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11/3/2015

Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2015

Different venues, Saint-Etienne

From 12 March to 12 April 2015, SaintÉtienne will be the world capital of design! The Cité du design is organising its 9th International Biennial devoted to prospective and innovative design. In 2013, over 140,000 visitors came to the Biennial. The Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2015 will be offering, over a one-month period, over sixty exhibitions and events (symposia, talks, forums, round tables.

The IN programme includes the exhibitions at the Cité du design and the Manufacture site, those at venues across the Saint-Etienne area (Amicale Laïque Chapelon, La Serre, Bourse du Travail, Office du Tourisme) and all the city’s major museums (Musée de la Mine, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie and the Le Corbusier – Saint-Pierre church site at Firminy and the Plateau – Hôtel de region Rhône-Alpes in Lyon) An OFF programme will also running in SaintÉtienne and its region, accompanied by outreach events in the Pôle Métropolitain in Lyon, Vienne and L’Isle d’Abeau (Grand Lyon, ViennAgglo and CAPI).

Elsa Francès and Benjamin Loyauté, general curators of the 2015 Biennial, have chosen as their theme The Experiences of Beauty, which aims to examine the importance of the forms of beauty and the meanings they give to functions, usages and the quality of life. What values are conveyed by the aesthetic? With what intentions? And what do they insinuate about the state of the world? At a time when industrial production is ever more globalised, how can the individual’s need for his own unique identity be reconciled with the signs produced by design?

The challenge of this Biennial is to show that other routes are possible, not only the monotonous and repetitive ones produced by globalisation: the ambition of the nineteen curators and exhibition designers will be to demonstrate and share what the aesthetic aspect of design can offer. The Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial 2015, which expects to receive all kinds of audiences (designers, companies, students, schoolchildren, the general public), will therefore be showing objects, services, equipment and environments that offer an experience for the senses. The dynamic role played by design in the economy will also be at the heart of the Biennial, with the organisation of the second edition of a forum dedicated to innovation and a space known as Les Labos (The Labs), where companies will be able to have visitors try out their prototypes and innovative products.

Finally, Benjamin Loyauté and Elsa Francès have been keen to give this 9th edition a resolutely international dimension and have called upon some great names in design such as curators Christophe Bailleux, Sam Baron, Frédérique Bompuis, Lise Coirier, Kim Colin, Rodolphe Dogniaux, Gaëlle Gabillet, Sam Hecht, Bart Hess, Alexandra Jaffré, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Oscar Lhermitte, Giovanna Massoni, Marc Monjou, Jean-Luc Moulène, Florence Ostende, Dennis Parren, Eric Petrotto, Kyung Ran CHOI, Tim Simpson, Yuri Suzuki, Dieter Van Den Storm, Sarah Van Gameren, Ionna Vautrin, Samuel Vermeil and Stéphane Villard. Saint-Étienne is one of only thre European cities, with Berlin and Graz, to be a member of the UNESCO Cities of Design network, which consists of eleven world cities.

Seoul, guest of honour and member of the UNESCO Cities of Design network, will be presenting its talents under the curatorship of Kyang Ran CHOI and the exhibition of the sculptor Lee Bul info the Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole. Forward-looking, cultural, innovative, high tech, international, this 9th edition has some real surprises in store thanks to a large number of exclusive special productions. The Biennial is an event produced by the Cité du design, supported by the Ville de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne Métropole, the Région Rhône-Alpes and the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.

Presse nationale et internationale
Agence 14 Septembre Grand Sud t. +33 (0)4 78693095
Isabelle Crémoux-Mirgalet isabellecremoux@14septembre.fr m. +33 (0)6 11647368
Julien Mansanet julienmansanet@14septembre.fr m. + 33 (0)6 17984327
Aude Charié audecharie@mlapresse.fr m. +33 (0)6 11350974
Charles Camicas charlescamicas@14septembre.fr m. +33 (0)6 08757424

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain
Musée d'art et industrie
Musée de la Mine
Site Le Corbusier - Firminy
Saint-Étienne Tourisme

open to visitors every day from 10am to 7pm. Late opening every Friday until 9pm.
The Pass Biennale:
€12, full rate
€8, reduced rate

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