Patricia Couvet - 2025 laureate of the TextWork Writing Grant

Patricia Couvet is the laureate of the TextWork Writing Grant in 2025. Extending the programme of the TextWork editorial platform, created by Fondation Pernod Ricard with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, this grant invites young local writers to engage with an artistic scene in France from a set of theoretical and aesthetic references.

TextWork's advisory committee, composed of Liberty Adrien, Eva Barois de Caevel and Alice Dusapin chose among numerous applications whose relevance and richness have been unanimously appreciated, Patricia Couvet's project.

The laureate will receive a grant of 1500 Euros and editorial support to develop her text as well as a short stay at the Archives de la Critique d'Art in Rennes to further her research. Her text will be translated into English and published in both languages in the fall of 2025.

Patricia Couvet (b. 1994) is a curator based between Berlin and Strasbourg. Her work relies on the entanglement of humanities and social sciences with the curatorial (exhibitions, public programs and publications).Co-founder of “Pickle Bar”, a Berlin-based project space dedicated to performative and discursive formats, she has been also responsible for Slavs and Tatars’ residency-mentorship program since 2021. Besides, she co-founded the independent publishing house DVA Press.

Patricia Couvet's research for the TextWork Writing Grant will focus on the use of linguistic diversity within performative, discursive and graphic design practices. In observing the adaptations and hybridisations of language practices, which are sometimes marginalised, a sense of solidarity emerges around the major issue of plurilinguistic inclusivity in France. Slang forms, but also queer linguistic and multiscript writing, for example, are the agents that artists, writers and graphic designers reconfigure or produce to shape an inclusive language in its broadest terms.