Galleries & Artist-Run Spaces
Silver Linings Arts collaborates with galleries and artist-run spaces seeking to extend their curatorial reach beyond geographical, cultural, or habitual frameworks.
Anchored in Paris and active internationally, SLA offers partner galleries a trusted platform for artist exchanges, pop-up exhibitions, and co-curated projects that prioritize depth, artistic integrity, and long-term visibility. Collaborations may take place in Paris, across Europe, or internationally, including reciprocal exhibition formats and shared residency pathways.
Through initiatives such as The Silent Awakening – Chantilly Residency, SLA enables galleries to nominate or send artists for immersive, process-based residencies followed by post-residency exhibitions and publications. Likewise, SLA remains open to sending artists into partner galleries’ programs abroad.
These collaborations are not conceived as market-driven events, but as curatorial dialogues — allowing artists to evolve within new cultural ecosystems while strengthening the international presence and narrative coherence of partner galleries.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
— Paul Klee
Museums & Cultural Institutions
Silver Linings Arts engages with museums and cultural institutions interested in research-based, cross-cultural, and awareness-driven artistic programming.
SLA’s curatorial approach aligns with institutions seeking to explore presence, perception, time, and human consciousness through contemporary artistic practices, while maintaining institutional standards, scholarly rigor, and public accessibility.
Collaborations may include:
- Co-curated exhibitions and public programs
- Research or residency-based projects
- Artist exchanges and institutional dialogues
- Educational, performative, or publication-based initiatives
With Paris as an anchor point, SLA offers institutions a flexible yet structured partner capable of facilitating international collaborations, particularly between Europe and Asia. The Chantilly Residency provides a framework for slow, in-depth artistic research that can feed into institutional exhibitions or long-term programming cycles.
Culture is not inherited. It is conquered.
— André Malraux
Art Schools, Universities & Educational Platforms
Silver Linings Arts collaborates with art schools, universities, and educational institutions seeking to expose students and researchers to expanded artistic methodologies, cross-cultural experience, and embodied artistic research.
SLA’s programs complement academic frameworks by offering real-world curatorial contexts, international exposure, and process-based learning environments. Partnerships may include:
- Student or graduate artist exchanges
- Residency-based learning modules
- Co-designed workshops or seminars
- Research partnerships and publication projects
The Chantilly Residency, in particular, offers an alternative pedagogical space — one where silence, attention, and sustained presence become integral to artistic development. SLA welcomes collaborations that bridge formal education with lived artistic practice, supporting emerging artists and researchers as they transition into the international art field.
You don’t make art to understand it. You make art to become more alive.
— John Berger
Private Collectors & Foundations
Silver Linings Arts partners with private collectors and foundations who view art as a long-term cultural and human investment, beyond immediate acquisition.
Through curatorial guidance, artist development, and access to international networks, SLA offers collectors opportunities to support meaningful artistic processes, including residencies, commissions, exhibitions, and research-driven projects.
Collectors and foundations may engage with SLA through:
- Artist patronage and residency sponsorship
- Support of exhibition or publication projects
- Long-term artist accompaniment
- Strategic cultural philanthropy
These collaborations are built on discretion, trust, and shared values, enabling collectors to participate actively in the growth of artistic ecosystems while contributing to the broader cultural and social impact of art.
Art is not a luxury. It is a necessity of the human spirit.
— Hannah Arendt
Art Associations & Non-Profit Organizations
Silver Linings Arts collaborates with art associations and non-profit organizations committed to cultural exchange, artistic transmission, and social or human awareness through art.
SLA brings curatorial expertise, international connectivity, and project structuring capacity to support joint initiatives such as:
- Cross-border artist programs
- Community-based or socially engaged projects
- Research and publication initiatives
- Public events and collaborative exhibitions
With its hybrid structure, SLA is particularly well suited to partnerships that require both vision and operational clarity, allowing non-profit partners to scale their impact while maintaining artistic coherence and ethical alignment.
Culture is a site of struggle where meaning is shaped, shared, and transformed.
— Paulo Freire
Cross-Disciplinary & Experimental Art Organizations
Silver Linings Arts welcomes collaborations with organizations operating at the intersection of visual art, performance, installation, sound, research, and experimental practices.
Aligned with the WAMA (Where Art Meets Awareness) framework, SLA is especially interested in projects that question perception, embodiment, and presence, and that explore new formats of audience engagement.
These collaborations may take the form of:
- Hybrid exhibitions or performances
- Installation-based projects
- Research-driven artistic experiments
- Long-term cross-disciplinary programs
SLA provides a curatorial and production framework capable of supporting complex, evolving artistic forms while remaining anchored in institutional and international dialogue.
Every human being is an artist.
— Joseph Beuys
International Institutions & Cultural Platforms
Silver Linings Arts acts as a cultural bridge for international institutions and platforms seeking a reliable partner in Paris and Europe.
With deep experience navigating cultural, administrative, and artistic contexts across continents, SLA facilitates:
- Artist mobility and exchange
- Co-curated international projects
- Residency partnerships
- Long-term cultural cooperation
Whether initiating collaborations from Asia, Europe, or elsewhere, SLA offers a grounded yet flexible structure to support sustained international presence and meaningful cultural transmission.
The purpose of art is to widen the boundaries of human experience.
— Ai Weiwei
