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.

A major figure of abstraction in France, sculptor Bernard Pagès presents a group of works in which stone, metal, and raw materials come together in simple yet tense balances. Between gesture, weight, and gravity, his forms engage with space a discreet poetry of matter.

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.

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.