Dedicated to the duo Hippolyte Hentgen, the exhibition brings together nearly one hundred works — paintings, installations, drawings, collages, sculptures and videos — offering a broad overview of eighteen years of artistic production. The exhibition opens with several murals created in situ, spread across the museum’s walls and set in dialogue with a group of drawings. Presented in series, the works form a rich, vibrant universe in which images move freely from one medium to another. Titled Mimosa, the exhibition pays tribute to the natural surroundings of Céret and to the bright yellow of the mimosa tree in winter. Several works were created especially for this occasion.

Based in Paris, Hippolyte Hentgen is the duo formed by two French artists, Gaëlle Hippolyte (born in 1977 in Perpignan) and Lina Hentgen (born in 1980 in Clermont-Ferrand). Through drawing, collage, sculpture and painting, the two artists explore new ways of producing images, without hierarchy between mediums. Their work weaves together visual codes drawn from art history, comics, press illustration, animation and popular imagery, giving rise to a composite, protean and distinctive visual language. Their work has been presented in numerous institutions and is held in the collections of the CNAP, the MAC VAL and several FRACs.

The exhibition 3D brings together, for the first time, several series of works that share silicone as their primary material. Since 2020, Marlie Mul has been exploring and experimenting with this medium in her studio, across multiple exhibitions.

Presented in Montpellier, this sequence of series reflects the artist’s interest in the many variations offered by this material. Previously shown independently, 3D now invites viewers to discover all four series together for the first time, offering insight into the different stages of this body of work.

For her first solo exhibition in France, the Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie (born in 1977) revisits the major themes that have shaped her work over the past five years: statuary, fashion and the art of display windows, feminist critiques of power and elites, craftsmanship, leisure, and mass media.

The exhibition brings together a large body of paintings, sculptures, posters, trompe-l’œil works, stage sets, and garments. It explores the formal and cultural inventions that have helped transform everyday life into a permanent spectacle—much like painted panoramas, spaces of art, science, and entertainment where playful experience merges with the massification of the gaze.

Through painting, film and installation, Philippe Decrauzat explores perception and optical phenomena, drawing on 20th-century abstraction and Op Art. An immersive experience in which patterns, light and scale disrupt the space and place the viewer at the heart of it all.

Ilia Zdanevitch, known as Iliazd (1894-1975), is a major figure of the 20th-century avant-garde. A poet and visionary publisher, he left his mark on his era with his creative audacity, redefining the boundaries of typography and the dialogue between text and image. The exhibition highlights his legendary collaborations with giants of modern art, including Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró.

A solo exhibition by Adrien Fregosi (1980–2024), who spent the last ten years in Sète, where he developed a prolific and poetic body of work that is both fragile and powerful, gentle and serious. His works stem from his drawing practice and are influenced by alternative cultures, ranging from graffiti to fanzines.

Venue: MO.CO.

Since 2021, SOL ! La biennale du territoire has highlighted the vitality of contemporary creation in Occitanie. For this third edition, MO.CO. and the Musée Fabre have formed an exceptional partnership to pay tribute to a major player in Montpellier’s artistic life: the École des Beaux-Arts.

The exhibition explores a rich, long-standing and sometimes little-known history, where academic heritage, radical experimentation and international openness intertwine. It brings together works by former students, spanning from the school’s origins to 2019. The project also brings together a broad regional network, with major loans from the MRAC Occitanie in Sérignan, the Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, and the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier. Artistic partnerships have also been established with the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, the Musée Paul Valéry in Sète, and the city’s non-profit galleries.