Presentation:

Founded in 2019 by Magalie Meunier, Studio Ganek is a nonprofit organization that supports local governments, businesses, institutions, citizens, and independent artists —from developing partnerships to bringing contemporary art projects to life.

Studio Ganek brings together and offers a wide range of expertise:

• Cultural Engineering
• Artistic Direction
• Production and Promotion
• Administrative Support

regardless of the format (exhibition, artwork production, event, art commission, award, etc.), duration, or specific nature of the artistic projects we support.

We position ourselves as an interface, a space for exchange and consultation, facilitating collaboration between artists, institutions, communities, and audiences, while ensuring rigor, creativity, and support tailored to each context. Through our projects, we promote the presence of contemporary art in shared spaces, creating works that engage with their environment and their audience.

Each project is conceived as a dynamic collaboration, where the artist, the community, and the public come together in a shared process.

Studio Ganek Team

Magalie Meunier (Director)
Leïla Couradin (Trainer)
Émilie Flory (Trainer)
Lena Peyrard (Trainer)

Ganek?

Július Koller, 1983 • Collection Musée
d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne

The Slovak artist Július Koller (1939-2007) founded the U.F.O. Ganek Gallery in 1971 at the almost inaccessible summit of the High Tatras. A committee of artists close to Koller met regularly to establish the content of this fictitious exhibition space, which by its very existence arouses the imagination and offers the possibility of freely developing ideas.

50 years after Július Koller, the accuracy of this utopian project leads Studio Ganek to follow in its footsteps. Firmly committed to the artists, we propose a space of possibilities, a platform of reflections and collective actions thought as a place of creation porous and without border. The notion of work, in the art world, is sometimes put aside in favor of its symbolic value. We wish to re-engage this notion, by sharing the intense adventure that is the production of a work of art, in and out of the museum setting. Anchored in contemporary society and its issues, the artistic projects we accompany are disseminated for and to the greatest number of people.