YCT

Yann Chateigné Tytelman is a curator and writer based in Brussels (BE).

“It is always night, or we wouldn’t need light”

Thelonious Monk

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Blackout

Publisher
Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève
Date
2023
Summary
Tout a commencé par une lettre à mon père. Cela faisait une dizaine d'années qu'il était mort, et j'ai tout à coup eu envie de lui écrire au sujet du silence, de son silence, du silence entre nous.

Four Sisters

Location
Jewish Museum of Belgium
Date
March 24—August 27, 2023
Summary
Four Sisters is a choral exhibition that follows the gaze of these four figures, whose lives, placed end to end, cover an entire century of history, where events and places, destruction and emancipation, political transformations and intimate experimentations are connected.

A Glitterig Ruin Sucked Upwards

Location
HISK Gosset Site, Brussels
Date

Summary
What if we worked to produce an exhibition not based on the sharing of space between artists, but rather, the allocation of time? The floorplan would merge with – or would be replaced by – a calendar.

Of Specters or Returns (A Radiophonic Extension)

Location
Duuu Radio, Paris
Date
25 mai 2023
Summary
« Voudriez-vous nous accompagner en Corée du Nord, demanda-t-elle, et traverser la DMZ entre la Corée du Nord et la Corée du Sud dans le cadre d’une délégation de trente femmes ? »

The Night Watch: Bonne Nuit

Location
Société d'électricité x LYL Radio, Brussels
Date
25 mai 2023
Summary
When night falls, the promises of an infinite imagination open up, even though everything is dark.

Moon Eaters. A Dinner Party

Location
MORPHO, Antwerp
Date
23 March 2022
Summary
This dinner has a name: Moon Eaters. Like flowers blooming at night, meals that ferment in obscurity...

How to be Organic?

Location
Country SALTS, Bennwil
Date
8 - 10 April 2022
Summary
A series of knitted conversations and contributions circulating around the various meanings and imaginaries of the organic from lichens, bioremediation and permaculture to astrophysics, volcanic landscapes and the lives of houseplants.

Oblivion

Location
Joyfully Waiting, Geneva
Date
December 2021
Summary
I wanted to write something about sleep and listening, about the experience of time and what had silently transformed me in the last few months.

Untitled (Moon with Many Eyes) (Audio Version)

Context
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
Date
September 2021
Summary
Rome, July 2016. It is night. The moon is full. I am sitting on a terrace of the Swiss Institute. A few hours earlier, Marie Kølbæk Iversen lectured, accompanied by the screening of Io/I (2015 –), a work that animates satellite images of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, taken by NASA’s Voyager I and II and Galileo.

Studio K

Location
KANAL, Centre Pompidou
Date
14 January – 7 February 2021
Summary
It is a declaration of dependence: if there is a lesson to be learned from this pandemic, it is that we need each other.

It Never Ends

Location
KANAL, Centre Pompidou, Brussels
Date
24 September 2020 – 25 April 2021
Summary
It may give the impression of being like the ideal museum, but it is above all an experimental, interdisciplinary and polyphonic project.

By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape

Location
Alhambra, Le Commun, Cinéma Spoutnik, Théâtre Le Galpon, Cinema Dynamo, cave12, Genève
Date
13 December 2019 – 19 January 2020
Summary
How do you turn a listening experience into the subject of an exhibition?

Material Thinking: Gordon Matta-Clark selected by Yann Chateigné

Location
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal
Date
7 June – 8 September 2019
Summary
I take Matta-Clark’s personal library as a point of departure that sheds light on lesser-known aspects of the artist’s practice.

Daniel Gustav Cramer: Portraits

Location
Vera Cortes, Lisbon
Date
December 2021
Summary
A portrait is not a monument. It could be, but it is not.

Dream Piece

Context
Almanach Ecart. Une archive collective, Elisabeth Jobin et Yann Chateigné
Date
2019
Summary
J’aime voir dans Dream Piece une manière de formuler, dans le continuum historique, quelque chose comme une énigme.

Night ways: on Caroline Bachmann’s landscape paintings

Context
Self published
Date
2018
Summary
Has any art historian already had the idea to write about the wind?

Against the Day (Diaries)

Context
Mousse N°60
Date
Autumn 2017
Summary
These bits of unpublished texts that had crystallized during the past years, I now realize that they all revolve around similar questions, that all revolve around time.

Bringing Something Back

Publisher
Walther Koenig, Köln, in cooperation with Bergen Kunsthall and Camden Arts Center, London
Date
2019
Summary
The “tapes” explored the various twilight zones between waking and sleeping, and what can be brought back from such semi-darkened mental states in an exhibition context.

Almanach Ecart

Publisher
HEAD – Genève, art&fiction, Lausanne
Date
2019
Summary
Entre eux circulaient des travaux, des lettres, des factures; ils organisaient des expositions, des performances et des publications, guidés par une affinité commune pour les gestes artistiques les moins spectaculaires, les plus marginaux.

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Yann Chateigné Tytelman is a curator, editor and writer based in Brussels (CH), YCT is currently serving as an associate curator at Kanal Foundation, where he arranged It Never Ends, Swiss artist John M Armleder’s large-scale and eight-months long carte blanche. There, since January 2021, he is co-operating Studio K, an online radio program that articulates artists’ conversations, audio archives and sound creations. Starting in Spring 2021, he is the guest curator of Country SALTS, a new art space created in the countryside near Basel (CH). He recently received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture / Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris), for a research to be taking place between Europe and the USA, in the Autumn of 2021. Since 2019, he is teaching a seminar at Erg, in Brussels.

“It is always night, or we wouldn’t need light”

Thelonious Monk

C
U
R
R I C U
L U
M

2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000

Studio K

Location
KANAL, Centre Pompidou
Date
14 January – 7 February 2021
Summary
It is a declaration of dependence: if there is a lesson to be learned from this pandemic, it is that we need each other.

It Never Ends

Almanach Ecart, Dan Solbach en conversation avec Yann Chateigné

Location
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Date
6 October 2020
Summary
Instead of recollecting existing findings, punctuating the research in the Ecart Archives, we wanted to produce something, to make this new object, and the ways to invent, and compose it, collectively, the very object of the research.

By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape

Bringing Something Back

Dream Piece

Almanach Ecart

Anecdotes sans inventaire. Archives Ecart, 1969–2019

Location
LiveInYourHead, Genève
Date
19 November – 14 December 2019
Summary
Cette exposition retient ainsi des Archives Ecart ce qu’elles ont d’ouvert: ses projets non terminés, ses micro-récits hermétiques, ses amitiés, ses bons comptes et ses distractions, ses anecdotes.

Material Thinking: Gordon Matta-Clark selected by Yann Chateigné

Pensée matérielle. Gordon Matta-Clark revu par Yann Chateigné (opening talk)

Location
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal
Date
June 2019
Summary
L’histoire a à voir avec l’idée de la constellation dans le sens où quand on regarde un ciel étoilé, en fait, ce qu’on connecte sur un même plan imaginaire.. ce sont des objets qui sont situés à différents endroits de l’espace et du temps.

Des corps subtils

Location
Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
Date
April – May 2019
Summary
L’idée de placer au centre de l’histoire des expériences qui se sont parfois développées en dehors du champ artistique et de celui de ses institutions, de s’intéresser aux formes qui ont laissé des traces moins visibles, moins évidentes.

Night ways: on Caroline Bachmann’s landscape paintings

Context
Self published
Date
2018
Summary
Has any art historian already had the idea to write about the wind?

Joachim Köster, Bringing Something Back

Location
Bergen Kunsthall
Date
January 26 – March 18 2018
Summary
Like contained ecosystems or aquariums, each of these boxes contains books, objects and natural elements; drifting, speculating and expanding on ideas drawn from Köster’s works.

Ecart. Une archive collective, 1969–1982

Location
HEAD – Genève, MAMCO, Genève
Date
September 2017 – December 2019
Summary
Un réseau qui reposait, en somme, sur l'amitié.

Against the Day (Diaries)

Mind, Machine, Matter. Art – Science. HEAD x ISR Summer Academy 2017

Location
Istituto Svizzero di Roma
Date
10 – 15 July 2017
Summary
This program turns inwards, in order to explore another unknown, partly unmapped universe, which is in the meantime the object of scientific investigations as well as contemporary artistic experimentations: our brain.