LUMA Arles
LUMA Arles is an interdisciplinary creative campus where, through exhibitions, conferences, live performances, architecture and design, thinkers, artists, researchers, and scientists question the relationships between art, culture, environment, human rights, and research. The cultural center is located on the Parc des Ateliers, a former railway wasteland covering 11 hectares. The landscape garden, park, and pond surrounding the campus are the work of landscape architect Bas Smets.
LUMA Arles is an interdisciplinary creative campus where, through exhibitions, conferences, live performances, architecture and design, thinkers, artists, researchers, and scientists question the relationships between art, culture, environment, human rights, and research. The cultural center is located on the Parc des Ateliers, a former railway wasteland covering 11 hectares. The landscape garden, park, and pond surrounding the campus are the work of landscape architect Bas Smets.
Programme
Liu Chuang : Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities
Liu Chuang’s video installation, Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities, leads us on a speculative journey through technology, infrastructure, ecology and finance.
In collaboration with curator and researcher Yang Beichen, the artist explores the complex links between hydraulic projects and bitcoin mining in south-west China, a region rich in hydroelectric resources and marked by great ethnic diversity. This three-screen projection weaves together archival material and filmed sequences, accompanied by a voice-over in Muya, an endangered language. It reveals the impact of modern development on traditional cultures.
David Armstrong
Venue: La Tour - Underground, Niveau - 3
More than a simple portraitist, Armstrong, who died in 2014, captured the essence of a generation and a particular attitude in the face of life, which he immortalized in a series of images as intimate as they are striking. The exhibition shows how, from the outset, Armstrong depicted not only people, but also an attitude in the face of life and its disappointments–an attitude that is at once heady and exuberant, disenchanted and idle.
Archives Hans Ulrich Obrist Chapitre 5 : Maria Lassnig « Vivre avec l’art empêche de se faner ! »
Venue: La Tour / Galerie des Archives, Niveau -2 / Galerie du Cerisier, Niveau -2
The 5th chapter of the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives, the first major exhibition in over twenty-five years in France devoted to Maria Lassnig (1919–2014).
Access
LUMA Arles
Parc des Ateliers
35, avenue Victor-Hugo
13200 Arles
luma-arles.org
Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-6pm.
From 5 May, Wednesday to Monday, 10am-6pm.
From 7 July, daily, 10am-7.30pm.
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• L’Aire, petit centre d’art : restaurant and art gallery (artistic director Cyrille Putman).
• La Croisière : ephemeral space in the heart of Arles with restaurant, juice bar, open-air cinema, bookstore, grocery store, exhibitions, yoga classes, petanque field, music, well-being...
• Musée Reattu : museum created around the artworks of the Arles painter Jacques Réattu and a collection of drawings by Picasso; the place is also devoted to photography and architecture.
• Georges Selz : antique stores.
• Maison Fragonard : the famous perfumer from Grasse has chosen to set up shop just a stone's throw from the famous Roman amphitheater and the ancient theater.
PLACES TO EAT
• La Chassagnette : a tribute to the richness of the vegetables combined with local producers’ meat and fish by Chef Armand Arnal. One Michelin star.
• Le Chardon : this living space welcomes Chefs in residence.
• Bazar Café : coffee shop, brunch, healthy, tasty, organic and seasonal cuisine.
• Infini Café : organic coffee beans, hot chocolate prepared with chocolate pieces and homemade cakes.
• Le Tambourin : traditional and Provençal cuisine to enjoy on a terrace, under the majestic plane trees of the Place du Forum.
• Monstre : gallery, café, restaurant, olive oil, salt, pepper.
• Le Gibolin : bistrot, wine bar and organic cuisine in the uncommon district of la Roquette.
• Le Galoubet : refined recipes to enjoy on a beautiful terrace, in the heart of the old town.
• Mon Bar : orovençal specialties, brasserie meals and Creole recipes. A must-go terrace.
• Restaurant-Hôtel Le Voltaire : a 5-minute walk from the train station, in the old centre, near the Rhône docks, at the foot of the Arenas.
PLACES TO STAY
• L’Arlatan : the place to be in Arles! A total work of art by Jorge Pardo. A colourful universe to sleep in, eat or enjoy a cocktail.
• Le Cloître : a place designed by India Mahdavi. Located on a small place in the heart of Arles.
• Le Nord-Pinus : on its terrace, at the bar or in the bedrooms, this hotspot of the Arlesian life welcomed Hemingway, Cocteau, Picasso, Inès de la Fressange or Kate Moss.
• Mas de Chabran : The Domaine de Chabran and its 18th-century Mas Provençal stand in the middle of huge formal gardens, not far from the village of Maussane-les-Alpilles.
