A new artist in residence
Elina Kulich, 7th artist in residence at the museum
For the 7ᵉ edition of its artist residency, the jury selected the project of the artist Elina Kulich, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
His approach, centered on the memory of places and the superimposition of traces left by artists over time, offers a drawn exploration of the Jean-Jacques Henner museum.
Biography
Elina Kulich is a visual artist who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023. Her drawings explores the relationship between memory, space and transmission through sequential compositions, often created in situ. She teaches morphology and live-model drawing, at the NABA des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Winner of the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023) and the prix GIDE (2024), she has also twice been a finalist in the Prix du Dessin Contemporain (2022-23). Having won the Vedettes de Paris call for projects, her drawings will be printed on the hull of one of their boats in June 2025. She has also won the Bredin Prat scholarship (2023), as well as the Hélène Diamond drawing scholarship (2020). She won the Société Française de Physique comic strip prize (2022), and the Libération-Apaj prize (2017). She was the winner of the Strasbourg C.R.O.U.S. video competition (2018).
Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including Estivales de Sceaux, the Sarcelle printmaking biennial, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Halle de Fontenay, and Galerie Marie de Holmsky. She has also taken part in international projects such as the Venice Biennale (video for architect Inessa Hansch) and the Rencontres Internationales at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She has held residencies at Hamburg's HfBK (ASA program) and at Cartels, in La Défense.
Residency project
His project at the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner is part of a reflection on the memory of places, the stratification of their history and the transmission that emanates from it. The museum, marked by a succession of artists, from Roger Jourdain to Guillaume Dubufe, before welcoming the work of Jean-Jacques Henner, is a place rich in these past figures and their imprints left in space. The aim will be to explore this memory through drawing, working in situ and rendering, through superimpositions, deformations and the play of reflections, the atmospheres traversed.
To capture this, I'll be drawing on the motif in different parts of the museum, such as the staircases, the winter garden and the red room. Starting from this first drawing, and drawing on archival documents, I will create sequels to these initial drawings, thus forming sequences. Through this proto-narrative, I intend to render this temporal stratification of this museum workshop.
I also intend to study the work of Jean-Jacques Henner in order to develop pictorial aspects of my work, which may resonate with his.
Selection of works
To discover
English guided tour
Filming and photoshoots
