Rubis Group endowment fund for artistic and social projects

NDAO HANAVAO – MADAGASCAR Turning plastic waste into utility objects with French designer @alexandreechasseriau at the @ndaohanavaoproject lab. Since 2019, Ndao Hanavao has been collaborating with French designer @alexandreechasseriau on the collection and transformation of plastic waste from the city of Antananarivo. Inspired by craftsmanship and minimalist forms, the designer gives recycled plastic a new lease of life, transforming it into functional, concrete creations that can be mass produced and adapted to local needs, resources and economies. This project trains young Madagascans in vocational integration within the Ndao Hanavao laboratory in the various processes implemented by the designer and enables them to build a sustainable ecological business around these techniques. The objects and materials developed are now marketed by R’Art Plast, a Malagasy eco-responsible company set up in 2022 by five beneficiaries of the Ndao Hanavao project. Don’t miss out on tomorrow’s panel discussion at 3pm at @citedescultures With designer @alexandreechasseriau, architect Quentin Huet, Ndao Hanavao design curator @benjaminloyauté and @rafanomodeste, Ndao Hanavao beneficiary and co-founder of R’art Plast. The talk will be moderated by @domisanji, founder of @tanadesignweek. 🗓️Exhibition Matières des Possibles (Matter(s) of Possibility) Cité des Cultures, Antananarivo June 28 – August 9 #rubismecenat #ndaohanavao #tanadesignweek #socialdesign #sustainabledesign #sustainability #innovation #ecodesign

NDAO HANAVAO – MADAGASCAR Since 2019, @ndaohanavaoproject has been working with designer @laurelinegalliotstudio on a unique creation: a rug made from Polyfloss wool, a material developped by The Polyfloss Factory that turns plastic waste into wool, and upcycled t-shirts. With the lab beneficiaries, the designer developped a hand-woven carpet, evoking the traditional wickerwork and stripes of lambas, emblematic pieces of traditional Malagasy costume. Come discover their work @citedescultures_ on the occasion of @tanadesignweek! 🗓️Exhibition Matières des Possibles (Matter(s) of Possibility) Cité des Cultures, Antananarivo June 28 – August 9 Credits: Henitsoa Rafalia #rubismecenat #ndaohanavao #tanadesignweek #socialdesign #sustainabledesign #sustainability #innovation #ecodesign

NDAO HANAVAO – MADAGASCAR Today opens @ndaohanavaoproject’s exhibition at @tanadesignweek, « Matières des Possibles (Matter(s) of Possibility)”, curated by @benjaminloyauté! Hosted at the Cité des Cultures in Antananarivo until 9 August 2025, this manifesto-like collective exhibition explores the cycle of materials, from their raw and unsettled state then transformed into reinvented resources. The exhibition presents the research carried out in the laboratory, tied to the transformation of recovered plastic into utilitarian object by the French designer @alexandreechasserieau and the transformation of invasive algae into paper with French designer @samueltomatis. The exhibition also highlights creations by local and international artists and designers engaged with the lab, @laureline_galliot, @richianny_ratovo, The Polyfloss Factory and @domisanji. #rubismecenat #ndaohanavao #tanadesignweek #socialdesign #sustainabledesign #sustainability #innovation #ecodesign

OF SOUL AND JOY x CINEMA TAKE This week, the ‘Cinéma Cent Ans De Jeunesse’ festival is taking place in Paris, and @ofsoulandjoy is pleased to be part of it! For the second year in a row, the @ofsoulandjoy has teamed up with @cinema_tak3 as part of @lecinemacentansdejeunesse_ccaj’s international film education program. Participants from around the world have gathered for three days of sharing experiences with their teachers and filmmakers. All films produced during the program are being showcased at the festival. Join us for the screening of the OSJ film, “Thonda”, on June 6! Practical information: 🗓 June 6, 10:15 AM 📍 Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Nation Campus 8 avenue de Saint-Mandé, 75012 Paris (Nation metro station) 🎟 Free entry, but reservation is required → contact@ccaj.fr #rubismecenat #ofsoulandjoy #cinema #cinematake #creativeworkshop #youngartists #ccaj #cinemacentansdejeunesse

OF SOUL AND JOY – WORKSHOP IN MOROCCO A glimpse into the eyes of young photographers! These photos were taken by the children of the Sidi Bernoussi orphanage during a workshop led by @ofsoulandjoy project manager and South-African photographer @jabulanipatdhlamini, and Moroccan photographers Marouane Beslem (@marouanebeslem) and Abdelhamid Belahmidi (@h8mid). Since 2018, the @ofsoulandjoyproject has empowered youth in South Africa through photography. In 2025, it expands to Morocco for a special collaboration, sparking a visual dialogue between Thokoza and Casablanca. #rubismecenat #ofsoulandjoy #photography

INPULSE – HOMO SARGASSUM COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION InPulse’s artists @camillechedda, Jordan Harrison (@onejhar_), Sheldon Green (@shelmasscore) and @oneikarussell are currently exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters in New York as part of the collective exhibition ‘Homo Sargassum’, until July 11. Produced by @toutmondefoundation and curated by @vanessa_selk , the exhibition was first presented at the Museum of Fine Arts of Florida University in Tallahassee (@fsumofa) and is now taking place in New York to celebrate World Ocean Month. ‘Homo Sargassum’ is an art and science exhibition and multidisciplinary program, initiated by Martinican artist @louisa__marajo , that raises public awareness about oceanic pollution through the lens of the sargassum seaweed – algae whose proliferation across the Atlantic and on Caribbean coasts since 2011 has had wide-ranging environmental, social and health-related impacts for coastal communities and ecosystems. The exhibition invites artists, scientists reseachers and scholars from the Caribbean and beyond to share their perspectives on the causes and consequences of the sargassum proliferation, and to present their works that seek potential solutions to this scourge. Don’t miss out on the two next events: • May 22, 1pm - Exhibition walk through with curator Vanessa Selk and Artist talk with Billy Gerard Frank and Alejandro Durán • May 29, 4pm - Exhibition walk through with curator Vanessa Selk and Artist talk with Deborah Jack Credits: © Oneika Russel / Exhibition view © Courtesy of the Tout-Monde Art Foundation / © Camille Chedda #rubismecenat #inpulse #exhibition #contemporaryart @inpulseartproject

OF SOUL AND JOY – WORKSHOP IN MOROCCO Since 2018, the @ofsoulandjoy project has been running collaborative workshops to introduce photographic practice and provide social and artistic mentoring to young people from the township of Thokoza and surrounding areas of Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2025, the programme extends its action to Morocco and opens up a dialogue between the two countries through photography. At the Sidi Bernoussi orphanage (Casablanca), twenty children will discover photography through a series of workshops, led by Of Soul and Joy project manager and South-African photographer Jabulani Dhlamini and the Moroccan photographers Marouane Beslem (@marouanebeslem) and Abdelhamid Belahmidi (@h8mid). Marouane Beslem works between photography, video, and sound recording, examining the layers of contemporary Moroccan identity. Abdelhamid Belahmidi, a Moroccan self-taught conceptual and documentary photographer based in Casablanca, uses photography to artistically express the invisibility of his lived experiences. © Jabulani Dhlamini #rubismecenat #ofsoulandjoy #photography

NDAO HANAVAO – MADAGASCAR Let’s take a look back at @ndaohanavaoproject ’s latest workshop! ⁠ In May, the lab teamed up with Malagasy visual artist @richianny_ratovo for a special workshop on seaweed paper, a sustainable material developed at Ndao Hanavao in collaboration with guest designer @samueltomatis ⁠ The French designer has been working closely with the lab’s participants, pioneering new techniques to transform invasive algae into usable paper. This time, they explored this new material as an artistic tool with @richianny_ratovo Stay tuned, as @richianny_ratovo and the lab’s participants are currently producing a collaborative artwork, soon to be showed at the @ndaohanavaoproject ’s exhibition at @tanadesignweek! #rubismecenat #ndaohanavao #socialdesign #sustainabledesign #sustainability #innovation #ecodesign #workshops #creativeworkshop #madagascar #artpatron #artprofessionnals #tanadesignweek

OF SOUL AND JOY – SOUTH AFRICA The @ofsoulandjoy project extends its transformative work into rural KwaZulu-Natal! From 26 March to 6 April 2025, 6 Of Soul and Joy photographers and mentors, including 4 former students, travelled to Nkandla, in the rural region of KwaZulu-Natal, to provide some thirty young people with photography skills. Initially based in the township of Thokoza (Johannesburg), the photography mentoring project initiated a two-week program focusing on visual storytelling, both as an artistic practice and a potential career path. The Nkandla-based program also presents a unique opportunity for OSJ alumni to serve as mentors, completing the full circle of education, leadership, and empowerment. These workshops apply the project’s pedagogy centered around empowerment through art, and bring essential creative skills to rural areas, where educational and employment opportunities for young people are often limited, and where creative education can transform individuals and whole communities. © Fuwe Molefe #rubismecenat #photography #southafrica #ofsoulandjoy

SUPPORT FOR ARTISTIC CREATION – GRANT FOR FRENCH CARIBBEAN AND AMAZONIAN CONTEMPORARY CREATION Don’t miss out on Jordan Beal’s solo show at the unRepresented salon by @approcheparis (April 4-6, Paris). A French photographer from Martinique, Jordan Beal (@danbeal_) is the first laureate of the grant for French Caribbean and Amazonian creation, launched by Rubis Mécénat, @lastationculturelle and unRepresented by @approcheparis. As a photographer exploring the boundaries of the medium, Jordan Beal develops a body of work where the image becomes a space for a sensitive experience of the island territory. His approach seeks to go beyond the artificial divide between nature and culture. By deliberately damaging his negatives and prints through the action of corrosive substances and fluids, notably seawater, he moves towards a rupture with the idea of a sovereign human subject to reveal the essence of the image. Anchored in his “island-ness,” his work explores the notions of horizon and relationship. Through various interventions, Jordan Beal co-constructs hybrid works with non-human agents, challenging traditional perspective and inviting a multi-layered reading of the landscape. For unRepresented, Jordan Beal presents a selection of images from his Corrosion series, initiated during a residency at Tropiques Atrium. These altered photographs, where elemental motifs emerge, reveal a space where temporalities overlap, where the elsewhere and the here intertwine. Crédits : Grégory Copitet / Jordan Beal #rubismecenat #supportforartisticcreation #artpatron #artcurator #artprofessionnals #frenchartscene #frenchartist #artproduction

SUPPORT FOR ARTISTIC CREATION – RUBIS MECENAT PRIZE Rubis Mécénat is pleased to announce the laureate of the 5th edition of the Rubis Mécénat Prize in partnership with the @beauxartsparis: Liselor Perez! She will receive critical support from Julia Marchand (@marchand.julia), guest curator of this new edition, and production assistance to create an original artistic installation to be presented at Saint-Eustache church (@eglisesainteustache) in Paris in October 2025. Liselor Perez (@iszor) is a fifth-year student in the studio of Dominique Figarella. Her artistic practice blends sculpture, textiles and performance, where she explores intimacy and identity through sculptural bodies, often made of worn fabrics. Her work questions the porosity between being and environment, between memory and transformation. For her project at Saint-Eustache church, the artist will intervene in various parts of the church, presenting an ensemble of bodies and single figures blending into the architectural patterns of the church. — Since 2021, the Rubis Mécénat Prize in partnership with the @beauxartsparis provides a student from the school with production aid and essential support for the development of an original artwork within the historic @eglisesainteustache in Paris. — Credits: Portrait of Liselor Perez © Clara Duflot / Petite lampe © Liselor Perez #rubismecenat #supportforartisticcreation #contemporary art #artpatron #artcurator #artprofessionnals #beauxartsdeparis #artproduction #prixrubismecenat