Monaco Art Week is returning for its fourth edition this month with a huge variety of fine art, objet d’art, jewellery, sculpture, and mixed media pieces on show at locations all over the Principality.
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Top image: Adam Bricusse, Eternal at G&M Design Gallery, © Fabbio Galatioto. This article was originally published on 4th July 2022.
After two years of pandemic, the Mairie has announced the return of summer fun in the form of festivals, concerts, fireworks shows and other events. Here’s what’s in store for the next few months.
This article was originally published on 15th June 2022
Sporting Monte-Carlo is back for the summer season with a calendar of dinner shows at Coya restaurant and legendary nights at Jimmy’z nightclub.
This summer, it’s all happening at Sporting Monte-Carlo.
New for 2022, Coya Restaurant is now putting on “the ultimate dinner show” combining the flavours of Peru with live performances and Latin-inspired DJ sets. Located in the indoor dining room, guests arrive at 8pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights for a spectacle transporting them to South America where the fiesta is always in full swing.
Highlights of the menu include Pisco cocktails, Wagyu empanadas, Chilean sea bass and tuna tostadas with Oscietra caviar.
Coya will also be the setting for Noche Blanca on 21st June, where partygoers are asked to dress all in white, and two Rituals nights on 19th July and 9th August, when guests will have the chance to be “spellbound” by a Peruvian tribal ritual. Dancing and cocktails add to the party vibe as well as the techno sounds from the DJ.
Pisco Bar is back as well, offering a selection of drinks and street food from 7pm to 2am.
Summer 2022 also sees the return of party nights at Jimmy’z, with the hottest electro DJs coming to play. This season will be dedicated to the memory of Regine, the lady behind this iconic institution, who passed away earlier this year.
Some of the hottest names in electronic dance music have hit the club’s turntables, including Robin Schulz, Michael Calfan, Lost Frequencies, Martin Solveig, Bob Sinclar, Mark Ronson, FatBoy Slim, Big Ali and Benny Benassi.
Top photo source: Monte-Carlo SBM. This article was originally published on 20th June 2022.
A mixture of competitiveness and cooperation, the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge (MEBC) returned to the Principality for its ninth edition showcasing the latest innovations in clean energy and naval engineering.
Whilst providing entertainment for spectators and attendees, including Prince Albert II who visited the paddock on Thursday, the ultimate aim of the event is to be at the cutting edge, facilitating the development of sustainable solutions within yachting.
38 teams from 21 nations descended upon the Monaco Yacht Club (YCM) to showcase their inventions, from hydrogen fuelled vessels, to boats covered in solar panels, there is a diversity in the innovative ecological solutions on display.
Materials engineer of Monégasuqe team SBM Offshore, Kevin Schietsel spoke to Monaco Life about the growth of the event. “We have the impression that the event is really growing. There are more and more exhibitioners. The whole line of exhibitions in the paddock was never there previously. The room behind it is full as well. The event is on the rise! The first year we were here there were only eight of us, now we are 14,” he said.
On a competitive level, Schiestel is hoping to beat Italian team UniBoAT, who pipped them to last year’s title. “We’re here for the victory. We have many rivals that are well prepared, two Italian teams that are very, very strong, one of which won last year. Last year we were second just behind them. We hope to beat them but it will be difficult,” said Schiestel.
Although their hydrogen model didn’t work as well as hoped on the first day of competition on Thursday, Schiestel was nonetheless pleased that the model worked. The same can’t be said of all the boats that took to the water of Port Hercule for the opening parade.
Trial and error are, however, essential elements of innovation, and this year’s edition, more than any other, showcases some of the most innovative technologies that they hope can be adopted into the yachting industry. For Bernard d’Alessandri, general secretary of the YCM, the construction of the boats themselves marks a notable milestone.
He told Monaco Life, “We’re no longer at the point of raising awareness, but of taking action. The people here have constructed their own boats; they’re here with solutions, and we’ve moved from ideas to solutions and projects. Everyone is facing this reality, looking at how we can react and change things.”
It isn’t just about the boats, but also the engineers and the students that design them. As well as exhibiting some of the most cutting edge nautical technology, the event is also an opportunity to network and share vital expertise and experience.
A series of conferences, tech talks and job forums allow the different teams and exhibitors to pool their knowledge, whilst also providing young talents the opportunity to find jobs and internships within the growing industry that is sustainable yachting.
Back in 1904, Monaco hosted the first meeting of small boats in Monaco, where at the time, they were testing motorisation. Now, in 2022, Monaco perpetuates that tradition of innovation, by maintaining their position at the cutting edge of everything that is new and innovative in a yachting industry that is recognising the need to take an eco shift.
Top photo by Luke Entwistle, Monaco Life
The exhibition ‘Christian Bérard, Eccentric Baby’ has just opened at Villa Paloma, presented by the New National Museum of Monaco (NMNM).
The exhibition brings together more than 300 paintings, drawings, photographs and interior decorations, retracing the life of Christian Bérard (1902-1949).
Affectionately nicknamed “Baby” by his friends, Bérard was a painter, illustrator, scenographer, fashion designer, decorator and costume designer for theatre and cinema, and was a major artistic figure of the 1930s and 1940s.
Over three floors of Villa Paloma, the exhibition examines his numerous stays in the south, in particular in Monaco where he worked with the Ballets Russes, and his multiple collaborations with the likes of Jean Cocteau, Louis Jouvet, Christian Dior and Gabrielle Chanel.
Chief Curator of the NMNM Célia Bernasconi was curator of the exhibition, while decorator Jacques Grange was in charge of the staging. Guest artist Nick Mauss has laid out a journey that has no chronological order or classification by discipline, but addresses the three major themes in the work and life of the artist: the Interiors, the Marvelous and the Mediterranean.
‘Christian Bérard, Eccentric Baby’ is on show at Villa Paloma, 56 boulevard du Jardin Exotique, until 16th October 2022
Photo by Michael Alesi, Government Communication Department
Photo of Xavier Chevrin and Prince Albert II by Eric Mathon/Prince’s Palace
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