The exhibition presents recent works by Melika Sadeghzadeh, some of which evoke a house that is constantly changing and impossible to return to. You can observe several attempts to rebuild things, to activate memories, to account for what can no longer be seen. Conversely, some works resist the gaze: opaque, they contain the collective traumas we have got used to living with. Vision is blurred, unable to remember precisely or to move forward, in the twilight zone.

Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille explore the endless possibilities of painting. Between abstraction and figuration, the duo tackles landscapes, portraits and still lifes. Their subjects are drawn from the history of art, cinema, the internet or magazines, opening up a multitude of interpretations.

“PRÉSENCE” offers a new creative opportunity to the 26 contemporary artists featured in the exhibition. Through a sensitive and evocative PRÉSENCE at the heart of the works presented, the artists rehabilitate an aesthetic, perhaps fill a void, or revive the fading memory of places of remembrance.

Prompting reflection on our relationship to others and to ourselves, by opening new windows and holding up a mirror, this exhibition reveals the imperceptible and invites us to discover hidden realities.

Twenty pupils and their teacher, all represented by autonomous robots: a performance installation that questions the standardisation of behaviour.

Patrick Tresset is a French artist and scientist based in London. He explores artistic activity and the relationships we develop with machines, particularly with robots.

Painter and theorist of perception, Jérémy Liron presents a series dedicated to the Domaine, where fragments of trees, architecture, and intense skies create variations “neither quite the same nor quite another,” exploring repetition as a way of shaping the visible.

A sea of crossings and exchange, the Mediterranean carries memories of journeys and intertwined cultures, but also exile and loss. For centuries, people have crossed it seeking refuge and dignity.

In 2026, the Fondation Villa Datris gathers 74 artists from 20 countries to explore the Mediterranean as a shared territory. Their works address migration, common roots, and today’s challenges: climate change, borders and violence… blending commitment and poetry to celebrate hospitality, solidarity, and hope for an open, human Mediterranean.

The exhibition highlights the rediscovery of the Magdalene by Caravaggio and the role of Louis Finson in spreading his work across southern Europe. It traces the emergence of a “Caravaggesque southern workshop” and its contemporary echoes through works by Ernest Pignon-Ernest and Fabrice Hyber.

Inspired by the figure of the trickster—the cunning disruptor found in myths across cultures—the exhibition brings together around thirty artists following Van Gogh, from Picasso to the present, including Cindy Sherman and Maurizio Cattelan. Through irony, provocation and excess, their works challenge conventions. All are suspects.

Park Chan-wook the photographer is the contemplative version of this hyperactive filmmaker with 17 films to his name. He takes advantage of his moments of calm and freedom to photograph without a specific goal in mind. Whatever catches his highly trained eye. Whatever charms, surprises, or amuses him. A natural motif that looks like a body. A cat that reminds us that humans are just one species among many.

Unlike his films, his photographs are rooted in a long, silent, suspended moment in time. They are freeze frames that provide material for his reflections, the free air of a man who lets go—just a little—of control.

An evolving collaboration between Soundwalk Collective’s Stephan Crasneanscki and Patti Smith, born from a creative dialogue spanning more than a decade. Presented at LUMA Arles as an immersive installation, the project weaves field recordings, moving images and poetry to conjure landscapes shaped by artistic creation, political struggle and ecological fragility.

The Collection Lambert now presents its permanent collection on a continuous basis throughout the year. The first chapter of this evolving display is devoted to the 1980s. This pivotal period, marked by profound aesthetic, political and social transformations, emerges as a moment of renewed affirmation of the power of the image, characterized by a return to the human figure. The body occupies a central place, inscribed within a deeply political dimension.

This new display of textile-based works resonates with the practice of Leo Orta, the invited designer-in-residence, and with the objects created by ALEOR, a creative studio dedicated to bio-based design.

While the works from the Collection give shape to worlds imagined by artists, ALEOR confronts these narratives with reality. The studio develops investigative methods rooted in the territory — gathering, collecting, observing and experimenting — to bring situated narratives to light. Immersed in the Camargue region, Leo Orta’s work acts here as a true catalyst. He questions the future of certain local crafts, particularly basketry, from which he imagines a collection of artefacts that are both grounded in tradition and open to speculative perspectives. Through these approaches, art and design become tools for critical archiving, transmission and the reactivation of knowledge.

Artists: Majd Abdel Hamid, Caroline Achaintre, Amina Agueznay, Cathryn Boch, Ange Dakouo, Edith Dekyndt, Pauline Guerrier, Sheila Hicks, Ilanit Illouz, Eva Jospin, Asemahle Ntlonti, Junko Oki, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Elisa Peroi, Simone Pheulpin, Kustaa Saksi, Sidival Fila, Kiki Smith, Georges Tony Stoll, Françoise Vanneraud and Rosana Escobar, Diana Scherer, Max Funkat. Guest designer: Leo Orta.

Opening reception on July 6, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (by invitation only).

Conceived by Jean-Marc Bustamante for the opening of the Bustamante Foundation in Arles,En miroirs inaugurates the exhibition programme through a presentation designed as a space of correspondences, revealing the affinities and dialogues connecting these artists, works, and ideas. Bringing together painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and installation, the exhibition features artists selected by Jean-Marc Bustamante among those who have shaped his artistic, intellectual, and emotional journey.

From Cristina Iglesias to Rémy Zaugg, from Jan Vercruysse to Thomas Schütte, and from Reinhard Mucha to Rodney Graham, the works explore themes such as memory, language, space, architecture, and perception. Like a film’s closing credits, the exhibition brings forth a community of presences that traces a sensitive cartography of artistic relationships beyond generational and cultural boundaries.

The exhibition questions photography from the perspective of its making and its manifestations. It focuses on the underside of the image through approaches including installations and sound pieces by various generations of artists. It is part of a curatorial research project led by students from the ENSP, under the direction of artist, teacher and researcher Nicolas Giraud.