AICA FRANCE AWARD 2025
A recognition that turns critique into a performative act
OCTOBER 2025
AWARD
Carole Pelé and Diane Der Markarian unveiling the poster together after the performance.
Performance-installation outside the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris), announcing the encounter between Carole Pelé and art critic Diane Der Markarian.
A celebratory moment after the AICA France Award evening, supported by Maison Ruinart.
Carole Pelé and Diane Der Markarian unveiling the poster together after the performance.
From performance to recognition.
Carole Pelé and critic Diane Der Markarian extend their dialogue at the AICA France Award 2024, turning critique into presence.
Carole Pelé was selected
as the subject of a feature article
by Diane Der Markarian,
art critic and member of AICA France, as part of the AICA France Award 2025.
This prestigious award celebrates outstanding voices in contemporary art criticism and offers a broad audience the opportunity to discover works
that have not yet received
the attention they deserve.
During the award evening at the INHA (French National Institute of Art History), Diane Der Markarian presented Carole Pelé’s work in a 6’40’’ performative format merging critique
and artistic gesture.
The forthcoming article by
Diane Der Markarian will be published
in Critique d’Art, one of France’s leading journals of contemporary art criticism.
Official photographs
and video documentation
of the event will be added soon.
I’M LOOKING FOR A GALLERY, DO YOU KNOW ONE?
Broadcast on Radio Campus Paris
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2025
Chelsea, New York, October 2025. Standing still, I hold the question in plain sight: Do you know one? Art begins with exposure, not protection.
Facing the gallery’s façade, I hold my ground. No appointment, no permission, only presence.
I am the message and the messenger. The gallery I’m looking for might already exist, right here, between us.
Chelsea, New York, October 2025. Standing still, I hold the question in plain sight: Do you know one? Art begins with exposure, not protection.
A living artwork crossing Chelsea’s streets.
Inserting the artist’s quest for recognition into the heart of New York’s art world.
New York, october 2025.
In this new iteration of her ongoing series of public performances, Carole Pelé walks through the streets wearing a sandwich board that reads:
“I’m looking for a gallery.
Do you know one?”
Between humor and determination,
she exposes the fragile balance between artistic visibility, recognition,
and the act of self-representation
in the art world.
The performance unfolds as both a statement and a question,
an open invitation to reconsider
how and where art finds its place.
This project will be featured in the November 2025 episode of
Can You Hear Me?,
Carole Pelé’s radio series on
Radio Campus Paris.
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
A sound performance series by Carole Pelé
Broadcast on Radio Campus Paris
SEPTEMBER 2025 - JUNE 2026
FEATURED
"Can You Hear Me?"
A voice, a presence. Premiere on September 29 at Radio Campus Paris.
“Can You Hear Me?”
is a sensitive and performative audio series by artist Carole Pelé.
Through stories, silences and voices, each episode asks a simple question: what does it mean to fully exist?
Between inner monologue, address to the world and artistic gesture, the series creates a fragile yet powerful bond with the listener.
It speaks of doubt, presence, visibility, love, creation and survival.
Not a podcast about art,
but a work of art to be listened to.
Premiere: September 29 at 6 p.m.
on Radio Campus Paris,
then every four weeks.
Available in French (English soon),
on Apple Podcasts and Deezer.
Listen on
Radio Campus
Paris
I’M LOOKING FOR A CRITIC, ARE YOU ONE?
Live performance at the ÉCOLE DU LOUVRE
SEPTEMBER 2025
Standing at the threshold of the museum, embodying the question rather than the answer.
“I’m looking for a critic. Who dares to ask: is this art?”
At the heart of the Louvre, the performance condenses into one image: the artist holding the sign, standing as presence, provocation, and proof.
Standing at the threshold of the museum, embodying the question rather than the answer.
A living artwork crossing the Louvre and its school.
Inserting the artist’s presence into the institution itself, as a question of recognition and legitimacy.
At the École du Louvre, Carole Pelé walks through the corridors wearing a sandwich board that reads
“I’m looking for a critic.”
She invites, disturbs, and intrigues. In the amphitheater, she becomes both artist and critic, presenting her work while questioning its very status:
Is this a work of art?
What do you keep from it?
At what moment did you hesitate?
Between vulnerability and strategy, she opens a live dialogue where recognition itself is at stake.
This performance takes place
as part of the very first contemporary art festival ever held at the École du Louvre,
a historic moment inside one of the most prestigious art history schools
in the world, located at the heart of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
SOPHIE, TU M'AS VUE.
A sound performance by Carole Pelé
Broadcast on L’Expérience, France Culture –
A radio show by producer Aurélie Charon, with Inès Dupeyron
APRIL 2025
FEATURED
Carole Pelé in the anechoic chamber of Ircam, Centre Pompidou,
where she performs a sound piece created for L’Expérience on France Culture.
Photo: Stefanos Tsiamoulis
Carole Pelé signs a new intimate and experimental sound piece shaped as a one-sided dialogue with Sophie Calle.
Recorded between the anechoic chamber of Ircam - Centre Pompidou,
the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and a Radio France studio, the piece blends personal diary, voice recordings, and sonic landscapes.
An artistic and emotional journey —
to be seen, heard, and felt.
Available on all major streaming platforms.
Listen on
France Culture
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"SOPHIE, TU M'AS VUE." Video credits: Stefanos Tsiamoulis. With the contributors: Tour Orion – Laura Blanche, Lolita Bourdon · IRCAM – Centre Pompidou – Vincent Martos · France Culture team – Félix Levacher, Benjamin Thuau "I'M LOOKING FOR A GALLERY" Photo credits: David Matorin Paralucent Pictures