Current exhibitions in inland Var

Current exhibitions in Var: Le Muy, Draguignan, Châteauvert, La Celle and Flassans-sur-Issole

At the crossroads of the Maures massif, the picturesque villages of Provence Verte, and the vineyards of the hinterland and the Haut Var, there is no shortage of artistic gems to discover. This route brings together the unmissable highlights: the departmental HDE Var museum in Draguignan; the Commanderie Peyrassol (Flassans-sur-Issole), where works by major artists are scattered among the vines and woodland; the lively little Centre d’Art Contemporain in Châteauvert; Not to mention the private estates in Le Muy (by appointment only), such as those of artist and collector Bernar Venet, Villa Navarra and Domaine du Muy. Follow the guide…

Centre d’Art Contemporain de Châteauvert - Châteauvert
Skies, Lands, Seas, Fires: An Atlas of Metamorphoses Sara Ouhaddou and Younes Rahmoun.

At the crossroads of elements and worlds, the Mediterranean forms a landscape where forms, beliefs and practices have been constantly changing. The exhibition explores this ever-evolving heritage through an atlas of metamorphoses: skies as mirrors of the imagination, lands as living archives, waters as a medium of circulation… The two artists bring this atlas to life. Rooted in craftsmanship and spirituality, their work weaves a Mediterranean narrative in which tradition and modernity illuminate each other.

With the support of the Institut Français as part of the Mediterranean Season, the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles PACA and the Région Sud PACA.

Commanderie de Peyrassol - Flassans-sur-Issole
Philippe Austruy Collection: 25 Years of Art at the Commanderie de Peyrassol

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.

Venet Foundation - Le Muy
De simples tubes fluorescents, Dan Flavin

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.

Abbaye de La Celle - La Celle
Island Solitudes, Klavdij Sluban

Photographer Klavdij Sluban, through the images he produced in the Kerguelen Islands and in Japan, recreates the solitude that seems to have set in. The rare living beings - humans, seals or birds - seem to be there only by accident, in a provisional and fragile way. He builds a dense relationship with the poetic architecture of the abbey by offering a spiritual journey into the islands, those of the intimate or the universal, where time seems to stand still and, paradoxically, omnipresent.

Hôtel Départemental des Expositions du Var - Draguignan
INCAS: Sacred Heritage of the Andes

Exploring more than three millennia of Andean civilisations, the exhibition presents some 250 works (ceramics, gold, textiles), archaeological artefacts and contemporary creations in which art, power and the sacred intertwine. It highlights the Andean cosmovision, a holistic approach in which everything - from nature to the gods - is interconnected and imbued with life. Light is shed on contemporary issues, ecological and memory crises, from a perspective of interdependence, reciprocity and the sacred nature of life.

With the participation of national and international museums, including Musée Larco, Museo de Arte de Lima, the British Museum and Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac.

Villa Navarra - Le Muy
Ring the Cookhouse Bell, Eliot Greenwald

New paintings and sculptures by Eliot Greenwald.
Situated on an edge or an island, a stilt house sends signals…