Month: April 2025
Further information upcoming
This exhibition at the Château – Centre d’Art Contemporain et du Patrimoine d’Aubenas – is the first solo show devoted to the artist in a French institution.
For the first time, Frac Picardie is taking part in the lille3000 adventure.
Frac Picardie has invited artist Ulla von Brandenburg to take over Le Colysée in Lambersart. Her works, in dialogue with a selection of artists from the Frac’s collection, explore the world of carnival not as the subject of an exhibition, but rather as a proposition that has been built up from it.
Drawing on the rich corpus of the Frac Picardie and the singular architecture of the Colysée, Ulla von Brandenburg and Julia Mossé let themselves be guided by this carnivalesque framework, operating by free associations, purely visual or conceptual, to unfold their project in four parts: reversal; the parade of colors and forms; death, metamorphosis and derision; the double, between the true and the false.
Opening on Sunday, April 27, 2025 from 1pm to 6pm.
Fabrice Bousteau’s exhibition La fête intérieure! invites visitors to a whirlwind of joy and celebration!
Why do we need to celebrate? Beyond the glittery outfits and disco ball decorations, what’s really going on in our bodies as we vibrate and go wild on the dancefloor? What goes on in our heads and hearts during these moments of pleasure and letting go, and when the dance becomes a trance in the excesses of the night?
The exhibition brings together some twenty emerging and established artists to explore the question of the festive body. Without claiming to be exhaustive, the immersive, sensory journey takes visitors on a truly jubilant experience, exploring the emotional and physiological phenomena that manifest themselves during celebrations. Movements, shivers, contractions, pulsations, respiratory flows… the exhibition plunges us into the heart of the emotions and sensations that run through the organs and limbs of the human body, exhilarated by the electrifying atmosphere of festive evenings.
Opening 11 April, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is a celebration of tapestry and its practitioners in the 21st century, offering a consideration of the strategies by which contemporary artists interrogate tactility and image in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context. Featuring works by twenty-seven artists and designers, and organized by guest curator Su Wu, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry – between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation. Across monumental works of great detail, the exhibition expands our experiences of narrative and mythology in weaving, complicates traditional ethnographic associations of textile, and argues for the enduring possibility of image and memory as a physically substantive thing.
Exhibiting artists include: Caroline Achaintre, Hellen Ascoli, Yto Barrada, Diedrick Brackens, Melissa Cody, Negma Coy, Jovencio de la Paz, Josh Faught, Christina Forrer, Sanaa Gateja, Yann Gerstberger, Marie Hazard, Ane Henriksen, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Suzanne Jackson, Sanam Khatabi, Tomasz Kowalski and Alicja Kowalska, ShinJa Lee, Candice Lin, Goshka Macuga, Christy Matson, Mai-Thu Perret, Sarah Rosalena, Analia Saban, Kiki Smith, Mika Tajima, Clarissa Tossin, Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang.
To accompany the exhibition, Los Angeles-based vintage textile library and shop Kneeland Co. will take over and activate the Dallas Contemporary store, featuring specially designed ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and collectibles, for sale exclusively in the shop. All pieces are specially designed for and inspired by You Stretched Diagonally Across It, and will even include works by artists featured in the exhibition.
