With her exhibition Carte Blanche, HfG alumna Marleine Chedraoui continued the Retour de Paris series at the Institut français Stuttgart from 02.03 - 31.03. 2023.

In a room construction on the first floor of the Institut français Stuttgart, Marleine Chedraoui created a closed-off area, the walls of which were covered with event posters from various art institutions, of which only the backs were visible.

Sounds that were recorded during the construction were emitted from the structure throughout the exhibition. Towards the end of the exhibition, a new object was created from the original construction, in which a book was bound from the poster panels, which could be exhibited on the converted wooden frame.

To accompany the exhibition, Marleine Chedraoui read texts from the accompanying booklet by Mathilde Belouali-Dejean, Hendrik Bündge, Hannah Eckstein, Marie-Nour Hechaime and Frank-Thorsten Moll about their artistic work and the exhibition at the Institut français Stuttgart. https://www.marleine-chedraoui.de/carte-blanche

In her works, Marleine Chedraoui repeatedly deals with the specific rules of the art system and attempts to stimulate reflection on the conditions of exhibiting itself through deconstructions, shifts and quotations.

Marleine Chedraoui (born in Ehden, Lebanon) studied art studies and media theory, philosophy as well as exhibition design and curatorial practice at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2007/08 to 2012. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Institut Français de Stuttgart (2023); Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2022); theartape, Karlsruhe, (2021); IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium (2018) and in group exhibitions at Beaux-Arts de Paris, (2023); Badischer Kunstverein (2018), Kunstverein Gera e.V. (2015) and Kreuzberg Pavillon Berlin (2013), among others. In 2022, Marleine Chedraoui spent six months at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, as part of a six-month scholarship. In 2023 she was nominated for the Prix Bob Calle 2023 with her work Tempus [Text].