art prize jury
A jury of renowned professionals is in charge of selecting the laureates of the ceramic brussels art prize from the 200 applications received through the 2024 call for artists.
Caroline Andrin
Artiste & Head of the ceramics programme at La Cambre Visual Arts,
Caroline Andrin is a ceramic artist whose work lies somewhere between art and design, deeply rooted in a process that links craftsmanship and conceptual thinking. She discovered ceramics while studying at the Head - Geneva University of Art and Design. Shortly after graduating, she was awarded the Swiss Design Prize, which enabled her to travel to Japan and take up a residency at the Swiss Institute in Rome. Next to her artistic pratice, she is head of the ceramics department at ENSAV La Cambre art school in Brussels since 2006.
La Cambre is renowned for its high-level artistic education in the fields of visual arts, fashion, industrial design, interior architecture and scenography. The ceramics department aims to pass on technical and historical knowledge while developing a critical eye for the discipline, enabling students to develop their artistic personality.
Joël Riff
Curator at Moly-Sabata, Fondation des Artistes (Sablons) and La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès (Brussels).
Joël Riff has been curator at Moly-Sabata since 2014, France’s oldest active residency. He initiates several projects a year and invites artists to create ambitious artworks. He has been appointed by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès to La Verrière in Brussels, where he is developing from 2023 an innovative serie of “solo group shows”.
Joël Riff is member of the acquisition commission of the Centre national des arts plastiques and has contributed to the Revue de la Céramique et du Verre since 2017. He took part to committees and jurys including Maison de la Céramique de Dieulefit, La Cambre, Concours international de céramique de Carouge and La Borne.
Taking ways of experiencing matter as its point of departure, Joël Riff’s programme at La Verrière combines visual, decorative and applied arts. The practice of each artist is seen as part of a community of gestures and creative affinities.
Pascale Mussard
Vice-president of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and President of the villa Noailles association
Pascale Mussard began her career in the world of design in Nicole de Vesian’s style office. She joined Hermès in 1978 as head of fabric and accessories purchasing for women’s ready-to-wear, then became press officer before taking over responsibility for advertising and public relations. In 2006, she was appointed co-artistic director of Hermès.
In 2010, Pascale Mussard imagined a new metier at Hermès : petit h. This “Laboratory” brings together in a workshop all the “unused materials” and know-how of Hermès and the group and makes them available to artists for a unique creative process. Each season, it develops creations, like a gardener for his nursery, nurturing talent and unusual objects.
Pascale Mussard is now devoting herself to various foundations and associations. She is currently Vice-Chairwoman of the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès and President of the villa Noailles association, which promotes creativity (fashion, design, photography, interior design, architecture) and education (workshops for children).
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Jean-Marc Dimanche
Artistic advisor, General Commissioner of the Biennale De Mains De Maitres Luxembourg, ceramic brussels Co-director
After creating and directing the design agency V.I.T.R.I.O.L. for 20 years, he founded in 2008, with Florence Guillier-Bernard, Maison Parisienne, a traveling gallery dedicated to French crafts, in the framework of which he organised more than fifty exhibitions in various European capitals.
At the beginning of 2016, he was called as advisor to H.R.H. the Grand Duchess Heiress of Luxembourg, and worked with her on the implementation of the biennial De Mains De Maîtres, of which he is now general commissioner.
In parallel, he directed, between March 2019, the date of its opening in Brussels, and June 2022, ELEVEN STEENS, a private space dedicated to Art and Matter, open to all areas of creation, be it the plastic arts, design, crafts, architecture or fashion.
Independent curator, he accompanies numerous exhibitions in the field of crafts and contemporary art, whether in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. For the past five years he has been a contributor to the Revue de la Céramique et du Verre and has contributed to numerous catalogues and artists' books.
Stéphanie Pécourt
Director of the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/ Paris
A sociology graduate specialising in epistemology, she is Director of the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/ Paris since 2019.
She was previously Director of Les Halles Saint-Géry, a Brussels Agora and exhibition space, the Agence Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse, an agency dedicated to exporting the performing arts, and the Point Contact Culture, an interface between the European Commission and cultural operators to promote the Creative Europe framework programme. Between 2015 and 2017, she founded the Belgian Artistic District, an ephemeral territory for residencies and exhibitions bringing together Belgian and international artists. Since 2015, she has worked as an independent curator (Bozar/Be, Maat /PT, Hong-Kong Arts Center...). In 2017 she founded the NOVA_XX Forum, dedicated to technological, scientific and artistic Intrication in a feminine and non-binary mode, in the 4.0 era.