Created in 2002, Rendez-vous, an international platform dedicated to young creative artists, is handled in an original manner by three French institutions: the Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, the Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes and the École nationale supérieure des beaux‑arts, Lyon. Rendez-vous follows the evolution of the emerging scene and invites, since 2009, curators and directors of international Biennials. Rendez-vous is a unique project with an exhibition in Rhône-Alpes within the Lyon Biennial and, the following year, an event abroad consisting of exhibitions and residences.

– 2008: exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum and residencies in Moscow, Beijing, Miami and Buenos Aires
– 2010: participation to the Shanghai Biennial
– 2012: exhibition in South Africa, at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town

At the Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, within the 12th Biennial of Lyon, the 2013 edition features twenty artists from five continents (ten of them live in Rhône-Alpes) with the exhibiting of new projects in painting, sculpture, video, installations, etc

Curators

Thierry Raspail, Director and Isabelle Bertolotti, Curator, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
Nathalie Ergino, Director, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
Emmanuel Tibloux, Director, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon

In collaboration with :

Juliana Engberg (Sydney/Australia),  Andre Severo (Sao Paulo/Brazil), Li Xu (Shanghai/China), Sunjung Kim (Gwangju/South Korea), Bose Krishnamachari (Kochi-Muziris/India), Riason Naidoo (Dakar/Senegal), Tan Boon Hui (Singapour/Singapore), Fulya Erdemci (Istanbul/Turkey),  Natalia Zabolotna & Oleksandr Soloviov (Kiev/Ukraine), Ali Subotnick (Los Angeles/USA)

Artists

Mathilde Barrio Nuevo (FRA), Sophie Bonnet-Pourpet (FRA), Thibaud Brunet (FRA), Jean-Alain Corre (FRA), Hasan & Husain Essop (SEN) , Dan Finsel (USA) , André Fortino (FRA) , Nikita Kadan (UKR) , Karim Kal (FRA), Paula Krause (BRA) , Charles Lim (SGP) , Guillaume Louot (FRA), Angelica Mesiti (AUS), Paribartana Mohanty (IND), Nicolas Momein (FRA), Nelly Monnier (FRA), Iz Öztat (TUR), Part Time Suite (KOR), Mathilde du Sordet (FRA), Lu Yang (CHN)