Chartres’s cathedral and churches become luminous surfaces in Chartres en lumières. The city’s free illumination programme also reaches the museum, theatre, bridges and washhouses, carrying the route from prominent monuments towards the Eure. Stories and imagined worlds play across the buildings, creating a different way to read the relationship between the upper town and its waterside heritage.
Tag: contemporary-art
Que demain reste: Memory and Possible Futures
Transformed objects and low-tech materials join painting and installation in Que demain reste. Farah Bahhar and Anaël Alaoui-Fdili, graduates of the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, explore memory, inheritance and personal stories. Their works move between contemporary art and science-fiction imaginings, asking how places and past experiences shape possible futures.
Beaux Lieux: Sculpture and Landscape in Loches
La cime des algues, also titled L’herbe au Roy, anchors the Beaux Lieux art route in Loches with a monumental work. The project brings B2X, the MAPPES collective and Jonathan Bablon into a meeting of landscape, sculpture and heritage. Other sculptural, culinary and performative elements extend a route conceived as an accessible encounter with art in the open landscape.
Claire Linard: Porcelain in Mehun-sur-Yèvre
Fine, luminous porcelain meets rougher stoneware in Claire Linard’s exhibition in Mehun-sur-Yèvre. Descended from generations of potters, she carries inherited skills into functional and decorative pieces with markedly different textures and forms. Wood firing leaves room for unexpected transformations, giving the finished ceramics a tension between technical control and the action of flame.
Les Bretons dans tous leurs états: Maryse Vanghent
Brittany supplies the inspiration for Maryse Vanghent’s Les Bretons dans tous leurs états. Originally from Dunkirk, the painter trained in egg tempera and oil painting before making her home in the region. Her practice also includes restoring chapel murals at Château de Blain with the Compagnons de Saint-Roch, a background in craft that accompanies this exhibition of her own work.
Kergoat Heritage Programme: Photography and Art
Pas de vagues, by Marine Penhoët and Mélanie Peduzzi, draws on Berthe Riou’s photographic archives to explore seascapes and Breton women. Keridwen Gilbert examines rural labour and farming through work with farmer Romain Marec. The Kergoat heritage programme also includes Magnolia, an artwork by Andreas Kressig created for the Sonj festival.
Mon George Exhibition
Mon George is conceived as a collective artistic experiment in the spirit of the encounters George Sand organised at her home in Nohant. Invited artists each respond freely to her figure, thought, world or legacy, producing new work in place of a fixed biographical illustration. Different contemporary visual practices meet in a shared space, allowing contrasts in material, scale and interpretation to remain visible. The arrangement recalls Nohant as a place of dialogue among artists while asking what a Sandian spirit might mean for creators now. Visitors can compare several personal perspectives on a writer whose influence extends beyond literature into questions of freedom and artistic exchange. Bourges’s Espace PITA turns the exhibition into both a tribute and an active conversation, shaped by plurality and open responses to George Sand.
Patriarche Hospices Wine Tasting
Maison Patriarche marks the Hospices de Beaune wine auction with a tasting route through its historic cellars. Ten selected Burgundy wines bring together Premiers Crus, Grands Crus and older vintages, served in an engraved glass that visitors can keep. The cellar journey also includes contemporary works installed with Art in Situ, so paintings and other pieces emerge within the underground architecture as an integrated cellar display. In the Cave aux Arômes, a visual and olfactory display presents the twelve aromatic families associated with Burgundy wines, giving guests another way to read what is in the glass. Gougères and water are available along the route. Wine, art, aroma and vaulted cellar heritage combine in a focused Beaune programme tied to the city’s celebrated auction tradition.
Visions Bretonnes in Plougoulm: Corentin Kembraeg Exhibition
Visions Bretonnes presents the work of Corentin Kembraeg at the Médiathèque Ty Koulm in Plougoulm. The exhibition centres on Breton culture through the work of a self-taught illustrator and painter. Admission is free, and a vernissage accompanies the exhibition.
Fragments Bretons in Lanvallay: Artistic Insights
Fragments Bretons in Lanvallay presents paintings by Emmanuelle Courty shaped by regional interiors, landscapes and memory. Quiet domestic scenes meet glimpses of shore and riverbank, with changing light connecting inside and outside. The works turn familiar materials and spaces into intimate studies of how Brittany is experienced through everyday detail.