How can objects be made to tell their stories? This exhibition grew out of a residency for four researchers in history, archaeology, geography and anthropology, who worked in the Mucem’s collections storage facilities in La Belle de Mai from September 2022 to July 2023.

Working with the museum’s research teams, they explored its collections, archives and library. Their investigations range from Robert Eberlé’s ephemeral pavement art, photographed by Pierre Soulier, to the lost craft of making artificial flowers, cheese moulds and objects connected with migration. Each study uncovers the uses and stories these objects preserve, while inviting us to reflect on how we live, make things and pass on knowledge.

Following his major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Rashid Johnson takes over the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium at Château La Coste with an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and film. The artist presents new bronze sculptures created especially for the estate. Drawing on personal and cultural histories, his work explores human connection, collective rituals and solidarity. In dialogue with Oscar Niemeyer’s modernist architecture and the surrounding Provençal landscape, the exhibition reflects on community, shared experience and the power of coming together.

A unique dialogue between pieces by Japanese artists of different generations. The exhibition explores the emotional, ecological and his-torical bonds that connect us to our habitats, set against our modern lifestyles and the ensuing envi-ronmental disasters which have made these invisible connections both invaluable and unstable.

Based on the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that hit North East Japan on March 11th 2011, an event that destroyed people’s lives, society and the environment, the exhibition displays pieces crafted post-Fukushima alongside artwork seeped in the history and rapid modernisation of 1970s Japan.

In partnership with Japan Foundation and La Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris.

In 2024, the [mac] acquired Louisa Babari's work, Journal of an Algerian Student in Moscow, a silent slideshow composed of documentary and personal images drawn from the artist's family archives. We wanted to delve deeper into the artist's work by entrusting her with the experimental space of the [mac]room. Photographic, collage, and sound works address the ancient world, especially the Berber and Numidian civilisations, within the Algerian context.

In partnership with the Passages Contemporary Art Centre in Troyes and art centre Rhizome in Algiers.

Adrien Vescovi is invited to take over the Chapel and walkways of the Centre de la Vieille Charité to create a work based on textile practice, exploring the resonances of artisanal gestures.

To him, sewing, dyeing, and humble materials are the bearers of a multifaceted memory, echoing the workshops that have always dotted the Mediterranean shores. A fluid, poetic work, conceived as a journey, connecting spaces and perspectives, the Mediterranean architecture and contemporary creation.

As part of the Mediterranean Season.

Marking the Foundation’s 50th anniversary, this exhibition explores Vasarely’s "architectural tropism," rooted in the legacy of the Bauhaus and the Espace group. From the Polychrome City of Happiness project to the monumental integrations in Caracas, the exhibition examines the nature of art in today’s information society and its social impact.

Resistance lies at the heart of struggles against diktats, injustice and barriers to progress. A driving force behind workers’ struggles, it also fuels environmental movements and women’s fight against patriarchy. Art, a realm of dreams and endless possibilities, and contemporary art in particular, must also resist the established order and those who oppose change. In the face of life’s torments, it expresses a form of ‘Resistance’, echoing life itself in its opposition to death and nothingness.

This participatory exhibition by the collective ‘Les Nouveaux Collectionneurs’ brings together works from the municipal collection of Port-de-Bouc, the Artothèque Métropolitaine de Miramas, FRAC Sud and the Musée Ziem in Martigues, alongside works produced during residencies by Olivier Bémer (Chroniques biennial), Johanna Cartier and Sébastien Schnyder (Arts Éphémères – Itinérances festival).