Maritima Events Overview

Discover the Official Maritma 01 Festival Book
July 2020, Valencia

Artistic Residency in Valencia

Work at scientific laboratory, filming, production part. Artists Yann Toma, Kalie Granier, Mariagrazia Pontorno, Fermin Jimenez Landa.

1 October 2020, Valencia

Conference at Institut Français

Screening making-of Maritima01 project, artist residency part. Meeting artist. Opening and press-conference. Maritima01 book presentation.

3 October 2020, Valencia

Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporania

Video Art Screening.

Video Art Program at La Nau (University of Valencia)

Sala Aula Magna, representation of artistic works made in collaboration with Maritima01.

2 October 2020, Valencia
17 October 2020, Valencia

Good Planet Foundation
Représentation Maritima01 art residence édition. Conference and video art screening. Artists and scientists talk about art project's, results of their last collaboration in the frame of Maritima residence 2020. A unique screening-meeting in the presence of Elena Posokhova, founder of the Maritima01 project; Elisa Ganivet art critic; Yann Toma, artist & researcher; artists: Enrique Ramirez, Marco Godinho, and Taylor Smith.

Exhibition (Colegio Mayor Rector Peset)

.Exhibition "Mare Nostrum: fragili vita". The exhibition will also be available ONLINE from November 16th here.

16 November – 31 January 2020, Valencia
17-20 November 2020, Barcelona

Loop festival of video art

Maritima01 video program was represented at Loop festival at beautiful space of Casa de Rusia Foundation which is a partner of Festival.

During 4 days several video artworks produced in the frame of Maritima 01 residence were shown to the public. “Nobilis Golden Moon” by Mariagrazia Pontorno, Enrique Ramirez, Lauso la mare e tente’n terro, Yann Toma, In clinging to the turtle’s back, Fermín Jiménez Landa, La Historia de Apnea, Kalie Granier, Priority Habitat, Xenia Dranysh, A Snake Performance.

1 October 2020, Valencia

Maritima 01 Book publication.


Maritima01 book is a collection of works created in collaboration with artists, the Maritima team, and scientists. The collection also includes some pre-existing projects inspired by nature or raising environmental issues that deserve attention.

The book also briefly covers some interesting research by scientists that inspired Maritima artists. At the end of the edition, you will find a photo report on the work process.

Curated by Elena Posokhova, Assistance by Jane Klenn, Design by Victoria Shelest, Text Editing by Svetlana Grishina.

Download the Book

18-19 December 2020, Online
28 January 2021, Paris

BIS de la Université de La Sorbonne.


Opening of the group exposition In Errance.
General Representation of Maritima01.

Poseidonia Green Festival (Barcelona – Portofino).


Online talk and Maritima01 film representation.
Artists participated: Yann Toma, Kalie Granier.

Events 2021

21-23 May 2021
May 2021

GOODPLANET Foundation, Paris

Screening making-of Maritima01 project, artist's talk.
The handing-in of art work to Foundation's collection.

CDAN, Huesca

Exhibition. Talk.

Artists: Yann Toma, Kalie Granier, Mariagrazia Pontorno, Fermin Jimenez Landa.

1-3 July 2021
7-9 June 2021

Online Conferences.

7 June - Rethinking Nature.

The starting point of this discussion will be the definition of what is the value of Arts in the theme of Nature, how it varies in context, geography, and time. What effect, questions, and awareness it raises. And what should be done to make the voice of Art more loud and meaningful to create a more Sustainable Future?

In program:

- Dr. Klitsa Antoniou (artist & Professor at the Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology and Founder of CutContemporary Fine Arts Lab, artist of Malta pavilion of 58th Venice Art Biennale with work about complex dynamics of the Mediterranean)

- Michele Leduc (scientist, Doctor at the STARESO oceanographic research station, Corsica

- Nathan Robinson (marine biologist & science communicator, Valencia),

- Yann Toma (an artist-observer within the UN & and researcher/professor, University of Paris

Panthéon-Sorbonne, France),

- Laurine Wagner (artist & Ph.D. student, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,

France)

- Kalie Granier (artist & curator, USA/France).

9 June - Video Art. Collect, Display, Produce.

Guests:

Carolina Ciuti- (LOOP Barcelona) - Criterias of Selection, Selling, Collecting video art for different kinds of representation corresponding with.

Imma Prieto, Director of Es Baluard Museum. - Displaing of video art, new forms of representation of digital video.

Enrique Ramirez, artist - Video art as a media with a lot of possibilities.

Mariagrazia Pontorno - artist (Maritima) - Digital and video art and a NFT future market.

Laurine Wagner, artist - Video art as a media of a transformation experience.

Es Baluard Museu d'Art de Palma.

Video Art Festival Maritima..

Es Baluard Museu and the project Marítima 01 present a video art screening program and a series of meetings with artists and scientists on the Mediterranean in order to make known the situation of the Mediterranean Sea and promote contemporary art.

The selection will show a total of 14 video art projects by artists from Spain, Italy, Turkey, France and Russia that invite the public to reflect on the climatic urgency in the Mediterranean Sea, the extinction of marine species, sustainable tourism, diversity of cultures and traditions, as well as the relationships between human beings and the sea.

Among the participating artists are Mariagrazia Pontorno, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Kalie Granier, Yann Toma, Anna Raimondo, Marco Godinho, Enrique Ramírez, Giovanni Ozzola, Miguel Sbastida, Volkan Aslan, Nikolaj Larsen, Mustapha Azeroual, Sena Basöz and Xenia Dranysh.

20 October 2021
5-28 February 2022

Amphibies. Exhibition at POUSH Manifesto, Paris

L’exposition Amphibies organisée par Maritima se déroulera du 5 a 20 Février au Centre d’Art - POUSH Manifesto en partenariat avec Acqua Foundation et Sorbonne Art Gallery,

L'objectif de ce projet d'exposition est d'initier l'exploration de la Méditerranée en tant que complexe naturel et culturel, un phénomène symbiotique qui tente de conjuguer histoires et idées, nature et discours dans ce lieu unique, qui est à la fois un lieu géographique et un territoire de l'imagination.

Artistes:

Yann Toma, Quentin Germain, Mariagrazia Pontorno, Ustina Yakovleva, Xenia Dranysh, Max Fouchy, Sena Başöz, Kalie Granier, Fermin Jiménez Landa, Chef Marouane, , Vanessa Enriquez, , Theo Massolier, Ana Matey, Taylor Smith, Quentin Lefranc, Laurine Wagner.

Commissaire : Posokhova Elena, Maritima.

Programme:

5 Février, 11h – 19h – Vernissage (Journée Pro), POUSH

9 Février, 18h - Conférence a L’université de la SORBONNE, amphithéâtre Descartes,

11 Février - Soirée privée, art dégustation, POUSH,

17 Février, 17h - Visite Guidée a l’exposition Gonzalo Chillida à INSTITUTO CERVANTES Paris.

Film screening at the Festival of Mediterranean Cinema.

Our film with artist Mariagrazia Pontorno #nobilisgoldenmoon is in program of Mostra de Valencia festival. It is the first film we successfully produced, from idea of research, production process, finding budget, making distribution.

Nobilis Golden Moon is a movie straddling two pandemics and two full moons. A documentary about the relationship between scientific thought and magical one, told through the Pinna Nobilis, the largest bivalve in the Mediterranean. Pinna Nobilis, also known as the “Sentinel of Mediterranean”, is a large mussel which exceeds the height of a meter, at risk of disappearing for a pandemic disease. The narration sets a parallelism between the current emergency that the whole world is experiencing because of Covid-19 and that one of the Mediterranean and Pinna Nobilis.

Nobilis Golden Moon is a personal and partially autobiographical reportage, shot astride the full moons of July and August 2020, in Valencia (Spain) and in Sant’antioco (Sardinia-Italy). In these two places, in the moonlight, Mariagrazia (director/narrator) learns the scientific and esoteric point of view about Pinna Nobilis, and much more....

Publications About Maritima01 Project