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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
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
Opening: Thursday, September 3, 2026 from 6pm.
For this exhibition, I wanted to immerse myself entirely in abstraction—setting aside any notion of subject or image as a starting point for the painting. The aim was to lose myself in the painting itself: its surface, its color, the way tones play against one another.
Everything here begins with instinct—a gesture, a first chaotic sketch. What I’m after is a certain vibration, a specific texture, something matte and chalky. Through layer upon layer, I want the painting to arrive at a kind of harmony, a balance, a feeling. I’m chasing the accident, the unplanned moment.
This is slow work—studio time. Paintings can sit unresolved for weeks, caught between one state and the next. Some of the canvases are older pieces, years old, that I’ve gone back and painted over. They build up like geological strata. Where traces of earlier layers show through—the pentimenti—the painting lays bare its own history, its false starts and changes of direction.
What emerges are archipelagos of form: works that read like miniature landscapes, fragments of cities, unfinished maps, or pieces of a wall. And somewhere along the way, an image appears unbidden—the trace of a place, a memory. That’s what ends up naming the painting.
—Pierre Bellot, 2026
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.
With works by:
Caroline Achaintre
Julien Audebert
Pierre Bellot
Michel Blazy
Nina Childress
Jeremy Deller
Michel François
Corentin Grossmann
Miryam Haddad
Kate Newby
Tania Pérez Córdova
Roman Signer