TALKS EVERYDAY IN THE LOUNGE
Tue. Oct. 20 | 11 AM | Barbara Bloom x Artforum Atelier
OFFSCREEN once again hosts the Artforum Atelier.
This year features OFFSCREEN Artist Barbara Bloom (Gisela Capitain & Capitain Petzel) and Pablo Larios, Senior Editor, Artforum.
Barbara Bloom is a major American conceptual artist known for her uncanny works questioning the construction of the image.
The Artforum Atelier comes to OFFSCREEN to foster dialogue at the crossroads of art and ideas. Conceived as intimate conversations between artists, critics, curators, and other voices in contemporary art, each Atelier includes an informal reception, creating space for focused, nuanced exchange beyond the exhibition format.
Conversation in English
By invitation only.
Tues. Oct, 20 | 6 PM | Andrea Geyer x Whitney Museum of American Art
Andrea Geyer (Zander) is in conversation with Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
At OFFSCREEN, Andrea Geyer presents a site-specific iteration of Feeding the Ghosts (2019), an audio installation with dozens of slide-projectors within the archive architecture in “The Magasins” of the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière.
Conversation in English
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Wed. Oct. 21 | 5 PM | On Ana Mendieta
OFFSCREEN’s 2026 Guest of Honor is Ana Mendieta (Marian Goodman). The renowned Cuban-American artist’s ephemeral Silueta earth/body works have been seared into our collective imaginary through her image-making practice. Six films that offer a glimpse into the diversity of her practice are presented in a life-size installation beneath the soaring dome of the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpetriere.
This conversation features :
— Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Director of the Estate of Ana Mendieta (Marian Goodman)
— Valentine Umansky, Curator, International Art at Tate Modern and co-curator of the exhibition Ana Mendieta (2026)
— Camille Morineau, President, AWARE Centre Pompidou
— Olga Kobryn, Lecturer in Film and Audiovisual Studies, Université Paris Cité
Conversation in English
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Thurs. Oct. 22 | 5 PM | On Waldemar Cordeiro
Thomas Cordeiro, son of Waldemar Cordeiro (Mayor) is in dialogue with media art historian Tina Rivers Ryan about the practice of this pioneer of computational art in Latin America.
Waldemar Cordeiro began creating computer-generated works in the late 1960s and 1970s, becoming one of the first artists to use digital media to articulate sociopolitical critique.
At OFFSCREEN 2026, several works from his Derivatives of an Image series are presented, anticipating the pixel-based logic of digital photography and image processing.
Conversation in English
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Thurs. Oct. 22 | 6 PM | Ibrahim Mahama x Mousse Magazine
Ibrahim Mahama (APALAZZOGALLERY) is in dialogue with Barbara Casavecchia, Editor-in-Chief of Mousse Magazine.
Working across collage and monumental, site-specific installations, Mahama explores the legacies of colonialism, global economies, and the circulation of goods and people.
At OFFSCREEN 2026, his work Voli-ni (2022) brings together archival materials and repeated images of Brutalist architecture and bats, reflecting on Ghana’s complex history and the processes of erasure and appropriation that shape it.
Conversation in English
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Fri. Oct. 23 | 5 PM | Lívia Melzi x Madame Figaro
Lívia Melzi (Salon /H) is in dialogue with Joseph Ghosn, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Madame Figaro.
At OFFSCREEN 2026, Melzi presents Laboratory for a Museum of the Future (2026), an installation that continues her exploration of the role of images in the construction and transmission of institutional narratives.
Conversation in French
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Fri. Oct. 23 | 6 PM | Sorbonne x Smithsonian
Transformed in Transmission: Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman’s Whole Life Video Art
Saisha Grayson, Curator of Time-Based Media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., explores the artistic collaboration between Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman and their pioneering approaches to video art.
Public presentation as part of IMAGO-TELE-VISIONS, a research seminar organized by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (HiCSA).
Conversation in English
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Sat. Oct. 24 | 11 AM | Où est Ana Mendieta ? | France Culture
Ahead of the broadcast of Où est Ana Mendieta ?, a podcast by Pauline Chanu on France Culture on 25th of October, OFFSCREEN hosts an avant-première conversation featuring exclusive excerpts from the documentary.
In conversation:
— Pauline Chanu, writer and documentarian, author of France Culture podcast Où est Ana Mendieta ?
— Anne Bourrassé, curator & art critic
— Camille Doucet, Phd researcher at Paris VIII
Conversation in French
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Sat. Oct. 24 | 5 PM | Daria Koltsova x Esther Mathis x MAC Montréal
Daria Koltsova (SUPRAINFINIT) and Esther Mathis (Livie) are in dialogue with OFFSCREEN Curatorial Resident Mojeanne Behzadi, curator at MAC Montréal.
Working with found objects and stained glass, Koltsova explores memory, displacement and the fragile relationship between place and belonging.
Mathis’s scientifically informed yet poetic practice investigates light, perception and the transformation of space through architectural elements and reflective materials.
Conversation in English
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Sat. Oct. 24 | 6 PM | NOWNESS Screening
An OFFSCREEN curated selection of artist films from NOWNESS, the global video channel.
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