PRIX COAL 2017 – Nominees

PRIX COAL 2017 – Nominees

Published on 26 October 2017

The other nine artists nominated for the 2017 COAL Art and Environment Award:

Afour Rhizome (South Korea), This wind you speak of carries us away from ourselves; Erich Berger and Mari Keto (Austria, Finland), INHERITANCE – The Ritual of Measurement; Isabelle Daëron (France), Topique-non-drinking water; Abdessamad El Montassir (Morocco), Natural Resistance; La Vallée (France), Pietra P.; Martin Le Chevallier (France), Programmed obsolescence; The New Ministry of Agriculture (France), The new local products. The Diamond Pimps Gideon Mendel (South Africa), Drowning World and Anaïs Tondeur (France), Noir de carbone.

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JURY 2017

Claude d’Anthenaise, General Curator of Heritage, Director of the Museum of Hunting and Nature; Christophe Aubel, Director General of the French Biodiversity Agency; Monique Barbaroux, Senior official for sustainable development at the Ministry of Culture; Nathalie Blanc, Director of Research at the CNRS and Director of the LADYSS UMR 7533 laboratory; Chantal Colleu-Dumond, Director of the Chaumont-sur-Loire Estate and International Garden Festival; François Hers, Cultural Advisor to the Fondation de France; Isabelle Le Galo-Flores, Deputy Delegate for Spain at the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation; Frédéric Martel, Writer, researcher and journalist; and Lucy Orta, Visual artist.

PARTNERS

Image credit: Angelika Markul, photograph taken on the set of Tierra Del Fuego, El Calafate, Argentina. Award-winning project COAL 2016.

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