For four millennia, motherhood has been at the heart of the stories, rituals and images that shape societies. This exhibition presents Mediterranean motherhood as a social construct, a political issue and an artistic subject, through an immersive, diachronic journey tracing its history from Antiquity to the present day, in a constant dialogue between eras and artworks. From ancient mother goddesses to Marseille’s Bonne Mère, from patriotic mothers to contemporary artists, the exhibition questions representations of motherhood often laden with expectations, and reveals the plurality of maternal experiences.

Internationally recognised for his vivid, emotionally charged painted portraits, Davidson presents here a major evolution in his practice. While Stranger marks his first large-scale series of three-dimensional works, the sculptures remain deeply rooted in his long-standing commitment to painting as a tactile and expressive medium.

Ghita Skali, an artist from Casablanca based in Amsterdam. Her multidisciplinary practice includes installations, videos, and interventions. She draws on strange news items, rumours, and historical facts to disrupt institutional power structures. Her work blends humour and critique, resulting in projects that circulate beyond exhibition spaces, through alternative merchandise trade, (il)legal documents, and objects one takes home.

An exhibition supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in France and the Aix-en-Provence Biennale 2026
Exhibition walkthrough: Saturday 23 May & artistic and civic celebration on 14 July
Highlight event as part of the Printemps de l’Art Contemporain PAC festival: Saturday 23 May.

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.

Kegham Djeghalian Jr discovered red boxes buried in his father's home in Cairo. Filled with negatives, documents, and family mementoes, they reveal the life of his grandfather, Kegham Djeghalian Sr., a major figure in photography in Gaza, and bear witness to a broader memory of Gaza.

By rejecting dates and captions, he questions the nature of the archive and brings out the potential of “unmade archive”: an open, unfinished archive that resists closure.

This 8th edition of the “De leur temps” Triennial gathers more than 130 works from 70 French and international private collections, spanning painting, video, sculpture, performance and installation. Since 2004, the Triennial has highlighted committed collectors and reflected contemporary sensibilities.

This edition questions the climate amid ecological, political, and social upheavals, presenting the collection as a living ecosystem and inviting reflection on memory, preservation, and transformation.

Caldas's furniture, crafted from discarded tree trunks and designed with his fellow canoe-carving friends in his hometown of Salvador de Bahia, the most African city in the Americas, is of the same essence: resourcefulness, inventiveness, and poetry.

This unprecedented project is the culmination of fifteen years of research into the creation of a structural, non-pigment-based blue. In it, the artist develops the architecture of a painting made of white, translucent, and black materials that reproduces the atmospheric phenomenon of Rayleigh scattering. Here, light is captured to give the colour blue a vibratory quality.

Exhibition presented as part of the Printemps de l’Art Contemporain.

In Marseille, Victor Siret conjures a deserted city saturated with signs, where the hum of air conditioners replaces the mistral. Drawing from a personal image archive shaped by cinema, television, video games, and advertising, the artist translates these references into embroidery and needlepoint.

Between reality and fiction, the apparent clarity of images gives way to more ambiguous signs.

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.

Multidisciplinary artist Jérémie Setton situates his art between objective materiality and visual appearance, highlighting the relativity of our perception.

As part of the PAC Festival.

Centered on Emmanuelle Luciani’s research, featuring invited photographers, the exhibition documents the Calanques, their inhabitants, their diving and fishing practices. The project also reveals the depths of the Calanques through underwater photographs.