Bio – Laure Cottin Stefanelli

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Laure Cottin Stefanelli is a French visual artist and filmmaker. Her work, through films, photographs and installations reflects her search for characters and stories inhabited by the paradoxical tensions between our bodies and minds – life, death and erotic impulses.

Her work had been exhibited and screened at venues including WIELS – Contemporary art center (Brussels, BE) ; FOMU – Fotomuseum (Antwerp, BE) ; États Généraux du Film Documentaire (Lussas, FR) ; KANAL – Centre Pompidou (Brussels, BE) ; Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (BR) ; Kasseler Dok Festival (Kassel, DE) ; Moscow Biennal (RU) ; Art Brussels (BE) ; FIDMarseille (FR) among others. Her first medium-length film « No blood in my body » received the short film prize at Écrans Documentaires d’Arceuil (FR). She has completed several residencies including the Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten, HISK (BE).

Laure Cottin Stefanelli studied literature and cinema at the University of Paris III and graduated in Photo-Video from École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.

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Laure Cottin Stefanelli est une artiste visuelle et une cinéaste. À travers ses films, ses photographies et ses installations, elle poursuit une recherche autour de récits centrés sur des personnages habités de tensions paradoxales – pulsions de vie, de mort, érotiques – celles qui résultent de la séparation entre l’esprit et le corps.

Elle a exposé et participé à des festivals à travers la France et à l’étranger, dont WIELS – Centre d’art contemporain (Bruxelles, BE) ; FOMU – Fotomuseum (Anvers, BE) ; États Généraux du Film Documentaire (Lussas, FR) ; KANAL – Centre Pompidou (Bruxelles, BE) ; Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (BR) ; Kasseler Dok Festival ( Kassel, DE) ; Moscow Biennale (RU), Art Brussels (BE) ; FIDMarseille (FR) entre autres. Son premier moyen-métrage, No blood in my body a reçu le prix du film court aux Écrans Documentaires d’Arceuil (FR). Elle a effectué plusieurs résidences à l’étranger dont le Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten, HISK (BE).

Laure Cottin Stefanelli a étudié la littérature et le cinéma à l’Université Paris III et a été diplômée en Photo-Vidéo de l’École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.

PRIZE / SCHOLARSHIP / RESIDENCY

Since 2022: Writing & Developing a feature length creative documentary coproduced by Hutong Productions (FR) & Dérives (BE).
2020 & 2021: Art research grant from the Flemish Government, Ministry of Culture, Brussels, BE.
2019: Atelier Cinéma GSARA, Atelier Production CVB, Conversation #3, filmmaker in residency, Brussels, BE.
2018: C.C.A.P. Art Fund from Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Arts Plastiques, Brussels, BE
2015: CNAP – Art Fund, Research Bursary, soutien à la création, Paris, FR.
2015: Spinnerei, Halle 14, artist in residency, Leipzig, DE.
2014-2016: Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten HISK laureate, artist in residency, Ghent, BE.
2014:VISIO French Institute Scholarship, European Workshop on Artists’ Cinema, Florence, IT.
2012-2013: Braunschweig Projects Scholarship, artist in residency, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, DE.
2011: Les Écrans Documentaires, Winner of the short film prize, Arceuil, FR.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021: Fomu – FotoMuseum, Masculinities : liberation through photography, curator: Alona Pardo Barbican Centre, Antwerp, BE.
2020: Fomu – FotoMuseum, 33 days of .tiff, curators: Ingrid Leonard, Rein Deslé, Joachim Naudts, Antwerp, BE.
2020: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Inside-Out, curator: Maëlle Delaplanche, Brussels, BE.
2020: WIELS, “Risquons-Tout”, Open School, curators: Dirk Snauwaert, Sofia Dati, Brussels, BE.
2019: KANAL – Centre Pompidou, “The HISK connection“, curator: Antony Hudek, Brussels, BE.
2018: Galerie de l’Erg, “INNER SENSE —Bodies At Work”, Atelier Production CVB & Atelier Cinéma GSARA, Brussels, BE.
2018 : Galeria A Gentil Carioca, “Videoarte agora Videoarte“, curators Anna Bella Geiger & Fernando Cocchiarale, Rio de Janeiro, BR.
2017: Centrale.Lab, “Touch me not/do not cling to me/do not hold onto me/do not approach me”, curator: Maëlle Delaplanche, Brussels, BE. (solo)
2017: Mediterranea 18 Biennale, BJCEM, “There’s No Place Like / Home as corrupted memory”, curator Valentina Lacinio, Tirana/Durrës, AL.
2016: ADAM Museum, Art Contest, Brussels, BE.
2015: Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten, “It takes two to make an accident”, curator Selen Ansen, Ghent, BE.
2015: Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, CCI Fabrika,”And it Doesn’t Matter if the phone Rings”, curator Oleg Matrokhin, Moscou, RU.
2015: Ateliers Vortex, “Dos-à-Dos”, Dijon, FR.
2014: Galerie Treize, “Guerriers au repos”, curator Clarisse Hahn, Paris, FR.
2014: Art Brussels, Contemporary Art Fair, Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, BE.
2013: Raumlabor, “Der geist Im Vakuum”, curator Hubertus von Amelunxen, Braunschweig, DE.
2013 : Contemporary Art Ruhr, Media Art Fair, Essen, DE.
2012: CalARTS Gallery, “Artist as traveller”, curator Corinna Schnitt, Los Angeles, CA.
2012: Le-Centquatre, “L’envers et L’endroit”, curator Henri Foucault, Paris, FR.
2011: Blyth Gallery, “Tracing Shadows in the Dark”, curator Carmen Billows, London, UK.

FESTIVALS

2020: The Riga Pasaules Film Festival (RPFF), selection “Filming Bodies : Bodies Filming” Riga, LV.
2020: 42e Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil et du Val de Marne (FIFF), selection “Short film, International Competition”, Créteil, FR.
2020: Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, FR.
2019: The 21st Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (Fest CurtasBH) selection “The Political Body”, Belo Horizonte, BR.
2019: États Généraux du film documentaire, selection “Viewing Experiences”, Lussas, FR.
2016: 33.Kasseler Dok festival, selection “Das Leben ist keine Seifenoper / Cinenovela”, nominated for “The Golden Key Prize”, Kassel, DE.
2015: AVIFF, Art Film Festival, Jury’s choice, Cannes, FR.
2014: Villa Romana, Lo Schermo dell’arte film festival, Florence, IT.
2012: Crosstalk V. Video Art Festival, selection “Affection / urge”, Budapest, HU.
2012: LOOP, CityScreen’12, Barcelona, ES.
2011: Festival Les Écrans Documentaires, short films competition, Arceuil, FR.
2011: Festival International du film d’Amiens, medium-lenght films competition, Amiens, FR.
2011: Festival Filmer à tout prix & CINEMATEK “Adolescence, metamorphosis of bodies “, Brussels, BE.
2011: RIDM, Rencontre internationale du documentaire de Montréal, international competition short and medium-lenght films, Montréal, CA.
2011: 22e FID Marseille, parallel screen, “Pain and cruelty”, FR.
2011: Festival côté court de Pantin, selection Panorama 2, Paris, FR.
2011: Festival EMAF, European Media Art Festival, selection “Daysleepers”, Osnabrueck, DE.
2010: International video festival Eattopia, French Institute of Taipei, “Point of views”, Taiwan, CN.

TALKS, SCREENINGS

2023: Les SUBS, Jeff Koons, Rainald Goetz / Hubert Colas, Lyon, FR.
2022: États Généraux du film documentaire, Rencontres professionnelles, invited by CNC, Lussas, FR.
2022: Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, 25 Arts Seconde, programer Mathilde Roman, Paris, FR.
2022: Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Carte blanche à Hubert Colas, Paris, FR.
2022: FoMu–FotoMuseum, Masculinities Nocturne #3, Women on Men, Antwerp, BE.
2021: Montévidéo, Festiv a l Actoral, Marseille, FR.
2021: Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, 25 Arts Seconde, Paris, FR.
2021: WIELS, “INHABITING YOURS: Evanescent Subjectivities & the Practice of Enchantment”, Brussels, BE.
2020: MaximiliansForum,“Die Narbe juckt”, Munich, DE.
2019: Tallinn Photomonth Biennial,”Lifeblood Film Club #2“, programers Simon Dybbroe Møller & Post Brothers, Tallinn, EE.
2019: FoMu–FotoMuseum .tiff Talk, Antwerp, BE.
2019: Tick Tack, Screening marathon, programmer Daniella Géo, Antwerp, BE.
2018: Bozar, “The Iceberg or what does Chris Marker make us do ?”, invitation by Chloé Malcotti & Xavier Garcia Bardón, Brussels, BE.
2018: Bozar, “L’entre-corps” : Peter Snowdon & Laure Cottin Stefanelli, invitation by Xavier Garcia Bardón, Brussels, BE.
2016: St. Luca – School of Arts, DocNomads Program, Laure Cottin Stefanelli shorts, Brussels, BE.
2016: Female Trouble, Vierte Welt, “Blind date” Laure Cottin Stefanelli & Ruth Novaczek, Berlin, DE.
2016: Antwerp Art Weekend & De Studio Kunstcentrum, Art Weekend screening, Antwerp, BE.
2015 : ISELP Institute for contemporary art, “Autour du film d’artiste”, Brussels, BE.
2015: Spinnerei, Halle 14, Laure Cottin Stefanelli & Tramaine De Senna, Leipzig, DE.
2015: Les Ateliers VORTEX & l’ENSA Dijon, Carte blanche Laure Cottin Stefanelli & Lucie Mercadal, Dijon, FR.
2015: Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, “Ghost Dance”, Aubervilliers, FR.
2011 : Musée du Jeu de Paume, “Une génération de cinéastes 1998-2011”, Paris, FR.
2011: Blyth Gallery at Imperial College, “Tracing Shadows in the Dark”, curator Carmen Billows, London, UK.
2010: Musée Favre, “soirées Flare # 13″, programmer Nora Martirosyan, Montpellier, FR.

BIBLIOGRAPHY (selection)

2021: FUTURE Photography, Reset, Amsterdam, NL.
2020: WIELS-Contemporary Art Center, Risquons-Tout, Dirk Snauwaert, Ed. Wiels, Mercatorfonds, Brussels, BE.
2019: FoMu-FotoMuseum .tiff Magazine, Antwerp, BE.
2019: Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles (CVB),“L’entre-corps”, Laure Cottin Stefanelli & Peter Snowdon, Brussels, BE.
2015: “It takes two to make an accident”, Ed. Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, BE.
2015: Hart magazine #146, Antwerp, BE.
2015: “The Institute”, Ed. The Lannoo Publishing Group, BE.
2012: “Éclipse”, artist book, self produced.
2011: Le journal du FIDMarseille du 11/07/11, interview with Céline Guénot about
No Blood in my body, Marseille, FR.
2010: “M.O.R *”, artist book, ENSAD Paris, FR.
2009: Leica Prize 09, ENSAD, Paris – Fachhochschule Bielefeld – Royal College of Art, Paris, FR.

COMMISSION WORK

2017: De Bijloke Muziekcentrum, Ghent, BE.

COLLECTIONS

Fomu – Fotomuseum Antwerpen & The Collection of the Flemish Community, Belgium.
Private Collections.

EDUCATION

2010: Masters in Photo-Video (MFA), École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, FR.
2008: Bachelor of Arts (BA: Photo-Video) École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, FR.
2004: Preparation school in Visual Arts, L’Atelier de Sèvres, Paris, FR.
2003: Contemporary Literature and Cinema (Hypokhâgne), University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, FR.