Awards Ceremony

Saturday, December 03 at 8:00 pm 

📍Théatre National de Nice – Salle des Franciscains

Attend the OVNi Cosmopolis and Sud Emergence Awards ceremony and support this year’s artists.

OVNi Cosmolis 

This international award is supported by our partners the CHE and the jury’s favorite is supported by ViewSonic.

The juries, under the presidency of Nora Hickey M’Sichili (FICEP Director and Director of the Irish Cultural Center), will reward their favorites among the artistic proposals of various foreign cultural institutes in Paris, international cultural centers and Friends of OVNi, exhibited at the Windsor Hotel from 02 to 04 December 2022.

Paul ARDENNE, Art critic | Guy BLOCH CHAMPFORT, Journalist| François FAUCHON, Oncologist, Centre de Haute Energie (sponsor) | Nora HICKEY M’SICHILI,  FICEP Director and Director of the Irish Cultural Center | Pascale PRONNIER, Artistic Programmations Manager Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.

OVNi Sud Emergence 

The first prize is supported by the DRAC PACA for a residency at the WindsoR Hotel and the second prize is supported by ViewSonic.

Under the presidency of Hélène Audiffren (Plastic Arts Advisor), the juries will reward their favorites from the Emergence exhibition at the West End Hotel. This award aims to reward emerging regional artists seeking to create new stories with the scraps of old.

Hélène AUDIFFREN, DRAC, Plastic Arts Advisor | Igor BOÏKO, Director of the cultural sector of the Région Sud | Evelyne DERET, collector and founder of the project Art [ ] Collector| Muriel ENJALRAN, Director of the Fonds Régional d’art contemporain | Delphine GAYRARD, Assistant Executive Director for Culture | Camille FRASCA, Director of La Citadelle – Musées et centre d’art.

A last moment of Follies…

The TNN troupe will honor us with a reading of poems about follies.