To mark the 58th Congress of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA International), taking place in Rennes from 12 to 16 October 2026, AICA International and Documents d'artistes Bretagne have joined forces to invite a group of AICA International members to take part in a special Meet-up from 9 to 12 October 2026.
The Meet-up is an annual programme of studio visits organised by the Documents d'artistes network across France, designed to encourage the discovery of regional art scenes and raise the international profile of artists. Over four days, participants will move between studios and exhibition spaces, meeting the artists and professionals who bring the Rennes art scene to life across generations and media.
Artists to be visited: Claire Guetta, Quentin Montagne, Fanny Gicquel, Jocelyn Cottencin, Alisson Schmitt, Julie C. Fortier and Yann Sérandour.
Meet the selected participants
Anthony Ogochukwu Agbapuonwu (b. 1995, Lagos, Nigeria) is a curator, writer and strategy consultant whose cultural practice explores the intersections of heritage, indigenous knowledge systems, the human psyche, urban studies and socio-political histories. His curatorial practice and writings engage African philosophies and contemporary lived realities to examine questions of belonging, movement, and the transformative power of art. His projects trace how histories, bodies, and geographies intersect, while foregrounding artistic practices that engage material and immaterial worlds, ancestral memory, and the politics of space. In 2025, Agbapuonwu curated Anyanwu: The New Light at the National Museum, Lagos, a landmark exhibition engaging Igbo cosmology and the broader cultural matrix of Nigeria. He recently completed a curatorial residency at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, under the RESONANCE programme by Cité internationale des arts, ART X Lagos, and Institut français du Nigeria, where his research examined how artists and marginalised communities create alternative cultural infrastructures and ethical tactics, placing Lagos and Paris in conversation.
Samuel Hernández Dominicis (Havana, Cuba, 1987) is an art historian, researcher, curator and art critic. He holds a BA in Art History from the University of Havana (2011) and an MA in Art Studies from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City (2019). He has served as editor of ArteSur magazine, was part of the team that launched the Institutional Collection of the Cuban National Council for the Visual Arts (CNAP), and held the positions of Technical Deputy Director of the Center for the Development of the Visual Arts (CDAV) and National Advisor for Visual Arts at the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS). Since 2018, he has taught Art History at the Instituto de Cultura Superior (ICS) in Mexico City and, since 2022, has been a lecturer in the Art History and Modern Art diploma programmes at the Centro de Estudios Visuales (CEVI). He is Vice President of AICA International, President of AICA Cuba, and Chair of the AICA Archives and Living Memory Committee.
Dr. Elaine A. King is Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University and a distinguished art historian, critic, and international curator. Over a prolific career bridging academia and institutional leadership, she served as Executive Director and Curator of the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery and Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Dr. King has curated over 30 solo exhibitions for definitive contemporary artists and organized more than 20 major thematic group exhibitions. A recipient of numerous honors — including fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Endowment for the Arts — her scholarship has been twice recognized by the American Association of Museums. As a widely published critic and co-editor of Ethics and the Visual Arts, Dr. King remains an active global voice on contemporary culture, museum ethics, and artistic censorship.
Ingrid Lyons is a writer, artist and performer based in Ireland. Merging fictional writing, musical sequencing, art writing, object gathering and public performance, Lyons' practice investigates how art, language and material can co-exist within singularly or collaboratively produced texts, objects and environments. Her embodied research is deeply rooted in art history, Irish folklore and social histories which she distils through mazes of resilience, dreamlike scenarios, humour and critique to create layered narratives, blurring boundaries between intangible and material worlds. Her working process includes collecting visual fragments alongside oral histories with materialisation ranging from cultural critique, fictional text, script writing, musical composition, publishing, drawings, cassette tapes, photographs, textiles and mind maps. Lyons considers the intersection between fiction writing, performance, art writing and curation as a means of exploring the dissemination of oral histories through storytelling and practices of cultural preservation. Experimental in its form, her work looks at how we return to or conjure places and individuals that hold cultural significance.
Anna Voswinckel is a curator of contemporary art specialising in photography and lens-based media. Most recently, she was co-curator of Kraków Photomonth 2026. From January 2023 to October 2024, she was curator of the exhibition programme at Camera Austria in Graz, where she organised projects such as 'Exposure/Double Exposure', as well as solo exhibitions featuring Alexandra Leykauf, Anouk Tschanz, Ana de Almeida and Huda Takriti. Alongside her curatorial work, Anna Voswinckel has many years' experience teaching artistic photography — for example at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig — and has also engaged with photography, art and visual politics through artistic, journalistic and editorial projects.
About Documents d'artistes Bretagne & Documents d'artistes network
Since 2009, Documents d'artistes Bretagne (DDA Bretagne) has been publishing monographic dossiers in collaboration with artists from Brittany. Fully accessible online, these dossiers help to promote their artistic practices and offer an insight into a dynamic regional art scene. Committed to supporting the artists in its archive, DDA Bretagne accompanies them throughout their careers and mobilises networks of professionals around their practices and projects.
Documents d'artistes Bretagne is a member of the Réseau documents d'artistes, a federation of Documents d'artistes associations in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Centre-Val de Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Réunion, Occitanie, Geneva, the Caribbean and the Amazon.
Founded in 2011, the Réseau documents d'artistes brings together and coordinates local Documents d'artistes associations. Supported by the Ministry of Culture, it is a leading organisation dedicated to supporting professional artistic practices and promoting them to a wide audience. It works to enhance the national and international visibility of the artists it supports, whilst developing shared initiatives within the network. Its editorial platform, reseau-dda.org, provides access to monographic dossiers on several hundred visual artists produced by the Documents d'artistes, and offers, through the dissemination of original content (critical texts, residency journals, filmed portraits, etc.), a space for discovering contemporary art in France and the Canton of Geneva.
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