Eva González-Sancho has been director of the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain - Région Bourgogne (FRAC Bourgogne)in Dijon since May 2003. She previously ran the art projects office Etablissement d'en face projects in Brussels (1998- March 2003), undertook projects as a freelance curator (including Legal Space / Public Space, a research programme dealing with the construction of the public space) and gave courses in the History of Exhibitions at Metz University. Her exhibitions and acquisitions policy at the FRAC Bourgogne is organised around the many issues being raised by public space as well as around the perception and function of space. Architecture and city-planning, private space and public place, legislation and individual freedom and exhibition room lie at the heart of these concerns. Ample proof of all this lies in the invitations extended to Guillaume Leblon, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Lara Almarcegui, Jonas Dahlberg, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Knut Ǻsdam and Peter Downsbrough to exhibit in the FRAC Bourgogne venue in Dijon, as well as in the acquisitions of work by Francis Alÿs, Jordi Colomer, Gaylen Gerber, Henrik Håkansson, Rita McBride, and Marcelo Cidade.
Linked with this primary area of reflection is programming that deals with the relationship to language, and sometimes to text through artworks which are part and parcel of a broader questioning about the issue of awareness, and the conditions and forms of self-perception and self-consciousness in a given place, as illustrated in different ways by the work of Imogen Stidworthy, Frances Stark, Dora García, and Stefan Brüggemann.
For the period 2008-2009, the FRAC Bourgogne venue in Dijon is putting on exhibitions of: Rita McBride & Koenraad Dedobeeleer, Stefan Brüggemann, and Tere Recarens. In addition, the FRAC Bourgogne is about to launch the magazine PAUSE in the fall 2008, a publishing project aimed at giving greater visibility to the intellectual exchanges that form the basis of all art and culture projects--including the ones involving the creation and circulation of a collection--and contributing to discussions informing the national and international art scene. Under the title Generational, the first issue of this magazine will be devoted to Knut Åsdam (born in 1968 in Trondheim, Norway) and Johanna Billing (born in 1973 in Jönköping, Sweden) who have both had shows at the FRAC Bourgogne; their works also feature in the FRAC Bourgogne collection.
Since 1983, the Regional Contemporary Art Funds (FRAC) have played a part in the history of cultural development in France, by asserting the role of art in the life of the country through children's educational programs, cultural activities involving research and leisure, and tangible knowledge helping with self-understanding and the understanding of others. Each regional collection is international in scope and reflects the curatorial interests of its director.