MRAC Occitanie
Located in a former wine cellar, Mrac Occitanie presents temporary exhibitions, a yearly renewed permanent collection, and a boutique-bookstore. Its forecourt showcases artworks by artists Bruno Peinado, Daniel Buren and Erro.
Located in a former wine cellar, Mrac Occitanie presents temporary exhibitions, a yearly renewed permanent collection, and a boutique-bookstore. Its forecourt showcases artworks by artists Bruno Peinado, Daniel Buren and Erro.
Programme
The circle is the world, Anne-Marie Schneider
Anne-Marie Schneider's preferred medium is drawing, which becomes a form of daily writing, a personal diary. Although her work is figurative, the motifs are not always immediately identifiable, and her iconographic repertoire, which she unfolds in spontaneously sketched forms, is made up of figures, objects, animals and bodies. Her universe is singular, inhabited by the artist's dreams, anxieties, obsessions and desires. Elements borrowed from ordinary everyday life - sometimes violent - from autobiography as well as from myth and fairy tales, come together. Between the gentleness of her drawings and the harshness of her subject matter, the immediacy of her illustrations and the depth of her critical thinking, Anne-Marie Schneider's universe invites us to reflect on and interpret our own imaginations.
Exoskeletlight, Naomi Maury
Naomi Maury, winner of the Prix Occitanie Médicis 2022, is interested in the relationship between humans and non-human species (plants, animals, machines, etc.). For the Mrac, the artist has conceived her exhibition as a large-scale immersive installation, immersed in darkness and sound. Large, slender metal sculptures, some of which produce halos of colored light - which she calls exoskeletons - welcome visitors. Naomi Maury transports us into a fictional future in which fragility, precarious equilibrium and care between the living and the non-living take center stage. Her latest film, The meaning of light, on view in the exhibition, depicts the symbiosis sought between living species.
Va y’avoir du sport, Aurélie Piau
This exhibition inaugurates a new project in partnership with the Lycée Marc Bloch in Sérignan. The artist has been invited by the museum for a double exhibition, the first of which, entitled Mouiller le maillot, was presented at L'Annexe du Mrac at the Lycée, following her residency at the school in January 2023.
Aurélie Piau chooses humor in the face of the world's violence, and art to make "the world livable" in which she creates while having fun. In her paintings, drawings, earthenware "bibelots" and wallpapers, themes intermingle in a joyful, gritty universe: fragility and resistance, the sacred and blasphemy, police violence and children's games, femininity and the anthropocene, glory and the ridiculous, sport and capitalism, décor and politics, delicacy and triviality.
Jeanne Susplugas
Jeanne Susplugas, a local artist and a member of the museum's collection, offers a sensitive exploration of the body, which becomes a pretext for probing universal issues such as solitude, psychological disorder, weakness, addiction, madness and obsession. The images presented by the artist's drawings, sculptures, photographs, videos and installations are seductive at first glance, but ultimately reveal a darker, more disturbing subtext.
Access
School holidays
Open Tuesday to Friday 10-18h,
and weekends 1-6pm
Summer opening hours: July and August
Open Tuesday to Friday 11am-7pm
and weekends 1-7pm.
Last admission to the museum at 6.30 pm.
Open all year round.
Closed on Mondays and public holidays.
Exceptionally closed on 24 and 31 December at 4pm.
Access subject to health pass from 12 years old and without obligation to wear a mask.
146, avenue de la plage
34410 Sérignan
+33 (0)4 67 17 88 95
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*PLACES TO DISCOVER
• Château Vargoz (Sérignan)
• Dado au Domaine des Orpellières (Sérignan)
• La Collégiale Notre Dame de Grâce (Sérignan)
• La Cigalière (Sérignan)
Less than 60 kilometers :
• CRAC Occitanie (Sète)
• MIAM Musée International des Arts Modestes (Sète)
• Chapelle du Quartier Haut (Sète)
• Musée Paul Valéry (Sète)
• Musée de la Mer (Sète)
• Espace Georges Brassens (Sète)
• Centre photographique documentaire (Sète)
• MACO Musée à ciel ouvert (Sète)
• Musée Fayet (Béziers)
• Abbaye de Fontcaude (Béziers)
• Plateau des Poètes (Béziers)
• Écluses de Fonseranes (Béziers)
• Cathédrale Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Celse (Béziers)
• Chapelle des Pénitents (Béziers)
• Site archéologique et musée d'Ensérune (Nissan-lez-Enserune)
• Abbaye de Fontfroide (Narbonne)
• L.A.C. Lieu d’art contemporain (Sigean)
• FRAC Occitanie (Montpellier)
• MO.CO (Montpellier)
• Mécènes du sud (Montpellier)
• Musée Fabre (Montpellier)
• Pavillon Populaire (Montpellier)
• Musée d'Arts Brut (Montpellier)
• Espace Saint-Ravy (Montpellier)
PLACES TO STAY
• Domaine des Layres (Sérignan)
• Côté Collégiale (Sérignan)
PLACES TO EAT
• L’Harmonie (Sérignan)
• Ma ferme (Sérignan)
• Brasserie Fop’s (Sérignan)
• Brasserie Saint Roch (Sérignan)
• La Coccina (Sérignan)
• Les Voiles (Sérignan)
WINE CELLARS
• Cave Si Le Vin (Sérignan)
• Cave des Artistes (Sérignan)
