Exhibition and meeting: Neighborhood / Nachbarschaft

Illustrators Joëlle Jolivet (France) and Katrin Stangl (Germany) led a joint workshop bringing together twelve students from the École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg. Conceived as a space for dialogue, sharing, and comparing practices related to printmaking and linocut, this collaborative work yielded
The project gives rise to an exhibition and a unique, free-to-air journal, reflecting a shared territory in the making, where images become a common language. The opening provides an opportunity for discussion with the young artists.

Biographies
Born in 1965, Joëlle Jolivet studied at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris and at the École des Beaux-Arts. She is particularly interested in lithography and linocut, which constitute her primary means of expression. She has published numerous picture books with major children's publishers, works regularly for the press, and her books are published worldwide. She lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine.

Katrin Stangl, born in 1977 in Germany, lives and works in Cologne. A graduate of the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts, she develops an artistic practice centered on printmaking and drawing and has taught at RWTH Aachen University since 2014. She contributed to the collective album *Un loup peut en cacher un autre* (A Wolf Can Hide Another) published by Sarbacane and illustrated *Bienvenue au zoo de Kaboul* (Welcome to the Kabul Zoo), selected for the Pépites de Montreuil prize, as well as *Tous au vert* (Everyone Goes Green) by Didier Lévy. Her works are also published in the Czech Republic, England, and Italy.

A program of the Franco-German Center of Provence in collaboration with the Higher School of Art of Aix-en-Provence and the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg in partnership with the Rencontres du 9e Art and the Tourist Office of Aix-en-Provence.