Introduction
The Department of Moselle considers that live performance and visual arts are also a priority. This is why each year it supports more than 400 cultural projects and more than 700 local actors in their artistic creation projects. It supports associations and communities which, on a daily basis, bring culture to life for all, in all its forms (in structuring facilities, during festivals or other artistic and cultural events...).
Live performance and visual arts: many possibilities
Artist Residencies "Artists In Situ"
This system promotes meetings between artists from professional Moselle companies (visual artists, performers, playwrights, choreographers, etc.) and the Department's cultural sites. Artists can freely carry out their research —whether gestural, textual or plastic — as part of their creative projects, depending on the possibilities offered by the host locations.
In 2025, the Museum of the War of 1870 and the Annexation welcomed the Osmosis Cie Ali Salmi company for an artist residency, for a unique artistic residency combining contemporary dance, video and photographic installations, alongside the collections of the museum. This presented The Dancing Battalion, an immersive stroll revisiting the history of major conflicts and exploring their repercussions on the territory. An unprecedented encounter between art and memory.
The Departmental Salt Museum hosted the Au Fil de la Seille artist residency by Camille Mutel, dancer and choreographer. A cultural project combining walks, exhibitions and shows which highlights the Seille, the territory and the human connection.
Domaine de Lindre welcomed the company Mangeront-ils? who presented their project entitled The Last Cassette. Born from the discovery of precious sound archives (interviews with Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Régy, Ariane Mnouchkine...), this play questions the memory of theater through these voices that have become characters.
The Nilvange departmental library hosted two artist residencies: the Cordiallement company and its Circulomania project, a poetic and inventive creation around object theater, and I am made to live by the author Morgane Knipper, a project combining reading and projection around her future novel from the Fensch valley of the 60s and 70s, which retraces the journey of a child becoming a woman, between love, drama, disability and news items.
- Audiovisual projects ranging from short to feature films for associations, production companies, directors wishing to carry out all or part of their filming in Moselle.
- Subsidies to communities for their cultural projects.
- Live arts shows:
- Alain Brizzi, a Moselle artist known in particular for his paintings and his exhibition Visages, performed in the Georges de La Tour and Musée du Sel museums with an original animation "Brizzi, the Clown Phenomenon".
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