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LOCATIONS & OPENING HOURS
Free admission, during exhibitions / depending on the project

• for opening hours and locations, please refer to the “Programme” pages
• closed on Sundays and public holidays
• closed in August
  
  
  

ADDRESSES

MAISON FLEUVE
5 Place de la Batellerie
93450 L’Île-Saint-Denis / Île-de-France

MAISON FLOTTANTE
52 Chemin du Halage
27740 Poses
Eure / Normandie

Cneai =

The multiple locations of Cneai = allow for an interweaving of perspectives from around the world, reflecting a world rich in complexity. Hospitality and experience are foundational. Cneai = is reinventing itself from Île-de-France as an archipelago, a network of sites — so many permanent or temporary outposts, akin to shared or pirate zones, places of experimentation or of retreat. Cneai = thus operates a floating live/work studio, the Maison Flottante, moored on the banks of the Seine at Poses in Normandy. It calls for mobility and residency outside urban centres, through a decentred movement and an adventurous dynamic. Cneai = also runs a regional programme through the Maisons Volantes (“Flying Houses”), which land wherever invited by schools across Île-de-France, as well as long-distance programmes hosted by the Maison Monde (“World House”). With the artist always at the heart of the art centre’s concerns, the Maison Boîte (“Box House”) provides tailored support to cultural and artistic professionals and enterprises.

With support from:
Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Île-de-France • Région Île-de-France • DSDEN 93 • Département de l’Eure • Agglomération Seine-Eure • Ville de Poses

Our values

cCneai = places artists and users at the heart of its project. Every day we affirm our commitment to applying and developing: integration, gender parity, cultural rights, interdisciplinarity, good practice in supporting authors, a solidarity-based art economy, the pooling of knowledge and resources, sustainability, environmental respect, respect for individuals, and wellbeing at work.

Applying our values is a major challenge. These values are listed and defined in an establishment agreement, drawn up collectively with employees and members of the Board of Directors and registered with the clerk’s office of the Conseil de Prud’hommes. We apply the ethical charters, best-practice guides and scales of DCA (Association française de développement des centers d’art contemporain) and Arts en résidence - Réseau national.

A renewed project

Ann Stouvenel has directed Cneai = since 2023, developing a multisite artistic and cultural project together with the team, the Board and associate artists. Cneai = is reinventing itself as an archipelago, a network of sites — so many permanent or temporary outposts, akin to shared or pirate zones, places of experimentation or of withdrawal. In Normandy, the Maison Flottante calls for mobility within and beyond urban centres, through a decentred movement and an adventurous dynamic.

Ann Stouvenel is also a member of the artistic council of Finis terrae – Centre d’art insulaire, which organises residencies and events across maritime and coastal areas in Brittany, in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, and abroad. She is co-founder and co-chair of Arts en résidence – National Network, and works as a trainer. Her work centres on creating opportunities for experimentation, mobility and the dissemination of the works produced. Her curatorial practice is contextual: depending on communities, current developments in art, and societal and aesthetic issues, she determines periods of creation. Her work is dedicated to hosting artists in residence, creating editorial objects, and her activity as an exhibition curator. She has curated around fifty exhibitions in France and abroad.

History

Cneai =, conceived as early as 1993 and named in 1997 the “Centre national de l’Estampe et des arts imprimés” (National Centre for Prints and Printed Arts), then renamed in 2012 “Centre national édition art image” (National Centre for Art Editions and Images), was located from 1997 to 2017 on a bend of the Seine at the heart of the Île des Impressionnistes in Chatou, in the Paris region (Yvelines). It then moved to Les Magasins Généraux in Pantin from 2017 to 2020, and to the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris from 2021 to 2025. The Maison Flottante is currently based in Poses, Normandy. Cneai = has been directed by Ann Stouvenel since 2023, following the directorship of Sylvie Boulanger since the centre’s opening in 1997. The centre’s first collections were established from its founding, notably the FMRA collection, alongside the publication of multiple works, editions, artists’ books, catalogues and other publications. Initially devoted to research in the field of printmaking, Cneai = went on to address, more broadly, media works and multiples which — like engraving in its own time — incorporate the act of dissemination from their very conception. Reproducible and transmissible, these works can take many forms: books, records, films, posters, flyers, postcards, magazines, websites, and more. In almost 30 years, cneai = has carried out numerous prestigious projects in France and around the world.

In 2006, to mark the tenth anniversary of cneai =, a public commission from the French Ministry of Culture was set up to complete the art center’s initial development program, which included artists’ studios. As the local urban development plan of the town of Chatou no longer allowed for construction, the project was designed on water and named the Maison Flottante. Created by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec with Denis Daversin and Jean-Marie Finot, the Maison Flottante is a houseboat designed in Le Havre and comprising an apartment, a studio and two terraces. Anchored on the banks of the Île des Impressionnistes, it welcomes artists, researchers and writers for residencies of varying lengths, with projects destined for publication.

Team & Community

THE TEAM

• Director: Ann Stouvenel
• Administrator: Camille Renault
• Community Manager: Pierre Duval
• Webmaster and Graphic Designer: Olivier J.
• Civic services and internships throughout the year: to help with editing, mediation, communication or programming, depending on the orientation and wishes of the people we support
• The team works with stage managers, graphic designers and authors on a project-by-project basis throughout the year

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• President: Steven Hearn
• Treasurer: Jean-Luc de Feuardent
• Board members : Charlotte Flossaut, Rozen Le Nagard, Fabrice de Pontfrache, Camille Pradon, Claire Schillinger, Christophe Viart
• Honorary member: Marie-Christine Davy

PUBLIC PARTNERS

• Structuring partners: Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Île-de-France, Région Île-de-France, Métropole du Grand Paris, Plaine Commune, Ville de L’Île-Saint-Denis
• Territorial partners: Département de l’Eure, Communauté d’agglomération Seine-Eure, Ville de Poses

NETWORKS

• Le cneai = is a member of DCA, the French association for the development of contemporary art centers
• The cneai = is a member of Arts en résidence - Réseau national, a network of residency structures and a resource platform
• Le cneai = is a member of the Consortium d’ArTeC, supported by the ComUE Université Paris Lumières, the École Universitaire de Recherche

CURRENT ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC PARTNERS (FRANCE)

• Pan Café
• Finis terrae – Centre d’art insulaire
• Le Wonder – Bobigny
• Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France
• Frac Picardie
• Institut Français de Paris
• Institut Français de Suède
• Institut Français d’Islande
• ¡Viva Villa!
• Réseau documents d’artistes
• Documents d’artistes La Réunion
• Documents d’artistes Caraïbes et Amazonie
• La Station Culturelle – Martinique
• Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
• MAC de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
• Fonds de dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
• Bourse de commerce – Pinault Collection

UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION STRUCTURES

• DSDEN de Seine-Saint-Denis
• DSDEN de l’Eure
• Rectorat de Créteil
• Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne
• Institut ACTE, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne
• Université de Toulouse – GET Laboratory
• HEAR Strasbourg – Mulhouse

CURRENT INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

• Videotage – Hong Kong
• Consulate General of France – Hong Kong and Macao
• Art Inside Out – Sweden
• LA Museum, Iceland
• HART HAUSE – Hong Kong
• Résonances France–Sweden Programme
  
  
  

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