Ergastule is an Artist-run space founded by ten artists in 2008.
Its goal is to promote contemporary art pooling competencies and tools of its members to create and show art-works and editions in its studios in Nancy (FR) as well as off-site temporary group shows.
Ergastule invites artists to realize their projects by bringing their ideas and learning new skills.
The organization’s uniqueness is based on shared competences, each artist learning from the others.
The association is interested by traditional as technical know-hows to serve contemporary art’s research. Ergastule aims to bring about a situation conducive to novelty.
Competences:
Shaping, casting & edition: polyester resins, ceramics, blown glass and cast glass, silicones elastomers, latex, plaster, wax, metals
Graphism: Paper publishing, books, photo-engraving, photopolymer, press, intaglio, linocut
Digital: numerical modeling, synthetic imagery, animation, 3D-numerising, 3D-printing, 3 axes milling etc.
