Podcast: Les formes de l’art

The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco brings together artists, curators, gallery owners and collectors to talk about cultural life on the Riviera. The guests share their point of view on creation, open the doors of their studios and debate the issues that occupy them. Together, they explore art in all its forms.

Episode 14: Lidwine Prolonge and the white parrot

On the occasion of the interpretation of her performance “Suivre le perroquet blanc, récits et autres tours” (Following the white parrot, stories and other tricks) performed on Monaco’s little train (Monaco Tours) and acquired by the NMNM, Lidwine Prolonge and Benjamin Laugier discuss the artist’s practice as author and performer.

Episode 13 : “Cantique des oiseaux” by Katia Kameli

On the occasion of the “AGORA, la place du musée” exhibition, held at the Villa Sauber from January 23 to May 4, 2025, the NMNM is showcasing the acquisitions made as part of the “Apprentice Collectors” program. The latest is a significant ensemble from the “Song of Birds” series reinterpreted by artist and filmmaker Katia Kameli, comprising musical ceramics, watercolors and videos. Katia Kameli and Benjamin Laugier, public relations manager and curator of the exhibition, talk about the French-Algerian artist’s many projects.

Episode 12: Mapping the artist’s brain – Marc-Olivier Wahler

On the occasion of the symposium “Des œuvres qui en contiennent d’autres” at the Pavillon Bosio, Thierry Leviez, Director of the École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques of Monaco, and Benjamin Laugier, Head of Public Relations at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, talk to Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva.

Episode 11 : At the origins of art, discussion with Francisco Tropa

Célia Bernasconi welcomes artist Francisco Tropa, on the occasion of his exhibition entitled “Paésine”.
From drawing to silkscreen and bronze sculpture, Tropa looks in detail at the different processes involved in constructing an image.
Starting with technique, he develops an analogical view of artistic creation as archaeological research.

Episode 10 : Miquel Barceló, the painter-explorer

With Björn Dahlström, director of the NMNM and curator of the “Miquel Barceló, Oceanographer” exhibition, the Mallorcan artist talks about the importance of the sea in his life and work, his explorations and his commitment to the environment.

Episode 9 : Pasolini in the spotlight

Guillaume de Sardes welcomes Regina Demina and Charles de Meaux to talk about the work of the Italian writer-filmmaker and the videos he invited them to make for the exhibition “Pasolini in Chiarocsuro”, which he is curating.

Episode 8 : Arte Povera, founders and successors

Guillaume de Sardes welcomes Andrea Viliani, art historian and curator, to talk about the birth of the Arte Povera movement and its influence on contemporary art.

Episode 7 : Pier Paolo Calzolari and Arte Povera

Guillaume de Sardes welcomes Didier Semin, art historian and former curator at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris and the Centre Pompidou, to shed light on the poetic and hermetic work of Pier Paolo Calzolari, a major artist of the Arte Povera movement.

Episode 6 : Ecoletopie. L’Art d’apprendre

Benjamin Laugier, head of publics at the NMNM, and Stéphanie Marin, designer and founder of smarin studio, discuss the “Ecoletopie” project. An educational experiment conducted between September 2023 and February 2024 in a classroom at the Ecole Saint-Charles.

Episode 5 : Cocteau, Picasso and the Riviera

Guillaume de Sardes welcomes writer and essayist Claude Arnaud to evoke a mythical artistic friendship that began in Paris in the shadow of the Ballets Russes and continued under the sun of the Riviera, a tumultuous friendship between two great 20th-century creators, Cocteau and Picasso.

Episode 4 : Vampires, from Bram Stoker to Andy Warhol

Guillaume de Sardes welcomes Matthieu Orléan, curator at the Cinémathèque française, to talk about those peculiar humanoids who haunt cinemas and our imaginations even more than museum walls: vampires.

Episode 3 : Mauro Restiffe : interview about the villa Santo Sospir and Cocteau

Célia Bernasconi, chief curator at the NMNM, talks to Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe. Based on the Santo Sospir series shot by Restiffe in 2018 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the artist and curator discuss the genesis and process of the “Santo Sospir, Mauro Restiffe – Jean Cocteau” exhibition, and address the notion of the exhibition as an art form.

Episode 2: Back to painting and scenography

Guillaume de Sardes interviews Thierry Leviez, Director of Pavillon Bosio, Ecole Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Monaco. Using the example of American painter George Condo, they examine the current movement back to figurative painting and discuss the question of exhibition scenography.

Episode 1: George Condo’s Humanoids

Guillaume de Sardes welcomes art historian and curator Didier Ottinger to analyze George Condo’s “Humanoids” exhibition. Together, they discuss its main themes and situate the American artist in his own time and in that of art history.