The Fondation Antoine de Galbert and the Cité internationale des arts announce the laureate of the first edition of the residency program created in honor of collector Jean Chatelus (1939-2021).

The Fondation Antoine de Galbert and the Cité internationale des arts have partnered to co-construct an original residency program.

The Fondation Antoine de Galbert has inherited Jean Chatelus’s exceptional collection: over 400 works of contemporary art, both early and popular, assembled by the collector over some fifty years with great freedom of vision. This astonishing collection has been donated by the Fondation to the Centre Pompidou, which will exhibit it from March 26 to June 30, 2025.

To complete this tribute, a invited artist – selected jointly by the Fondation Antoine de Galbert and the Cité internationale des arts and whose work resonates with the spirit of the Jean Chatelus collection – will benefit each year, for a period of one year, from personalized support, a 65 m² studio on the Marais site of the Cité internationale des arts, a living grant of 2,000 euros per month and production support.

The invited artist for the first edition is Argentinian Diego Bianchi, who arrives in residence on November 6, 2024.

Diego Bianchi was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is represented by Galerie Jocelyn Woff in Paris.

Diego Bianchi’s work is composed of visually transgressive materials, bringing together discarded objects such as chairs, pipes, electronic devices and casts of body parts.

His practice includes sculptures, installations, video art, photographs and performance elements, which examine aesthetic norms as well as socio-political subjects. The artist focuses on the formal and often chaotic traces of consumerism, in particular the fallout from neoliberal economic damage. One of the dominant themes in Bianchi’s work is the use of the human body as an artistic and constructive element. He proposes an apotheosis of everyday situations, as the derailment of human excess and the anarchic order it produces. Among other grants and awards, he received the Concurso de artes Visuales – Fondo national de las Artes Premio Azcuy, Museum de Arte Moderno in 2019. Recent exhibitions include Syntactic Tactic, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 2022; Bienal de Performance 2021 (B.P.21), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021; Sauvetage Sauvage, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville, France, 2020; The Stomach and the Port, 11th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, 2020; BIENALSUR Córdoba, Argentina, 2019.

Diego Bianchi had participated in the My Buenos Aires exhibition at La maison rouge in 2015.