Impact Art News is a French-English bilingual bimonthly online magazine on contemporary art and the environment.
Since April 2018, Impact Art News has selected, interviewed and supported artists, exhibitions and projects related to ecology and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Editorial team: Alice Audouin, Aloïs Loizeau, Juliette Soulez, Lucia Longhi, Pauline Lisowski, Stefano Vendramin
Newsletter management and online publication: Pauline Lisowski, Aloïs Loizeau, Elisabeth Mbeng
Translators: Juliette Soulez, Stefano Vendramin, Eva Radek
Publisher: Art of Change 21
Director of Publication: Alice Audouin
Former editor from April 2018 to December 2019 : Alice Audouin Consulting
Thank you to those who contributed to the letter Oscar Bardet (January – December 2023), Hélène Geber (January 2021 – September 2023), Marie Leprêtre (September – December 2020), Lisa Toubas (January 2019 – June 2020), Marguerite Courtel (April – December 2018).
Art of Change 21 warmly thanks Maison Guerlain for its support.
10 ARTISTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT IN FRANCE
After the summer break, artists committed to the environment take center stage. Here are 10 new solo exhibitions to be discovered..while waiting for the next issue with a detailed article on exhibitions in France! Mauro [...]
FALL 2022: ART WILL NOT COOL DOWN AFTER A SCORCHING HOT SUMMER
Summer is coming to an end and we will remember it for a long time as it marked a turning point for record-breaking temperatures everywhere on the planet. It was simply impossible to turn our [...]
IN CONVERSATION WITH YAO LU
Yao Lu (姚璐), born in 1967 in Beijing, is a Beijing-based artist and Professor of Photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Yao Lu creates landscapes from landfills and piles of litter, covering them [...]
SUMMER EXHIBITIONS IN FRANCE: THE ENVIRONMENT AT THE ZENITH
During the summer period, the environment shines at the heart of key large-scale exhibitions, led by lille3000 and the Palais de Tokyo. Alongside these two highlights, a number of exhibitions confirm the rooting of environmental [...]
ECO-DESIGNED ART FAIRS: RESULTS FROM ART PARIS
The Art Paris fair brought together 130 modern and contemporary art galleries from 7 to 10 April 2022 at the Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris. Directed by Guillaume Piens and organised by France Conventions, the fair [...]
IN CONVERSATION WITH JOSEFINA NELIMARKKA
Clouds represent the focus of your artistic research. Why? For me, clouds expose the unknown. They are always in motion, constantly in a state of becoming. For some years now, I have been having conversations [...]
VENICE BIENNALE 2022: THE POWER OF DREAMS
The 2022 Venice Biennale (April 23 – November 27) bears witness to a shift in our era, both in the eyes of its curator Cecilia Alemani and in the proposals of the various international pavilions [...]
IN CONVERSATION WITH TUE GREENFORT
In your personal exhibition here in Venice, "Medusa Alga Laguna", you show a particular interest in the jellyfish and algae of the lagoon ecosystem. Sargassum algae is an invasive species that arrived recently here in [...]
ARTS SPONSORSHIP: ETHICS AND CLIMATE CONVERGE
The current sanctions against the Russian oligarchs are rekindling the debate between art, ethics and the “carbon world”. The controversy over these links already emerged more than a decade ago through the actions of Liberate [...]
ITS SINK OR SWIM FOR THE ARTWORLD
Like the jellyfish and algae proliferating in the Venetian lagoon underneath this year’s Biennale (read our article on the 2022 Venice Biennale here), the number of exhibitions on environmental issues, more thankfully, continues to grow. [...]
Twenty exhibitions in France seek out a new equilibrium in the living world
The year 2022 promises to be an excellent year in France for art news relating to ecology and the environment, as highlighted in this first overview of the exhibitions over the coming months. Not just [...]
The Third Paradise by Michelangelo Pistoletto
Terzo Paradiso (Third Paradise) is a long-term artistic and philosophical project by the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, famously a founding father of the Arte Povera movement. Launched in 2003 around a founding vision and represented [...]