On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the CRP/ in 2022, the art center has launched a commission for four professional photographers. Echoing the 10-year anniversary of the inclusion of the Mining Basin on the UNESCO World Heritage List, these winning projects have a common theme of all having a link with this emblematic territory of the region.

The CRP/ presents a new exhibition by Anna Malagrida, a major figure in French photography of Spanish origin. Through a series of video and photographic pieces, the artist deploys a resolutely visual work based on observation. In large format, Anna Malagrida understands the world by systematically returning it to its primitive character: a metaphorical dawn, ancestral rituals or the sound of the sun.

The CRP/ is organizing a partial revival of the exhibition on Jean-Marie Donat’s vernacular photography collection originally produced and presented by Centquatre-Paris from December 11, 2021 to February 27, 2022.

The exhibition Tout doit disparaître (Everything must disappear) paints a portrait of a society forged in the “miracle” of consumption, through an exceptional collection, the result of more than three decades of meticulous research.

In forty years, the CRP/ has become an essential place, a reference for contemporary photography in France and internationally. For its 40th anniversary, the art center offers you a unique journey through its collections thanks to a large multi-site exhibition organized with fifteen partner locations throughout the Hauts-de-France. Enjoy a varied and accessible cultural program punctuated with highlights: meeting with artists, special visit, practical workshop, course, portfolio reading, etc. Everyone can experience the CRP/ event everywhere in the region!

Photographic installation, accompanied by a soundtrack to listen

Project realized as part of UTOPIA, 6th edition of the cultural season lille3000 in the region Hauts-de-France and of the thematic proposal made by the committee of the territorial experts of the photography in the region Hauts-de-France: the CRP/ Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France (Douchy-les-Mines), the Institut pour la photographie (Lille), Destin sensible (Mons-en-Barœul), the Château Coquelle (Dunkerque).

The CRP/ is devoting a group exhibition to four emerging Chinese artists, the result of a curatorial dialogue between Ruohao Hu, a young Chinese curator and Audrey Hoareau.

Prolific, turbulent, the new photographic scene has been developing inordinately over the past few years in the Middle Kingdom. What subjects animate this generation of artists, all of whom are confronted or stimulated by the power and history of such a complex nation? Sino-American relations, evocation of the cultural revolution, security themes or gender issues, the four artists presented here have in common to address sensitive, current but delicate subjects.

Camille Lévêque draws from her Armenian roots to build layered work in which archive images enter into dialogue with her own photographs. Created either here or there, they explore the artist’s personal and complex relationship with Armenia. The fantasy fed by family stories is confronted with reality to raise discussions that go beyond the nucleus of the Armenian diaspora.

Respectively a semiotician and graphic designer by training, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain have been working together since 1996. Fascinated by what is beyond human beings and their understanding of the world around them, the artists conduct scientific, mathematical and literary research from which they draw systems for representing and writing time, space, memory and the infinite.

The CRP/ is dedicating a solo exhibition to video artist Clio Simon. Invited as an associate artist in 2019, Clio Simon was supported by the art centre in conducting new research that took the former mining area as its point of departure, and in producing a new film presented to audiences for the first time.

The CRP/ presents a preview of works by five of the fifteen artists awarded the national photographic commission Flux, une société en mouvement, launched in 2018 by Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques) in partnership with the Ministry of Culture.

Ilanit Illouz presents a series of photographs and works on paper from the Les dolines series produced between 2016 and 2020. A visual artist and photographer, Ilanit Illouz scours regions whose memory she recreates by collecting mineral and organic traces, that she photographs and reinvents in the studio treating the image with original processes. Her research inspires an artistic project which alerts us to the fact that natural resources are being depleted by human activities.

Isabelle Le Minh, who obtained a degree in engineering before attending the National School of Photography in Arles, has from her earliest works placed the history of photography at the heart of her artistic practice: she revisits historic processes and emblematic figures and questions the technical and theoretical evolution of the medium. Her various approaches – distortion of meaning, tautology, pseudo appropriation – testify to her erudition as well as her humor.

The CRP/ guests the Brazilian artistic collective BijaRi to lead a participative and collaborative project with the inhabitants of the city of Douchy-les-mines, taking an interest in the urban dynamic, the conditions of mobility and the traffic between different parts of the city.

Guest curator : Béatrice Andrieux.

Artiste : Robert Bourdeau, Frédéric Cornu, Aris Georgiou, Marc Gibert, Anthony Haughey, Christian Meynen, Louise Oligny, Mary-Ann Parkinson, Philippe Timmerman.

For its summer exhibition dedicated to its collection, the CRP/ is inviting curator Beatrice Andrieux to come and explore the richness of the works that the art center has been conserving for over 30 years. She chose to focus on the unpublished works, produced by the CRP / but never exhibited at the art center.

With Claire Chevrier, Dityvon, Jean-Louis Garnell, Bruce Gilden, Jean Marquis and Cédric Martigny

Curators : Coline Tabouret, Julie Davasse, Justine Faure, Maëlle Sinou, Clotilde Vilain for l’Art de Muser.

Organized in partnership with l’Art de Muser, association du Master Expographie-Muséographie of the University d’Artois, Arras.

Enchaînements is supported by the DRAC Hauts-de-France and take place in the Delta device

For his first solo exhibition in France, the artist wished to create an in situ installation at the CRP/, Money Decades. He is also presenting the series of photo-sculptures The Therapy of groups, as well as drawings he has selected to show alongside a set of photographs from the CRP/ collection.

The CRP/ is dedicating a solo exhibition to Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov, an international figure in contemporary photography. In order to echo the region’s industrial history, he has chosen to present two series at the CRP/ gallery: Promzona, produced for the 2012 Kiev Biennale and now being shown in France for the first time, and Salt Lake, created in 1986.

Katia Kameli’s solo exhibtion À l’ombre de l’étoile et du croissant looks at the contribution that images have made to history, at their political and cultural power, by exploring Algerian national history and it relation to France.

For its summer exhibition, the CRP/ is teaming up with Contretype, the contemporary photography center in Brussels, to co-construct a project based on their respective collections, born of the production and residency activity of these two organizations.

Clarisse Hahn’s solo exhibition Nature, Jungle, Paradis presents new works alongside older series that constituted the foundations of her research, as well as vernacular images from the CRP/ archives. It offers a plunge into the multifarious and challenging oeuvre of this artist whose works include video, film, photography and installation.

“Resilient Images” exhibition features new works by David Schalliol and Justine Pluvinage created during international residency exchange

The solo exhibition that the CRP/ is dedicating to artist Jean Luc Tartarin offers visitors the chance to plunge into the richness of images through a selection of photographs from the series Entre(s) 2013 and Arbres 1983-1989.

The CRP/ and the Hyde Park Art Center are pleased to present Resilient Images, an exhibition of photographic works and videos by Justine Pluvinage and David Schalliol, winners of the 2016 international residency program of the same name run by these two art centers in Hauts-de-France and Chicago.

An exhibition of books and photographs.

For its summer exhibition dedicated to its collection, the CRP/ is inviting critic and curator Thibaut de Ruyter to come and explore the richness of the works that the art center has been conserving for over 30 years. He will create an exhibition revolving around the publications and photography books conserved in the archives of the CRP/, connecting them with a selection of works by invited artists.

The CRP/ presents Un chien sur la route, au passage du promeneur, a solo exhibition by artist Marie José Burki, opening March 11, 2017. The exhibition juxtaposes two sets of photographs produced in 2012 and 2016 respectively: AOS and Untitled, with other images including selections from the 2016 series Ici et là, and the video installation Un chien sur la route, 2017, which lends its name to the exhibition coproduced by the CRP/.

An exhibition of books and photographs.

For its summer exhibition dedicated to its collection, the CRP/ is inviting critic and curator Thibaut de Ruyter to come and explore the richness of the works that the art center has been conserving for over 30 years. He will create an exhibition revolving around the publications and photography books conserved in the archives of the CRP/, connecting them with a selection of works by invited artists.

Ângela Ferreira examines the social and political history of territories through the prism of art and architecture. In her works, she mainly explores Europe’s complex relations with the African continent, making use of stories and references from modernist architecture, its displacement and its adaptation in Africa.

Through a selection of photographs from the CRP/’s collection, “Manifestations” endeavours to explore the semantic field of manifestation and its different occurrences that closely combine social and aesthetic forms of revelation.

For her solo exhibition at the CRP/, Evangelia Kranioti presented two series of photographs from the projects Mediterranea and Erotica, exotica, Etc. Two videos are also being presented in the second gallery, taken from the project Erotica, Exotica, Etc., which is also a feature-length film released in 2015.

Following Ribalta’s series Sierra Minera—created in 2010 in Murcia, Spain, exploring the La Unión mining region, which has been remade into a centre of flamenco culture—the Renaissance project takes the form of a tour of the industrial monuments of Nord – Pas-de-Calais. This project is based on photographic observation of a number of sites in the region,
making up significant documentation of the “renaissance” of these industrial landscapes, which are becoming monuments, museums or theme parks.

Since the late 1990s, Éric Nehr has been developing photographic research on the portrait, exploring the notions of alterity and beauty in society.
For this, he chooses male and female models presenting physical particularities, and takes head-and-shoulder photographs of them against coloured backgrounds. He reveals them in their singularity through precise work on light and colour, leading us to take a different view of his models.