Open and free to the public all year round, the sculpture garden of the Châteauvert Contemporary Art Centre is hosting three of Elias Kurdy’s Cerberuses for one year.

These works revisit and transform the mythological figure of the guardian of the Underworld. In place of Cerberus’s three howling heads, three fully blossomed bouquets emerge. The monster, stripped down to a motionless whiteness, seems to have lost its original function: no more fangs, no blazing gaze — only blooms that disarm its former fury. Once responsible for keeping wandering souls at the threshold of the realm of the dead, Cerberus becomes here a paradoxical creature: its floral heads no longer threaten, they watch.

Born in Damascus in 1990 and now based in Marseille, Elias Kurdy first studied architecture before training at the School of Fine Arts. His practice, nourished by history and fiction, plays with illusion and imbalance. Blending sculpture, drawing and traditional materials, he revisits classical heritage to question what we choose to pass on — and what may be lost.

The year 2026 marks an unprecedented display of one of the most significant private collections in southern France. From the sculpture park to the art centre and the reserve, now open to visitors, the new presentation reveals the scale and diversity of a body of work assembled since the 1980s.

An exhibition dedicated to Dan Flavin (1933-1996), a key figure of Minimal art and a pioneer in the use of light as a sculptural medium, via industrial fluorescent tubes. It brings together more than ten emblematic historical works as well as pieces from the “monument” for V. Tatlin series, developed between 1964 and 1990.

Visitors will be able to grasp the conceptual coherence of Flavin’s practice and the lasting influence he exerted on contemporary art. The exhibition also pays tribute to the thirtieth anniversary of the artist’s passing.