Thermostat – under this title, French centres d’art and German Kunstvereine will be presenting up to 30 joint exhibitions and events between June 2010 and April 2011. The programme is based upon an initiative developed by the association of French centres d’art – d.c.a. (association française de développement des centres d’art) and the French Institute in Germany and is aimed at initiating co- productions and promoting curatorial exchange on an international level.  Based on a series of encounters between the curators of each institution, the respective French and German partners have developed joint projects, which will take place in both countries.

 
 
Thermostat is based upon the principle of the consolidation of different curatorial approaches and standpoints and is intended to lead to a mutual enrichment of the participating organisations and their audiences.Ultimately, both the respective organisational formats Kunstverein and centre d’art are united in the aim to facilitate, promote, and communicate unusual and new artistic positions. They are able to offer young artists their first platform and furthermore, open up experimental work and exemplary positions. 
 
Thermostat is a symbolic title which underlines the “systemic” character of the institutional network and the energetic exchange of the respective art scenes in France and Germany. Thermostat provides a valuable contribution to the task of disseminating the special significance of local art institutions and their position as an 
interface in national and international discourses. 
 
Ménage à deux, ménage à trois: partnerships comprising two or three institutions came together to facilitate the exhibitions. Over 70 artists in total will be shown in the participating German and French institutions including, Matti Braun, François Curlet, Thea Djordjadze, Latifa Echakhch, Yona Friedman, Jean-Luc Moulène, Evariste Richer, Javier Téllez and Stephen Willats. 

Thermostat embraces the following institutions: 
 

• CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge / Künstlerhaus Stuttgart 
• Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine / 
• Kunstverein Nürnberg - Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft 
• Centre d’art contemporain - la synagogue de Delme / Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam 
• Centre d’art passerelle, Brest / Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain de Quimper / Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 
• CNEAI = Chatou / Halle für Kunst Lüneburg / Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg 
• CRAC Alsace, Centre rhénan d’art contemporain d’Altkirch /  GAK - Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen 
• La Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec / Kunstverein Braunschweig 
• Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers / Bielefelder Kunstverein 
• Le Grand Café, Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire / Kunstverein Wolfsburg 
• Maison des arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc /  Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord, Berlin 
• Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-Les-Eaux / 
• Frankfurter Kunstverein

Past exhibitions :

Centre d'art passerelle, Brest

talking city / Stephen Willats

11.02.2011 - 02.04.2011

GAK - Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen

The Ventriloquism Aftereffect / Julien Bismuth

19.02.2011 - 24.04.2011

Kunstverein Tiergarten / Galerie Nord

Ecotone / Emmanuelle Castellan, Erik Göngrich, Sylvia Henrich, Stéphane Pichard

26.02.2011 - 02.04.2011

Frankfurter Kunstverein

Maya Schweizer / Clemens von Wedemeyer: "Metropolis. Bericht über China"

11.03.2011 - 08.05.2011 / Opening 10 March 2011 8pm

Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers

From A to B, from B to P

18.03.2011 - 08.05.2011 / Opening 18 March 2011 6.30pm

Le Grand Café, Centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire

Communauté / Gemeinschaft

20.03.2011 - 15.05.2011 / Opening 19 March 2011 6.30pm

Maison des arts George Pompidou

Ecotone / Emmanuelle Castellan, Erik Göngrich, Sylvia Henrich, Stéphane Pichard

16.04.2011 - 05.06.2011 / Opening 15 April 2011