The Belgian sculptor Arne Quinze invites Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos to join him in creating an extraordinary body of work, exploring the poetic, the surreal and the unexpected.

In the spirit of Jean Cocteau — whose legacy is deeply rooted in Villefranche-sur-Mer — the exhibition encourages visitors to rediscover surrealism and dreamlike thinking as essential lenses through which to reflect on the growing distance between contemporary culture and nature. A loss and a form of alienation that Quinze views as profoundly harmful.

Spreading throughout the Citadel, the exhibition unfolds through monumental outdoor installations alongside more intimate indoor environments. It offers Quinze and Vasconcelos a unique space for expression, allowing them to shape a singular and immersive narrative.

Venue: Galerie des Musées du Palais de l’Europe

Around a hundred masterpieces from the Séverin Wunderman collection are on display in this seven-part exhibition: from the series of self-portraits by Jean l'Oiseleur to the iconic posters of Sarah Bernhardt by Alfons Mucha.

Through a video installation blending fiction, documentary and critical speculation, the German artist explores invisible chains of micro-labour, the geopolitics of images, and the mechanisms of delegation that shape so-called “autonomous” technologies. By reactivating the figure of the “Mechanical Turk” in the age of digital platforms, Hito Steyerl sheds light on the bodies, territories and conflicts concealed behind the making of AI.

Hito Steyerl (born in 1966 in Munich) is a German artist, filmmaker and theorist whose work examines the relationships between images, power and contemporary technologies. Trained in documentary filmmaking and philosophy, she has, since the 2000s, developed a practice that combines visual essay, video installation and critical speculation. Her work investigates the circulation of images in the digital age, automation, the militarisation of technologies, and the invisible infrastructures that shape perception.

This exhibition both examines the tools used to produce Bacon's prints and illuminates the circumstances of the works' creation. Through a selection of lithographs and engravings, it also explores the recurrent themes that nourished the painter's imagination.

A group exhibition dedicated to Nathalie Magnan, media theorist, filmmaker, cyberfeminist and hacktivist, navigator of seas and internets, who passed away in 2016. Bringing together numerous archival materials and films retracing her journey, and gathering around her artists with whom she collaborated or whose practices extend her own, the exhibition forms a collective biography that sheds light on the contemporary relevance of an important yet still too little-known figure in the history of media, technologies, feminism and LGBTQIA+ struggles. From the 1980s to the 2010s, Nathalie Magnan brought these fields of thought and action into dialogue, and at times into productive collision.

With Nathalie Magnan, Shu Lea Cheang, Cindy Coutant, Chloé Desmoineaux with Bobby Brim and Ada LaNerd, Guerrilla Girls, DeeDee Halleck, Barbara Hammer, Old Boys Network, Paper Tiger TV, Julia Scher, The Yes Men, VNS Matrix.