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Exhibition Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the MRAC Occitanie
Collections of Frac Occitanie Montpellier, Frac Occitanie Toulouse – Les Abattoirs and Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie in Sérignan.
Curator: Fabrice Bousteau
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How to Grow the Cowpea: Survival Strategies from the U.S. South
is an exhibition presented in partnership with Planet Texas 2050, an initiative supporting interdisciplinary climate resilience research at the University of Texas at Austin. The exhibition assembles new and existing works by artists who probe our relationship with the environment and offer strategies for survival amid the climate crisis. To engage a crisis of this scale, the participating artists operate on a timeline that extends far beyond that of the exhibition itself. Their work builds on legacies of scientific, artistic, and ecological practices that have been in process long before the exhibition, planting seeds for material transformations that will take shape long after the exhibition closes, in forms ranging from heat-resistant gardens to advocacy for the rematriation of the American bison.
Curator : Chris Sharp
Echoing the major exhibition that the Latvian National Museum of Art devotes to the evolution of Latvian graphic arts since the 18th century, “Contemporary Drawings. Gifts and Donation from Florence and Daniel Guerlain to the Mnam” offers a counterpoint firmly focused on the international art scene. The exhibition presents internationally renowned artists such as Robert Longo, Kiki Smith, Marlene Dumas, Giuseppe Penone…, as well as French artists such as Henri Cueco, Dove Allouche, Anne Marie Schneider…, most of whom have never been shown in the Baltic countries.
The selection of nearly one hundred works on paper highlights a diversity of approaches, techniques, and formats characteristic of contemporary drawing practice by the artists, as well as of the body of work formed by the gifts successively made to the Musée national d’art moderne since 2006 by the French collector couple, Florence and Daniel Guerlain.
More than 150 artworks are being brought together at Belvedere 21 in the spirit of a Stellprobe—a stage rehearsal in which the relationships between figures, objects, and narratives are tested out in space—an experimental, intuitive arrangement. Spread across the ground floor, upper floor, Blickle Cinema, and sculpture garden, this large-scale exhibition presents acquisitions and donations mfrom the past decade. It functions a review, an insight into the collection strategy, and a temporary vision of a possible future museum.
For its summer exhibition, the Galerie du Dourven presents One Promise at a Time by German visual artist Ulla von Brandenburg, created in collaboration with actor and playwright Benoit Résillot.
Conceived by the artist duo, who were invited to participate in a creative residency at the Dourven over the past year, the exhibition draws inspiration from the region’s landscape and cultural identity and was designed specifically for the Galerie du Dourven.
With: Anne-Camille Allueva, Mariia Andreeva, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, François Bellabas, Douglas Coupland, Fig Docher, Dora Garcia, Paul Graham, Information Fiction Publicité, Joyce Joumaa, Florence Jung, Gianni Motti, Prune Phi, Adrian Sauer, Simon Starling, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lawrence Weiner
Artistic and curatorial conception: Nicolas Giraud, with Ulysse Barry, Ludivine Chastang, Eléa Godefroy, Demian Letinois, Adrien Limousin, Célia Marion, Piero Markarian, Luka Perkins Petit, Marco Reghelin, Wenjie Tong
The photograph you are looking at is a decoy.
As you observe it, other people are probably looking at it too, on other screens, in other countries, in other forms. It knows that you are looking at it. It is analyzed by machines, encoded into an algorithm that uses it for other purposes. Other information is encrypted within its pixel structure. It is not alone: it is connected to other images, used to generate new ones, and the totality of these images shapes our perception of reality. Photography has freed itself from its role as a means of representation, which now serves merely to conceal the control it exerts over our gaze.
What it represents is now secondary.
What are we to do with these new images? The exhibition Ctrl. brings together artists and works that are not concerned with what images show, but with how they show it. Like a camera that has fallen to the ground, this exhibition does not present images, but the inside of the camera: its inner workings, its mechanisms, its data. It invites us to contemplate the other side of the stage, where images continuously unfold.
This exhibition is the outcome of a curatorial research project conducted throughout 2026 by a group of students from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie, under the direction of artist, teacher, and researcher Nicolas Giraud.
As part of the Bicentenary of Photography programme, it constitutes the first stage of a research project that explores the future of the École in 2026, before turning, in a second stage in 2027, to its history.
Ulla von Brandenburg, Sylvie Fleury & Katharina Sieverding. Installation view Philara Collection, Düsseldorf. 2026 © Philara Collection, Düsseldorf. Photo: Kai Werner Schmidt
To celebrate its tenth anniversary in Düsseldorf Flingern, the Philara Collection is delighted to present HOUSE OF BALAGAN, an extensive survey of the collection, opening in June 2026. The exhibition, featuring well over 100 works by more than 80 artists, will extend from the spacious main hall across all the exhibition areas of the Philara Collection.
The exhibition presents a condensed but representative selection from Gil Bronner’s collection, which today comprises around 2,000 works. The presentation is complemented by works chosen from the collection of Bronner’s parents, who were a formative influence on their son’s passion for collecting. Pieces from the collections of his children, Philip and Lara, after whom the exhibition space is named, are also represented.