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.

In this new body of work, Valdrin Thaqi continues to develop a restrained figurative painting, where the image never presents itself as a narrative but rather as a situation. Figures appear within stripped-down spaces, removed from any temporal or social context, held at the threshold of the event. The series unfolds through minimal postures that concentrate a sense of unease without exposing it. Often depicted in three-quarter view, in profile, or with their gaze turned elsewhere, the subjects avoid frontality as one avoids a conclusion.

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

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.

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.