The artists in this exhibition share a common intention: to reduce form in order to better reveal what unfolds between the works — invisible tensions, physical forces, light, and perception.

Minimalist geometric forms thus create a rich dialogue: floor-based installations respond to stretched surfaces; reflective spheres meet abstract photographs; coloured fabrics echo the lines of the paintings. Together, the works shape a journey marked by pauses, moments of breathing, and silent confrontations.

What does blue reveal in contemporary African art and its diasporas? Afroblue brings together 38 artists who express their memories, dreams, and stories through the colour blue. Explored as a living material, between sky and sea, blue bodies, ancient gestures, and contemporary forms, blue composes a poetic journey to describe today's world.

Upstairs, carte blanche is given to artist Wim Botha.

Borrowed from a line by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, deeply admired by the artist, the exhibition title resonates as an invitation to inhabit the world as it is. A major figure in twentieth-century photography, Frank Horvat observed reality with rare freedom, allowing fleeting moments, bodies in motion and unexpected framings to emerge. His work continually questions photography’s ability to suspend time, while remaining open to chance and the unforeseen.

Produced in close collaboration with the Frank Horvat Studio, the exhibition brings together 46 original prints, spanning a period from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The exhibition path moves across decades and genres: from the nocturnal streets of Pigalle to a revolutionary vision of fashion photography, from iconic black-and-white images of Paris, London and New York to vibrant colour series created in later years.

An exhibition supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in France and the Aix-en-Provence Biennale 2026.

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.

In her practice, Ghita Skali explores the mechanisms behind the production of official narratives, marginalised or censored histories, and the ways in which fiction seeps into fact, and vice versa. During her residency, Ghita Skali wishes to develop a project around the objects that remain after death. These sometimes trivial items become traces, presences, or, on the contrary, things one tries to forget. As if these objects, already inert and silent, became even more so. In her work, Ghita addresses our fear of illness and our relationship to mourning, these “pains” present in different contexts, which we might share. However, class, gender, race, and other markers of inequality shape and alter our relationships to care and to the living. These situations generate different scales of anger, bitterness, and injustice. But is there something shared, something common, in the sorrow of losing loved ones?

Sessions: Tuesday 3 and 17 February 2025
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

United by bonds of friendship, shared sensibilities and common references, Arnaud Adami, Dhewadi Hadjab and Romain Bagouet nevertheless propose singular approaches to contemporary realism. The exhibition explores the many ways in which a shared human and aesthetic proximity can generate pictorial visions that are distinct yet complementary.

The title Ma part d’eux (“My part of them”) evokes both the intimacy that connects these three Parisian painters and the echoes that resonate between their works. All three share a remarkable technical mastery and a strong interest in photography, directional light and a confident use of colour. The realism they develop is never merely descriptive; it is infused with an emotional intensity that questions identity, the body and the contemporary urban environment.

Gallifet’s spring exhibition presents a selection of more than one hundred photographs by the French photographer François Halard, including many that will be seen by the public for the first time.

Based between Paris, the south of France and Greece, his work draws on the history and memory of those places – across the globe but so often Mediterranean – that create a common bond, that tell the tale of lives entwined, their past, present and future.

The artist’s impassioned quest for beauty takes us on a journey through the countryside of Greece and Italy, into the studios of some of the last century’s great modernists, to the gardens of Giverny, and inside a house in Arles where unimagined poetry greets us at every turn.

“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.