Patricia Couvet
(b. 1994, Paris, FR) is a curator based in Strasbourg and Berlin. She co-founded Pickle Bar, a project space with a slavic take on the aperitivo bar that focus on performative and discursive formats. She was also director in 2021-2024 of Slavs and Tatars residency-mentorship for emerging art professionals from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

In 2019, she attended the post-graduate program in Curatorial Studies at KASK, Ghent (BE).

She co-founded with Samuel Arnaud DVA Press, a publishing house and curatorial project based between Strasbourg and Berlin. In 2021-2023, she was part of the research collective Beyond the post-soviet. 


Curated projects
Sturm and Slang, Pickle Bar, Berlin, 24 co-curated Anastasia Marukhina
Pickle Bar Presents, West, Den Haag, co-curated Anastasia Marukhina
Grey is the cube, blue the ellipse, co-curated Beyond the post-soviet, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, 23-25
Slurs, Paris-Berlin, 23
Parcours/Бағдап, Monnaie de Paris, Asia NOW, 23
Costumes and Collapse, Pickle Bar, co-curated Anastasia Marukhina, 23
L’Horlogerie à Répétition, The Left Place, Reims, 23
Clouds and Power, Mill6Chat, Hong-Kong, co-curated Slavs and Tatars, Mi You, 23
Proxemities, La Box, Bourges, co-curated Alicja Melzacka, 23
Sauer Power Klubnacht, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 22
Nikolay Karabinovych, Why do you stand at the door?, Jewish Museum Belgium, 22
Azbuka Strikes Back, Pickle Bar, Berlin, co-curated Anastasia Marukhina, 22
When Red and White ain’t so Black and White, Sentiment, Zürich, 22
Knot Know, Pickle Bar Berlin, co-curated Anastasia Marukhina, 22
Pickle Bar pop-ups (Radicants, Paris 23; Wiener Festwochen Vienna, 22; HacerNoche, Oaxaca, 22; Print Triennale Tallinn, 22)
Beyond the post-soviet, 21-24
Session of Tenderness, online, co-curated Q Rators, 22 
L’Ombre des choses, Tropicana, Brussels, 18
Le Kabinet, Brussels, 17-18
Selection
Texts 
TextWork, Fondation Pernod Ricard - upcoming
Kubra Khademi, Ta’me Sib, Eric Mouchet Gallery, 23 
à qui/quoi la chaleur resiste t-elle? in “l’art-même”, n°89, 23
The inherited Division, “in Kajet online”, 21
Gros Gris, Duel with Samuel Arnaud, le duel, n°4, 18
Selection
Talks
LCCA Summer School, 24 
Forever Agents with Jackqueline Frost, Relais Culture Europe, 24
Tête-à-tête, Berlin Art Week, 23
Artist talk: Tekla Aslanishvili, WIELS, Bruxelles, 23
Lecture: “How to make an international exchange plateform”, Changwon Biennale, Changwon, 22

(Centre) Aziza Shadenova, Textures on Grieving, 2019, silk, wool, cotton, wooden pole, galvanized buckets, mud, various sizes. (Sides) Kubra Khademi, The birth giving #09 and The birth giving #01 2021, screen print on fabrics, 200x150 cm. Installation view at ‘Parcours/Бағдап’ curated by Slavs and Tatars, Asia NOW, Monnaie de Paris, 2023. Photo: Lionel Belluteau

(wall) Uladzimir Hramovich, (left) Olga Micinska, (right) Zinaïda Tchelidze, L’Horlogerie à Répétition, The Left Place, 2023, Photo: Thomas Schmahl  

(left) Harun Farocki, (center), Anna Zvyagintseva, (right) Alaa Mansour, Proxemities, La Box, Bourges, 2023

Nikolay Karabinovych, Why do you stand at the door? Jewish Museum of Belgium, 2022, photo: Isabelle Arthuis

‘Sauer Power Klubnacht’ curated by Slavs and Tatars, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2022, courtesy Humboldt Forum Stiftung. Photo: David von Becker

Uladzimir Hramovich, Olia Sosnovskaya, Sergey Shabohin, Andrey Anro, Vasilisa Palianina, When Red and White ain’t so Black and White, Sentiment, Zürich, photo: Julien Gremaud


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