b. in 1993, France
Represented by lilia ben salah, Paris
cneai = Board of Directors
Member of RN13BIS - Contemporary Art in Normandy
BACKGROUND
2015
Master Degree in Arts
St-Etienne Higher School of Art & Design [Esadse], with honours, FR
2014
Fine Arts Academy of Bologna [AbaBo] IT
2013
Bachelor Degree in Arts
St-Etienne Higher School of Art & Design [Esadse], with honours, FR
RESIDENCIES
Auberge de France à Rhodes, 2024 GR
ATOPOS CVC, Athens, 2024 GR
International Mobility x Ville de Rouen, Kalymnos, 2024 GR
ATOPOS CVC, Athènes, 2023 GR
Overflows, St-Pierre & Miquelon, Finis Terræ, 2023 SPM·FR
Culture Moves Europe, 2023 TN
Nouveau Grand Tour, Tuscany, 2021 IT
Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 2020-2021 FR
Supported by Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation
Villa Salammbô, Tunis, 2020 and 2021 TN
Ateliers Côteaux, Tunis, 2018 TN
Ateliers du Grand Large, Lyon, 2017-2020 FR
Redeyef Documentary Film Festival, 2016 TN
Délocalisation, Casablanca, 2013 MCO
Kunst Turm, Weimar, 2013 DEU
GRANTS
Funding Agreement – Institut français Paris x Region of Normandy, 2025, FR
Funding Agreement – Region of Southern Aegean, 2025, GR
Video Portrait Grant, Adagp, 2025, FR
Research Grant, Adagp, 2024, FR
Mobility Grant, Ville de Rouen, 2024, FR
Visual Arts Grant, Ville de Rouen, 2024, FR
AIC, Drac Normandy, 2023, FR
REVIEWS & PRESS
The Office Of Hydrocommons, 2024
By Eleni Riga x ATOPOS cvc, various authors, Athens
Archivalia Vol. I, In Ruins, 2023
Mutant Ruins and Flows, by Clelia Coussonnet.
Illustrated book, various authors
Artpress n°504, 2022
Introducing Camille Pradon, by Camille Prunet
Artaïs, 2022
Camille Pradon - Dans le mouvement des images, Marie Gayet, Read online (Fr)
Curtain Magazine x Art Curator Grid, 2022
Camille Pradon, an Emerging Curatorial Practice: Between Paris and Tunis, Art Making, Writing, Curation, Films Selection, and Bathing in the Depth of Images,
Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva, Read online (En)
Point Contemporain, 2021
En direct des expositions: Camille Pradon "Metaphora, prélude", by Claire Luna, Read online (Fr)
French Cultural Institute Tunisia, 2020
Mais que cherchent-elles, nos âmes? by Marianne Catzaras, Read online (Fr)
Slash/Paris, 2019
Les promesses de la matière, by Lisa Eymet,
Images en devenirs, 2019, by Marie Gayet, Read online (Fr)
Eyes on Iran
Screening and meeting with Director Sanaz Azari
In partnership with Centre social du Babet
Cinémathèque of St-Étienne, May 15th 2023
Carte Blanche to the Gabes Cinema Fen Festival Faces of the new Tunisian Cinema & international
In partnership with La boîte, un lieu d’art contemporain
By Camille Pradon, after the festival's programming.
Cinémathèque of St-Étienne
— March 28th 2023
— October 12nd 2021
— May 13rd-16th 2019 (online)
Comme si la pluie nous avait plu
Solo show of Adrien Chevrot
Point Commun, espace d'art contemporain Annecy
December 5th 2020 - March 27th 2021
PUBLICATIONS
Marcel Dinahet, 4 artworks
Plongeon de haut vol, Les radiophares, Le Ferrie, Autre part.
FRAC Occitanie - Montpellier, Dec. 2022
Read online (Fr)
Olivier Adeline, Where Painting Starts
Point Contemporain, May 2022
Conversation Vol. IV with Marcel Dinahet
« Returning to a place which had already been apprehended » in Chemins de la création: Arts et Territoires. Multi-authored book, La Muette, Oct. 2021
Order (Fr) / Read online (Fr)
Almanach des Ides de Mars
Multi-authored, non-commercial edition, 1500 copies, June 2021. By Chedly Atallah, Léandre Bernad-Brunel, Marion Moskowitz, Sophie Pugnet and Emmanuel Saulnier. Non commercial edition, 1500 copies.
June 2021
Adrien Chevrot, Comme si la pluie nous avait plu
Point Contemporain, Dec. 2020
Suni Prisco, Performing Magical Gesture
Interview with the artist by Camille Pradon
Point Contemporain, Feb. 2020
Suni Prisco, Moths
Crous Gallery, Paris, Feb. 2020
Read online (Fr)
Architecture as a Political Ghost
fig. Independent and architectural critic Magazine, n°5 OXYMORE, June
Available at bookstores
Conversation Vol. III with Ismaïl Bahri « Ils m’ont montré ce que je n’avais pas su voir... »
Jeu de Paume Magazine, June 2017
Read online (Fr)
Conversation Vol. I & II with Sanaz Azari & Marie Voignier
Master Thesis, Esadse, 25 copies. Feb. 2015
• Vol. I, Sanaz Azari, « J’ai arrêté le cours de ce que je faisais pour en faire un film, on peut donc dire que c’est un peu le cinéma qui prend le dessus sur la réalité »
• Vol. II, Marie Voignier, « Je me penche sur des situations porteuses d’éléments de fiction en tant qu’éléments du cinéma. »
SOLO SHOWS
ANDAR SEMI SEMI, Maison des arts Agnès Varda, Grand Quevilly, FR
Sept. 13rd - Dec. 20th 2025
Proposed by Marie-Laure Lapeyrère, cur: Pierre Duval
Ͱ HÊTA, Auberge de France à Rhodes, GR
June 28th - July 18th 2025
cur: Eleni Riga
SOL ABSOLU, lilia ben salah Gallery, Paris, June 1st - Sept. 16th 2023, FR
METAPHORA, PRÉLUDE, Petite Galerie - Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
April 2021, cur: C. Luna
CORPS PREMIERS, Ateliers du grand large, Décines, June-July 2019, FR
LIGNE DE FUITE, Ateliers du grand large, Décines, Feb.-March 2018, FR
GROUP SHOWS · FESTIVALS · PUBLIC SCREENINGS
2026
2025 — Lire le ciel - Under the stars in the Mediterrannean
Curators: Juliette Bessette & Enguerrand Lascols
Mucem, Marseille, July 9th 2025 - January 5th 2026, FR
2024 — Ecofeminisms Today: Promiscuous Entanglements
Cur: Eleni Riga
Callirhoë Gallery, Athens, Oct.-Nov. 2024, GR
2024 — Abu Dhabi Art · lilia ben salah
November, 2024, ARE
2024 — De Visu
Le Portique - Art Center, Le Havre, Oct.-Dec. 2024, FR
2023 — Scientifica
Le Cube, Aix-en-Provence, juin 2023, FR
2023 — Art Paris · lilia ben salah
March 30-April 2, 2023 Paris, FR
2022 — Positions and Point of view
With Farah Khelil, Amel Bennys, Malaika Temba, Inji Effaltoun, Zoulikha Bouabdellah and Baya Mahieddine, lilia ben salah Gallery, Paris, FR
2022 — Retards, délais, décalages et rendez-vous ratés,
y compris avec soi-même
Cur: Vanessa Morisset, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, FR
2021 — The Hermeneutics of Resonnances
Cur: Alessandra Carosi, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
2021 — L'Étreinte
Fondation Tunisie pour le développement x Archivart, Tunis
Curators: Dorrine Nasri & Wafa Gabsi, TN
2021 — There But Also Against
Cur: Agnese Čemme, with Christine Herzer, Stephanie Joyce, Constanze Flamme, Ag Gallery, Riga, LVA
2021 — Le Court en dit long Festival
Cur: Sophie Pécourt, Wallonie Bruxelles Centre x Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
2021 — To Exhibit in Case of Emergency, Cur: Andy Ranquin, Paris, FR
2021 — Screening, Cur: Andy Ranquin, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
2020 — Un pas vers l'après, Cur: Férielle Zouari, B7L9 Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, TN
2020 — Visual Messages, Kunstmatrix, International Visual Literacy Association, (IVLA), NY, USA
2020 — Visual Utopias, Elbirou Gallery, Sousse, Tunisia, TN
2020 — 10 Years of Finis Terræ, with Ismaïl Bahri, Etienne Bossut, Gregory Buchert, John Cornu, Paul Devautour, Marcel Dinahet, Nicolas Floc’h, Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Élie Godard, Camille Goujon, Ron Haselden, Kapwani Kiwanga, Loreto Martinez Troncoso, Camille Pradon Enrique Ramírez, Éléonore Saintagnan, Thorsten Streichardt, Laurent Tixador, Capucine Vever, Sébastien Vonier, Ulla von Brandenburg, Leïla Rose Willis...
Finis Terræ, Island Art Centre, Ouessant, FR
2020 — Parenthèses, Les Limbes Gallery, St-Étienne, FR
2020 — MUR ! MUR ? Radio Mojo, Bruxelles, BE
2019 — Bleak Friday, Cur: Zara Burton, Manchester Museum of Natural History, UK
2019 — All Come From Dust - من طين / Sans sommeil, National School of Architecture, ENAU المدرسة الوطنيّة للهندسة المعماريّة والتعمير, Sidi Bou Saïd, TN
2019 — Paysages Manufacturés, Curators: Margaux Auria and Joris Thomas.
Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, resonance. Aqueduc, Dardilly, FR
2019 — Les promesses de la matière, Cur: Lisa Eymet.
With Bianca Bondi, Claudio Coltorti, Alexandre Korzeniovski, Mountaincutters, Camille Pradon, Suni Prisco, Anna Tomazewski, Villa Belleville, Paris, FR
2019 — El Kazma w Lahwez - Gabes Cinema Fen Festival, Cur: Amal Ben Attaia. With Younes Ben Slimane, Ali Cherri, Sofiane El Fani, Fakhri El Ghezal, Nissene Kossentini, Amine Koudhaï, Amine Messadi, Camille Pradon, Zineb Sedira, Gabes, TN
2019 — Traverse Vidéo Festival 22nd Edition, Carmélites Chapel & FRAC Occitanie - Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR
2018 — Semaine asymétrique, 14th edition, Polygone Étoilé, Marseille, FR
2018 — 23 A/D, with Annabel Bonnard, François Bauchet, Anja Clerc, Christophe Marx, Éric Jourdan, RanDom Lab... Flux Libre Contemporary Art space, St-Just St-Rambert, FR
2018 — What We Do In The Shadows, with Léa Bouttier, Sarah Del Pino, Mélissa Mariller, Camille Pradon, Ateliers du Grand Large, Décines, FR
2017 — Semaine asymétrique, 13th edition, Polygone Étoilé, Marseille, FR
2016 — Neu Now Festival, online + Wersteirgasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL
2016 — 45°NORD 4°EST, with Benjamin Laurent Aman, Capucine Vanderbrouck, Camille Pradon, Romain Vicari, Marta Caradec, Olivier Adeline..
Ceysson-Bénétière Gallery, St-Étienne, FR
2016 — We Can Be Heroes, Graineterie & Cité du Design, St-Étienne, FR
2015 — (é)mergences, Lux Nationale Scene, Valence, FR
2015 — Cession, with Ismaïl Bahri, Frank Chalendard, Rémy Jacquier, Camille Saint-Jacques, Yann Sérandour… Ceysson-Bénétière Gallery, St-Étienne, FR
2015 — Méridiens, Marc Charpin Auditorium, Esadse St-Étienne in partnership with Massenet Conservatoire, FR
2014 — Rundgang’14, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, IT
2013 — Helix Aspersa Maxima, With Simon Collet, Chloé Drouet, Camille Pradon, International Design Biennale 9th edition, St-Étienne, FR
STAGE DESIGN & SCENOGRAPHY
2022 Oceanic Feeling
Scenography and lighting of the concert Oceanic Feeling by Koki Nakano and the dance performance of Marion Motin
Days Off Festival, July 6th and 7th, Paris Philharmony
In collaboration with Vincent Lallement (Philharmony)
2022 Vagàlam’
Co-scenographer of the exhibition, with artworks from by œuvres from the Departemental Collection of Contemporary Art of Seine-St-Denis. Cur: C. Luna. Louise Michel High School, May
SYMPOSIUMS & TALKS
MATIN TransitionS Seminar: Meeting with Artist Camille Pradon
Laboratory of Economics and Sociology of Work (LEST)
Aix-Marseille University – CNRS, Online, 15 May 2025
A Blue History of Arts: Artistic practice, Biodiversity and Marine Environment · International Symposium
Mucem & Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille, 23-24 May 2024
Seminar: Arts in the Mediterranean · Blue Humanities, meeting Artist Camille Pradon & Curator Clelia Coussonnet
Upon the invitation of Art Historian Juliette Bessette
Mucem, Marseille, 27 March 2024
« Sol absolu Ͱ », thread of an Artistic displacement: Conversation between Camille Pradon & Eleni Riga, Institut français Greece, Athens, 2023
2022 Meeting with curator Claire Luna and artists Chedly Atallah & Camille Pradon, Paris 8 Vincennes University, St-Denis, an invitation by curator Marion Zilio, Feb. 11th
2020 ID’BA! Metaphora Blue To Which We Belong, Meeting Camille Pradon. Screening and debate with Marianne Catzaras, followed by a reading of Mira Hamdi. French Cultural Institute of Tunisia, Sept. 14th
2016 Dreamed Archives, Painter Memory: The In-Betweens of Jeremy Liron. About the Disaster Archives. By Camille Pradon
St-Etienne Higher School of Art & Design, April 7th
2015 What Remains of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Thoughts?
By Camille Pradon and Philippe Roux, guest: François Dosse (biographer). Forces Motrices, St-Etienne, Nov. 19th