Past conferences
ROUND TABLE
Three perspectives on the issues facing the Amazon rainforest, with Rodrigo Braga and Marcella Marer
Wednesday, June 25 2025
On the occasion of the exhibition “The Cry for the Planet – Tribute to Frans Krajcberg, Part II: AIR AND FIRE,” we are pleased to welcome Marcella Legrand Marer, exhibition curator and researcher specializing in Latin American photography, and Rodrigo Braga, Brazilian visual artist whose work explores the relationship between humans and nature, for a dialogue with us.
A cross-discussion bringing together three perspectives—those of artists and a researcher—on the representations of the Amazon rainforest, its ecological and political issues, and the roles of imagery in this context.
Organized as part of the France-Brazil Season 2025 and the exhibition The Cry for the Planet.
ENCOUNTER
with the artist Daniela Busarello and
the specialist in colour Sumikò Oé-Gottini
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
“Let’s explore with the artist Daniela Busarello and curator Sumiko Oé-Gottini how contemporary art engages the senses to create an immersive experience. Following in the footsteps of Frans Krajcberg, we will study how the sensitive in contemporary art is regaining a place that he, a visionary artist, has always honored in his work. Particular attention will be paid to the use of natural pigments and color, as phenomena that are both physical and ephemeral, blurring the boundaries between the tactile and the immaterial, the visible and the lived.”
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ENCOUNTER
The Challenge of the Amazon Rainforest as seen by Txai Suruí and Thiago Karai Djekupe Guarani
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Une rencontre avec Txai Suruí et Thiago Karai Djekupe Guarani, suivie par un moment d’échange avec Yuwey Henri, penseuse, poètesse et militante, et Keywa Henri, artiste, chercheuse et commissaire, toutes deux issues du peuple Kali’na Tɨlewuyu de Guyane française, afin de mettre en perspective la situation des peuples autochtones des deux côtés de la frontière amazonienne.
Organisée en partenariat avec l'association Aquaverde.
Dans le cadre de la Saison Brésil-France 2025 et l'exposition Le Cri pour la Planète.
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PERFORMANCE
Musicalopithèque, un concert de Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
mercredi 26 février 2025
Jean-Jacques Lemêtre, artist and musician at the Théâtre du Soleil, presents his new musical performance: Musicalopithèque. A one-and-a-half-hour performance, alongside luthier Marcel Ladurelle. Jean-Jacques Lemêtre crafts his instruments from natural materials, thus extending the artistic approach of Frans Krajcberg, for whom the elements of nature are both sources of inspiration and voices of resistance.
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CONFERENCE
La notion d'image chez les Huni Kuin
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Pour la fin de l’exposition « YUXI NUKUKUNAI, O Encontro de Almas (les Rencontres d’Âmes) » l’anthropologue Patrick Deshayes donnera une conférence sur la notion d’image chez les Huni Kuin, peuple brésilien autochtone d’où sont issus les MAHKU (Movimento Artistico Huni Kuin). Patrick Deshayes a vécu de nombreuses années auprès des Huni Kuin. En tant que réalisateur et « faiseur d’image », il montrera aussi des extraits de son documentaire Nawa Huni.
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ENCOUNTER
Feminists, Indigenous, Activists: Art to Heal
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Focusing on the transmission of an ancestral heritage and its emancipation, the affirmation of an art that heals and repairs, the Espace Frans Krajcberg hosts a meeting with the three artists and activists Kassia Borges Mytara, Rita Huni Kuin and Celeste Fabiola Mayorga Urbina.
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Click here (Kassia Borges Mytara)
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ENCOUNTER-DEBATE
Release of Eliane Brum's book,
Banzeriro Òkòtó, Amazon, the center of the world in France
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Writer, journalist, documentalist, and environmental and feminist activist born in 1966, Eliane Brum is the most awarded reporter in Brazilian history. Co-founder of the journalist collective "Sumaúma," a platform on ecology in the Amazon.
Between an intimate story and a journalistic investigation, a cry of alarm and a striking assessment of the ecological catastrophe at work in the Amazon.
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CONFERENCE
Fondation Cartier x MAHKU
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
A look back at the history and mission of the MAHKU (movimento dos artistes Huni Kuin) with Ibã Sales Huni Kuin and Leane Sacramone from the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.
INTERVIEW
Inner Ecology with Marie Gueydon De Dives
and Victoire Théismann
Thursday, July 26, 2024
As part of the exhibition Looking at the Invisible by
Marie Gueydon de Dives and Benoit Fournier.
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CONFERENCE
Against the clock: why save tropical rainforests
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Conference with Thomas Couvreur on the preservation of tropical rainforests,
Organized in partnership with the association
Green Sanctuaries .
ROUND TABLE
Towards contemporary indigenous feminisms?
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
With Kássia Borges, (Brazil), Yuwey and Keywa Henri (French Guiana), indigenous artists and activists.
At AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions).
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CONFERENCE
Frans Krajcberg in Bagatelle, 2005 - 2025
Wednesday, April 17, 2023
Speakers: Sylvie Depondt, Jean Gautier, and Claude Mollard
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CONFERENCE
with Livia Melzi, Emilio Azevedo, Laila Melchior
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Discussion and discussion on the work of the two artists and the themes raised by the exhibition L'Ordre des Choses at the Espace Frans Krajcberg.
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CONFERENCE
The Anthropocene to Anthropomorphism, the Place of Frans Krajcberg and the Trace of Humanity in Contemporary Art
Wednesday, January 17
In collaboration with the JJ Rousseau International association, the Espace Frans Krajcberg welcomes Claude Mollard as part of his exhibition Le cri de la terre for a conference on "the Anthropocene to anthropomorphism, the place of Frans Krajcberg and the trace of the human in contemporary art".
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BOOK SIGNING-CONFERENCE
Thinking about the forest with Gilles van Peteghem
and Daniel Perron
Wednesday, November 25, 2023
Signing meeting around the book “Thinking forest, Acting against the Anthropocene” with Gilles Van Peteghem, forestry engineer, head of the Organizing Committee of the XXth Congress of the European Union of Foresters in 2021, and Daniel Perron.
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CONFERENCE
Pantanal, an Eden in danger with Vincent Jolly and the Yves Rocher Foundation
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
As part of the temporary exhibition: Return from mission: Pantanal in danger and the photographic campaign entitled "In the name of biodiversity" by the Yves-Rocher Foundation, the Espace Frans Krajcberg welcomes Vincent Jolly.
Over the past ten years, Brent Stirton and Vincent Jolly have collaborated on some twenty reports, primarily focusing on environmental conservation issues. While many journalists and photographers choose to work separately, they choose to be together in the field. Driven by the conviction that an image—even a spectacular one—only gains value with context and a caption, they strive to produce a coherent and comprehensive ensemble of text and photos.
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ENCOUNTER
Human Permaculture with Perrine Bulgheroni, Serge Orru and Séverine Assouline
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
A meeting organized as an extension of the conference Indigenous Peoples and Nature: An Inspiring Example of Environmental Preservation , which took place on March 3, 2021 at Espace Frans Krajcberg (with guests Charles Hervé-Gruyer, from the Ferme Biologique du Bec-Hellouin and Fiore Longo, advocacy officer at Survival International France). The objective is to highlight this mode of practices inspired by indigenous communities, essential for preserving our ecosystems... and the future of humanity!
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ENCOUNTER
with Daiara Tukano (BR) and Clarisse da Silva (FR), Indigenous artists and activists
Tuesday, March 19, 2022
Artists and activists Daiara Tukano (BR) and Clarisse Da Silva (FR) will meet on Tuesday, March 19 at Espace Frans Krajcberg to discuss, together and with you, the links that exist between art, cosmopolitanisms and struggles for a more harmonious way of life.
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CONFERENCE
Les forêts françaises face au rechauffement climatique avec Gilles van Peteghem
Wednesday, March 15, 2022
A conference on the impact and challenges faced by French forests in the face of global warming presented by Gilles Van Peteghem, forestry engineer, head of the Organizing Committee of the 20th Congress of the European Union of Foresters in 2021.
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ENCOUNTER
Dreaming of the land: meetings , with Clarisse da Silva, Trudruá Dorrico, Yuwey Henri, Survival International (NGO), Eloy Terena, Neidinha Bendeira Suru, Txaì Surui, Kassia Borghes (MAHKU Collective)
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Dreaming the Earth seeks, in a collective, hybrid and plural way, to respond to the Cry for the Planet launched by Frans Krajcberg in the face of the destruction of forests.
During this first meeting-debate, we invite women, artists and activists to share their commitment to the Amazon, by comparing the perspectives of French Guiana and Brazil.
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BOOK SIGNING
Living Objects with Rahma Shazam and Brigitte Adès
Wednesday, May 25, 2023
Espace Frans Krajcberg welcomes researcher Rahma Khazam and journalist Brigitte Adès for a dialogue around the collective work Objets Vivants Editions Mimésis, published in 2023 under the direction of Rahma Khazam.
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ENCOUNTER
Brazilian Modernism: A Decolonial Look at Architecture with Ana Maria Tavares and Jacques Leenhardt
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Espace Frans Krajcberg had the pleasure of welcoming Ana Maria Tavares and Jacques Leenhardt for a lecture on Brazilian modernism and the overlooked colonial legacy, through the prism of architecture.
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CONFERENCE
Museums and contemporary art centers:
Relay of indigenous struggles?
Wednesday, March 26, 2021
For this fourth conference in our Resistance: Nature, Art and Indigenous Peoples cycle, we are pleased to welcome the Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain to discuss the role of museums and contemporary art centers as relays for indigenous struggles.
Survival International X Frans Krajcberg Space
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CONFERENCE
The 1970s–2000: Activist Art in France and Brazil
with Gilles Clément, Jacques Leenhardt, and Claude Mollard
Wedensday, February 15, 2021
What were the artistic commitments for the Planet on both sides of the Atlantic? Which “ecological” exhibitions in museums marked that era?
The 1975 exhibitions at the CNAC, the precursor to the Centre Pompidou, where Frans Krajcberg met Claude Mollard, and the 1996 exhibition “Villette-Amazone, Manifesto for the Environment in the 21st Century” (curated by Jacques Leenhardt and Bettina Laville), stand out as particularly powerful moments. These events drew huge public attention and sparked lively debates.
At La Villette, Frans Krajcberg transformed the Grande Halle with a forest of 140 “Revolts” — totems made from charred wood salvaged from deforestation. The catalogue’s manifesto boldly declares: “The 21st century will be cultural or it will not be.” Landscape designer Gilles Clément was also part of this movement. Three years later, at the same venue, he launched his Planetary Garden, “a political project of humanist ecology.”
CONCERT AND PROJECTION
Immersion into the world of the great composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959).
Wedsneday, January 25, 2022
The composer Heitor Villa-Lobos is the emblematic figure of Brazilian “musica erudita” (classical music). Through his Portuguese and Indigenous roots, his adventurous life, his deep connection to France—particularly Paris—his commitment to bringing his music to the Brazilian people and establishing it on the international stage, as well as his genius and creative power, he has left an indelible mark on 20th-century classical music.
Screening of the film Heitor Villa-Lobos, the Soul of Rio, directed by Eric Darmon and co-written by Anaïs Fléchet — Arline Films production, 2008 (52 minutes).
Followed by a debate/conference led by Anaïs Fléchet, lecturer in contemporary history at Université Paris-Saclay, alongside Eric Darmon, Violaine Dufès, artistic director of Concert Impromptu, and Yves Charpentier, founder of the ensemble.
A musical dialogue featuring the works of Frans Krajcberg invites you to a Brazilian immersion into the universe of two artists who are Parisians at heart!
CONFERENCE
Words of Trees with
Lionel Guibout, Michel Neff, and Marie-Laure Verroust-Blisten
Wednesday, July 23, 2022
A Meeting at the Heart of the Forest at the Espace Frans Krajcberg, Contemporary Art Center, Art & Nature!
A dialogue between Lionel Guibout, Michel Neff — a City of Paris officer in charge of Trees and Woods at the Bois de Vincennes — and Marie-Laure Verroust-Blisten — heritage journalist for La Demeure Historique magazine, specializing in monumental heritage and gardens, and co-author of the book La Sédelle, un arboretum dans son paysage.
CONFERENCE
Seen from the Heart with Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Following in the footsteps of Frans Krajcberg, who dedicated all his art to serving the Planet, Yann Arthus-Bertrand is an artist deeply committed to the “great struggle of the 21st century.”
His unique journey has helped raise awareness about environmental issues. For one hour, the artist will share with you his story and the reasons behind his commitment to humanity and biodiversity!
CONFERENCE
Indigenous Peoples and Nature: An Inspiring Example of Environmental Preservation
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
For this third conference in the series “Resistance, Nature, Art, and Indigenous Peoples,” we are pleased to welcome Charles Hervé-Gruyer from the Bec-Hellouin Organic Farm and Fiore Longo, advocacy officer at Survival.
As Jeremy Rifkin points out, Western societies have evolved at the cost of destroying our environment, unlike indigenous peoples who remain today the only models of human societies that live in respectful harmony with the spaces they have inhabited for centuries.
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ENCOUNTER
Vegetal thought
with Marc William Debono at Espace Frans Krajcberg
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
How can a vegetal way of thinking emerge without the awareness of its creator? The emergence of thought beyond experience, the plasticity of life, poetic writing, and tangled roots... These are pathways that touch upon sensitive intelligence and our intimate perceptions of the tree of life.
Join us on a poetic journey to explore the singular forms of intelligence in living beings, with Marc William Debono (neurobiologist and poet).
This dialogic encounter will be held with Bénédicte Letellier (Professor of Comparative Literature) and moderated by Professor Norman Cornett (Montreal, Quebec).
CONFERENCE
The voice of contemporary indigenous artists
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
For this fifth conference in our series Resistance: Nature, Art, and Indigenous Peoples, we are pleased to welcome Indigenous artists Kássia Borges and Ibã Huni Kuin. They will share their artistic practices and discuss the fundamental role of contemporary art in amplifying the voices of their communities.
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CONFERENCE
The action of Survival International and Espace Frans Krajcberg :
a bridge between Western societies and Indigenous communities
Wednesday, January 28, 2021
What tools can we use to take concrete action?
The series begins with a first discussion that will highlight the importance of activism and provide the audience with practical tools to take action—both online and in person—for Indigenous peoples, nature, and all of humanity.
Survival International X Espace Frans Krajcberg
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CONFERENCE
History of Indigenous Resistance in Brazil and
French Guiana
Wednesday, February 21, 2021
Do you remember that the Amazon rainforest extends into France and is part of the European Union? Do you recall that some Indigenous communities speak French and are our fellow citizens? As strange as it may seem, it is high time we raise alarm about their fate and that of the forest, which Frans Krajcberg and Sebastião Salgado defended with all their might.
Our second conference with Survival International aims to highlight Indigenous resistance in French Amazonia (French Guiana) and Brazil. We invite Jeunesse Autochtone de Guyane and Autres Brésils to share their testimonies.
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