Societe Generale Private Banking Switzerland announces its commitment to young contemporary artists by launching the “Swiss Emerging Artist Prize” to support and provide visibility to their work.

Last July, the Acquisitions Committee gathered to chose nine new artworks that are since then enriching the Collection. A selection that blends historical figures with confirmed and emerging artists, features painting prominently, and celebrates audacity.
 
 

The Societe Generale Collection, in partnership with the Backslash gallery, is delighted to present 46 works, selected from French and international private art collections, from 28 September to 25 November 2017 at Societe Generale Headquarters.

 

Société Générale is pleased to announce the sponsorship with the Städel Museum for the exhibition Matisse-Bonnard: “Long live painting!” to be seen in Frankfurt.

 

What do Kader Attia, Julien Prévieux, Laurent Grasso and Mathieu Mercier have in common? The Marcel Duchamp Prize… and the Société Générale Collection! As the contest for the 2017 Marcel Duchamp Prize begins, we pay tribute to the (many) Collection artists who have won this prestigious prize.  Maja Bajević, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Charlotte Moth and Vittorio Santoro. The nominees for the 2017 Marcel Duchamp Prize were announced on February 2nd.

From Orlan at the MEP to David Hockney at the Centre Pompidou and Camille Henrot at the Palais de Tokyo, here's a summary of the contemporary art exhibitions taking place throughout 2017. It's bound to be the most reliable horoscope you’ll come across during this start to the year.

 

OVER THE WALLS is an artistic programme (exhibitions and meetings) that showcases Societe Generale’s contemporary art collection in three exhibitions being held in Paris and the Ile-de-France region.

 

Jean-Michel Alberola (b. 1953) is a kind of mystery man of French painting – which he constantly turns into a dialogue with myriad other media, from film to playing cards. An instructor at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris who entered the Collection Societe Generale in 2000, Alberola tends to shy away from the press; he only rarely gives interviews. So we have to sift through those that he has given even more closely, hoping to find hints that will help us grasp this complex oeuvre which disfigures the face to raise it to the level of idea.

Dedicated exclusively to drawing and works on paper, the Drawing Now exhibition celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. From 30 March to 3 April, it will welcome the very best practitioners of the medium at Carreau du Temple in Paris 3rd district. Five of the artists invited are part of Collection Societe Generale, from the late Gottfried Honegger to Agnès Thurnauer.

Its sights firmly focused on Asia, with a dozen Chinese artists pinned to its wall, the Société Générale Collection has just incorporated the work of South Korean artist Bae Bien-U into its Collection. His photos of “sacred forests” can be viewed this spring at the Art Paris Art Fair, which is dedicated this year to the South Korean scene, as well as on the walls of the prestigious Chambord Castle.