Emanuele Coccia

La vita delle forme. Filosofia del reincanto. Sono le forme con cui ridisegniamo il nostro volto: ogni giorno, pelle a pelle sul nostro corpo, abbozzano una vita di cui incarnano un segreto che può solo essere vissuto. Le forme della moda non sono solo strumenti di conoscenza del mondo e di noi stessi. Sono anche amuleti con cui inventiamo e facciamo esperienza di nuove libertà. Libertà di resuscitare possibilità accantonate. Libertà di costruire significati inediti. Libertà di scegliere chi essere.

I am extremely honored to be the recipient of the Mondrian Prize 2024, an invitation to carry out a research project in collaboration with other artists and scholars during a nine month residency in Laren, the very village where Piet Mondrian and his friends invented the De Stjil movement. Between April 1 and December 15, 2024, I will organize a series of workshops around the question of metropolitan nature in which I will involve, among others, Jeanne Gang, Béatrice Grenier, Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, Formafantasma, Alice Bucknell, Stefano Mancuso, Fabien Siouffi, and Frédérique Aït Touati. In this place that played a seminal role in the elaboration of artistic modernism I will organize together with Béatrice Grenier a series of conversations (the Laren Dialogues) around the idea of modernity that will take place inside Piet Mondrian's former studio. I am grateful to Siebe Tettero, Amy Stenvert, Maarten Rutgers; Alexandra van Doorne, Rob Franken, Tracey Ryans and the selection committee with Beatrix Ruf, Elvira Dyangani Ose and Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli. @themondrianinitiative #themondrianinitiative #themondrianprize

Every dress is a museum: the smallest and most comfortable, the one we use to make ourselves visible. Every dress is an exhibition: when we dress up, each of us is the content and the curator of this exhibition. And it is thanks to these tiny walking museums that cities become open-air exhibitions without walls and without the possibility of separating one work from another. The exhibition "The Many Lives of a Garment", which will be on show at the ITS Arcademy - Museum of Art in Fashion from 28 March 2024 to 6 January 2025, seeks to reflect on this paradox. Olivier Saillard did me the honour of asking me to help him curate the exhibition. I am very grateful to him for this immense gift. To work and dialogue with him was a true initiation into the deeper meaning of fashion and clothing. And I thank the ITS Academy, Barbara Franchin, the director, and Michele de Facchinetti, Alessia Turco, Rosa Fasan and the whole team for the wonderful months of collaboration.

Fashion is culture. My column for Libération

Very honored to present in Los Angeles "Fashion Panorama - The Italian New Wave", a travelling exhibition that aims to tell the story of contemporary Italian fashion through the vision of 10 brands, chosen for the uniqueness of their outlook and creative approach. Organised and curated by Vogue Italia and the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Italy.

J'ai le plaisir et l'honneur de m'entretenir avec Paolo Roversi demain 15 mai, à 18h, pour la dernière rencontre de la série « La Mode dans tous ses états ». La rencontre aura lieu au Mobilier National (1, rue Berbier du Mets 75013 Paris). __________________ « Que devient la photographie lorsqu'elle rencontre la mode ? ». La mode a transformé l'idée même de photographie : l'image que nous rencontrons en feuilletant un magazine ne peut jamais se limiter à capturer un fait, le « ça a été » dont parlait Barthes, mais rendre possible une identification parfaite entre l'objet et le sujet, entre celui qui voit et ce qui est vu, entre le présent réel et un futur qui restera peut-être à jamais une forme d'éternité virtuelle.

My column for Libération

A READING w/ 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗮 This Sunday, May 12, at 1 PM PIN–UP invites Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia (@unicamens ) to read from his book 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦: 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, on the occasion of its recent release in the English language. Following the reading, Coccia will be in conversation with Jing Liu, co-founder of the architecture firm @solidobjectives Sunday, May 12, 1 PM Swiss Institute @swissinstitute 38 Saint Marks Place, 2nd Floor rsvp@pinupmagazine.org (required) Emanuele Coccia is an Italian author, philosopher, and lecturer at EHESS, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. His writing includes 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴: 𝘈 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴: 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦, and 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦: 𝘈 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰-𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦. He is currently working alongside @alessandro_michele , Creative Director of Valentino, on a publication that explores the relationships between fashion and philosophy. Coccia is the recipient of the Mondrian Prize 2024 (@themondrianinitiative ), for which he invited architects, artists, curators, and designers to a project on “metropolitan nature.” PIN–UP 36, Spring Summer 2024, will be out May 15, 2024, featuring Emanuele Coccia interviewed by Victoria Camblin #PINUP36 Photography @larsbronseth for PIN–UP

In his new book, Philosophy of the Home, Emanuele Coccia shows how the architecture of home has shaped—and continues to shape—our psyches and our societies, before leading us towards a more creative, ecological way of dwelling in the world. At The World Around Summit this weekend, Coccia will discuss his search for new ways of living together, positing questions and exploring ideas about how architecture and design influences domesticity, and vice versa, as part of a presentation titled Homes: How to Design Our Moral Topography. Coccia is an associate professor at the EHESS in Paris, and has had roles as a visiting professor at the universities of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Columbia and Harvard. He previously authored The Life of Plants (2018) and Metamorphoses (2021)—both of which examine biological phenomena and what they can teach us about the world we inhabit. The World Around Summit will take place on Saturday May 11, 2024, and is hosted at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum (@guggenheim ) in New York. Tickets to attend the all-day event are sold out, but you can be added to the waitlist by joining our membership Circles or register to watch the livestream for free via our link in bio. #TWA2024 #TWASummit2024 #Guggenheim #EmanueleCoccia #PhilosophyOfTheHome

Look beyond the Anthropocene during Gallery Weekend Berlin! Join us from 17:00 – 19:30 on Saturday, 27 April, to celebrate the launch of 'Interspecies Future: A Primer' at Museum für Naturkunde, with a panel discussion between Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and philosopher Emanuele Coccia, moderated by LAS curator-at-large Julia Kaganskiy. This publication is the first collection of writing on interspecies thinking, featuring contributions from over 60 scientists, technologists, philosophers and artists. Capacity is limited, so secure your spot at the link in the bio or by emailing rsvp@las-art.foundation! @daisyginsberg @pollinatorpathmaker @unicamens @mfnberlin @juliaxgulia Credits ‚Interspecies Future: A Primer‘ Editors: @kalladomcdowell , @juliaxgulia , Bettina Kames, @corinne_mynatt Published by LAS Art Foundation and @Distanzverlag Graphic design by @bob_mali Video AR Animations by @wangsoderstrom ‚Pollinator Pathmaker‘ LAS Edition by @daisyginsberg , videographers: @jo.foerster & @jivan_frenster #LASArtFoundation #InterspeciesFuture #ArtBook #BerlinEvent #BookLaunch #Interspecies #Anthropocene #Futurism #Ecology #ClimateChange #BioDiversity

I am very honored to be able to moderate the dialogue between Beatrice Grenier and Gui Trotti today as part of the program "OPPOSITES UNITED: INTERSECTIONS BEYOND BOUNDARIES" organized by KIA and ZERO for Design Week in Milan at the Museo della Permanente (18.00) Space and Earthling In what ways can we think of art as something that might exist on other planets? And how is terrestrial art perceived from an extraterrestrial point of view? What is the relationship between art and planet Earth, beyond the often simple equations that ecology seems to formulate? Guillermo Trotti has designed buildings, environments and accessories dedicated to human life on the Moon and Mars. His works can be found in museum collections. Béatrice Grenier has been thinking and writing for years about the fact that it is always architecture that allows art to exist in space, to take root in the urban and non-urban landscape. Both of them reflects on which may be a vanguard in culture, and which risks have to be taken into account. By inviting them to confront each other, I want to invite them to reflect, from opposing points of view, on the relationship between art and the planet – whichever one it may be.

Dans aucune autre discipline artistique, la parole et l'écriture n'ont joué et ne jouent un rôle aussi important. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de la nécessité de produire un discours critique. Il s'agit d'un lien beaucoup plus profond, difficile à nommer. C'est pourquoi le journalisme a une place inimaginable dans les autres arts, à tel point que Barthes, dans un livre célèbre, est allé jusqu'à proposer l'idée paradoxale et réactionnaire que ce n'est que par l'immersion dans la parole à travers les journaux et les magazines qu'un vêtement acquiert un sens. Je suis très heureux de m'entretenir demain avec l'une des jeunes intellectuelles les plus intéressantes qui écrivent sur la mode, Sophie Abriat, écrivain, journaliste, et correspondante pour la mode pour M Le monde. Ne manquez pas !