TERRA
Curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond, produced by Milena Berman
Chechu Álava, Raffael Bader, Johanna Bath, Matthias Bitzer, Anna Blom, Lewis Brander, Jodie Carey, Zarah Cassim, Mia Chaplin, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Meta Drčar, Marie-Laure Guerrier, Kwamé Azure Gomez, Mariana Hahn, Rebecca Halliwell Sutton, Beatrice Hasell-McCosh, Haroun Hayward, Nicky Hodge, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Yuki Kimura, Julia Kowalska, Mar Kristoff, Gina Kuschke, Antoine Langenieux-Villard, Tiffany Loy, Ka Massow, Nick Mauss, Lara Merrett, Gus Monday, Niamh O’Malley, Aimée Parrott, Clement Petibon, Polina Piech, Kevin Pinsembert, Sebastian Lloyd Rees, Emmanuelle Rosso, Nino Sarabutra, Wolfgang Tillmans, Wyn-Lyn Tan, Max Weschler, David Whitehead, Nani Wijaya, Danh Vo, Syagini Ratna Wulan, Begüm Yamanlar, Greta Bellamacina and Rafal Zajko.
18th October – 17th November, 2024. Burgundy, France. Locations: Château de Chevigny-en-Valière, Résidence de Moyne-Blandin, and La Maison de Pommard.
Jodie Carey, ‘Guard, 2024‘, jesmonite, earth, steel, wire, dimensions variable. Installation view at 67 Pall Mall Beaune, TERRA, 2024, Burgundy, France. Courtesy of artist and Edel Assanti. Photography James Retief
Set against the backdrop of Burgundy’s UNESCO World Heritage vineyards, TERRA is an international group exhibition unearthing dialogues between contemporary art, heritage and winemaking.
Curated by Jenn Ellis (Apsara Studio) with art historian Emie Diamond and produced by Milena Berman of Hautes Côtes, the second iteration of TERRA transforms three historic, private locations into immersive galleries, featuring multidisciplinary works by fifty leading and emerging artists, including Wolfgang Tillmans, Mary Webb, Kevin Pinsembert and Danh Vo.
Meta Drčar, ‘Frame Series, Work No. 2 (III)’, 2024, stainless steel, 100 x 1400 cm. Installation view at 67 Pall Mall Beaune, TERRA, 2024, Burgundy, France. Courtesy of artist and Apsara Studio. Photography James Retief
The exhibition interweaves various mediums within each space, spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific installations, with newly commissioned works by Meta Drčar, Wyn-Lyn Tan, Mia Chaplin, and local artist Emmanuelle Rosso, which are created or installed in direct response to TERRA’s distinct locations.
TERRA reimagines the traditional exposition model, combining elements of a commercial art exhibition with the curatorial sensibilities of a biennale. Selected through an open call as well as direct collaboration with artists and galleries, participants include a significant number of emerging women artists and next-generation voices from the global South.
Matthias Blitzer, ‘Amaterasu’, 2024, ink and acrylic on canvas, mirror, artist frame, 100 x 80 cm. Installation view at 67 Pall Mall Beaune, TERRA, 2024, Burgundy, France. Courtesy of artist and Almine Rech. Photography James Retief
At the heart of TERRA is the concept of terroir, a term rooted in winemaking, interpreted in this context to explore the deep connection between art, place and history. As visitors journey through the spaces, they are invited to “taste place” in each unique setting, serving as a portal into the art that they temporarily house.
This year’s exhibition unfolds across three core themes – storytelling, liminality, and intimacy. At the Château de Chevigny en Valière, the essence of storytelling emerges through the architecture of this multi-story Napoleonic-era estate and listed heritage site. Works by Danh Vo, Wolfgang Tillmans, Niamh O’Malley and Mia Chaplin explore human narratives and intergenerational dialogues.
Left to right: Anna Blom, Mia Chaplin. Installation view at Chateau de Chevigny-en-Valière. TERRA, 2024, Burgundy, France. Courtesy of artists, Apsara Studio and WHATIFTHEWORLD. Photography James Retief
In the theatre wing of the château, an audio performance by poet Greta Bellamacina examining our relationship to nature beckons visitors into the imposing carrara marble stairwell designed by French architect Jean-Louis Charles Garnier, best known for L’Opéra Garnier in Paris. Inside, Danh Vo’s letter installation, displayed at the centre of the ornate Italian-style theatre, challenges our perceptions of language and meaning. In the chapel, Nino Sarabutra invites viewers to walk amongst porcelain moulds scattered on the floor, inspiring questions around what we will leave behind. Up in the tower, Mariana Hahn’s site-specific sculpture, made from locally sourced salt, is activated by a live performance that
interrogates the gendered history of labour and materiality.
The Résidence de Moyne-Blandin, a neo-classical 1780s residence, evokes liminality. This listed heritage site, with its peeling patina and preserved wallcoverings, represents a space caught between different periods of time. Here, jesmonite sculptures by Jodie Carey are situated in an Egyptian-inspired room, an installation by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck (travelling from London’s Whitechapel Gallery) is in conversation with delicate figurative paintings by Johanna Bath and Julia Kowalska, and a site-specific work by Meta Drčar engages with the fragility and transition embodied by the building.
Left to right: ‘Craigs Birch Winter No 11’ by Haroun Hayward, ‘Copper and Salt’ by Mariana Hahn, ‘Craigs Birch Winter No 6’ by Haroun Hayward and ‘Night Sky’ by Sebastian Lloyd Rees. Pall Mall, Beaune, Burgundy, France, 2024. Photography by James Retief
At La Maison de Pommard, the former residence of the famed winemaker Hubert de Montille, later restored and reimagined by his daughter and contemporary architect Emanuele Salini, the theme of intimacy resonates through works responding to the building’s domestic history and its surrounding gardens. Paintings by Lara Merrett, Nicky Hodge and Polina Piech evoke the region’s deep connection to the earth, harking back to the days when Burgundy was covered by water and offering a reflection on memory and place.
Following the exhibition in Burgundy, TERRA will tour to AORA, a virtual space combining art, architecture and music. AORA was founded by Ellis in collaboration with award-winning architect Benni Allan as a specially designed online platform to create exhibition experiences accessible to all. TERRA’s re-articulation for AORA, which consists of four distinct rooms including a sculpture garden, will enable audiences globally to discover the works featured as part of TERRA this year.
About the Founders
Jenn Ellis – Curator of TERRA and Founder of Apsara Studio
Jenn Ellis FRSA is a curator and founder from Switzerland, Colombia and the UK based in London following five years in Hong Kong. Passionate about the considered meeting of art, space and context, she has created over the last decade meaningful projects and connections between artists, galleries and institutions globally. As the founder of curatorial studio APSARA, she has led projects from the UNESCO heritage vineyards in Burgundy to Frieze 9 Cork Street, and collaborated with international galleries and institutions including Silverlens, Sullivan+Strumpf, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Lehmann Maupin, Tate and South London Gallery. Ellis is equally the co-founder of acclaimed platform AORA, which combines art, architecture and music to instill a sense of calm and wellbeing. Ellis’ projects have gained critical recognition in publications such as Art Newspaper, Artforum, Frieze, CN Traveller, BBC, Evening Standard. Ellis guest lectures at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, is a Tate Young Patrons Ambassador and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Ellis hold a Law Degree from King’s College London and a History of Art Degree from the University of Cambridge.
Emie Diamond – Writer and curator of TERRA
Emie Diamond is an art historian based in London. She has curated exhibitions featuring over seventy international artists. This Spring she curated Ici Repose for Oliver Miro’s platform Vortic, which was on view at The House of KOKO. Diamond also recently curated Fortnum and Mason’s inaugural show following the restoration of their Piccadilly flagship. She contributes to The Art Newspaper, where she served as Daily Diarist for the 2024 Venice Biennale, as well as interviewed Edward Enninful for the cover story of their new bi-annual magazine. Diamond is a contributor to Cultured Magazine and has written arts analyses for a range of publications like Hunger Magazine and The Critic. She is also an academically published art critic, as seen in the Courtauld’s annual journal Immediations and Rutger’s University’s bi-annual journal. Diamond has given curatorial tours at institutions such as Gagosian and White Cube, as well as spoken on panels at Soho House, Sotheby’s and KOKO. She has a History of Art Master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art and received a prior Master’s degree from Harvard University.
Milena Berman – Producer of TERRA
Milena Berman is German-American, raised in the US, and has been living in Burgundy since 2013. Her maternal family is from Kassel, Germany, where her interest in contemporary art took root as she attended documenta from a young age and worked for documenta13 after graduating university. Milena studied Art History as an undergraduate and received her Master’s in Art Business with Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Before co-founding Hautes Côtes with her partner, Milena worked in commercial and non-profit galleries, for a private photography collection, and for wineries in France and the US. Since 2013, she has created and hosted international travel programs for patrons, curators, and directors of the world’s top cultural institutions including the Guggenheim, LACMA, SFMoMA, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Seattle Art Museum and others. Being based in Beaune, Milena has been immersed in wine, and found a home in its dynamic wine community. Today she produces cultural moments in the realms of wine and art and is most interested in their intersections, bridging the two worlds, and fostering connections between people and places through meaningful experiences. TERRA was born from her desire to produce a focused cultural moment in Burgundy in collaboration with curators Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond.
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TERRA is advised and generously supported by Monica Irani, a London-based collector and
patron with a passion for art and wine. Irani is on the Development Board of the National Gallery
and is the co-chair of their young patrons. In addition, she sits on the Frieze 91 committee.
TERRA is sponsored by Blue Pool Capital, Hundle, Sotheby’s, Private Partners, Wine & Art
Expertise, Mouchonnat, and the proprietors of the three sites who have offered their spaces in
kind.
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