MO.CO.
Located in the heart of the city, this former private mansion from the early 19th century has been transformed into an art center dedicated to international exhibitions. It is the main entity of Montpellier Contemporain, an artistic ecosystem grouping together two exhibition spaces and an art school.
Located in the heart of the city, this former private mansion from the early 19th century has been transformed into an art center dedicated to international exhibitions. It is the main entity of Montpellier Contemporain, an artistic ecosystem grouping together two exhibition spaces and an art school.
Programme
Parade, une scène française. Collection Laurent Dumas
Venue: MO.CO.
Laurent Dumas began collecting art over twenty years ago. Over the years, he has focused increasingly on the French art scene, in particular that which reflects the renewed dynamism of pictorial and plastic practices, particularly figurative, nourished by several decades of conceptual art or relational aesthetics, but renewing their interest in describing the world, or rather inventing and reinventing singular worlds. His collection, in which monumental formats abound, is today the reference collection for anyone wishing to understand the evolution of art in France over the last thirty years.
PERENNIAL, Laura Garcia-Karras
Venue: MO.CO. Panacée
Laura Garcia-Karras focuses on a single medium: paint, which she stretches, deconstructs and sculpts, questioning its own materiality. In depicting elements of nature, mainly flowers, the artist proposes different levels of interpretation. In her paintings, she goes beyond their poetic language and invokes their symbolic fragility and eternity, transcending their sensuality and carnality. This exhibition is an opportunity for the artist to explore her medium in a new way, exploding and consuming motifs and revealing juices. Laura Garcia-Karras takes us on a fiery journey from the garden to the abyss.
DÉFAILLANCE DÉSIR, Aurélien Potier
Venue: MO.CO. Panacée
Aurélien Potier questions the world around him in his practice of sculpture, installation, writing, engraving, ceramics and performance. It's not really the medium that counts, but the relationship to the environment that the artist builds and destroys as much with words as with materials. Noting that the world in which we live oscillates nervously through opposing forces, between fragility, vulnerability and anger, failure and desire, emptiness and fullness, the artist proposes a plunge into the exhibition space, deliberately re-wired, re-pe/aned, re-furnished and co-nnected, like the bodies that will be able to traverse and inhabit it.
Access
MO.CO
13, rue de la République, 34000 Montpellier
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 7pm (June - September) and 11am to 6pm (October - May)
MO.CO. Panacée
14, rue de l’École de Pharmacie, 34000 Montpellier
Open from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 7pm (June - September) and 11am to 6pm (October - May)
+33 (0)4 99 58 28 00
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WALKS
• Le Jardin des Plantes
• Musée et Conservatoire d’Anatomie
• La Halle Tropisme : an associative place where the Montpellier's culture and party combine. Bar and restaurant.
TO DISCOVER AT THE MO.CO
• MO.CO. Panacée : patio with a garden designed by Coloco.
• MO.CO. : site-specific artworks to discover, the garden designed by Bertrand Lavier, Jardin des sept continents (2019) and Les arrosoirs arrosés (2019) and Loris Gréaud’s artwork, Idle Mode (2019) in the bar-restaurant.
• MO.CO. Esba : in the schoolyards: artworks by Fabrice Hyber, Prééau (2019) and Bob & Roberta Smith, this is a freedom of Expression Centre (2019).
LESS THAN 60 KM
• FRAC Occitanie Montpellier
• Musée Fabre
• Pavillon Populaire
• Espace Saint-Ravy
• Mécènes du sud Montpellier-Sète
• Aperto
• Iconoscope
• AL/MA gallery
• La Jetée, art gallery and studio
• CRAC Occitanie (Sète)
• Musée International des Arts Modestes (Sète)
PLACES TO STAY
• Le Mas de la Feuillade : guest houses in the heart of a classified park.
• La Merci : guest houses with an indoor garden, very good value for money.
• Hôtel du Palais : in the heart of the district l’Écusson since 1870, very close to the famous Place de la Canourgue.
• Hôtel Oceania Le Métropole : just a step from the MO.CO, an iconic place built in 1898 in the style of the French Riviera’s prestigious palaces.
PLACES TO EAT
• Le Pastis : a first Michelin star in 2021. Come and enjoy the surprise menus of Daniel Lutrand and Jean-Philippe Vivant.
• Leclere : Guillaume Leclere enhances the products, the season, the nature. A must-go.
• Faune : a creative and modern Provençal bistronomy with foreign influences.
• Mikado : japanese Chef Takétomo Lulu Sumi (ex-Ito Chan) cooks “the best ramen in France” according to Le Fooding.
• Rosemarie : mediterranean cuisine and cocktail bar with a big terrace, in the historic centre.
• Ikonka : salads, pies, super fresh and non-classical unique dish. A wide variety of pastries.
• Zaatar : the best falafel in the region!
• Äponem, l’auberge du presbytère : a gastronomic journey inspired by the Hérault’s wilderness, signed by Chef Amélie Darvas and sommelier Gaby Benicio. (Vailhan)
HAVE A DRINK
• Café de la Panacée : restaurant for lunchtime, you can come have a drink all day long and enjoy tapas in the evening in the pleasant and vast courtyard.
• Panka : come and enjoy regional products, natural wines and seafood tapas.
• Les Garçons : a lively bar-tapas-wine cellar downtown.
• Le Parfum : you will find the best cocktails in the city.
• Le Poisson Rouge : a former house of oyster farmers with a breathtaking view, offering a simple and tasty cuisine inspired by the sea. (Frontignan)
• La plage Bonaventure (Palavas-les-Flots)
