This multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre of national interest and artists’residency is set in the compound of the 19th-century Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital. It welcomes visual artists as well as performing arts companies and offers exhibitions, shows, and encounters.
This multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre of national interest and artists’residency is set in the compound of the 19th-century Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital. It welcomes visual artists as well as performing arts companies and offers exhibitions, shows, and encounters.
The artist centres on a common object, the sofa. A math problem, late-night poems, music composition are the conceptual sparks for a series of hybrid artworks, between furniture and sculpture.
Curator: Diane Pigeau
Centre hospitalier Montperrin
109, avenue du Petit-Barthélémy
13100 Aix-en-Provence
+33 (0)4 42 16 17 75
3bisf.com
Tuesday to Saturday: 2pm – 6pm, during exhibitions.
Closed from 24 July to 15 Aug.
Free entry.
How to get there?
• By car : go through the first barrier which opens automatically. Go straight ahead, pass the second barrier (parking code*). Then take the first right and the third left. The 3 bis f is on your right.
• On foot: this itinerary is valid for pedestrians, except for barriers and access codes!
Locate other art venues in the vicinity on the map.
CULTURE & HERITAGE
• Le Pavillon de Vendôme: museum and sumptuous French gardens. (Aix-en-Provence)
WALKS
• Promenade de la Torse: a riverside park ideal for a country walk. (Aix-en-Provence)
PLACES TO STAY
• La Maison du Collectionneur: a confidential and intimate address to sleep in the heart of the Mazarin district. (Aix-en-Provence)
PLACES TO EAT & DRINK
• Mademoiselle Wine: a wine cellar specialising in local champagnes, just a stone's throw from the magnificent Place Richelme market. (Aix-en-Provence)
• La Méduse: a bar where the welcome is as good as the quality of the wines and the small plates to share. (Aix-en-Provence)
• Gallifet Kitchen: restaurant in the garden of the Hôtel de Gallifet from June to October, tea room from October to May. (Aix-en-Provence)