Carré d’Art
Inaugurated in 1993, the Carré d'Art is an architectural work by Norman Foster that houses the museum of contemporary art and the library. The museum has a collection of 500 works, from 1960 to the present day. Launched in 1986, the collection has three main focuses: a panorama of French art, with major movements and groups of singular figures represented; a Mediterranean identity based on the south of France, Spain and Italy; and a presentation of Anglo-Saxon and Germanic trends. In addition to its collection, the museum presents exhibitions of major artists from the French and international scenes.
Inaugurated in 1993, the Carré d'Art is an architectural work by Norman Foster that houses the museum of contemporary art and the library. The museum has a collection of 500 works, from 1960 to the present day. Launched in 1986, the collection has three main focuses: a panorama of French art, with major movements and groups of singular figures represented; a Mediterranean identity based on the south of France, Spain and Italy; and a presentation of Anglo-Saxon and Germanic trends. In addition to its collection, the museum presents exhibitions of major artists from the French and international scenes.
Programme
Deserto-Modelo, Lucas Arruda
Event organised as part of the Brazilian Season in France 2025.
This significant retrospectiive of works by Lucas Arruda features paintings, films, and installations from different periods of his career, including some produced specifically for the occasion. The exhibition, which will occupy the entire floor of the temporary spaces, will showcase the different aspects of his practice. Arruda is fundamentally concerned with landscape, human thought, and the experimentation of our capacity to live through the mediation of light and the gaze. His landscapes exist at the point of tension between abstraction and figuration, between appearance and emptiness.
Ivens Machado
Event organised as part of the Brazilian Season in France 2025
The aim of the exhibition is to bring Ivens Machado’s work to France. He belongs to a generation of artists who emerged in the 1970s, succeeding the Neoconcrete movement at the time of the rise of the dictatorial regime.
The first part of the exhibition will feature a selection of video and photographic works documenting the performances of this period. It will show how social tensions were expressed through the body and the performative gesture. In the second part, these proposals from the 1970s will be articulated with his sculptures, which incorporate cement, bricks, iron and wood, all materials used in construction. All his forms suggest the presence of bodies. They establish relationships between physicality and construction, architecture and ruins, sometimes in a provocative manner.
Access
Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain
Place de la Maison-Carrée
30000 Nîmes
- 33 (0)4 66 76 35 70/35
carreartmusee.com
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm.
Until 6.30pm at weekends.
Closed on 1 May.
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• La Maison Carrée (Nîmes)
• Les Arènes (Nîmes)
• Le Musée de la Romanité (Nîmes)
• Collection Lambert (Avignon)
• Le Grenier à Sel (Avignon)
• Luma (Arles)
• Fondation Vincent van Gogh (Arles)
• Musée Reattu (Arles)
PLACES TO STAY
• Royal Hôtel *** : a former 19th-century cloister in the heart of the city. (Nîmes)
• Appart'hôtel Odalys Le Cheval Blanc : exceptional location facing the Roman amphitheater, 5-minute walk from the train station. (Nîmes)
PLACES TO EAT
• Ciel de Nîmes : on the last floor of Carré d’art. (Nîmes)
• Émile et Simone : cheese, cold meat, vegetables plates, wine bar. (Nîmes)
