Centre d’Art Contemporain de Châteauvert

Exhibitions

The annual rhythm of two exhibitions per year allows the projects to develop over time while being complemented by meetings, Lectures and exchanges throughout the year.

2024

Pierre ARDOUVIN, Parade, of 28 June to December 1 2024

The titles of Pierre Ardouvin’s exhibitions, carefully and mischievously chosen by the artist, among which “It's all about decor”, “Marcel”, “Ghost Head Soup”, “Prove that you exist”, or “Purple Rain”, easily suggest that “PARADE”, title of the exhibition at the Châteauvert Art Center and a work produced for the occasion, if it refers to the world of the circus and especially to the eponymous film by Jacques Tati, is also a way of suggesting avoidance, the answer, diversion in the face of an unforeseen event or attack.

HOW BETTER, Eve PIETRUSCHI, Javiera TEJERINA-RISSO, Regain, of 3 February to 16 Youri Cayron's creative documentary focuses on working-class memory and the history of the Tanneries de Barjols and mixes archive images and images 2024

Regain is an exhibition created from meetings with three of the many artists who have been in residence at the Châteauvert contemporary art center since 2019,
How Better, Eve Pietruschi and Javiera Tejerina-Risso. It was imagined both in view of the changes that our society is experiencing and in response to the work developed by the three invited artists.

2023

Martine FEIPEL & John BECHAMEIL, Night crossing, of 7 July to 26 November 2023

Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil are an artist duo based in Brussels, representative of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Inhabited by a great sensitivity to the theatricality of the world and its beauties, combining their many skills – drawing, sculpture, engineering, staging, décor (including several films by Lars von Trier) – Feipel and Bechameil produce a work that is as formally accomplished as it is strongly committed. They offer food for thought for a better future.

Simon de la PORTE, Prism of memory, of 7 July to 26 November 2023

Prism of memory, it's memory, the distortion and slightly naive cheerful drawings of a world of moments without smartphones …

2022

Lena DURR, Wild Habitats, from July 1 to 30 october 2022 – as part of the Grand Arles Express

Léna Durr is interested in the norms and margins of society that she stages in a photographic work that is always tender and a little nostalgic.. The work and the daily life of the artist are one since she herself lives in a mobile home, in Cuers in the Var, in the middle of objects collected since his adolescence. Habitats sauvage is both a work in line with his research and the fruit of his work over several months in residence in 2020-21 at the art center in partnership with theESADPTM.

Nicolas Boulard, The art center’s mediation team invites visitors to discover one last time the, of 4 February to 19 Youri Cayron's creative documentary focuses on working-class memory and the history of the Tanneries de Barjols and mixes archive images and images 2022 – in partnership with MUCEM

Nicolas Boulard creates sculptures and installations by assembling references from Minimal art and conceptual art with organic materials from, for the most part, food productions. His works disturb, with lots of spirit, the aseptic aesthetic of American minimalism by drawing inspiration from the structured forms of cheese, wine or bread. His work is characterized by the appropriation of materials from fermentation to produce an atypical and unique work : fermentation is the passage from one state to another where the action of micro-organisms such as yeast irreversibly modifies the original nature of a material.

2021

Pierre BELOÜIN, Deep in the wood, of 19 May to 28 November

Pierre Beloüin graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1999. He is a founding member of the Glassbox gallery (1997) and creator of the label and collaborative platform Optical Sound (1997). Hybrid and iconoclastic artist, artistic director and one-man band in his spare time Pierre Beloüin translates – at first sight and as often in his projects – the immediate environment literally. We are talking here about that of the Châteauvert Contemporary Art Center : a sort of French Twin Peaks loaded with strange and telluric forces... Guests : Ludovic Chemarin©, Cocktail Designers, Nurse With Wound, Charles Vourrial, Chicaloyoh, Hifi club, Florie Laroche, Apache Moon

2020

Mathias POISSON, Vast surroundings, of 15 February to 28 Youri Cayron's creative documentary focuses on working-class memory and the history of the Tanneries de Barjols and mixes archive images and images

Mathias Poisson's artistic practice is always linked to the notion of walking with an approach that is both performative and cartographic.. Drifting is his favorite tool of creation, d’observation, connection to the environment. From his sensitive explorations, subjective, fictional, Mathias Poisson makes cards, sheet music, installations presented in art centers and museums in France and abroad, at FRAC PACA and MUCEM in Marseille (2010), at CAK in Kyoto (2017), at VOG in Grenoble (2018), at PHAKT in Rennes 2009), at DEPO Istanbul (2013).

Marinette CUECO, Stones, slates and tracery, of 11 July to 29 November

“Marinette Cueco has developed over the years 1970 a sculptural work whose main materials come from nature, whether plant or mineral. Practicing weaving and tapestry since 1960, Marinette Cueco creates pieces that range from the most monumental sculptures to the most modest assemblages : the first, on site, are thought of provisionally, while the latter, despite their apparent fragility, are not very perishable. His work, far removed from a conquering aesthetic of wild spaces, is part of a culture where the relationship with nature is seen first and foremost as a form of collaboration, in mutual respect.