world?”

actions ~ scores: returns to the futures #5

Lecture by Euridice Zaituna Kala, as part of the lecture series “Action ~ Scores: Returns to the Futures,” curated by Clélia Barbut, in partnership with Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis.

Notes from Sheepland

A film by Cara Holmes, co-written with Orla Barry
(in English – French subtitles, duration 70 minutes)
Screening

“Living and being an artist in rural areas: political terrain”

Two conversations, the first led by Vanessa Desclaux, curator and art critic, with artists Aëla Maï Cabel and Jérémy Piningre, and Marion Vasseur-Raluy, director of CAC Brétigny; the second, by Vincent Enjalbert and Émilie Renard with Orla Barry (in English)